Pictou—Antigonish—Guysborough
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Pictou—Antigonish—Guysborough was a federal electoral district in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2004.
This riding was created in 1996 from Cape Breton Highlands—Canso and Central Nova ridings, and consisted of the counties of Pictou, Antigonish and Guysborough. It was abolished in 2003 when it was redistributed into Cape Breton—Canso and Central Nova ridings.
Its only member was Peter G. MacKay from the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
[edit] Election results
| Canadian federal election, 1997 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Peter MacKay | 18,196 | |||
| Liberal | Francis Leblanc | 12,851 | |||
| New Democrat | Charlene Long | 8,284 | |||
| Reform | Henry Van Berkel | 3,416 | |||
| Natural Law | Richard Robertson | 228 | |||
| Canadian federal election, 2000 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Peter MacKay | 19,256 | |||
| Liberal | Raymond Mason | 12,634 | |||
| New Democrat | Wendy Panagopoulous | 4,498 | |||
| Canadian Alliance | Harvey Henderson | 2,915 | |||
| Independent | Darryl Gallivan | 551 | |||
