Riding profile

Halifax

Federal riding — NS · Urban · atlantic

The question

Halifax: a safe seat for the Liberal Party?

Editorial read

Halifax, an urban riding in Nova Scotia, elected a member with the Liberal Party in the previous cycle, with a 44-point margin. The Vote-Scope model projects the Liberal Party ahead at 62% vote share, against 17% for the NDP, and the probability of a close race is negligible. Linguistic profile: 1% francophone, 90% anglophone.

Sitting member

Shannon Miedema

Sits with Liberal

Since
2025-04-28
Parliament
45th

Current forecast

Liberal

Safe

Probability
100%
Mean margin (pts)
44.4
P(close race)
0%

Projected vote share

Projection by party

  • Liberal 61.7%
  • NDP 17.3%
  • Conservative 12.9%
  • Green 1.2%
  • PPC 0.6%

In context

How this riding stacks up

Liberal NDP Conservative Green
HereHalifax 61.7%17.3%12.9%1.2%
Provincial averageNova Scotia 55.2% +6.4 6.2% +11.1 29.9% −17.0 1.3% −0.1
National averageCanada 41.9% +19.8 14.2% +3.1 34.8% −21.9 2.1% −0.9

Provincial averages computed across the 343 riding-level projections (unweighted mean).

Projection track

How the projection has moved

Previous election · FED 2025

Won by
Liberal
Margin
43.7 pts
Turnout
72.6%
Margin shift vs current projection
+0.7 pts

Detailed result · FED 2025

Candidates and votes

Candidate Party Votes % Occupation
Shannon Miedema Elected Liberal 32,886 63.0 Environment and Climate Change
Mark Boudreau Conservative 9,939 19.1 Communications Professional
Lisa Roberts NDP 8,642 16.6 Parliamentarian
Amethyste Hamel-Gregory Green 422 0.8 Educational Assistant
Maricar Aliasut PPC 271 0.5 Property Manager

Demographics

Who lives here

Linguistic profile

  • Francophone 0.7%
  • Anglophone 90.3%
  • Non-francophone (other) 9.0%

Data source : Statistics Canada — 2021 Census

Last model run
Cycle
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