Chéticamp-Margarees-Pleasant Bay is a provincial electoral district on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. The exceptional riding was created in 2026 to improve the effective representation of the Acadian and francophone population of Chéticamp and surrounding area.
The per-decade review of the province's electoral boundaries in 2025 was conducted as a result of an order by the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, which ruled that the previous commission's decision not to create an exceptional electoral district for Chéticamp violated Section 3 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In its interim report, submitted in August 2025 after public consultation, the commission presented three alternatives: keeping the status quo, with 55 electoral districts, and two other proposed scenarios, each with 56 electoral districts. After deliberations following a second round of public consultation, the commission unanimously recommended in January 2026 a House of Assembly of 56 seats. The commission proposed dividing the district of Inverness into the electoral districts of Chéticamp-Margarees-Pleasant Bay and Inverness-We'koqma'q.
Legislation to establish the new electoral district of Chéticamp-Margarees-Pleasant Bay while retaining the name Inverness for the remainder of the former constituency was introduced on February 26, 2026, and received Royal Assent on April 9, 2026. On May 24, 2026, Premier Tim Houston called a by-election to elect the first member of the new district, with voting scheduled for June 23, 2026. Progressive Conservative candidate Claude Bourgeois won the by-election, becoming the new riding's first Member of the Legislative Assembly.
Members of the Legislative Assembly Chéticamp-Margarees-Pleasant Bay has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly:
Election results
2024 Nova Scotia general election redistributed results Party Votes % Progressive Conservative 946 53.21 Liberal 603 33.91 New Democratic 229 12.88
See also List of Nova Scotia provincial electoral districts Canadian provincial electoral districts
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