Hammonds Plains-Upper Sackville

Candidates

Current MLA: Barry Barnet (PC), Energy Minister

District profile:

The constituency was created in the 2003 redistribution from most of what was Sackville-Beaver Bank (72 per cent) and part of Timberlea-Prospect (11 per cent).

Created mainly because of the fast-growing population of the Sackville area, the district consists largely of bedroom suburbs, trailer parks and strip mall developments.

It also contains two of the most affluent areas in the province, Glen Arbour and Upland Park.

District map: Hammonds Plains-Upper Sackville (PDF)

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2006 results

Voter turnout: 54.46 per cent in 2006

Political history

Since 1993, all three parties have held power in the area.

Progressive Conservative Barry Barnet has been elected three times, the first as MLA for the old Sackville-Beaver Bank district in 1999. The Liberals and NDP also represented Sackville-Beaver Bank in the '90s.