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Lunenburg West

2009 Results

LUNENBURG WEST
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Jun. 9, 2009 10:11 PM ADT		46/46 polls
NDP	Gary Ramey	3,600	39.60	Elected
PC	Carolyn Bolivar-Getson	3,045	33.50
LIB	Mark Furey	2,297	25.27
GRN	Emily Richardson	148	1.63

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

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Candidates

Carolyn Bolivar-Getson	PC
Mark Furey	LIB
Gary Ramey	NDP
Emily Richardson	GRN

Current MLA: Carolyn Bolivar-Getson (PC), Minister of Natural Resources

District profile: Lunenburg West includes the town of Bridgewater, as well as the communities of LaHave and Hebbville along the LaHave River. It's home to a couple of popular summer destinations, Crescent and Risser's Beach, on the Atlantic coast.

Bridgewater is a centre for trade, shopping and education for people who live in rural Lunenburg County. Call centres and a plant that manufactures non-latex gloves have set up shop here in the past decade.

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Candidate	Party	Vote count	Vote share	Elected
Carolyn Bolivar-Getson	PC	3,637	43.21%	X
Dr. Bill Smith	NDP	3,299	39.19%
Martin E. Bell	LIB	1,324	15.73%
Brendan MacNeill	GRN	157	1.87%

2006:	PC Carolyn Bolivar-Getson defeated second-place finisher Bill Smith of the NDP by 338 votes.
2003:	Bolivar-Getson took 40 per cent of the vote to defeat Liberal John MacDonald (33 per cent) and New Democrat David Ferguson (28 per cent).
1999:	Liberal Don Downe took 45 per cent of the vote to defeat PC Jerry Swain. New Democrat Eric Hustvedt was third.
1998:	Downe defeated Hustvedt by 1,653 votes.
1993:	Downe was re-elected over PC Marie Dechman by 3,366 votes.

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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