From the 2006 census [4] Ethnic groups: Languages: Religions: Education: Median Age: Median total income: Average total income: Median household income: Average household income: Median family income: Average family income: Unemployment: The district includes the part of the Halifax Regional Municipality located on the Atlantic coast between Lake Charlotte and Jeddore Harbour in the east to Halifax Harbour in the west excluding the community of Dartmouth and the community of Eastern Passage.

It also includes HRM's northern suburbs in the Sackville River valley north to the boundary with Hants County.

[5] The electoral district was created in 1996 from Central Nova and Dartmouth ridings, and was known as "Sackville—Musquodoboit Valley—Eastern Shore" from 1999 to 2003.

MP Peter Stoffer tabled a Private Members Bill to change the name of the riding to "Sackville—Preston—Eastern Shore".

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament: Changes for the Canadian Alliance from 1997 are based on the results of its predecessor, the Reform Party.