South Shore—St. Margarets (formerly South Shore—St. Margaret's and South Shore) is a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1968. It covers the South Shore region of Nova Scotia.

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South Shore—St. Margarets

Nova Scotia electoral district
South Shore—St. Margaret's in relation to the other Nova Scotia federal electoral districts. Boundaries as of 2009, modified in 2013, and anticipated to be further modified in 2023.
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Rick Perkins Conservative
District created	1966
First contested	1968
Last contested	2021
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2016)[1]	91,830
Electors (2021)	79,797
Area (km²)[1]	8,475
Pop. density (per km²)	10.8
Census division(s)	HRM, Lunenburg County, Queens County, Shelburne County
Census subdivision(s)	Bridgewater, Clark's Harbour, Chester, Liverpool, Lunenburg, Mahone Bay, Shelburne

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From the 2006 census ^[2]

Ethnic groups:

• White: 97.1%
• First Nations: 1.5%
• Black: 0.6%

Languages:

• English: 96.9%
• French: 1.2%
• German: 0.6%
• Other: 1.1%

Religions:

• Protestant: 71.5%
• Catholic: 11.5%
• Other Christian: 1.1%
• No affiliation: 15.4%

Education:

• No certificate, diploma or degree: 34.5%
• High school certificate: 21.2%
• Apprenticeship or trade certificate or diploma: 12.2%
• Community college, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma: 17.4%
• University certificate or diploma: 14.7%

Median Age:

• 45.2

Median total income:

• $20,580

Average total income:

• $27,987

Median household income:

• $44,108

Average household income:

• $53,111

Median family income:

• $52,772

Average family income:

• $61,279

Unemployment:

• 10.3%

It consists of:

• the counties of Shelburne, Queens and Lunenburg;

and

• the western part of the Halifax Regional Municipality, i.e., the part lying west of a line drawn south from the intersection of the boundary between the regional municipality and the County of Hants with the western shoreline of Pockwock Lake along the shoreline to the western extremity of Ponhook Cove, then south in a straight line for approximately 2.7 km to the mouth of the Pockwock River at Wrights Lake, southeast in a straight line for approximately 3.8 km to the northern extremity of Stillwater Lake, south along that lake, southwest along Route 213 (Hammonds Plains Road) to Trunk 3, southeast in a straight line for approximately 18.6 km to the mouth of the Nine Mile River, southwest along Shad Bay (passing west of Cochrans Island) to the Atlantic Ocean.

It was created in 1966 mostly from Queens—Lunenburg and Shelburne—Yarmouth—Clare. In 2003, the district added portions of Halifax West.

After the 2012 federal electoral redistribution, the riding gained 11% of its new territory from Halifax West.

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada