Kings South

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{{Infobox Canada electoral district

|prov-status = active

|province = Nova Scotia

|image = Kings South provincial electoral district.svg

|prov-rep-party = PC

|prov-rep = Julie Vanexan

|demo-census-date = 2011

|demo-pop = 21252

|prov-election-first = 1956

|prov-election-last = 2024

|demo-electors = 17,377

|demo-area = 576

|prov-created = 1956

|demo-cd = Kings County

|demo-csd =

}}

Kings South is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. It includes the town of Wolfville, the village of New Minas, the community of Coldbrook, and Glooscap First Nation.

Geography

Kings South has a landmass of {{convert|576|km2|abbr=on}}.{{cite web |title=Find Your Electoral District for the 41st Provincial General Election |url=https://enstools.electionsnovascotia.ca/edinfo55/Default.aspx?ED=36 |website=enstools.electionsnovascotia.ca |publisher=Elections Nova Scotia |access-date=22 July 2021}}

Members of the Legislative Assembly

This riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly:

{{NS-MLA row

| FromYr = 1956

| ToYr = 1960

| Assembly# = 46

| RepName = Edward Haliburton

| NSParty = PC

| RepTerms# = 4

| PartyTerms# = 9

}}

{{NS-MLA row

| FromYr = 1960

| ToYr = 1963

| Assembly# = 47

}}

{{NS-MLA row

| FromYr = 1963

| ToYr = 1967

| Assembly# = 48

}}

{{NS-MLA row

| FromYr = 1967

| ToYr = 1970

| Assembly# = 49

}}

{{NS-MLA row

| FromYr = 1970

| ToYr = 1974

| Assembly# = 50

| RepName = Harry How

| RepTerms# = 4

}}

{{NS-MLA row

| FromYr = 1974

| ToYr = 1978

| Assembly# = 51

}}

{{NS-MLA row

| FromYr = 1978

| ToYr = 1981

| Assembly# = 52

}}

{{NS-MLA row

| FromYr = 1981

| ToYr = 1984

| Assembly# = 53

| #ByElections = 1

}}

{{NS-MLA row

| FromYr = 1984

| ToYr = 1984

| RepName = Paul Kinsman

}}

{{NS-MLA row

| FromYr = 1984

| ToYr = 1988

| Assembly# = 54

| RepName = Bob Levy

| RepLink = Bob Levy (Canadian politician)

| NSParty = NDP

}}

{{NS-MLA row

| FromYr = 1988

| ToYr = 1993

| Assembly# = 55

| RepName = Derrick Kimball

| NSParty = PC

}}

{{NS-MLA row

| FromYr = 1993

| ToYr = 1998

| Assembly# = 56

| RepName = Robbie Harrison

| NSParty = Liberal

| RepTerms# = 2

| PartyTerms# = 2

}}

{{NS-MLA row

| FromYr = 1998

| ToYr = 1999

| Assembly# = 57

}}

{{NS-MLA row

| FromYr = 1999

| ToYr = 2003

| Assembly# = 58

| RepName = David Morse

| RepLink = David Morse (politician)

| NSParty = PC

| RepTerms# = 3

| PartyTerms# = 3

}}

{{NS-MLA row

| FromYr = 2003

| ToYr = 2005

| Assembly# = 59

}}

{{NS-MLA row

| FromYr = 2006

| ToYr = 2009

| Assembly# = 60

}}

{{NS-MLA row

| FromYr = 2009

| ToYr = 2013

| Assembly# = 61

| RepName = Ramona Jennex

| NSParty = NDP

}}

{{NS-MLA row

| FromYr = 2013

| ToYr = 2017

| Assembly# = 62

| RepName = Keith Irving

| NSParty = Liberal

| RepTerms# = 3

| PartyTerms# = 3

}}

{{NS-MLA row

| FromYr = 2017

| ToYr = 2021

| Assembly# = 63

}}

{{NS-MLA row

| FromYr = 2021

| ToYr = 2024

| Assembly# = 64

}}

{{NS-MLA row

| FromYr = 2024

| ToYr =

| Assembly# = 65

| RepName = Julie Vanexan

| NSParty = PC

}}

Election results

= 2024 =

File:Kings south24.png

= 2021 =

File:Kings south.png

= 2017 =

colspan="4" \| 2017 provincial election redistributed results[https://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/TranspositionofVotesReport_2017PGE_2019ElectoralDirstricts_reportApril2021.pdf Transposition of Votes from the 2017 Provincial General Election to 2019 Electoral District Boundaries]
class="wikitable"
bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="130px" colspan="2" \| Party ! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="50px" \| Vote ! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="30px" \| %
{{Canadian party colour\|NS\|Liberal\|background}} \| \| Liberal	align=right\| 3,902	align=right\| 46.59
{{Canadian party colour\|NS\|PC\|background}} \| \| Progressive Conservative	align=right\| 2,259	align=right\| 26.97
{{Canadian party colour\|NS\|NDP\|background}} \| \| New Democratic	align=right\| 1,804	align=right\| 21.54
{{Canadian party colour\|NS\|Green\|background}} \| \| Green	align=right\| 315	align=right\| 3.76
{{Canadian party colour\|NS\|Atlantica\|background}} \| \| Atlantica	align=right\| 95	align=right\| 1.13

= 2013 =

|-

|Liberal

|Keith Irving

|align="right"| 3,939

|align="right"| 39.25

|align="right"|

|-

|New Democratic Party

|Ramona Jennex

|align="right"| 3,568

|align="right"| 35.55

|align="right"|

|-

|Progressive Conservative

|Shane MacKenzie Buchan

|align="right"| 2,278

|align="right"| 22.70

|align="right"|

|-

|}