Timberlea—Prospect 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 2013 has been Iain Rankin of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party.
The district was created in 1967 from the former electoral district of Halifax West, under the name Halifax-St. Margaret's. Upon the recommendations of the 1992 Electoral Boundaries Commission report, it was renamed Timberlea-Prospect. At this same time, it lost the St. Margaret's Bay area to Chester-St. Margaret's, the Hammonds Plains, Lucasville, and Pockwock Road area to Sackville-Beaver Bank, and the Bedford area to Bedford-Fall River. In 2003, it lost the Bayside and West Dover areas to Chester-St. Margaret's. In 2013, on the recommendations of the 2012 Electoral Boundaries Commission, it lost the Stillwater Lake area to Hammonds Plains-Lucasville and a small number of streets in the Williamswood and Harrietsfield areas to Halifax Atlantic. It gained the Susies Lake and Quarrie Lake areas from Halifax Clayton Park.
Geography Timberlea-Prospect has of land area.
Members of the Legislative Assembly This riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly:
Election results
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2021
2017 2017 provincial election redistributed results Party Vote % Liberal 4,450 49.40 Progressive Conservative 2,123 23.57 New Democratic 1,958 21.73 Green 360 4.00 Atlantica 118 1.31
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See also List of Nova Scotia provincial electoral districts Canadian provincial electoral districts
References
External links 2006 riding profile 2003 riding profile