Candidate slate set for federal election in South Shore-St. Margarets

Rick Perkins, Jessica Fancy-Landry, Mark Embrett and Patrick Boyd are four of the candidates running in South Shore-St. Margarets. Not pictured is Hayden Henderson.

Four people will be trying to unseat Rick Perkins as the South Shore-St. Margarets representative in the April 28 federal election.

Perkins beat Liberal MP Bernadette Jordan in 2021, after running unsuccessfully against her in 2019.

Since the last election, the riding has been redrawn, with part of it being absorbed into Halifax West. Nominations closed on Monday.

Liberal Jessica Fancy-Landry will be trying to take the seat back from Perkins. The teacher at Forest Heights Community School in Chester Basin is originally from Caledonia and lives in Bridgewater.

Green Party candidate Mark Embrett is an implementation scientist with Nova Scotia Health and lives in Hubbards.

Patrick Boyd is running for the People’s Party of Canada. He runs a consulting firm.

The NDP don’t have a registered candidate in the riding. Their declared candidate Brendan Mosher dropped out at the last minute. According to a Facebook post on his candidate page on Tuesday, he said that he decided against running “after a long consideration and some last minute delays.”

He edited the post to say that Hayden Henderson would be running for the party in the riding.

Henderson is listed on the Elections Canada website as an Independent. According to the federal agency, “if an endorsement by a political party cannot be confirmed within 48 hours of the prospective candidate submitting their nomination paper, … the word ‘Independent’ (will) appear under their name on the ballot.”

Perkins won South Shore-St. Margarets in 2021 by about 2,000 votes, or 40 per cent. Jordan got 37 per cent, while the NDP’s Olivia Dorey captured 19 per cent.

QCCR plans to publish interviews with all candidates.

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