Cape Breton Centre-Whitney Pier, formerly Cape Breton Centre is a provincial
electoral district
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Cape Breton
Cape Breton Island (, formerly '; or '; ) is a rugged and irregularly shaped island on the Atlantic coast of North America and part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.
The island accounts for 18.7% of Nova Scotia's total area. Although ...
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Nova Scotia
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Canada
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Nova Scotia House of Assembly
The Nova Scotia House of Assembly (; ), or Legislative Assembly, is the deliberative assembly of the General Assembly of Nova Scotia, and together with the lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia makes up the Nova Scotia Legislature.
The assembly is ...
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Its
Member of the Legislative Assembly
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Kendra Coombes
Kendra Christine Coombes (born October 25, 1988)New Waterford, including
Dominion
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Grand Lake Road
Grand Lake Road is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality. The community is a retail service area of Cape Breton hosting the Mayflower Mall and several other outlets. Cape Breton U ...
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Reserve Mines
Reserve Mines (2009 pop.: 2,402) is a community in Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Regional Municipality.
It is located immediately west of Glace Bay and 10 kilometres northeast of Sydney. The J.A. Douglas McCurdy Sydney Airport is located in the w ...
South Bar
South Bar is a small community near Sydney, Nova Scotia. It derives its name from the nearby Southeast Bar which extends over out into Sydney Harbour
Port Jackson, commonly known as Sydney Harbour, is a ria, natural harbour on the east ...
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It was created in 1925 when the counties of Cape Breton and Richmond were divided into three electoral districts. In 2003, it expanded west to include New Victoria. In 2013, it gained South Bar, Lingan Road, and part of Grand Lake Road from Cape Breton Nova.Sydney-Whitney Pier - Constituency History Nova Scotia Legislature
It was re-named Cape Breton Centre-Whitney Pier for the
2021 Nova Scotia general election
The 2021 Nova Scotia general election was held on August 17, 2021, to elect members to the 64th General Assembly of Nova Scotia.
In a major Upset (competition), upset, Tim Houston led the Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia, Pr ...
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Members of the Legislative Assembly
This riding has elected the following
members of the Legislative Assembly
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New Democratic Party
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David Wilton
David Wilton (born 1967 or 1968) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in a by-election on July 14, 2015. He represented the district of Cape Breton Centre as a member of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party.
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