Cumberland—Colchester North andCumberland—Colchester were ridings that covered roughly the same geographic area and were represented in the House of Commons from 1968 to 1979 and 1979 to 2004, respectively.
This riding was created as "Cumberland—Colchester North" in 1966 fromCumberland andColchester—Hants ridings. It consisted of the county of Cumberland and the northern part of the county of Colchester, including the town ofTruro. It was abolished in 1976 when it was merged with the remainder of Colchester County into "Cumberland—Colchester" riding.
Cumberland–Colchester was abolished in 2003. The territory was combined with the largely ruralMusquodoboit Valley portion of theHalifax Regional Municipality in a new riding called "North Nova". After the election in 2004, the name was changed to "Cumberland—Colchester—Musquodoboit Valley".
2009 By-election
In early 2009, Incumbent Bill Casey announced he would not be re-offering in the next Federal Election. He subsequently announced his resignation from Parliament to become the Senior Inter-Governmental Affairs Representative for Nova Scotia in Ottawa.
In April 2009 Scott Armstrong was confirmed as the next Conservative Party candidate in the riding. At the time, he was the president of the provincial Progressive Conservative Party.
In September 2009, Jim Burrows was selected as the next Liberal Party candidate in the riding having defeated 2008 candidate, Tracy Parsons. He received 175 of 206 votes cast. He is a dairy farmer from Green Oaks and Chair of the Board of Directors for Scotsburn Co-operative Services.[4]
Mark Austin was selected to run for the New Democratic Party.
Christian Heritage Party ran Jim Hnatiuk, a retired military officer and the owner of Nova Scotia's largest hunting and fishing store, in Lantz. Hnatiuk was chosen party leader in November 2008.
Green Party leaderElizabeth May had said she was interested in running in the by-election, but subsequently announced she would run in the riding ofSaanich-Gulf Islands. The party instead ran Jason Blanch.
Incumbent MPBill Casey, re-elected in 2006 as a member of theConservative Party, was expelled from the Conservative caucus in 2007 after voting against the 2007 budget, which he objected to on the grounds of alleged violations of theAtlantic Accord. He attempted to run for the Conservative nomination for the next federal election but was refused. Casey therefore ran for re-election as anindependent. TheGreen Party endorsed Casey and did not nominate a candidate opposing his reelection.
Changes from 2000 are based on redistributed results. Conservative Party change is based on the combination of Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party totals.
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