Riding |
Candidate |
Gender |
Residence |
Occupation |
Votes |
% |
Rank |
Biographical notes |
Cape Breton—Canso |
Mark MacNeill |
M |
Inverness |
Government and Business Policy Advisor |
7,660 |
21.1 |
3rd |
Served in Ottawa as a consultant with National Advisory Board on Science and Technology, with the Treasury Board Secretariat and the Solicitor General's Aboriginal Policing Secretariat. |
Central Nova |
Mary Louise Lorefice |
F |
Antigonish |
Retired educator |
7,659 |
19.6 |
3rd |
Lorefice is a retired teacher from Antigonish, who has lived in the community for 38 years.[6][7] |
Cumberland—Colchester—Musquodoboit Valley |
Karen Olsson |
F |
North River |
Stay-at-home Mother |
4,874 |
12.3 |
2nd |
Dartmouth—Cole Harbour |
Brad Pye |
M |
Ottawa, ON |
Senior Political Party Program Officer |
12,793 |
31.5 |
2nd |
Pye is an international development worker and son of former Dartmouth North MLA Jerry Pye. |
Halifax |
Megan Leslie |
F |
Halifax |
Community Legal Worker |
19,252 |
42.7 |
1st |
|
Halifax West |
Tamara Lorincz |
F |
Halifax |
Director of Nova Scotia Environment Network |
12,201 |
29.6 |
2nd |
An environmentalist. |
Kings—Hants |
Carol E. Harris |
F |
Wolfville |
University Professor |
8,291 |
22.0 |
3rd |
She was the NDP's candidate in the 2000 election in Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca. |
Sackville—Eastern Shore |
Peter Stoffer |
M |
Windsor Junction |
Parliamentarian |
24,279 |
61.4 |
1st |
Stoffer has been the incumbent MP since 1997. |
South Shore—St. Margaret's |
Gordon S. Earle |
M |
Upper Tantallon |
Retired Public Servant |
13,456 |
33.7 |
2nd |
Earle is the former federal MP for Halifax West (1997–2000). Has run in this riding unsuccessfully in 2004 and 2006. |
Sydney—Victoria |
Wayne McKay |
M |
Sydney |
Teacher |
8,559 |
24.4 |
2nd |
|
West Nova |
George Barron |
M |
Bear River |
Paramedic |
7,097 |
16.9 |
3rd |
Barron was born near Paris, Ontario, he has been a paramedic for 22 years. He was nominated on October 28, 2007. |