Sydney—Victoria
Sydney—Victoria was a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1997 to 2025. It was created in 1996 from parts of Cape Breton—The Sydneys, Cape Breton—East Richmond and Cape Breton Highlands—Canso electoral districts. Its first Member of Parliament was Peter Mancini and its final MP was Jaime Battiste.
After the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution, this district was replaced largely by Sydney—Glace Bay. The new urban district represents most of the former Industrial Cape Breton area. Sydney—Glace Bay ceded most of Cape Breton—Victoria's rural areas to the new Cape Breton—Canso—Antigonish district. Sydney—Victoria was abolished when the writ dropped for the 2025 Canadian general election on 23 March 2025.
Demographics
Ethnic groups: 83.9% European, 10.5% Indigenous, 2.4% South Asian, 1.3% BlackReligion: 74.2% Christian, 22.5% No religion stated.
Median income : $33,600
Average income : $40,92
Languages: 68,055 English; 2,375 Mi’kmaq; 590 French; 290 Mandarin; 505 Punjabi; 160 Tagalog; 65 Arabic; 40 Urdu; 75 German; 55 Dutch, 25 Cantonese, 25 Italian; 25 Ukrainian ; 15 Scottish Gaelic.
Geography
It consisted of:- The County of Victoria;
- the northern part of the County of Inverness, i.e., the part lying north of the southern boundary of Cape Breton Highlands National Park; and
- the northwestern part of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality, i.e., the part lying northwest of a line drawn northeast from Bras d'Or Lake to the northeast extremity of East Bay, due north to Portage Brook, northeast along Portage Brook, Blacketts Lake, the Sydney River, Highway 125, Trunk 4, Northwest Brook, the western shoreline of Grand Lake, the DEVCO Railway, and its northern branch to its second intersection with Northwest Brook, and then north and northeast along that brook, Lingan Bay and Indian Bay to the Atlantic Ocean.
History
The electoral district maintained its boundaries as per the 2012 federal electoral redistribution.Following the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution, this riding will largely be replaced by Sydney—Glace Bay. It will exchange territory with Cape Breton—Canso, losing Victoria, the remainder of Inverness and rural western part of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality, and gain the urban part of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality from Sydney Forks to Port Morien, including the Glace Bay area).