The Political Record · Federal electoral districts
Kings—Hants
Federal riding · NS · No. 12008 · 2023 representation order
- Member
- Kody Blois Liberal
- 2025 result
- Liberal hold by 16,063 votes
- Turnout
- 72.4% of 82,243 electors
- Population
- 95,115 2021 census
- Area
- 5,815 km²
- Figures as of
- 2026-09-25
Distinctions · ranked against all 343 ridings
- Population, smallest first95,115 people, 2021 census · 61st of 343 in Canada
- Turnout72.4% of 82,243 electors voted · 88th of 343 in Canada
- Area, largest first5,815 km² · 88th of 343 in Canada
In brief
Illustration after: © House of Commons
Member of Parliament
Kody Blois
- Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister
- Member: Exercise of Powers Under the Building Canada Act
- Member: Library of Parliament
- Member: Scrutiny of Regulations
IDid this riding change?
Yes. 8% of today's Kings—Hants came from ridings other than the old Kings—Hants.
Share of today's areaFormer riding
92.4%Kings—Hants
7.6%West Nova 4% of it kept
How this is measured. Share of the current riding's area that came from each former riding, by intersecting the 2013 and 2023 boundary files. It is area, not population. Elections Canada counts 48 of 343 ridings as entirely unchanged.
IIThe 2025 result
Liberal hold
Elected
Kody Blois
Liberal
35,836
60.6% of valid votes
Margin
16,063
votes · +27.2 pts
Runner-up
Joel Hirtle
Conservative
19,773
33.4% of valid votes
Liberal 60.6% · Conservative 33.4% · New Democratic 3.6% · Green 1.4% · People's 1.0%
Turnout72.4% of 82,243 electors
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | 2021 | ± |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kody Blois | Liberal | 35,836 | 60.6% | 44.2% | +16.4 |
| Joel Hirtle | Conservative | 19,773 | 33.4% | 30.1% | +3.3 |
| Paul Doerr | New Democratic | 2,154 | 3.6% | 18.8% | −15.2 |
| Karen Beazley | Green | 825 | 1.4% | 1.9% | −0.5 |
| Alexander Cargill | People's | 591 | 1.0% | 4.5% | −3.5 |
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
Swing needed to flip
13.6 pts
Half the margin: the share that would have had to move from first to second.
Third place vs. the margin
2,154 votes
New Democratic took fewer than the 16,063-vote margin.
Election-day polls won by others
46 of 215
4 polls ended in an exact tie.
Flip the seatHypothetical
It would have taken 8,032 voters switching from Liberal to Conservative — 13.6% of the 59,179 valid votes, 13.6 points — to change the result. No ballot was cast this way; this only moves votes between the top two.
Liberal35,836
Conservative19,773
Still Liberal by 16,063 votes. Actual margin: 16,063.
IVElection day versus advance
Only 51.0% of this riding's votes were cast at election-day polls. The rest were advance or special ballots.
Election dayAdvance & specialGap
Liberal54.1%67.3%+13.2
Conservative38.2%28.5%−9.7
New Democratic4.6%2.7%−1.9
Green1.8%1.0%−0.8
People's1.4%0.6%−0.8
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.
VWhat kind of place this is
- Median total household income is $71,000 — about 85 percent of the median riding's $84,000.highestlowest66th lowest of 343
- Median age is 47.2 — a little higher than the median riding's 41.6.highestlowest47th highest of 343
- Share aged 25-64 with a bachelor's degree or higher is 22.5% — about 80 percent of the median riding's 28.2%.highestlowest123rd lowest of 343
- Share who are immigrants is 4.7% — about 27 percent of the median riding's 17.3%.highestlowest53rd lowest of 343
- Share of households that own their home is 72.9% — about the same as the median riding's 71.4%.highestlowest149th highest of 343
- Share with French as a mother tongue is 1.2% — about 75 percent of the median riding's 1.6%.highestlowest126th lowest of 343
2021 Census, keyed to the 2023 representation order. Comparisons are against the median riding, not Canada as a whole. Each rule places this riding among all 343.
VIWhere it is
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The card
No. 12008NS · 2025
Kings—Hants
Kody Blois
- Result
- Liberal hold by 16,063
- Turnout
- 72.4%
- Population
- 95,115
- Area
- 5,815 km²
Population, smallest firstTurnoutArea, largest first
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