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The 2021 Nova Scotia Liberal Party leadership election took place on February 6 [2] [3] to elect a leader to replace Premier Stephen McNeil, who on August 6, 2020, announced his pending resignation [4] after leading the party since 2007 and returning the party to government in 2013 after being out of power for fourteen years.
The 2022 Nova Scotia Liberal Party leadership election took place on July 9, 2022 [1] to elect a leader to replace Iain Rankin, who announced his intent to resign on January 5, 2022 [4] after leading the party since 2021 and following the party's defeat in the 2021 Nova Scotia general election.
Macdonald resigned in 1940 to enter the federal cabinet and was succeeded as premier and party leader by Alexander S. MacMillan on July 10 of that year. When MacMillan retired in 1945 Macdonald once again resumed the premiership.
Nova Scotia has a unicameral Westminster-style parliamentary government, in which the premier is the leader of the party that controls the most seats in the House of Assembly. The premier is Nova Scotia's head of government, and the king in right of Nova Scotia is its head of state and is represented by the lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia.
The Nova Scotia Liberal Party (officially the Liberal Association of Nova Scotia [2]) is a centrist [citation needed] provincial political party in Nova Scotia, Canada and the provincial section of the Liberal Party of Canada. The party currently holds two seats in the Legislature, under the interim leadership of Derek Mombourquette.
In February 2022, Churchill announced he was running for the leadership of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] On July 9, 2022, he won the leadership election . [ 21 ] [ 22 ] In the 2024 Nova Scotia general election , Churchill led the Liberals to a third place finish with two seats, behind the PCs and NDP, one of the worst results in ...
65th General Assembly of Nova Scotia; Majority parliament: 10 December 2024 – present: Parliament leaders; Premier: Tim Houston since August 31, 2021: Leader of the Opposition: Claudia Chender since December 10, 2024: Party caucuses; Government: Progressive Conservative Party: Opposition: New Democratic Party: Recognized: Liberal Party: House ...
Leader MLAs Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia: 1867 Progressive Conservatism: Tim Houston: 43 Nova Scotia Liberal Party: 1883 Liberalism: Zach Churchill: 9 Nova Scotia New Democratic Party: 1961 Social democracy: Claudia Chender: 2