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Guysborough-Sheet Harbour

2009 Results

GUYSBOROUGH-SHEET HARBOUR
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Jun. 9, 2009 10:11 PM ADT		51/51 polls
NDP	Jim Boudreau	3,621	51.55	Elected
PC	Ronnie Chisholm	1,750	24.91
LIB	Lloyd Hines	1,573	22.39
GRN	Amy Florian	80	1.14

All results are unofficial until final ballot counts are verified by Elections Nova Scotia.

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Candidates

Jim Boudreau	NDP
Ronnie Chisholm	PC
Amy Florian	GRN
Lloyd Hines	LIB

Current MLA: Ronnie Chisholm (PC), Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture

District profile: This is a large, rural and sparsely populated riding stretching along the Atlantic coast from Tangier and Sheet Harbour on the Eastern Shore to the town of Canso in the north, then west along the Strait to the port of Mulgrave.

Before 1999, the district was known as Guysborough-Port Hawkesbury and included all of Guysborough County and the towns of Port Hawkesbury and Port Hastings. Today, the riding still includes all of Guysborough County, but excludes those larger urban areas in Inverness County.

The town of Guysborough is the main service centre for the county of Guysborough in the north and derives some business from the Sable Offshore Project and gas plant in Goldboro.

Resource industries such as fishing and forestry remain important, while schools and hospitals are other major employers.

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Candidate	Party	Vote count	Vote share	Elected
Ronnie Chisholm	PC	2,765	40.83%	X
Jim Boudreau	NDP	2,540	37.51%
Dave Horton	LIB	1,379	20.36%
Marike Finlay	GRN	88	1.3%

2006:	Conservative Ronnie Chisholm was re-elected by 225 votes over New Democrat Jim Boudreau.
2003:	Chisholm received 38 per cent of the vote and defeated Liberal Gordon Macdonald by 388 votes. Boudreau was strong third for the NDP with 30 per cent.
1999:	Chisholm defeated incumbent Liberal Ray White by 153 votes. New Democrat Wendy Panagopoulos was third with 1,267 votes.
1998:	White was re-elected under the Liberal banner, defeating Chisholm by 720 votes. Panagopoulos was third.
1993:	White defeated PC Chuck MacNeil by 2,200 votes. NDP Frank Fraser was third.

Overall Results

Overall Election Results
Party	Elected	Leading	Total	Vote Share (%)
Updated: Jun. 9, 2009, 10:11 PM ADT
NDP	31	0	31	45.26
LIB	11	0	11	27.22
PC	10	0	10	24.52
GRN	0	0	0	2.33
IND	0	0	0	0.67

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