Richmond is a provincial

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, that elects one member of the

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. Replacing the former district of Richmond-Cape Breton West, it was created in 1933 when the counties of Cape Breton and Richmond were divided into three new electoral districts. In 1992, it was renamed Richmond. In 2013, at the recommendation of the Electoral Boundaries Commission, the district was renamed Cape Breton-Richmond, gained the town of Port Hawkesbury from

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and expanded northeast to include the area east of East Bay and west of the Mira River to Morley Road from Cape Breton West. Following the 2019 electoral boundary review, it lost Port Hawkesbury to Inverness and some territory to Cape Breton East, and reverted to the name Richmond. The riding was reinstated after a court challenge that also re-instated the province's two other protected Acadians ridings of Argyle and

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, and the Black riding of Preston. A provincial district of Richmond existed from 1867 to 1925. It elected two members, through

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, in this period.

Geography

The land area of Richmond is .

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Prior to dissolution of the Legislative Assembly, the electoral district was represented by the following

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Election results

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, align="right", 4,369 , align="right", 56.51 , align="right", N/A , - , Progressive Conservative , Joe Janega , align="right", 1,696 , align="right", 21.93 , align="right", N/A , - ,

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, Bert Lewis , align="right", 1,667 , align="right", 21.56 , align="right", N/A

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References

Summary of Official Results by District (2013 election)
Elections Nova Scotia, retrieved November 25, 2013.

External links

2013 riding profile
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