Photo: Edgar El · CC BY 3.0South Shore—St. Margarets, which takes in Mahone Bay, is held by Jessica Fancy-Landry (Liberal Party of Canada)
From Nova Scotia come 11 MPs, 11 of them with the Liberal Party of Canada. Statistics Canada lists Mahone Bay as a town. Mayors and councillors in Nova Scotia aren’t on any open list, so Mahone Bay’s council goes unnamed here. Mahone Bay’s riding for the Nova Scotia House of Assembly isn’t shown: no open file of the province’s riding boundaries could be found.
Three governments, and who does what
Mahone Bay, a town in Nova Scotia, shares the work with the province and Ottawa.
Local services, by-laws and property tax.
Schools, health care, highways, municipal law.
nslegislature.ca ↗Passports, pensions, EI, defence, immigration.
ourcommons.ca ↗Who to ask
Green: municipal. Gold: provincial. Grey: federal.
Mahone Bay has no upper-tier council: Lunenburg, its census division, exists for statistics only.
From the council table to Ottawa
Every elected tier that speaks for Mahone Bay, from the most recent elections.
- 1Mahone Bay councilTown
- 2Nova Scotia House of Assembly–
- 3House of CommonsSouth Shore—St. Margarets
Party colours are neutral on purpose: they tell parties apart and aren’t the parties’ own. MPs: Wikidata (CC0), 45th Parliament statements, read 7 November 2026; ridings: 2023 Representation Order, Statistics Canada
When Mahone Bay votes
The last and next general elections at each level; a by-election can come in between.
| Election | Last | Next |
|---|---|---|
| Mahone Bay council | 19 October 2024 | 21 October 2028 |
| Nova Scotia House of Assembly | 26 November 2024 | – |
| House of Commons | 28 April 2025 | – |
The Nova Scotia House of Assembly was last elected on 26 November 2024, and the House of Commons on 28 April 2025. Elected on 19 October 2024, Mahone Bay council is up again on 21 October 2028. It is the third Saturday in October every four years, as the Municipal Elections Act provides. No open copy of the 2025 counts exists, and Elections Canada’s own terms rule out commercial reuse, so 2021 is the last vote shown.
Election dates: the legislatures, MMAH and MAMH
The Nova Scotia House of Assembly: riding not placed
Provinces and territories run schools, health care and municipal law; each riding elects one MLA.
Find your MLA on the legislature’s site
nslegislature.ca ↗Legislatures: their own member pages
Jessica Fancy-Landry represents South Shore—St. Margarets in Ottawa
Each riding elects one MP to the House of Commons; the general election of 28 April 2025 chose the 45th Parliament.
South Shore—St. Margarets · Liberal Party of Canada
en.wikipedia.org ↗- Liberal Party of Canada11
As Wikidata records them.
The MP’s record
The 2025 general election sent Jessica Fancy-Landry to the Commons for the first time. Mapped onto today’s South Shore—St. Margarets, the 2021 vote favoured the Conservative Party of Canada with 43%, which makes Jessica Fancy-Landry’s 2025 win a gain.
MPs: Wikidata (CC0), 45th Parliament statements, read 7 November 2026; ridings: 2023 Representation Order, Statistics Canada · MPs’ records: Wikidata (CC0), positions held and party memberships, read 8 November 2026
A new party in South Shore—St. Margarets in 2021: Rick Perkins (Conservative Party of Canada)
South Shore—St. Margarets as it stood from 2013: the 2019 and 2021 counts, before the riding was redrawn for 2025.
South Shore—St. Margarets elected Rick Perkins (Conservative Party of Canada) in 2021: 41% of the vote, a lead of 1,879 over Bernadette Jordan (Liberal Party of Canada). In 2019 the riding had gone to Bernadette Jordan (Liberal Party of Canada) with 42%.
All 4 candidates in South Shore—St. Margarets, 2021
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rick Perkins | Conservative Party of Canada | 20,454 | 40.9% |
| Bernadette Jordan | Liberal Party of Canada | 18,575 | 37.2% |
| Olivia Dorey | New Democratic Party | 9,541 | 19.1% |
| Thomas Trappenberg | Green Party of Canada | 1,434 | 2.9% |
Federal results: Elections Canada, 43rd and 44th general elections and the 44th’s transposition to the 2023 ridings, via open.canada.ca. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada
Having a say in how Mahone Bay is run
Check or update the federal list.
elections.ca ↗Every MP lists an office.
ourcommons.ca ↗Ridings, registration and voting dates.
electionsnovascotia.ca ↗What this data can and can’t tell you
- Election results. Elections Canada redrew the ridings in 2023 and re-tallied the 2021 ballots onto the new map from polling divisions; that estimate, and the official 2019 and 2021 counts on the old map, are what you see.
- Not on this page. Party control (Canadian councils are mostly elected without parties, and the open lists record none), council budgets, and band councils.
- Who holds each seat. MPs come from Wikidata’s records of the 45th Parliament, which can lag a resignation or a by-election by some days.
- Which riding. Where residents of the 2021 Census live decides the riding; any riding with 5% of them or more is named.
Questions about how Mahone Bay is run
Who is the MP for Mahone Bay?
Jessica Fancy-Landry of the Liberal Party of Canada is the MP for South Shore—St. Margarets, which includes Mahone Bay.
Which party won Mahone Bay in the 2021 federal election?
In 2021 it was Rick Perkins (Conservative Party of Canada), in South Shore—St. Margarets; South Shore—St. Margarets has elected Jessica Fancy-Landry since.
Who is the MLA for Mahone Bay?
This page can’t say which riding Mahone Bay is in; the Nova Scotia House of Assembly lists every MLA with theirs.
Who heads the council in Mahone Bay?
Mahone Bay is a town; its own website or the province’s municipal directory names the head of council.
Sources: MPs: Wikidata (CC0), 45th Parliament statements, read 7 November 2026; ridings: 2023 Representation Order, Statistics Canada · Next municipal election: the province’s municipal election act · Municipality types: Statistics Canada census subdivisions · Federal results: Elections Canada, 43rd and 44th general elections and the 44th’s transposition to the 2023 ridings, via open.canada.ca. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada · MPs’ records: Wikidata (CC0), positions held and party memberships, read 8 November 2026. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).