Sackville—Eastern Shore, NS — 2011 Federal Election Results Map
Sackville—Eastern Shore — 2011 Election Results
📌 The Canadian federal electoral district of Sackville—Eastern Shore was contested in the 2011 election.
🏆 Peter Stoffer, the NDP-New Democratic Party candidate, won the riding with 22,271 votes (53.8% of the vote).
🥈 The runner-up was Adam Mimnagh (Conservative) with 12,662 votes (30.6%), defeated by a margin of 9,609 votes.
📊 Other notable candidates: Scott Hemming (Liberal, 11%).
Riding information
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Sackville—Eastern Shore is a crescent-shaped riding within the Halifax Regional Municipality, curving from the fast-growing suburban communities of the Sackville River valley in the north, through rural Fall River and Waverley, down along the Atlantic coast’s Eastern Shore to communities like Musquodoboit Harbour, Sheet Harbour, and Jeddore. The riding excludes the urban cores of Halifax and Dartmouth but captures much of the municipality’s suburban and rural territory.
Candidates
Peter Stoffer (NDP) — Born in Heerlen, Netherlands, Stoffer emigrated to Canada with his family as an infant in 1956. He worked as a customer service leader for Canadian Airlines before entering politics, and was first elected to represent Sackville—Eastern Shore in 1997. By 2011, he was seeking his fifth consecutive term and had built a national reputation as Parliament’s foremost advocate for veterans’ issues. He served as the NDP critic for Veterans Affairs and Fisheries and Oceans, and founded the Canada-Netherlands Parliamentary Friendship Group to honour the Dutch-Canadian wartime bond.
Adam Mimnagh (Conservative) — Mimnagh ran as the Conservative candidate in Sackville—Eastern Shore in 2011, campaigning on health care and support for a stable Conservative government.
Scott Hemming (Liberal) — Hemming carried the Liberal banner in the riding in 2011.
John Percy (Green Party) also stood as a candidate.
About the Riding
Sackville—Eastern Shore is defined by the contrast between its booming suburban west and its sparsely populated rural east. Lower Sackville, one of Nova Scotia’s fastest-growing communities, functions as a bedroom suburb of Halifax, with easy access to Highway 102 and major retail along Sackville Drive. The community traces its origins to 1749, when a military fort was established on the site. The Eastern Shore, by contrast, is a long stretch of fishing villages, forestry operations, and coastal communities where populations have been declining. Sheet Harbour, once a forestry hub, saw the closure of its sawmills and the decline of its resource-based economy over the preceding decades, leaving the community searching for new economic drivers. The riding’s population was roughly 98,000 as of the 2011 census. Military families are a significant demographic, given the proximity to CFB Halifax and other Department of National Defence installations. Veterans’ issues, rural economic development, fisheries management, and the suburban-rural infrastructure gap were prominent local concerns heading into the 2011 campaign.
