Waverley-Fall River-Beaver Bank

Waverley-Fall River-Beaver Bank

Nova Scotia electoral district
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Nova Scotia House of Assembly
MLA	Brian Wong Progressive Conservative
District created	2003
First contested	2003
Last contested	2024
Demographics
Population (2011)	22,348
Electors	13,309
Area (km²)	299
Pop. density (per km²)	74.7
Census division(s)	Halifax County
Census subdivision(s)	Halifax Regional Municipality

Waverley-Fall River-Beaver Bank is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.

It was created in 2003 from Bedford-Fall River and Sackville-Beaver Bank. In 2013, it lost a portion of Beaver Bank to Sackville and the Portobello area to Dartmouth East. ^[1]

Geography

Waverley-Fall River-Beaver Bank covers 299 km² (115 sq mi) of land. ^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

This riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly:

Waverley-Fall River-Beaver Bank
Legislature	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Bedford-Fall River and Sackville-Beaver Bank
59th	2003–2006		Gary Hines	Progressive Conservative
60th	2006–2009		Percy Paris	New Democratic
61st	2009–2013
62nd	2013–2017		Bill Horne	Liberal
63rd	2017–2021
64th	2021–present		Brian Wong	Progressive Conservative

Election results

2021

v t e 2021 Nova Scotia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Progressive Conservative	Brian Wong	3,938	40.38	+3.02	$33,476.85
	Liberal	Marni Tuttle	3,546	36.36	-0.74	$36,707.22
	New Democratic	Christina McCarron	1,581	16.21	-2.86	$35,608.26
	Green	Anthony Edmonds	617	6.33	-0.06	$5,170.04
	Atlantica	Shawn Whitford	71	0.73	+0.63	$200.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			9,753	99.86	–	$98,713.68
Total rejected ballots			14	0.14
Turnout			9,767	56.55
Eligible voters			17,272
	Progressive Conservative notional hold		Swing		+1.88
Source: Elections Nova Scotia [3]

2017

2017 provincial election redistributed results [4]
Party		Vote	%
	Progressive Conservative	3,453	37.51
	Liberal	3,429	37.26
	New Democratic	1,763	19.15
	Green	590	5.98
	Atlantica	9	0.10

v t e 2017 Nova Scotia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Bill Horne	3,160	37.94	-5.15
	Progressive Conservative	Dan McNaughton	3,095	37.16	+5.45
	New Democratic	Trevor Sanipass	1,567	18.82	-6.20
	Green	Anthony Edmonds	506	6.08
Total valid votes			8,328	100
Total rejected ballots			43	0.51
Turnout			8,371	56.02
Eligible voters			14,944
	Liberal hold		Swing		-5.30
Source: Elections Nova Scotia [5] [6]

2013

2013 Nova Scotia general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Bill Horne	3,588	43.09	+18.18
	Progressive Conservative	Brian Wong	2,640	31.71	+13.26
	New Democratic Party	Percy Paris	2,098	25.02	-29.45

2009

2009 Nova Scotia general election ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic Party	Percy Paris	5,007	54.47	+8.08
	Liberal	Bill Horne	2,290	24.91	+13.76
	Progressive Conservative	Gary Hines	1,696	18.45	-21.72
	Green	Damon Loomer	199	2.16	-0.12

2006

2006 Nova Scotia general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic Party	Percy Paris	3,782	46.39	+12.86
	Progressive Conservative	Gary Hines	3,275	40.17	+2.26
	Liberal	Thomas Deal	909	11.15	-15.28
	Green	William Lang	186	2.28	–

2003

2003 Nova Scotia general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Gary Hines	3,141	37.91
	New Democratic Party	Percy Paris	2,778	33.53
	Liberal	David Merrigan	2,240	26.43
	Marijuana	Alex Neron	91	1.1
	Nova Scotia Party	Heather Sawers	86	1.04

References

1. Waverley-Fall River-Beaverbank - Constituency History Nova Scotia Legislature
2. "Find Your Electoral District for the 41st Provincial General Election". enstools.electionsnovascotia.ca. Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
3. "Provincial General Election 2021-08-17- Official Results". Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved October 7, 2021.
4. Transposition of Votes from the 2017 Provincial General Election to 2019 Electoral District Boundaries
5. "Statement of Votes & Statistics, Volume I" (PDF). Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved July 17, 2021.
6. "May 30th, 2017 - 40th Nova Scotia Provincial General Election". Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved July 17, 2021.
7. http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/dist51.pdf ^{[ dead link ‍]}

External links

• CBC riding profile (2006)