Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley

The district was created in 1978 from Colchester, and was called Colchester South until 1993. In 1993, name was changed to Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley and it gained the Salmon River and Musquodoboit Valley areas from Bedford-Musquodoboit Valley, and Millbrook 27 from Truro-Bible Hill.^[1] It includes the southern half of Colchester County (not including the Truro area) plus the Musquodoboit Valley region of the Halifax Regional Municipality.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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

Legislature	Years	Member		Party
62nd	2013–present		Larry Harrison	Progressive Conservative
61st	2009–2013		Gary Burrill	New Democratic
60th	2006–2009		Brooke Taylor	Progressive Conservative
59th	2003–2006
58th	1999–2003
57th	1998–1999
56th	1993–1998
56th	1993		Ken Streatch	Progressive Conservative
55th	1988-1993	R. Colin Stewart
54th	1984-1988
53rd	1981-1984
52nd	1978-1981

Nova Scotia general election, 2013
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
Progressive Conservative	Larry Harrison	3,304	42.27	+13.28
New Democratic Party	Gary Burrill	2,293	29.33	-18.76
Liberal	Tom Martin	2,220	28.40	+7.79

Nova Scotia general election, 2009
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
New Democratic Party	Gary Burrill	3,568	48.09	+22.88
Progressive Conservative	Steve Streatch	2,151	28.99	-34.86
Liberal	Willie Versteeg	1,529	20.61	+11.85
Green	Margaret Whitney	172	2.32	+0.13

Nova Scotia general election, 2006
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
Progressive Conservative	Brooke Taylor	4,790	63.85	-0.49
New Democratic Party	Gary Burrill	1,891	25.21	+1.99
Liberal	Carolyn Matthews	657	8.76	-3.68
Green	Leona MacLeod	164	2.19	–

Nova Scotia general election, 2003
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
Progressive Conservative	Brooke Taylor	4,695	64.34	-3.06
New Democratic Party	Kathryn Belzer	1,694	23.22	+3.60
Liberal	Joan Barnhill	908	12.44	-0.54

Nova Scotia general election, 1999
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
Progressive Conservative	Brooke Taylor	5,465	67.40	-
New Democratic Party	Jim Harpell	1,591	19.62	-
Liberal	Leo Stacey	1052	12.97	-

Nova Scotia general election, 1988
	Candidate	Votes	%
Progressive Conservative	R. Colin Stewart	3,855	56.19
Liberal	Larry Thomas	2,462	35.88
New Democratic Party	Julia A. Skipper	554	8.07

Nova Scotia general election, 1984
	Candidate	Votes	%
Progressive Conservative	R. Colin Stewart	3,572	61.86
Liberal	Fred A. Kennedy	1,530	26.50
New Democratic Party	Bernard A. Gay	492	8.52

Nova Scotia general election, 1981
	Candidate	Votes	%
Progressive Conservative	R. Colin Stewart	3,281	56.48
Liberal	Laurence Mersereau	1,683	28.97
New Democratic Party	Chester Rice	799	13.75
Independent	Robert (Bob) Kirk	46	0.79

Nova Scotia general election, 1978
	Candidate	Votes	%
Progressive Conservative	R. Colin Stewart	3,230	56.28
Liberal	Ed. Lorraine	2,187	38.11
New Democratic Party	Chester Rice	322	5.61

Nova Scotia provincial electoral districts

Current

Historic

to 2013:	Argyle Cape Breton North Cape Breton Nova Cape Breton South Cape Breton West Clare Cole Harbour Dartmouth South-Portland Valley Digby-Annapolis Guysborough-Sheet Harbour Halifax Clayton Park Halifax Fairview Hammonds Plains-Upper Sackville Preston Queens Richmond Shelburne Truro-Bible Hill

to 2003:	Bedford-Fall River Cape Breton East Cape Breton The Lakes Dartmouth South Dartmouth-Cole Harbour Halifax Bedford Basin Sackville-Beaver Bank Victoria

to 1993:	Annapolis East Annapolis West Colchester South Cumberland Centre Cumberland East Cumberland West Digby Guysborough Halifax Cornwallis Halifax Eastern Shore Halifax St. Margarets Inverness North Inverness South Lunenburg Centre Lunenburg East Sackville

to 1978:	Colchester Halifax Cobequid

to 1967:	Halifax Centre Halifax County Dartmouth Halifax East Halifax North Halifax Northwest Halifax South Halifax West

to 1956:	Kings

to 1949:	Cumberland Hants Pictou

to 1933:	Halifax Richmond and Cape Breton West

to 1925:	Cape Breton

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