Clare (electoral district)

Clare
Nova Scotia electoral district
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Nova Scotia House of Assembly
MLA	Ryan Robicheau; Progressive Conservative
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District created	1949, 2019
District abolished	2013
Last contested	2024
Demographics
Population (2021)	7,687
Electors (2024)	7,206
Area (km²)	830
Pop. density (per km²)	9.3
Census division(s)	Digby County
Census subdivision(s)	Municipality of the District of Clare

Clare is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada which existed between 1949-2013 and since 2021. Prior to 1949, Clare was part of Digby district. It elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. The electoral district includes most of the Municipality of the District of Clare, an Acadian area occupying the southwestern half of Digby County. For four consecutive elections from 1988 to 1999, the district had the highest voter turnout in the province.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Quick facts Nova Scotia electoral district, Provincial electoral district ...

The electoral district was abolished following the 2012 electoral boundary review and was largely replaced by the new electoral district of Clare-Digby. It was re-created out of Clare-Digby following the 2019 Electoral Boundary Review after a court challenge that also re-instated the province's two other protected Acadians ridings of Argyle and Richmond, and the Black riding of Preston.^[5]

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Clare
Legislature	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Digby
44th	1949–1953		Desire Comeau	Progressive Conservative
45th	1953–1956		Pierre Belliveau	Liberal
46th	1956–1960
47th	1960–1963
48th	1963–1967		Hector J. Pothier	Progressive Conservative
49th	1967–1970		Benoit Comeau	Liberal
50th	1970–1974
51st	1974–1978
52nd	1978–1981
53rd	1981–1984		Chester Melanson
54th	1984–1988		Guy LeBlanc	Progressive Conservative
55th	1988–1993		Guy LeBlanc	Progressive Conservative
56th	1993–1998		Wayne Gaudet	Liberal
57th	1998–1999
58th	1999–2003
59th	2003–2006
60th	2006–2009
61st	2009–2013
Riding dissolved into Clare-Digby
Riding recreated from Clare-Digby
64th	2021–2024		Ronnie LeBlanc	Liberal
65th	2024–present		Ryan Robicheau	Progressive Conservative

v t e 2024 Nova Scotia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Ryan Robicheau	2,805	59.71	+16.29
	Liberal	Ronnie LeBlanc	1,790	38.10	-11.79
	New Democratic	Dre Taylor	103	2.19	-1.10
Total valid votes			4,698	99.22
Total rejected ballots			51	1.07	+0.22
Turnout			4,749	65.90	-1.19
Eligible voters			7,206
	Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+14.00

v t e 2021 Nova Scotia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Ronnie LeBlanc	2,322	49.89	-1.34	$37,791.91
	Progressive Conservative	Carl Deveau	2,021	43.43	+13.12	$13,595.33
	Green	Claire McDonald	158	3.39		$200.00
	New Democratic	Cameron Pye	153	3.29	-15.17	$10,832.43
Total valid votes/expense limit			4,654	99.15	–	$44,268.32
Total rejected ballots			40	0.85
Turnout			4,694	67.19
Eligible voters			6,986
	Liberal notional hold		Swing		-7.23
Source: Elections Nova Scotia^[7]

2017 provincial election redistributed results^[8]
Party		Vote	%
	Liberal	2,059	51.23
	Progressive Conservative	1,218	30.31
	New Democratic	742	18.46

2009 Nova Scotia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Wayne Gaudet	3,392	64.68%	16.16%
	New Democratic	Paul Comeau	1,326	25.29%	3.32%
	Progressive Conservative	Jimmy Doucet	459	8.75%	-19.33%
	Green	Diane Doucet-Bean	67	1.28%	-0.14%
Total			5,244	–
Total rejected ballots			53
Turnout			5,297	76.71
Eligible voters			6,905
Source(s) Source: Nova Scotia Legislature (2021). "Electoral History for Clare" (PDF). nslegislature.ca.

Clare (electoral district)

Geography

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election results

2024

2021

2017 (transposed)

2009

2006

2003

1999

1998

1993

1988

1984

1981

1978

1974

1970

1967

1963

1960

1956

1953

1949

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