Clayton Park West is a provincial

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, that elects one member of the

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. The riding was created in 1978 as Halifax Bedford Basin from a portion of Halifax Cobequid. In 2003, the district lost a northern area to

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and was renamed Halifax Clayton Park. Following the 2012 electoral boundary review, the district was renamed Clayton Park West. It gained Birch Cove and Kearney Lake areas from Bedford-Birch Cove and the Kearney Lake area from Hammonds Plains-Upper Sackville. It lost the Susies Lake and Quarrie Lake areas to

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; the areas south of Mount Saint Vincent University and Lacewood Drive as well as the Washmill Lake Drive area the

Fairview-Clayton Park Fairview-Clayton Park is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. The riding was created in 2012 with 45 per cent of the former district of Halifax Fairview, 39 per cent o ...

Geography

The land area of Clayton Park West is .

Members of the Legislative Assembly

This riding has elected the following

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Election results

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Diana Whalen Diana Caroline Whalen (born November 20, 1956) is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Halifax Clayton Park in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 2003-2013, and Clayton Park West from 2013-2017, as a member of t ...

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References

External links

Elections Nova Scotia - Summary Results from 1867 to 2011 (PDF)

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