Riding profile

Kings--Hants

Federal riding — NS · Rural · atlantic

The question

Kings--Hants: a safe seat for the Liberal Party?

Editorial read

Kings--Hants, a rural riding in Nova Scotia, elected a member with the Liberal Party in the previous cycle, with a 27-point margin. The Vote-Scope model projects the Liberal Party ahead at 59% vote share, against 28% for the Conservative Party, and the probability of a close race is negligible. Linguistic profile: 0% francophone, 98% anglophone.

Sitting member

Kody Blois

Sits with Liberal

Since
2025-04-28
Parliament
45th

Current forecast

Liberal

Safe

Probability
100%
Mean margin (pts)
31.1
P(close race)
0%

Projected vote share

Projection by party

  • Liberal 58.6%
  • Conservative 27.5%
  • NDP 4.2%
  • Green 1.8%
  • PPC 1.0%

In context

How this riding stacks up

Liberal Conservative NDP Green
HereKings--Hants 58.6%27.5%4.2%1.8%
Provincial averageNova Scotia 55.2% +3.3 29.9% −2.4 6.2% −2.0 1.3% +0.5
National averageCanada 41.9% +16.7 34.8% −7.3 14.2% −10.0 2.1% −0.3

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
27.0 pts
Turnout
72.4%
Margin shift vs current projection
+4.1 pts

Detailed result · FED 2025

Candidates and votes

Candidate Party Votes % Occupation
Kody Blois Elected Liberal 35,836 60.6 Parliamentarian
Joel Hirtle Conservative 19,773 33.4 Tire Builder
Paul Doerr NDP 2,154 3.6 University Professor
Karen Beazley Green 825 1.4 Retired
Alexander Cargill PPC 591 1.0 Audiovisual Technician

Demographics

Who lives here

Linguistic profile

  • Francophone 0.3%
  • Anglophone 98.2%
  • Non-francophone (other) 1.5%

Data source : Statistics Canada — 2021 Census

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Last model run
Cycle
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