Summary: NDP incumbent Peter Stoffer is looking to win a seventh straight term this year, but his riding has seen significant changes to its boundaries.
Boundaries: This new riding largely reflects the former riding of Sackville-Eastern Shore, but is geographically smaller, with the Musquodoboit Valley and parts of the Eastern Shore moving into neighbouring ridings.
Last Election: NDP incumbent Peter Stoffer won another landslide victory in 2011 in the former riding of Sackville-Eastern Shore, defeating the Conservative candidate by nearly 10,000 votes.
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History: Stoffer has held this area for the NDP since 1997, winning by a significant margin in each election.
Demographics: The median income is $33,700 as of the 2011 National Household Survey, second highest in Atlantic Canada.
Candidates
Conservative: Richard Strickland, software consultant
NDP: Peter Stoffer, MP
Liberal: Darrell Samson, Superintendent of Schools for the Conseil scolaire acadien provincial
Green: Mike Montgomery, business owner
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