The Political RecordFederal electoral districtsNo. 12006Nova Scotia

Halifax

Name: 2025 Canadian federal election in Halifax
Start: 2025-04-28
End: 2025-04-28

Halifax is a federal riding in Nova Scotia. Shannon Miedema (Liberal) has represented Halifax since the 2025 election. Shannon Miedema (Liberal) held Halifax for the Liberals in the 2025 election by 22,947 votes (43.9 points), with 63.0% of the vote. Mark Boudreau (Conservative) was second with 19.1%, on a turnout of 72.6% of 72,377 electors. Member as of 2026-11-01.

Fig. 1 — Halifax on the board, 2023 boundaries; the ridings next door as the House holds them on 2026-11-01. Open it on the board →

Who represents Halifax

Shannon Miedema's piece from the board. Illustration after the official portrait © House of Commons.

Shannon Miedema

Member of Parliament for Halifax

Liberal

MP since 2025-04-28 · first term

Chair, Environment and Sustainable Development committee
Chair, Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure
Environment and Sustainable Development committee
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73 speeches in the 45th Parliament, most often on Commissioner for Modern Treaty Implementation Act.

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The 2025 result: Liberal hold

Share of the valid votes by candidate, Halifax, April 28, 2025

Shares of the 52,160 valid votes; a candidate under 1% is counted with the others. Source: Elections Canada, official voting results, the 2025 general election.

The figures

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Shannon Miedema	Liberal	32,886	63.0%
Mark Boudreau	Conservative	9,939	19.1%
Lisa Roberts	New Democratic	8,642	16.6%
Others (2)		693	1.3%

Shannon Miedema (Liberal) won Halifax on April 28, 2025 with 32,886 votes, 63.0% of the 52,160 valid votes. Mark Boudreau (Conservative) was second with 9,939 (19.1%), 22,947 votes and 43.9 points behind.

Of the 52,160 valid votes, Shannon Miedema (Liberal) took 63.0%, Mark Boudreau (Conservative) 19.1% and Lisa Roberts (New Democratic) 16.6%; the 2 other candidates took 1.3% together. Turnout was 72.6% of 72,377 electors: 52,525 ballots cast, 52,160 of them valid, for 5 candidates.

Since 2021

Against the 2021 result on these boundaries, the Liberals are up 21.0 (42.0% to 63.0%), the Conservatives up 6.4 (12.7% to 19.1%) and the New Democrats down 23.4 (40.0% to 16.6%), in points of the valid votes.

2021 is Elections Canada's transposition of that election onto the 2023 boundaries, not an election held on these lines.

Since 2004: no party has held it

The party first in Halifax at each general election, 2004 to 2025, on today's boundaries

2004New Democratic41.5%by 2.3 points over the Liberals
2006New Democratic46.7%by 15.7 points over the Liberals
2008New Democratic42.6%by 14.9 points over the Liberals
2011New Democratic51.5%by 25.8 points over the Liberals
2015changed handsLiberal51.7%by 15.6 points over the New Democrats
2019Liberal42.5%by 12.5 points over the New Democrats
2021Liberal42.0%by 1.9 points over the New Democrats
2025Liberal63.0%by 43.9 points over the Conservatives

Each election carried onto today's boundaries by where the riding's 2025 electors lived: our estimate to 2019, Elections Canada's transposition for 2021, the official result for 2025. Parties are counted as they ran.

The figures

Year	First	Share	Second	Margin (pts)	Basis
2004	New Democratic	41.5%	Liberal	2.3	carried, our estimate
2006	New Democratic	46.7%	Liberal	15.7	carried, our estimate
2008	New Democratic	42.6%	Liberal	14.9	carried, our estimate
2011	New Democratic	51.5%	Liberal	25.8	carried, our estimate
2015	Liberal	51.7%	New Democratic	15.6	carried, our estimate
2019	Liberal	42.5%	New Democratic	12.5	carried, our estimate
2021	Liberal	42.0%	New Democratic	1.9	transposed by Elections Canada
2025	Liberal	63.0%	Conservative	43.9	official result

The NDP were first at four of the eight general elections from 2004 to 2025, the Liberals at four; it changed hands once. In 2025 the Liberals took 63.0% of the vote here, 25.9 points above their average of 37.1% at the seven general elections from 2004 to 2021.

On today's boundaries the NDP were first here in 2004 (41.5%), 2006 (46.7%), 2008 (42.6%) and 2011 (51.5%) and the Liberals in 2015 (51.7%), 2019 (42.5%), 2021 (42.0%) and 2025 (63.0%), each with the share of the valid votes shown.

A stronghold is a party first at every general election since 2004, by an average of 20 points or more over the next party; held, first at every one; usually, first at all but one. By-elections are not counted. By this rule 160 of the 343 ridings have no degree. The results before 2021 are carried onto today's boundaries by where the riding's 2025 electors lived: our estimate, from the older boundaries of Taylor, Lucas, Kirby and Hewitt and the results in Sevi's "Who Runs?". 2021 is Elections Canada's transposition, and 2025 the official result.

Before 2025

2021 Liberal · Andy Fillmore, by 1,558 votes (3.0 pts)
2019 Liberal · Andy Fillmore, by 6,934 votes (12.5 pts)
2015 Liberal · Andy Fillmore, by 8,269 votes (15.6 pts)

In the old Halifax on the 2013 boundaries, the riding most of the 2025 electors in today's Halifax lived in; Elections Canada's official results.

What kind of place Halifax is

Population: 98,8802021 census
Area: 663km²
Density: 149people per km²
Electors: 72,377on the 2025 lists

Distinctions · ranked against all 343 ridings

9th-youngest median age
Median age 34.4, 9th lowest of 343 (Median age, 2021 census)
2nd-widest margin in Nova Scotia
Won by 43.9 points (22,947 votes) · 2nd of 11 in Nova Scotia · 33rd of 343 in Canada
3rd-smallest by area in Nova Scotia
663 km² · 3rd of 11 in Nova Scotia · 187th of 343 in Canada

Median age is 34.4 — about 83 percent of the median riding's 41.6.
highestlowest9th lowest of 343
Share of households that own their home is 38.9% — about 54 percent of the median riding's 71.4%.
highestlowest17th lowest of 343
Share aged 25-64 with a bachelor's degree or higher is 55.5% — about 2.0 times the median riding's 28.2%.
highestlowest27th highest of 343
Median total household income is $69,500 — about 83 percent of the median riding's $84,000.
highestlowest57th lowest of 343
Share with French as a mother tongue is 2.0% — about 1.3 times the median riding's 1.6%.
highestlowest138th highest of 343
Share who are immigrants is 13.7% — about 79 percent of the median riding's 17.3%.
highestlowest152nd lowest of 343

2021 Census on the 2023 boundaries; each rule places this riding among all 343. Density is the census population over the riding's area.

IDid this riding change?

Yes — it shrank. All of today's Halifax, its electors as well as its ground, comes from the old Halifax, but it is only 99% of that riding by area. The rest went elsewhere.

Share of today's electorsFormer riding

100.0%Halifax 100.0% of the area · 99% of it kept

How this is measured. Electors: the share of the current riding's 2025 ordinary-list electors who lived in each former riding, each 2025 polling division placed in the 2013 riding a point inside it falls in. Area: the share of the current riding's area that came from each former riding, by intersecting the 2013 and 2023 boundary files, and how much of the former riding that part was. Area is land, not population. Elections Canada counts 48 of 343 ridings as entirely unchanged.

IIThe 2025 result

Candidate	Party	Votes	%	2021	±
Shannon Miedema	Liberal	32,886	63.0%	42.0%	+21.0
Mark Boudreau	Conservative	9,939	19.1%	12.7%	+6.4
Lisa Roberts	New Democratic	8,642	16.6%	40.0%	−23.4

2 further candidates, each under 1% of the vote

Amethyste Hamel-Gregory	Green	422	0.8%
Maricar Aliasut	People's	271	0.5%

The 2021 column is Elections Canada's official transposition of the 2021 result onto these 2023 boundaries. ± is the change in each party's share. It is not "swing": with four or more competitive parties there is no single pair to swing between.

IIIHow close was it, really

Third place vs. the margin

8,642 votes

New Democratic took fewer than the 22,947-vote margin.

Election-day polls won by others

10 of 154

1 poll ended in an exact tie.

Fig. 2 — Each square is one election-day poll: ■ won by the Liberals (143) · ■ won by another party (10) · ▨ tied (1).

Flip the seatHypothetical

It would have taken 11,474 voters switching from Liberal to Conservative — 22.0% of the 52,160 valid votes, 21.9 points — to change the result. No ballot was cast this way; this only moves votes between the top two.

Voters who switch: 0022,948

Liberal32,886

Conservative9,939

Still Liberal by 22,947 votes. Actual margin: 22,947.

IVElection day versus advance

Only 46.8% of this riding's votes were cast at election-day polls. The rest were advance or special ballots.

On election day the Liberals took 57.6%, the Conservatives 22.7% and the New Democrats 18.0%; in advance and special ballots, 67.9%, 15.9% and 15.3%, in that order.

Share of the valid votes by party, election-day polls against advance and special ballots, Halifax, April 28, 2025

Shares of the valid votes cast at election-day polls, and of those cast at advance polls, at mobile polls and by special ballot; the gap is the second less the first, in points. Source: Elections Canada, poll-by-poll results, the 2025 general election.

The figures

Party	Election day	Advance and special	Gap
Liberal	57.6%	67.9%	+10.3
Conservative	22.7%	15.9%	−6.8
New Democratic	18.0%	15.3%	−2.7

An association, not a cause. Voters who cast ballots before election day differed from those who turned out on the day. It does not say why. There is no poll-level turnout figure on this page: the elector count on a polling division includes people who voted in advance and were counted elsewhere.

VWhere it is

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Fig. 3 — Halifax and its 3 neighbouring ridings.

Sources and citation

"Halifax — federal riding profile and 2025 results."
The Political Record. https://politicalrecord.ca/riding/halifax/
Accessed 2026-11-10.

Results and transposition: Elections Canada. Boundaries: Elections Canada / Statistics Canada, Open Government Licence – Canada. Census: Statistics Canada 2021 Census. Member: House of Commons.

Figures reconcile to the certified national total of 19,641,663 votes. The member is as the House of Commons listed them on 2026-11-01. Page built 2026-11-10.