Sydney—Victoria
Sydney—Victoria is a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1997.
 Nova Scotia electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Sydney–Victoria in relation to the other Nova Scotia federal electoral districts (2003 boundaries) | |||
| Federal electoral district | |||
| Legislature | House of Commons | ||
| MP |
Liberal | ||
| District created | 1996 | ||
| First contested | 1997 | ||
| Last contested | 2021 | ||
| District webpage | profile, map | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2021)[1] | 72,361 | ||
| Electors (2021) | 59,757 | ||
| Area (km²)[1] | 4,313 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 16.8 | ||
| Census division(s) | Cape Breton, Inverness, Victoria | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Cape Breton, Eskasoni 3, Inverness Subd. A, Membertou 28B, Victoria, Subd. A, Victoria, Subd. B, Wagmatcook 1 | ||
It was created in 1996 from parts of Cape Breton—The Sydneys, Cape Breton—East Richmond and Cape Breton Highlands—Canso ridings.
Cape Breton—Canso is the only adjacent riding.
Demographics
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 79,294 | — |
| 2006 | 76,801 | −3.1% |
| 2011 | 73,328 | −4.5% |
| 2016 | 72,148 | −1.6% |
- According to the Canada 2011 Census; 2013 representation[2][3]
Ethnic groups: 88.5 White, 8.9% Aboriginal, 1.1% Black
Languages: 92.9% English, 4.6% Mi'kmaq, 1.2% French
Religions: 90.7% Christian (62.8% Catholic, 8.3% United Church, 7.5% Anglican, 4.0% Presbyterian, 1.9% Baptist, 6.2% Other), 8.0% No religion
Median income (2010): $23,704
Average income (2010): $30,202
- According to the Canada 2016 Census
- Languages: (2016) 93.3% English, 4.1% Mi’kmaq, 0.9% French, 0.3% Mandarin, 0.1% Arabic, 0.1% Urdu, 0.1% German, 0.1% Tagalog, 0.1% Dutch, 0.1% Cantonese, 0.1% Italian, 0.1% Scottish Gaelic[4]
Geography
It consists of:
- The County of Victoria;
- the northern part of the County of Inverness, i.e., the part lying north of the southern boundary of Cape Breton Highlands National Park; and
- the northwestern part of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality, i.e., the part lying northwest of a line drawn northeast from Bras d'Or Lake to the northeast extremity of East Bay, due north to Portage Brook, northeast along Portage Brook, Blacketts Lake, the Sydney River, Highway 125, Trunk 4 (Grand Lake Road), Northwest Brook, the western shoreline of Grand Lake, the DEVCO Railway, and its northern branch (running towards the Community of Dominion) to its second intersection with Northwest Brook (north of Grand Lake), and then north and northeast along that brook, Lingan Bay and Indian Bay to the Atlantic Ocean.
This riding will maintain its boundaries as per the 2012 federal electoral redistribution.
Members of Parliament
This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:
| Parliament | Years | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sydney—Victoria Riding created from Cape Breton—The Sydneys, Cape Breton—East Richmond and Cape Breton Highlands—Canso |
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| 36th | 1997–2000 | Peter Mancini | New Democratic | |
| 37th | 2000–2004 | Mark Eyking | Liberal | |
| 38th | 2004–2006 | |||
| 39th | 2006–2008 | |||
| 40th | 2008–2011 | |||
| 41st | 2011–2015 | |||
| 42nd | 2015–2019 | |||
| 43rd | 2019–2021 | Jaime Battiste | ||
| 44th | 2021–present | |||
Election results
Graph of election results in Sydney—Victoria (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)
2021 general election
| 2021 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Jaime Battiste | 14,250 | 39.2 | +8.3 | $68,768.55 | |||
| Conservative | Eddie Orrell | 13,166 | 36.3 | +8.6 | none listed | |||
| New Democratic | Jeff Ward | 7,217 | 19.9 | -0.2 | $11,605.07 | |||
| People's | Ronald Angus Barron | 1,176 | 3.2 | N/A | $1,145.74 | |||
| Green | Mark Embrett | 376 | 1.0 | -4.5 | $0.00 | |||
| Marxist–Leninist | Nikki Boisvert | 127 | 0.3 | N/A | $0.00 | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 36,312 | 98.7 | ±0.0 | $102,433.21 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 472 | 1.3 | ±0.0 | |||||
| Turnout | 36,784 | 61.6 | -6.5 | |||||
| Registered voters | 59,757 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -0.2 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[5][6] | ||||||||
2019 general election
| 2019 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Jaime Battiste | 12,536 | 30.90 | −42.30 | $63,429.21 | |||
| Conservative | Eddie Orrell | 11,227 | 27.68 | +17.04 | none listed | |||
| New Democratic | Jodi McDavid | 8,146 | 20.08 | +7.02 | none listed | |||
| Independent | Archie MacKinnon | 5,679 | 14.00 | New | none listed | |||
| Green | Lois Foster | 2,249 | 5.54 | +3.04 | $0.00 | |||
| Independent | Kenzie MacNeil | 480 | 1.18 | New | none listed | |||
| Veterans Coalition | Randy Joy | 248 | 0.61 | New | $0.00 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 40,565 | 98.72 | $99,536.07 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 528 | 1.28 | +0.71 | |||||
| Turnout | 41,093 | 68.12 | −0.84 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 60,322 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | −29.67 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[7] | ||||||||
2015 general election
| 2015 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Mark Eyking | 29,995 | 73.20 | +33.29 | – | |||
| New Democratic | Monika Dutt | 5,351 | 13.06 | –5.97 | $32,027.50 | |||
| Conservative | John Douglas Chiasson | 4,360 | 10.64 | –27.21 | $41,720.11 | |||
| Green | Matthew Cavanaugh | 1,026 | 2.50 | –0.71 | – | |||
| Libertarian | Wayne James Hiscock | 242 | 0.59 | – | – | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 40,974 | 100.00 | $195,473.50 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 236 | 0.57 | ||||||
| Turnout | 41,210 | 68.96 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 59,761 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +19.63 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[8][9] | ||||||||
2011 general election
| 2011 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Mark Eyking | 14,788 | 39.91 | -9.49 | $67,454.53 | |||
| Conservative | Cecil Clarke | 14,023 | 37.85 | +17.23 | $77,334.98 | |||
| New Democratic | Kathy MacLeod | 7,049 | 19.02 | -5.42 | $17,238.77 | |||
| Green | Chris Milburn | 1,191 | 3.21 | -2.33 | $0.00 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 37,051 | 100.0 | $80,666.28 | |||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 279 | 0.75 | +0.03 | |||||
| Turnout | 37,330 | 61.48 | +4.07 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 60,719 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -13.36 | ||||||
| Sources:[10][11] | ||||||||
2008 general election
| 2008 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Mark Eyking | 17,303 | 49.40 | -0.48 | $60,561.52 | |||
| New Democratic | Wayne McKay | 8,559 | 24.44 | -4.06 | $15,485.05 | |||
| Conservative | Kristen Rudderham | 7,223 | 20.62 | +2.28 | $60,092.18 | |||
| Green | Collin Harker | 1,941 | 5.54 | +2.25 | $1,966.54 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 35,026 | 100.0 | $78,337 | |||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 254 | 0.72 | +0.16 | |||||
| Turnout | 35,280 | 57.41 | -5.89 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 61,448 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +1.79 | ||||||
2006 general election
| 2006 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Mark Eyking | 20,277 | 49.88 | -2.25 | $47,473.95 | |||
| New Democratic | John Hugh Edwards | 11,587 | 28.50 | +0.79 | $28,987.58 | |||
| Conservative | Howie MacDonald | 7,455 | 18.34 | +2.47 | $26,033.71 | |||
| Green | Chris Milburn | 1,336 | 3.29 | +0.99 | $537.60 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 40,655 | 100.0 | $73,953 | |||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 227 | 0.56 | -0.23 | |||||
| Turnout | 40,882 | 63.30 | +2.72 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 64,589 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -1.52 | ||||||
2004 general election
| 2004 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Mark Eyking | 19,372 | 52.13 | +2.14 | $51,343.95 | |||
| New Democratic | John Hugh Edwards | 10,298 | 27.71 | -8.50 | $24,957.69 | |||
| Conservative | Howie MacDonald | 5,897 | 15.87 | +2.08 | $48,515.46 | |||
| Green | Chris Milburn | 855 | 2.30 | – | $580.41 | |||
| Marijuana | Cathy Thériault | 474 | 1.28 | – | none listed | |||
| Independent | B. Chris Gallant | 264 | 0.71 | – | $165.54 | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 37,160 | 100.0 | $71,187 | |||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 297 | 0.79 | ||||||
| Turnout | 37,457 | 60.58 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 61,826 | |||||||
| Liberal notional hold | Swing | +5.32 | ||||||
| Changes from 2000 are based on redistributed results. Conservative Party change is based on the combination of Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party totals. | ||||||||
| 2000 federal election redistributed results | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| Liberal | 19,698 | 49.99 | |
| New Democratic | 14,267 | 36.21 | |
| Progressive Conservative | 3,934 | 9.98 | |
| Alliance | 1,501 | 3.81 | |
2000 general election
| 2000 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Mark Eyking | 19,388 | 49.8 | +23.5 | ||||
| New Democratic | Peter Mancini | 14,216 | 36.5 | -14.6 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Anna Curtis-Steele | 3,779 | 9.7 | -12.9 | ||||
| Alliance | Rod A.M. Farrell | 1,528 | 3.9 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 38,911 | 100.0 | ||||||
1997 general election
| 1997 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| New Democratic | Peter Mancini | 22,455 | 51.1 | |||||
| Liberal | Vince MacLean | 11,569 | 26.3 | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Cecil Clarke | 9,920 | 22.6 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 43,944 | 100.0 | ||||||
See also
References
- "Sydney—Victoria (Code 12010) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada. Retrieved March 3, 2011.
Notes
- Statistics Canada: 2011
- Canada, Government of Canada, Statistics (May 8, 2013). "2011 National Household Survey Profile - Federal electoral district (2013 Representation Order)". www12.statcan.gc.ca.
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - "Mother Tongue (269), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Age (15A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories and Federal Electoral Districts (2013 Representation Order), 2016 Census - 100% Data". August 2, 2017.
- "Confirmed candidates — Sydney—Victoria". Elections Canada. Retrieved September 20, 2021.
- "September 20, 2021 General Election Election Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved September 22, 2021.
- "Official Voting Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved September 22, 2021.
- "October 19, 2015 Election Results — Sydney—Victoria (Validated results)". Elections Canada. October 21, 2015. Retrieved October 24, 2015.
- "Elections Canada On-line - Élection Canada en-ligne". www.elections.ca. Archived from the original on August 15, 2015. Retrieved November 10, 2018.
- "OVR / ROS". www.elections.ca.
- Canada, Elections. "Search for Returns". www.elections.ca.
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