Bedford Basin (electoral district)
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 Nova Scotia electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Nova Scotia House of Assembly | ||
| MLA |
Progressive Conservative | ||
| District created | 2019 | ||
| First contested | 2021 | ||
| Last contested | 2024 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Electors | 13,113 | ||
| Area (km²)[1] | 23 | ||
| Census division | Halifax Regional Municipality | ||
| Census subdivision | Halifax Regional Municipality | ||
Bedford Basin is a provincial electoral district of Nova Scotia, Canada, that came into effect for the 2021 Nova Scotia general election. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia.
The riding was created by the 2019 provincial redistribution out of parts of Bedford and Waverley-Fall River-Beaver Bank. It contains the neighbourhoods of Oakmount, Bedford Common, Glen Moir, Paper Mill Lake and part of Millview in the community of Bedford, Nova Scotia, part of the Halifax Regional Municipality.[2][3]
This riding has elected the following MLAs:
| Bedford Basin | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legislature | Years | Member | Party | |
| Riding created from Bedford and Waverley-Fall River-Beaver Bank | ||||
| 64th | 2021–2024 | Kelly Regan | Liberal | |
| 65th | 2024–present | Tim Outhit | Progressive Conservative | |