Victoria-The Lakes

Victoria—The Lakes is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.

Its Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) since the 2017 election has been Keith Bain of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia.

It was created in 1867 as Victoria, composing all of Victoria County. In 1993, the district gained the area north of the southern border of the Cape Breton Highlands National Park. In 2003, Victoria was renamed Victoria-The Lakes. It lost the top of Inverness County to Inverness and gained some of the rural areas of Cape Breton The Lakes.

Geography

Victoria-The Lakes has a landmass of .

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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

Legislature	Years	Member		Party
65th	2024–present	Template:Canadian party colour |	Dianne L. Timmins	Progressive Conservative
64th	2021–2024	rowspan="2" Template:Canadian party colour |	Keith Bain
63rd	2017-2021
62nd	2013–2017	Template:Canadian party colour |	Pam Eyking	Liberal
61st	2009–2013	rowspan="2" Template:Canadian party colour|	Keith Bain	Progressive Conservative
60th	2006-2009
59th	2003-2006	Template:Canadian party colour |	Gerald Sampson	Liberal
58th	1999-2003	rowspan="4" Template:Canadian party colour |	Kennie MacAskill	Liberal
57th	1998-1999
56th	1993-1998
55th	1988-1993
54th	1984-1988	rowspan="3" Template:Canadian party colour|	Fisher Hudson	Progressive Conservative
53rd	1981-1984
52nd	1980-1981
	1978-1980	Template:Canadian party colour |	Peter John Nicholson	Liberal
51st	1974-1978	Template:Canadian party colour |	Maynard MacAskill	Liberal
50th	1970-1974	rowspan="2" Template:Canadian party colour|	Fisher Hudson	Progressive Conservative
49th	1967-1970
48th	1963-1967	rowspan="8" Template:Canadian party colour |	Carleton L. MacMillan	Liberal
47th	1960-1963
46th	1956-1960
45th	1953-1956
44th	1949-1953
43rd	1945-1949	John Malcolm Campbell
42nd	1941-1945
41st	1937-1941
40th	1933-1937	Template:Canadian party colour|	Frederick Walker Baldwin	Liberal-Conservative

Election results

2013

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2013 Nova Scotia general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Liberal Party of Nova Scotia	Pam Eyking	3,150	38.99	+8.39
Progressive Conservative	Keith Bain	2,847	35.24	-3.44
New Democratic Party	John Frank Tomey	1,907	23.60	-3.28
Independent	Stewart M. (Stemer) MacLeod	176	2.18	+0.28

1867–2009

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External links

• CBC riding profile (2003)

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