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Pictou Centre
MLA: Danny MacGillivray · Progressive Conservative
Projected winner
If an election were held today. Projection as of Oct 11, 2026; the next election may be years away.
Progressive Conservative>99% chance of winning
- Progressive Conservative · 49.8% projected vote>99%
2024 result
- Danny MacGillivray · Progressive Conservativeelected3,74167.6%
- Kris MacFarlane · Liberal97217.6%
- Mary Stewart · NS NDP82014.8%
- Margin
- 50.0%
- Tier
- Safe
- Turnout
- 40.8%
- Registered
- 13,553
2021 result
- Pat Dunn · Progressive Conservativeelected4,09255.8%
- Jim McKenna · Liberal2,26930.9%
- Vernon Theriault · NS NDP86211.8%
- Laura Moore · Green1141.6%
District at a glance
2021 Census of Population. Statistics Canada publishes no profile on Nova Scotia's provincial districts, so these are built from the dissemination areas inside each one: counts are exact sums, medians are estimates. Ranks are against all 56 districts.
- Median household income
- $62,03142 of 56
- Average rent
- $81137 of 56
- Renters
- 39.0%12 of 56
- Bachelor's or higher
- 18.5%27 of 56
- Median age
- 48.028 of 56
- Over 65
- 24.9%26 of 56
- Speak French
- 4.8%47 of 56
- Immigrants
- 3.5%41 of 56
- Indigenous identity
- 2.6%48 of 56
- Unemployment
- 13.1%21 of 56
Closest races in Central Nova
The seats most likely to move with this one.
Results and boundaries: Elections Nova Scotia. Census: Statistics Canada.