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The 2024 Nova Scotia general election was held on November 26, 2024, to elect members to the 65th General Assembly of Nova Scotia. The election was held under first-past-the-post voting . The incumbent Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia (PC) government, led by Premier Tim Houston since 2021, called a snap election and won a ...
The Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia, [4] more commonly known as the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia, is a [2] political party in Nova Scotia, Canada. Like most conservative parties in Atlantic Canada, it has been historically associated with the Red Tory [5] faction of Canadian conservatism.
The 2021 Nova Scotia general election was held on August 17, 2021, to elect members to the 64th General Assembly of Nova Scotia. In a major upset , [ 2 ] Tim Houston led the Progressive Conservatives to power for the first time since 2006 , and with a majority government for the first time since 1999 .
Nova Scotia has historically been a conservative region, with former prime ministers Charles Tupper and Robert Borden (native sons who governed as leaders of the historical Conservative Party), and Brian Mulroney (who governed as leader of the successor Progressive Conservative, or PC, Party) along with PC Opposition leader Robert Stanfield (who was previously the province's premier) holding ...
64th General Assembly of Nova Scotia is the assembly of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly that was determined in the 2021 Nova Scotia election. [1] The assembly opened on September 24, 2021. [ 2 ] It was dissolved on October 27, 2024 when Premier Tim Houston visited the lieutenant-governor to call a snap election for November 26, 2024.
Progressive Conservative 2024 Antigonish: Michelle Thompson: Progressive Conservative 2021 Argyle: Colton LeBlanc: Progressive Conservative 2019 Bedford Basin: Tim Outhit: Progressive Conservative 2024 Bedford South: Damian Stoilov: Progressive Conservative 2024 Cape Breton Centre-Whitney Pier: Kendra Coombes: NDP 2020 Cape Breton East: Brian Comer
Danny MacKenzie MacGillivray [1] is a Canadian politician who was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in the 2024 general election, representing Pictou Centre as a member of the Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia. [2] Prior to his election, he had been mayor of Stellarton from 2016. [3]
Caucus colleagues running were Donald Cameron, the MLA for Pictou East who entered the House when Thornhill did; and Tom McInnis, the 13-year MLA for Eastern Shore. Rounding out the field was Clair Callaghan, the principal of the Technical University of Nova Scotia (now part of Dalhousie University), and a candidate in the 1988 general election.