Kings—Hants

Kings—Hants (formerly Annapolis Valley—Hants and Annapolis Valley) is a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1968.

Kings—Hants

Nova Scotia electoral district
From the 2015 federal election to 2025 From the 2025 federal election Interactive map of riding boundaries
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Kody Blois Liberal
District created	1966
First contested	1968
Last contested	2025
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2021)[1]	87,744
Electors (2025)[2]	81,110
Area (km²)[1]	4,124
Pop. density (per km²)	21.3
Census division(s)	Hants, Kings
Census subdivision(s)	Kings (part), East Hants, West Hants, Kentville, Wolfville, Indian Brook, Berwick, Annapolis Valley, Glooscap

Demographics

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
2001	79,286	—
2006	81,531	+2.8%
2011	83,306	+2.2%
2016	83,465	+0.2%
2021	87,744	+5.1%

According to the 2021 Canadian census; 2023 representation^[3]

Racial groups: 90.5% White, 5.4% Indigenous, 1.8% Black
Languages: 95.6% English, 1.7% French
Religions: 53.1% Christian (13.8% Catholic, 11.2% Baptist, 8.7% United Church, 8.6% Anglican, 1.1% Presbyterian, 9.7% Other), 45.1% No religion
Median income (2020): $36,800
Average income (2015): $44,520

Geography

The district includes all of Hants County and the eastern part of Kings County. Communities include Enfield, Elmsdale, Lantz, Kentville, Windsor and Wolfville.

History

The electoral district was created as "Annapolis Valley" in 1966 from parts of Colchester—Hants and Digby—Annapolis—Kings ridings. It was composed of the eastern portion of Annapolis County, and all of Kings and Hants counties.

In 1978, it lost the eastern portion of Annapolis County to South West Nova.

In 1996, it was renamed "Kings—Hants". In 2003, it was given its current boundaries: the area encompassed by the provincial electoral district of Kings West was removed from Kings—Hants and added to West Nova. There was no territory changes as a result of the 2012 federal electoral redistribution.

Following the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution, the riding gained some territory (Berwick area) in Kings County from West Nova.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Annapolis Valley Riding created from Colchester—Hants and Digby—Annapolis—Kings
28th	1968–1972		Pat Nowlan	Progressive Conservative
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1979
Annapolis Valley—Hants
31st	1979–1980		Pat Nowlan	Progressive Conservative
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988
34th	1988–1990
	1990–1993			Independent
35th	1993–1997		John Murphy	Liberal
Kings—Hants
36th	1997–2000		Scott Brison	Progressive Conservative
	2000–2000		Joe Clark
37th	2000–2003		Scott Brison
	2003–2004			Liberal
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015
42nd	2015–2019
43rd	2019–2021		Kody Blois
44th	2021–2025
45th	2025–present

Scott Brison resigned his seat effective 10 February 2019.^[4] Under legislation that had recently come into effect, the seat remained vacant until the next general election.^[5]

Election results

Graph of election results in Annapolis Valley, Annapolis Valley—Hants, Kings—Hants (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

Kings—Hants

Graph of election results in Kings—Hants (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

2025

v t e 2025 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Kody Blois	35,836	60.56	+16.16
	Conservative	Joel Hirtle	19,773	33.41	+3.17
	New Democratic	Paul Doerr	2,154	3.64	-15.26
	Green	Karen Beazley	825	1.39	-0.54
	People's	Alexander Cargill	591	1.00	-3.53
Total valid votes			59,179	99.35
Total rejected ballots			388	0.65	+0.11
Turnout			59,567	73.02	+10.78
Eligible voters			81,581
	Liberal notional hold		Swing		+6.50
Source: Elections Canada[6][7]
Note: number of eligible voters does not include voting day registrations.

2021

2021 federal election redistributed results[8]
Party		Vote	%
	Liberal	21,582	44.39
	Conservative	14,704	30.25
	New Democratic	9,186	18.90
	People's	2,202	4.53
	Green	940	1.93
Total valid votes		48,614	99.46
Rejected ballots		265	0.54
Registered voters/ estimated turnout		78,544	62.23

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Kody Blois	20,192	44.92	+1.61	$80,518.90
	Conservative	Mark Parent	13,234	29.44	+4.66	$54,740.13
	New Democratic	Stephen Schneider	8,645	19.23	+2.05	$13,834.66
	People's	Steven Ford	1,945	4.33	+2.69	$0.00
	Green	Sheila G. Richardson	940	2.09	-10.46	$4,644.16
Total valid votes/expense limit			44,956	100.00	–	$107,126.60
Total rejected ballots			251
Turnout			45,207	63.42	-5.34
Registered voters			71,285
	Liberal hold		Swing		-1.53
Source: Elections Canada[9]

2019

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Kody Blois	20,806	43.31	−27.43	$62,750.09
	Conservative	Martha MacQuarrie	11,905	24.78	+6.20	$48,454.21
	New Democratic	Stephen Schneider	8,254	17.18	+10.76	$28,020.03
	Green	Brogan Anderson	6,029	12.55	+9.19	$12,592.53
	People's	Matthew Southall	786	1.64	New	$3,504.18
	Rhinoceros	Nicholas Tan	138	0.29	−0.11	none listed
	Veterans Coalition	Stacey Dodge	118	0.25	New	$0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			48,036	99.32		$101,328.14
Total rejected ballots			327	0.68	+0.25
Turnout			48,363	68.76	−1.00
Eligible voters			70,332
	Liberal hold		Swing		−16.81
Source: Elections Canada[10]

2015

2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Scott Brison	33,026	70.74	+31.19	$88,355.31
	Conservative	David Morse	8,677	18.59	–18.05	$80,877.49
	New Democratic	Hugh Curry	2,998	6.42	–13.60	$15,831.09
	Green	Will Cooper	1,569	3.36	–0.42	$1,277.65
	Rhinoceros	Megan Brown-Hodges	184	0.39	–	$730.27
	Independent	Edd Twohig	132	0.28	–	$1,070.96
	Independent	Cliff James Williams	100	0.21	–	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			46,686	99.57		$200,775.69
Total rejected ballots			202	0.43
Turnout			46,888	70.56
Eligible voters			66,454
	Liberal hold		Swing		+24.62
Source: Elections Canada[11][12]

2011

2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Scott Brison	15,887	39.56	-4.62	$74,312.84
	Conservative	David Morse	14,714	36.63	+10.49	$79,610.04
	New Democratic	Mark Rogers	8,043	20.03	-1.98	$30,929.92
	Green	Sheila Richardson	1,520	3.78	-2.46	$1,566.57
Total valid votes/Expense limit			40,164	100.0		$82,155.51
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			200	0.50	+0.01
Turnout			40,364	61.76	+3.17
Eligible voters			65,355
	Liberal hold		Swing		-7.56
Sources:[13][14]

2008

2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Scott Brison	16,641	44.18	-1.38	$57,579.50
	Conservative	Rosemary Segado	9,846	26.14	-6.05	$59,850.46
	New Democratic	Carol Harris	8,291	22.01	+2.99	$19,364.79
	Green	Brendan MacNeill	2,353	6.24	+4.04	$2,914.98
	Christian Heritage	Jim Hnatiuk	528	1.40	–	$11,240.76
Total valid votes/Expense limit			37,659	100.0		$79,171
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			187	0.49	+0.08
Turnout			37,846	58.59	-6.60
Eligible voters			64,593
	Liberal hold		Swing		+2.34

2006

2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Scott Brison	19,491	45.56	-1.05	$74,044.26
	Conservative	Bob Mullan	13,772	32.19	+2.07	$65,675.63
	New Democratic	Mary Dewolfe	8,138	19.02	+1.33	$19,691.41
	Green	Sheila Richardson	947	2.21	-1.41	$1,181.00
	Marijuana	Chummy Anthony	436	1.02	–	none listed
Total valid votes/Expense limit			42,784	100.0		$74,073
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			177	0.41	-0.35
Turnout			42,961	65.19	+2.77
Eligible voters			65,898
	Liberal hold		Swing		-1.56

2004

2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Scott Brison	17,555	46.61	+16.11	$68,487.35
	Conservative	Bob Mullan	11,344	30.12	-19.42	$64,737.24
	New Democratic	Skip Hambling	6,663	17.69	+0.08	$24,085.01
	Green	Kevin Stacey	1,364	3.62	–	$2,710.55
	Christian Heritage	Jim Hnatiuk	493	1.31	–	$7,088.07
	Independent	Richard Hennigar	242	0.64	+0.34	$5,710.00
Total valid votes/Expense limit			37,661	100.0		$70,804
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			289	0.76
Turnout			37,950	62.42
Eligible voters			60,801
	Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+18.56
Changes from 2000 are based on redistributed results. Changes for Liberal candidate Scott Brison from 2000 are based on the Liberal Party's results. He received +6.48% votes from his results as a Progressive Conservative. Conservative Party change is based on the combination of Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party totals. Change for independent candidate Richard Hennigar is based on his 2000 results as a Natural Law candidate (results not redistributed).

2000 federal election redistributed results
Party		Vote	%
	Progressive Conservative	14,130	40.13
	Liberal	10,741	30.50
	New Democratic	6,202	17.61
	Alliance	3,315	9.41
	Others	826	2.35

2000

2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Scott Brison	17,612	40.29	-13.16
	Liberal	Claude O'Hara	13,213	30.23	-0.03
	New Democratic	Kaye Johnson	7,244	16.57	-10.57
	Alliance	Gerry Fulton	4,618	10.56	-5.58
	Marijuana	Jim King	669	1.53
	Independent	Kenneth MacEachern	140	0.32
	Natural Law	Richard Hennigar	133	0.30	-0.28
	Communist	Graham Jake MacDonald	85	0.19	-0.33
Total valid votes			43,714	100.00

All changes are based on the 2000 by-election, except the Liberal Party and the Natural Law Party, which did not field a candidate; and Communist Party candidate Graham Jake MacDonald, who ran as an Independent.

2000 by-election

v t e Canadian federal by-election, September 11, 2000
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Progressive Conservative	Joe Clark	14,525	53.45	+17.18	$38,552
	New Democratic	Kaye Johnson	7,375	27.14	+8.17	$45,722
	Alliance	Gerry Fulton	4,385	16.14	+2.75	$40,044
	Marijuana	Alex Néron	670	2.47		$371
	Independent	John Turmel	221	0.81		$0
Total valid votes			27,176	100.00
Total rejected ballots			232
Turnout			27,408	39.54
Electors on the lists			69,319
Cause of by-election: resignation of Scott Brison on July 24, 2000. Canadian Alliance percentages are contrasted with the Reform Party figures from 1997. Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada.

1997

1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Scott Brison	17,401	36.27	+16.04
	Liberal	John Murphy	14,515	30.26	-9.23
	New Democratic	Philip A. Brown	9,101	18.97	+13.97
	Reform	Lloyd Schmidt	6,424	13.39	+0.57
	Natural Law	James McLelland	278	0.58	-0.47
	Independent	Graham Jake MacDonald	251	0.52
Total valid votes			47,970	100.00

Annapolis Valley—Hants

Graph of election results in Annapolis Valley—Hants (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

1993

1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Murphy	18,238	39.49	-0.59
	Progressive Conservative	Jim White	9,344	20.23	-23.94
	Independent	Pat Nowlan	8,958	19.40	-24.77
	Reform	John Merriam	5,919	12.82
	New Democratic	Dick Terfry	2,308	5.00	-7.52
	Christian Heritage	Jack Enserink	614	1.33	-1.47
	National	Steve Mockford	484	1.05
	Natural Law	John Runkle	319	0.69
Total valid votes			46,184	100.00

Changes from the 1988 election for both Progressive Conservative candidate Jim White and Independent candidate Pat Nowlan are based on the same 1988 result, when Pat Nowlan ran as a Progressive Conservative. Independent Rik Gates was the youngest candidate to run for MP at the age of twenty two.

1988

1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Pat Nowlan	20,763	44.17	-9.68
	Liberal	John Murphy	18,840	40.08	+11.62
	New Democratic	Keith Collins	5,886	12.52	-3.43
	Christian Heritage	Jack Enserink	1,318	2.80
	Independent	Rik Gates	200	0.43
Total valid votes			47,007	100.00

1984

1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Pat Nowlan	23,580	53.85	+11.88
	Liberal	Howard Fuller	12,463	28.46	-2.87
	New Democratic	Peggy Hope-Simpson	6,987	15.95	-9.34
	Rhinoceros	Graham Macdermott	762	1.74	+0.90
Total valid votes			43,792	100.00

1980

1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Pat Nowlan	17,152	41.97	-8.15
	Liberal	Jim Munro	12,804	31.33	+1.41
	New Democratic	Bob Levy	10,338	25.29	+5.33
	Rhinoceros	Mark Moors	343	0.84
	Independent	Dick Killam	233	0.57
Total valid votes			40,870	100.00

1979

1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Pat Nowlan	20,103	50.12	-2.40
	Liberal	Frank C. Bezanson	12,001	29.92	-13.12
	New Democratic	Bob Levy	8,008	19.96	+16.22
Total valid votes			40,112	100.00

Annapolis Valley

Graph of election results in Annapolis Valley (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

1974

1974 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Pat Nowlan	19,174	52.52	-5.95
	Liberal	Brian Bruce	15,712	43.04	+7.33
	New Democratic	John Patrick O'Meara	1,366	3.74	-1.25
	Marxist–Leninist	Ronald John Brunton	135	0.37
	Social Credit	Frank Dimock	121	0.33	-0.50
Total valid votes			36508	100.00

1972

1972 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Pat Nowlan	20,962	58.47	+1.84
	Liberal	Tom Calkin	12,800	35.71	-4.39
	New Democratic	Virginia Pickett	1,788	4.99	+1.72
	Social Credit	W. Lincoln Hatt	299	0.83
Total valid votes			35849	100.00

1968

1968 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%}
	Progressive Conservative	Pat Nowlan	17,435	56.64
	Liberal	Alexander C. Williamson	12,342	40.09
	New Democratic	Donald L. McKay	1,007	3.27
Total valid votes			30784	100.00

See also

• List of Canadian electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada