Cumberland-Colchester

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This paper provides a brief insight into Cumberland-Colchester, a federal riding located at the Northern arm of Nova Scotia. In particular, it examines voting trends over the past 15 years, analyzing them in regard to other ridings and parties. It looks at how in rural areas like this where many generations of a family can live together in close proximity, as well as large groups of like minded religiosity, many stereotypes of voting practice can be found.

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"The Ethnic backgrounds of Nova Scotians in this area are very homogeneous. With all but 1,430 (2%) of the 81,805 people counted in the 1996 census (Statistics Canada, 1996) reporting English as their dominant language spoken. There are more people who speak non- official languages in Northern Nova Scotia than there are French speaking people (79,610 English(97%), 770 French(1%), and 1,185(1.5%) Non- Official Language speakers (Statistics Canada, 1996)). With such an obvious difference in the numbers for each demographic it is little wonder why some of the statistics for the history of the riding are true. The entire riding is mostly rural in nature, with Truro, Amherst, and Springhill being the few major towns of the area. None of the communities in Cumberland-Colchester are large enough to be considered cities. This might account for the lack of major industry in the area."

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