The 2013 Nova Scotia general election was held on October 8, 2013, to elect members to the
Nova Scotia House of Assembly
The Nova Scotia House of Assembly (french: Assemblée législative de la Nouvelle-Écosse; gd, Taigh Seanaidh Alba Nuadh), or Legislative Assembly, is the deliberative assembly of the General Assembly of Nova Scotia
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The result of the election was a Liberal victory under the leadership of
Stephen McNeil
Stephen McNeil (born November 10, 1964) is a Canadian politician who served as the 28th premier of Nova Scotia, from 2013 to 2021. He also represented the riding of Annapolis in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 2003 to 2021 and was the le ...
, with the party winning its first election since
1998
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results and formed the Official Opposition, despite winning fewer votes than the
New Democratic Party
The New Democratic Party (NDP; french: Nouveau Parti démocratique, NPD) is a federal political party in Canada. Widely described as social democratic,The party is widely described as social democratic:
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(NDP). The NDP, which had won power for the first time in 2009 under the leadership of Darrell Dexter was reduced to third place and became only the second one-term government in the province's history, and the first since 1882. Dexter himself was defeated in Cole Harbour-Portland Valley by Liberal candidate Tony Ince.
Timeline
* June 24, 2009 – The New Democratic Party under Darrell Dexter win 31 out of 52 seats. The Progressive Conservatives are reduced to 10 seats and Rodney MacDonald announces that he will step down as leader. Karen Casey is named as interim leader.
* September 4, 2009 –
Antigonish
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MLA Angus MacIsaac resigns his seat, citing family reasons.
* September 10, 2009 – Former Premier Rodney MacDonald resigns his
Inverness
Inverness (; from the gd, Inbhir Nis , meaning "Mouth of the River Ness"; sco, Innerness) is a city in the Scottish Highlands. It is the administrative centre for The Highland Council and is regarded as the capital of the Highlands. Histo ...
seat in the legislature.
* October 20, 2009 – By-elections are held in
Inverness
Inverness (; from the gd, Inbhir Nis , meaning "Mouth of the River Ness"; sco, Innerness) is a city in the Scottish Highlands. It is the administrative centre for The Highland Council and is regarded as the capital of the Highlands. Histo ...
and
Antigonish
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. PC candidate Allan MacMaster and NDP candidate Maurice Smith are elected, respectively.
* February 9, 2010 –
Richard Hurlburt
Richard Melbourne Hurlburt (born April 25, 1950) is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Yarmouth in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1999 to 2010.
Biography
In June 1999, he barely escaped with his life when ...
resigns from the legislature following
revelations
Revelation, in religion and theology, is the act of revealing through communication with supernatural entities.
Revelation(s) may also refer to:
* Book of Revelation or simply Revelation, the last book of the New Testament
* Revelation (Latter Da ...
that he had spent his constituency allowance on a generator and a 40" television, which together cost over $11,000.
* March 11, 2010 – Dave Wilson resigns from the legislature and is later charged and pleaded guilty.
* March 25, 2010 –
Trevor Zinck
Trevor John Zinck (born November 12, 1970) is a Canadian former politician, a former member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly who represented the riding of Dartmouth North as an Independent and a New Democrat. He was first elected for the N ...
is suspended from the NDP caucus over problems with his constituency expenses.
* June 22, 2010 – Two byelections are held to replace Hurlburt and Wilson in Yarmouth and
Glace Bay
Glace Bay (Scottish Gaelic: ''Glasbaidh'') is a community in the eastern part of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada. It forms part of the general area referred to as Industrial Cape Breton.
Formerly an incorporated ...
, respectively. Zach Churchill is elected in Yarmouth and Geoff MacLellan is elected in Glace Bay.
* August 16, 2010 – Karen Casey announces her resignation as interim leader of the Progressive Conservatives.
* August 18, 2010 – Jamie Baillie is chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party.
* October 26, 2010 – Jamie Baillie wins a byelection and represents the constituency of Cumberland South.
* January 10, 2011 – PC MLA Karen Casey crosses the floor to join the Liberal caucus.
* February 14, 2011 – Trevor Zinck is announced as one of four people facing criminal charges in connection with the RCMP investigation into 2010s MLA expense scandal. Zinck is charged with fraud exceeding $5,000, breach of trust by a public officer, and 2 counts of theft over $5,000.
* March 25, 2011 –
Cape Breton North
Northside-Westmount is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.
In 1933, the County of Cape Breton was divided into five electoral districts, one of which was Cape Bre ...
Cape Breton North
Northside-Westmount is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.
In 1933, the County of Cape Breton was divided into five electoral districts, one of which was Cape Bre ...
.
* April 19, 2012 – Former MLA Dave Wilson is sentenced to 9 months in jail and to a period of 18 months probation for his role in the expenses scandal.
* June 5, 2012 – The Atlantica Party is deregistered by Elections Nova Scotia.
* July 27, 2012 – Former MLA
Richard Hurlburt
Richard Melbourne Hurlburt (born April 25, 1950) is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Yarmouth in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1999 to 2010.
Biography
In June 1999, he barely escaped with his life when ...
is sentenced to 12 months of house arrest, followed by 12 months of probation for his role in the expenses scandal.
* September 25, 2012 – The Nova Scotia Electoral Boundaries Commission released their final report on riding redistribution, which recommends dropping one seat in the legislature.
* December 6, 2012 – The law to implement new electoral boundaries in the province was passed in the legislature.
* May 29, 2013 – Manning MacDonald resigns his seat in the legislature as MLA for Cape Breton South.
* June 19, 2013 – Trevor Zinck resigns his seat in the legislature after he pleaded guilty to charges of fraud and breach of trust.
* September 7, 2013 – Premier Darrell Dexter calls a general election for October 8, 2013.
Campaign
The election campaign began the week after Labour Day, when the legislature would normally have been expected to return to work, had there been no election campaign. As criticism or defence of government policy would dominate the agenda, and by convention electoral mandates are understood to last about four years, despite a lack of fixed election dates, the timing was not controversial.
The Muskrat Falls or
Lower Churchill Project
The Lower Churchill Project is an ongoing hydroelectric project in the Labrador region of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, to develop the remaining 35 per cent of the Churchill River that was not developed by the Churchill Falls Generating Sta ...
, its associated Maritime Link, and electricity policy generally, immediately emerged as the key issue in the early campaign http://news.ca.msn.com/local/novascotia/reality-check-are-the-liberal-ads-about-power-rates-tru Liberals emphasized
Nova Scotia Power
Nova Scotia Power Inc. is a vertically integrated electric utility in Nova Scotia, Canada. It is privately owned by Emera and regulated by the provincial government via the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board (NSUARB). Nova Scotia Power Inc pro ...
's (NSPI) dominance of power generation, and its ability to exclude alternatives through its near-monopoly ownership of the distribution network, covering 129/130 Nova Scotians. They also promised to remove a conservation charge, named for
demand response
Demand response is a change in the power consumption of an electric utility customer to better match the demand for power with the supply. Until the 21st century decrease in the cost of pumped storage and batteries electric energy could not b ...
programs that never materialized (though many passive conservation programs run by Efficiency Nova Scotia did prove effective) – instead proposing that NSPI pay for it from its return. Liberals and Conservatives criticized NSPI's unaccountable 9.2% guaranteed rate of return even for unwise investments. Conservatives acknowledged that it was under pressure to meet a tough renewable standard (which they would relax) but also promised to freeze rates. The NDP government continued to defend Muskrat Falls as the only viable alternative to replace coal-fired power, even though this project was before the Nova Scotia Utilities Review Board as of the election call, remained unchanged and this was reflected in their campaign materials – they criticized the Liberal plan as likely to lead to higher power rates. The basis for these criticisms was unclear. However, a similar attempt to open generation competition in
New Brunswick
New Brunswick (french: Nouveau-Brunswick, , locally ) is one of the thirteen Provinces and territories of Canada, provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime Canada, Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic Canad ...
failed, in part because
New Brunswick Power
New Brunswick Power Corporation (french: Société d’énergie du Nouveau-Brunswick), operating as NB Power (french: Énergie NB), is the primary electric utility in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. NB Power is a vertically-integrated Cro ...
retained monopoly control of the distribution and transmission network, which intimidates competitors and makes it easy in practice to exclude them.
Other issues in the campaign:
*A proposed passenger ferry from
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Yarmouth is a town in southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada. A port town, industries include fishing, and tourism. It is the terminus of a ferry service to Bar Harbor, Maine, run by Bay Ferries.
History
Originally inhabited by the Mi'kmaq, the regi ...
to
Portland, Maine
Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maine and the seat of Cumberland County. Portland's population was 68,408 in April 2020. The Greater Portland metropolitan area is home to over half a million people, the 104th-largest metro ...
, re-instituting summer service that ran for decades until the 1990s, replacing a car-focused service that ran to
Bar Harbor, Maine
Bar Harbor is a resort town on Mount Desert Island in Hancock County, Maine
Maine () is a U.S. state, state in the New England and Northeastern United States, Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the wes ...
until the NDP government cancelled it. This was of particular interest to South Shore candidates, especially Yarmouth. Associated issues include the collapse of all public transit on the South Shore (with the withdrawal of TryTown from operating public buses from Yarmouth to Halifax) and a general lack of transport strategy, that could leave some of the 130,000 passengers per year stranded. It remained unclear as of election time whether an announced deal to resume service May 1, 2014, had held, and what other transport policy applie Darrell Dexter had referred to stories from Yarmouth about the impact of the loss of ferries a "mythology which effectively made this a campaign issue before the campaign had begun.
Party standings
Results by party
Results by region
Retiring incumbents
;The following incumbent MLAs did not run for re-election:
;Liberal
* Wayne Gaudet,
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Queens
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Graham Steele
Graham J. Steele (July 8, 1964, Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian lawyer, author, and former politician, having represented the constituency of Halifax Fairview in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 2001-2013 for the Nova Scotia New De ...
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Halifax Fairview
Halifax Armdale is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. This Halifax district covers the growing population of the Fairmount, Armdale and Cowie Hill areas. The nor ...
Nominated candidates
Legend
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, Henry Spurr 834 ''8.17%''
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Stephen McNeil
Stephen McNeil (born November 10, 1964) is a Canadian politician who served as the 28th premier of Nova Scotia, from 2013 to 2021. He also represented the riding of Annapolis in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 2003 to 2021 and was the le ...
Stephen McNeil
Stephen McNeil (born November 10, 1964) is a Canadian politician who served as the 28th premier of Nova Scotia, from 2013 to 2021. He also represented the riding of Annapolis in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 2003 to 2021 and was the le ...
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Hants West
Hants West is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.
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, Brian Stephens 888 ''10.03%''
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, Claude O'Hara 3,279 ''37.03%''
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, Torin Buzek 169 ''1.91%''
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, Jim Morton 2,882 ''32.09%''
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, Stephen Pearl 2,787 ''31.03%''
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Kings South
Kings South is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. It includes the town of Wolfville, the village of New Minas, the community of Coldbrook, and Glooscap First Na ...
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Ramona Jennex
Ramona Christine Jennex (born June 4, 1955) is a former Canadian educator and politician from the province of Nova Scotia.
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Ramona Jennex
Ramona Christine Jennex (born June 4, 1955) is a former Canadian educator and politician from the province of Nova Scotia.
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, Bob Landry 603 ''7.58%''
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Chris d'Entremont
Christopher André d'Entremont (born October 31, 1969) is a Canadian politician who has represented West Nova in the House of Commons since 2019, as a member of the Conservative Party. Before entering federal politics, he represented the Argyle- ...
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Chris d'Entremont
Christopher André d'Entremont (born October 31, 1969) is a Canadian politician who has represented West Nova in the House of Commons since 2019, as a member of the Conservative Party. Before entering federal politics, he represented the Argyle- ...
Pam Birdsall
Pam Birdsall is a Canadian politician. Birdsall was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in the 2009 provincial election. She represented the electoral district of Lunenburg as a member of the New Democratic Party until her defeat in ...
Pam Birdsall
Pam Birdsall is a Canadian politician. Birdsall was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in the 2009 provincial election. She represented the electoral district of Lunenburg as a member of the New Democratic Party until her defeat in ...
Gary Ramey
Gary William Ramey is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in the 2009 provincial election. He represented the electoral district of Lunenburg West as a member of the New Democratic Party until his defeat ...
2,885 ''31.48%''
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, Mark Furey 3,931 ''42.89%''
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, David Mitchell 2,143 ''23.38%''
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, Robert Pierce 160 ''1.75%''
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Gary Ramey
Gary William Ramey is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in the 2009 provincial election. He represented the electoral district of Lunenburg West as a member of the New Democratic Party until his defeat ...
Sterling Belliveau
Sterling William Wallace Belliveau (born August 5, 1953) is a Canadian politician. Belliveau represented the electoral district of Shelburne (now Queens-Shelburne) in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 2006 to 2017 as a member of the Nova S ...
Sterling Belliveau
Sterling William Wallace Belliveau (born August 5, 1953) is a Canadian politician. Belliveau represented the electoral district of Shelburne (now Queens-Shelburne) in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 2006 to 2017 as a member of the Nova S ...
Brian Skabar
Brian Skabar (born February 25, 1952) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in the 2009 provincial election. Skabar won the riding of Cumberland North for the New Democratic Party. He obtained 40 per ...
Brian Skabar
Brian Skabar (born February 25, 1952) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in the 2009 provincial election. Skabar won the riding of Cumberland North for the New Democratic Party. He obtained 40 per ...
Hants East
Hants East is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.
Its Member of the Legislative Assembly since 2013 has been Margaret Miller of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party.
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John MacDonell
Lieutenant Colonel John Macdonell of Greenfield (19 April 1785 – 14 October 1812) was an aide-de-camp to British Major General Sir Isaac Brock during the War of 1812, dying in the Battle of Queenston Heights.
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, Margaret Miller 4,512 ''47.05%''
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John MacDonell
Lieutenant Colonel John Macdonell of Greenfield (19 April 1785 – 14 October 1812) was an aide-de-camp to British Major General Sir Isaac Brock during the War of 1812, dying in the Battle of Queenston Heights.
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, Lenore Zann 3,165 ''37.75%''
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, Barry Mellish 2,682 ''31.99%''
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, Charles Cox PC Nova Scotia: Our Events The Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia, July 8, 2012. Retrieved August 7, 2012. 2,470 ''29.46%''
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Central Halifax
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, Blake Wright 1,515 ''17.22%''
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Diana Whalen
Diana Caroline Whalen (born November 20, 1956) is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Halifax Clayton Park in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 2003-2013, and Clayton Park West from 2013-2017, as a member of t ...
5,929 ''67.40%''
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, Jaime D. Allen 1,299 ''14.77%''
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Diana Whalen
Diana Caroline Whalen (born November 20, 1956) is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Halifax Clayton Park in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 2003-2013, and Clayton Park West from 2013-2017, as a member of t ...
Graham Steele
Graham J. Steele (July 8, 1964, Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian lawyer, author, and former politician, having represented the constituency of Halifax Fairview in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 2001-2013 for the Nova Scotia New De ...
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, Gregor Ash 3,376 ''38.25%''
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, Joachim Stroink 4,352 ''49.30%''
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, Christine Dewell 874 ''9.90%''
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, Michael Marshall 125 ''1.42%''
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, Howard Epstein†
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, Leonard Preyra 1,934 ''30.82%''
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, Labi Kousoulis 2,966 ''47.27%''
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, Andrew Black 1,094 ''17.43%''
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, Brynn Horley 198 ''3.16%''
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, Frederic Boileau-Cadieux 31 ''0.49%''
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, Maureen MacDonald 3,392 ''43.59%''
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, Chris Poole 3,115 ''40.03%''
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, Mary Hamblin 834 ''10.72%''
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, Mike Poworoznyk 1,701 ''16.86%''
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, Kelly Regan 6,081 ''60.29%''
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, Joan Christie 2,026 ''20.09%''
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, Tanis Crosby 2,579 ''33.37%''
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Brendan Maguire
Brendan Oliver Maguire (born August 29, 1975) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in the 2013 provincial election. A member of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party, he represents the electoral district of Ha ...
Ben Jessome
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, Mat Whynott 2,369 ''36.75%''
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, Stephen Gough 2,570 ''39.87%''
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, Dave Wilson 2,983 ''38.16%''
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, Graham Cameron 2,898 ''37.07%''
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, Peter Mac Isaac 1,651 ''21.12%''
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, Linda Moxsom-Skinner 2,168 ''25.23%''
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, Iain Rankin 4,492 ''52.27%''
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, Bruce Pretty 1,588 ''18.48%''
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Percy Paris
Percy Alonzo Paris is a Canadian former politician from Nova Scotia. He represented the constituency of Waverley-Fall River-Beaver Bank in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly for the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party between 2006-2013.
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2,098 ''25.03%''
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Bill Horne
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3,588 ''42.81%''
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, Brian Wong 2,640 ''31.50%''
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Dartmouth East
Dartmouth East is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. The riding is located in the community of Dartmouth Dartmouth may refer to:
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Dartmouth North
Dartmouth North is a provincial electoral district in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.
The district was created, under the name Dartmouth City North, in 1966 when Halifax County Dartmout ...
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, Steve Estey 2,020 ''29.86%''
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, Joanne Bernard 2,953 ''43.66%''
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, Sean Brownlow 1,729 ''25.56%''
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, Mary Vingoe 2,918 ''32.99%''
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, Allan Rowe 4,049 ''45.78%''
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, Jim Murray 178 ''2.01%''
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Lloyd Hines
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, Neil DeCoff 1,947 ''26.78%''
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, Ross Landry 2,373 ''29.67%''
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, Bill Muirhead 1,415 ''17.69%''
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, Pat Dunn 4,147 ''51.84%''
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, Clarrie MacKinnon 2,788 ''35.82%''
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, Francois Rochon 1,228 ''15.78%''
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Tim Houston
Timothy Jerome Houston (born April 10, 1970) is a Canadian politician who is the 30th and current premier of Nova Scotia since 2021. He was first elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in the 2013 provincial election. A member of the Pr ...
Pictou West
Pictou West is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.
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Charlie Parker
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Charlie Parker
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Glace Bay
Glace Bay (Scottish Gaelic: ''Glasbaidh'') is a community in the eastern part of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada. It forms part of the general area referred to as Industrial Cape Breton.
Formerly an incorporated ...
Inverness
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Sydney River-Mira-Louisbourg
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File:NS provincial polling since the 2009 election.png, Voting intentions since the 2009 election
Analysis
On election night, the
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formed a majority government by a comfortable margin. This was the first time the Liberals had formed government in Nova Scotia since 1999, and their first majority government victory since the 1993 election. From mid 2012, the Liberals had led every public poll and entered the campaign with a 20-point lead over the
New Democratic Party
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(NDP).
While the Liberals had been relatively successful in the
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and on
Cape Breton Island
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during the 2009 election, they were completely shut out of the South Shore, Fundy, and Central Nova Scotia. More importantly, the NDP had dominated the Halifax metropolitan area, winning 14 out of 20 seats. In 2009, the NDP had been able to count on a large number of ridings in and around Halifax, while achieving historic gains across the province, including in traditionally Progressive Conservative (PC) and Liberal areas of rural Nova Scotia. In 2009, the PCs fell from first place to third place in the Legislature, and were completely shut out of the Halifax metropolitan area.
In the 2013 election, NDP support collapsed across the province, as it lost all of its seats in Central Nova Scotia, three of its seats in Fundy, and three of its seats on the South Shore. However, the most important shift was in the Halifax metropolitan area, where NDP support dropped from 54.07% in 2009 to 31.29% in 2013. The party wound up losing 13 of its seats, as the Liberals won 18 of 20 seats in and around Halifax. Strong NDP areas in 2009, like Dartmouth, Central Halifax, and suburban areas north and east of the Harbour swung from the NDP to the Liberals. Among the casualties was Dexter, who lost his own seat to Liberal challenger Tony Ince by 21 votes. He was the first premier since
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to be defeated in his own riding.
The NDP had very poor vote concentration in the 2013 election. In Halifax, where it won 31.29% of the vote, it won only two seats. While the party finished second in the popular vote ahead of the PCs, its support was spread out around the province and not concentrated in enough areas to translate into seats. Combined with its collapse in Halifax, this left the NDP with only seven seats to the Tories' 11.
2013
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