| Prov-Status: | active |
| Province: | Nova Scotia |
| Prov-Rep-Party: | NDP |
| Prov-Rep: | Claudia Chender |
| Demo-Census-Date: | 2016[1] |
| Demo-Pop: | 27284 |
| Prov-Election-First: | 1967 |
| Prov-Election-Last: | 2024 |
| Demo-Electors: | 17,940 |
| Demo-Area: | 8.00 |
| Prov-Created: | 1967 |
| Demo-Cd: | Halifax Regional Municipality |
Dartmouth South is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. The riding is currently represented by Claudia Chender of the NDP.The district was created in 1966, under the name Dartmouth City South, when Halifax County Dartmouth was divided into two electoral districts. In 1967, the district was renamed Dartmouth South. In 2003, the district was renamed Dartmouth South – Portland Valley. In 2013 following the Nova Scotia Electoral Boundaries Commission review, the district returned to its earlier name of Dartmouth South and lost the area south of Russell Lake and east of Highway 111 to Cole Harbour-Eastern Passage.[2]
The electoral district of Dartmouth South is about 8km2 in landmass.[3]
This riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly:
| Legislature | Years | Member | Party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64th | 2021–Present | Claudia Chender | New Democratic | |||
| 63rd | 2017–2021 | |||||
| 62nd | 2015–2017 | Marian Mancini | New Democratic | |||
| 2013–2015 | Allan Rowe | Liberal | ||||
| 61st | 2009–2013 | Marilyn More | New Democratic | |||
| 60th | 2006–2009 | |||||
| 59th | 2003–2006 | |||||
| 58th | 1999–2003 | Tim Olive | Progressive Conservative | |||
| 57th | 1998–1999 | Don Chard | New Democratic | |||
| 56th | 1993–1998 | John Savage | Liberal | |||
| 55th | 1988–1993 | Roland J. Thornhill | Progressive Conservative | |||
| 54th | 1984–1988 | |||||
| 53rd | 1981–1984 | |||||
| 52nd | 1978–1981 | |||||
| 51st | 1974–1978 | |||||
| 50th | 1970–1974 | D. Scott MacNutt | Liberal | |||
| 49th | 1967–1970 | Irvin William Akerley | Progressive Conservative | |||
| 2009 provincial election redistributed results | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |||
| 4,607 | 55.57 | ||||
| 2,313 | 27.90 | ||||
| 1,098 | 13.24 | ||||
| 273 | 3.29 | ||||
|-|align="right"| 4,049|align="right"| 46.24|align="right"| +18.34|-|New Democratic Party|Mary Vingoe|align="right"| 2,918|align="right"| 33.32|align="right"| -22.24|-|Progressive Conservative|Gord Gamble|align="right"| 1,612|align="right"| 18.41|align="right"| +5.16|-|align="right"| 178|align="right"| 2.03|align="right"| |}