Sydney—Victoria

Sydney—Victoria is a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1997.

Sydney—Victoria

Nova Scotia electoral district
Sydney–Victoria in relation to the other Nova Scotia federal electoral districts (2003 boundaries)
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Jaime Battiste Liberal
District created	1996
First contested	1997
Last contested	2021
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2021)^[1]	72,361
Electors (2021)	59,757
Area (km²)^[1]	4,313
Pop. density (per km²)	16.8
Census division(s)	Cape Breton, Inverness, Victoria
Census subdivision(s)	Cape Breton, Eskasoni 3, Inverness Subd. A, Membertou 28B, Victoria, Subd. A, Victoria, Subd. B, Wagmatcook 1

It was created in 1996 from parts of Cape Breton—The Sydneys, Cape Breton—East Richmond and Cape Breton Highlands—Canso ridings.

Cape Breton—Canso is the only adjacent riding.

Demographics

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
2001	79,294	—
2006	76,801	−3.1%
2011	73,328	−4.5%
2016	72,148	−1.6%

According to the Canada 2011 Census; 2013 representation^[2][3]

Ethnic groups: 88.5 White, 8.9% Aboriginal, 1.1% Black
Languages: 92.9% English, 4.6% Mi'kmaq, 1.2% French
Religions: 90.7% Christian (62.8% Catholic, 8.3% United Church, 7.5% Anglican, 4.0% Presbyterian, 1.9% Baptist, 6.2% Other), 8.0% No religion
Median income (2010): $23,704
Average income (2010): $30,202

According to the Canada 2016 Census

• Languages: (2016) 93.3% English, 4.1% Mi’kmaq, 0.9% French, 0.3% Mandarin, 0.1% Arabic, 0.1% Urdu, 0.1% German, 0.1% Tagalog, 0.1% Dutch, 0.1% Cantonese, 0.1% Italian, 0.1% Scottish Gaelic^[4]

Geography

It consists of:

• The County of Victoria;
• the northern part of the County of Inverness, i.e., the part lying north of the southern boundary of Cape Breton Highlands National Park; and
• the northwestern part of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality, i.e., the part lying northwest of a line drawn northeast from Bras d'Or Lake to the northeast extremity of East Bay, due north to Portage Brook, northeast along Portage Brook, Blacketts Lake, the Sydney River, Highway 125, Trunk 4 (Grand Lake Road), Northwest Brook, the western shoreline of Grand Lake, the DEVCO Railway, and its northern branch (running towards the Community of Dominion) to its second intersection with Northwest Brook (north of Grand Lake), and then north and northeast along that brook, Lingan Bay and Indian Bay to the Atlantic Ocean.

This riding will maintain its boundaries as per the 2012 federal electoral redistribution.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Sydney—Victoria Riding created from Cape Breton—The Sydneys, Cape Breton—East Richmond and Cape Breton Highlands—Canso
36th	1997–2000		Peter Mancini	New Democratic
37th	2000–2004		Mark Eyking	Liberal
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015
42nd	2015–2019
43rd	2019–2021		Jaime Battiste
44th	2021–present

Election results

Graph of election results in Sydney—Victoria (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

2021 general election

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Jaime Battiste	14,250	39.2	+8.3
	Conservative	Eddie Orrell	13,166	36.3	+8.6
	New Democratic	Jeff Ward	7,217	19.9	-0.2
	People's	Ronald Angus Barron	1,176	3.2	N/A
	Green	Mark Embrett	376	1.0	-4.5
	Marxist–Leninist	Nikki Boisvert	127	0.3	N/A
Total valid votes			36,312	98.7	±0.0
Total rejected ballots			472	1.3	±0.0
Turnout			36,784	61.6	-6.5
Registered voters			59,757
	Liberal hold		Swing		-0.2
Source: Elections Canada^[5]^[6]

2019 general election

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Jaime Battiste	12,536	30.90	−42.30	$63,429.21
	Conservative	Eddie Orrell	11,227	27.68	+17.04	none listed
	New Democratic	Jodi McDavid	8,146	20.08	+7.02	none listed
	Independent	Archie MacKinnon	5,679	14.00	New	none listed
	Green	Lois Foster	2,249	5.54	+3.04	$0.00
	Independent	Kenzie MacNeil	480	1.18	New	none listed
	Veterans Coalition	Randy Joy	248	0.61	New	$0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			40,565	98.72		$99,536.07
Total rejected ballots			528	1.28	+0.71
Turnout			41,093	68.12	−0.84
Eligible voters			60,322
	Liberal hold		Swing		−29.67
Source: Elections Canada^[7]

2015 general election

v t e 2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Mark Eyking	29,995	73.20	+33.29	–
	New Democratic	Monika Dutt	5,351	13.06	–5.97	$32,027.50
	Conservative	John Douglas Chiasson	4,360	10.64	–27.21	$41,720.11
	Green	Matthew Cavanaugh	1,026	2.50	–0.71	–
	Libertarian	Wayne James Hiscock	242	0.59	–	–
Total valid votes/expense limit			40,974	100.00		$195,473.50
Total rejected ballots			236	0.57
Turnout			41,210	68.96
Eligible voters			59,761
	Liberal hold		Swing		+19.63
Source: Elections Canada^[8]^[9]

2011 general election

v t e 2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Mark Eyking	14,788	39.91	-9.49	$67,454.53
	Conservative	Cecil Clarke	14,023	37.85	+17.23	$77,334.98
	New Democratic	Kathy MacLeod	7,049	19.02	-5.42	$17,238.77
	Green	Chris Milburn	1,191	3.21	-2.33	$0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			37,051	100.0		$80,666.28
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			279	0.75	+0.03
Turnout			37,330	61.48	+4.07
Eligible voters			60,719
	Liberal hold		Swing		-13.36
Sources:^[10]^[11]

2008 general election

v t e 2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Mark Eyking	17,303	49.40	-0.48	$60,561.52
	New Democratic	Wayne McKay	8,559	24.44	-4.06	$15,485.05
	Conservative	Kristen Rudderham	7,223	20.62	+2.28	$60,092.18
	Green	Collin Harker	1,941	5.54	+2.25	$1,966.54
Total valid votes/expense limit			35,026	100.0		$78,337
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			254	0.72	+0.16
Turnout			35,280	57.41	-5.89
Eligible voters			61,448
	Liberal hold		Swing		+1.79

2006 general election

v t e 2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Mark Eyking	20,277	49.88	-2.25	$47,473.95
	New Democratic	John Hugh Edwards	11,587	28.50	+0.79	$28,987.58
	Conservative	Howie MacDonald	7,455	18.34	+2.47	$26,033.71
	Green	Chris Milburn	1,336	3.29	+0.99	$537.60
Total valid votes/expense limit			40,655	100.0		$73,953
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			227	0.56	-0.23
Turnout			40,882	63.30	+2.72
Eligible voters			64,589
	Liberal hold		Swing		-1.52

2004 general election

v t e 2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Mark Eyking	19,372	52.13	+2.14	$51,343.95
	New Democratic	John Hugh Edwards	10,298	27.71	-8.50	$24,957.69
	Conservative	Howie MacDonald	5,897	15.87	+2.08	$48,515.46
	Green	Chris Milburn	855	2.30	–	$580.41
	Marijuana	Cathy Thériault	474	1.28	–	none listed
	Independent	B. Chris Gallant	264	0.71	–	$165.54
Total valid votes/Expense limit			37,160	100.0		$71,187
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			297	0.79
Turnout			37,457	60.58
Eligible voters			61,826
	Liberal notional hold		Swing		+5.32
Changes from 2000 are based on redistributed results. Conservative Party change is based on the combination of Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party totals.

2000 federal election redistributed results
Party		Vote	%
	Liberal	19,698	49.99
	New Democratic	14,267	36.21
	Progressive Conservative	3,934	9.98
	Alliance	1,501	3.81

2000 general election

v t e 2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Mark Eyking	19,388	49.8	+23.5
	New Democratic	Peter Mancini	14,216	36.5	-14.6
	Progressive Conservative	Anna Curtis-Steele	3,779	9.7	-12.9
	Alliance	Rod A.M. Farrell	1,528	3.9
Total valid votes			38,911	100.0

1997 general election

v t e 1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Peter Mancini	22,455	51.1
	Liberal	Vince MacLean	11,569	26.3
	Progressive Conservative	Cecil Clarke	9,920	22.6
Total valid votes			43,944	100.0

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada

References

• "Sydney—Victoria (Code 12010) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada. Retrieved March 3, 2011.

Notes

1. Statistics Canada: 2011
2. Canada, Government of Canada, Statistics (May 8, 2013). "2011 National Household Survey Profile - Federal electoral district (2013 Representation Order)". www12.statcan.gc.ca.
3. Canada, Government of Canada, Statistics (May 8, 2013). "2011 National Household Survey Profile - Federal electoral district (2013 Representation Order)". www12.statcan.gc.ca.
4. "Mother Tongue (269), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Age (15A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories and Federal Electoral Districts (2013 Representation Order), 2016 Census - 100% Data". August 2, 2017.
5. "Confirmed candidates — Sydney—Victoria". Elections Canada. Retrieved September 20, 2021.
6. "September 20, 2021 General Election Election Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved September 22, 2021.
7. "Official Voting Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved September 22, 2021.
8. "October 19, 2015 Election Results — Sydney—Victoria (Validated results)". Elections Canada. October 21, 2015. Retrieved October 24, 2015.
9. . www.elections.ca. Archived from the original on August 15, 2015. Retrieved November 10, 2018.
10. "OVR / ROS". www.elections.ca.
11. Canada, Elections. "Search for Returns". www.elections.ca.

External links

• Riding history for Sydney–Victoria (1996– ) from the Library of Parliament