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Municipal governments in Nova Scotia are elected every four years and the most recent round of elections took place in October 2020. [11] The provincial legislation that creates and empowers the municipality is the Nova Scotia Municipal Government Act. [12] Kings is represented by three ridings in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.
Before the establishment of rural municipalities in the form of county municipalities and district municipalities in 1879, local government in the historical counties was administered by appointed courts of sessions including justices appointed by the Crown with support from local proprietors selected to grand juries. [2]
Nova Scotia's largest county municipality by population is the Municipality of the County of Kings at 47,918 residents, while the largest by land area is the Municipality of the County of Cumberland at 4,253.04 km 2 (1,642.11 sq mi).
This is a list of communities in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, as designated by the Union of Nova Scotia Municipalities. For the purposes of this list, a community is defined as an unincorporated settlement inside or outside a municipality.
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Distribution of Nova Scotia's 49 municipalities by municipal status type; villages are not shown as they are subdivisions of county or district municipalities. The Canadian province of Nova Scotia is divided into 49 municipalities, of which there are three types: regional (4), town (25), and county or district municipality (20). [1]
Municipal elections were held in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia on October 17, 2020. [1] Here is a summary of the mayoral results in the largest municipalities in the province and the council results for Cape Breton and Kings County (for Halifax, see 2020 Halifax municipal election ).
List of communities in Kings County, Nova Scotia. Communities are ordered by the highway on which they are located, whose routes start after each terminus near the ...