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Central NovaSafeRural
Pictou East
MLA: Tim Houston · 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 · 61.1% projected vote>99%
2024 result
- Tim Houston · Progressive Conservativeelected4,42478.9%
- Vernon Theriault · NS NDP65611.7%
- Stephanie Quinn · Liberal5289.4%
- Margin
- 67.2%
- Tier
- Safe
- Turnout
- 46.1%
- Registered
- 12,170
2021 result
- Tim Houston · Progressive Conservativeelected4,91869.7%
- Joe MacDonald · Liberal1,58522.5%
- Joy Polley · NS NDP5007.1%
- Jonathan Geoffrey Dean · Other550.8%
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
- $68,21830 of 56
- Average rent
- $77144 of 56
- Renters
- 17.1%40 of 56
- Bachelor's or higher
- 12.4%48 of 56
- Median age
- 49.920 of 56
- Over 65
- 25.2%25 of 56
- Speak French
- 3.1%54 of 56
- Immigrants
- 1.5%54 of 56
- Indigenous identity
- 5.5%19 of 56
- Unemployment
- 15.0%14 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.