List of Nova Scotia general elections (post-Confederation)

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Number of seats won by major parties at each election

Conservative

Liberal

NDP

Other

This article provides a summary of results for the general elections to the Canadian province of Nova Scotia's unicameral legislative body, the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. The number of seats has varied over time, from a low of thirty during the 1930s and early 1940s, to the current high of fifty-two. This article only covers elections since Nova Scotia became part of the newly-formed Canadian Confederation in 1867. Prior to that, Nova Scotia was a British colony. The Nova Scotia House of Assembly dates back to 1758, and Nova Scotia became the first British colony to be achieve responsible government in 1848.

The chart on the right provides a graphical summary of the results, with the most recent elections on the right. It shows how the Liberal party (red) dominated the province's early poltical history, winning nineteen of the first twenty-two elections from 1867 to 1953; and that since 1953, the Conservatives (blue) have been the most successful party, winning eleven of the fifteen elections since then. The New Democratic Party (orange) have never won an election, but have had Official Opposition status after each of the past four elections.

1 Summary of results
- 1.1 Notes
2 References
3 See also

[edit] Summary of results

The table below shows the total number of seats won by the major political parties at each election. It also shows the percentage of the vote obtained by the major political parties at each election, if greater than 0.1%. The winning party's totals are shown in bold. To date, no party has formed a government that did not have the largest share of the vote. Full details on any election are linked via the year of the election at the start of the row.

Year	Conservative ^[A]		NDP ^[B]		Liberal		Other			Total seats
	Seats	Vote (%)	Seats	Vote (%)	Seats	Vote (%)	Seats	Seat-wining party	Vote (%)

2006	23	39.7	20	34.5	9	23.5			2.4	52
2003	25	36.3	15	31.0	12	31.5			1.2	52
1999	30	39.2	11	29.9	11	29.8			1.1	52
1998	14	28.3	19	34.2	19	35.1			2.4	52
1993	9	32.0	3	17.7	40	49.4			0.9	52
1988	28	43.4	2	15.8	21	39.6	1	Cape Breton Labour	1.1	52
1984	42	50.6	3	15.9	6	31.3	1	Cape Breton Labour	2.2 ^[E]	52
1981	37	47.5	1	18.1	13	33.2	1	Cape Breton Labour	1.2	52
1978	31	45.8	4	14.4	17	39.4			0.4	52
1974	12	38.6	3	13.0	31	47.9			0.5	46
1970	21	46.9	2	6.7	23	46.1			0.2	46
1967	40	52.8		5.2	6	41.8			0.2	46
1963	39	56.2		4.1	4	39.7				43
1960	27	48.3	1	8.9	15	42.6			0.2	43
1956	24	48.6	1	3.0	18	48.2			0.1	43
1953	13	43.6	2	6.9	22	49.0			0.5	37
1949	8	39.2	2	9.6	27	51.0			0.1	37
1945	0	33.5	2	13.6	28	52.7			0.1	30
1941	5	40.3	3	7.0	22	52.7				30
1937	5	46.0		1.1	25	52.9				30
1933	8	45.9		1.5	22	52.6				30
1928	24	51.7	1	1.1	18	47.2				43
1925	40	60.9		2.8	3	36.3				43
1920	3	24.7	5	16.9	29	44.4	6	United Farmers	14.0	43
1916	12	48.8			31	50.4			0.8	43
1911	12	45.4			26	51.1			3.5	38
1906	4	42.1			32	53.2	2	Independents	4.6	38
1901	2	41.7			36	56.7			1.5	38
1897	3	44.4			34	55.0	1	Independent	0.5	38
1894	13	47.3			25	51.9			0.8	37
1890	9	46.7			29	52.2			1.0	38
1886	10	43.6			28	54.7			1.6	37
1882	14	46.9			24	51.8			1.3	38
1878	32	51.7			6	45.1			3.1	38
1874	12	43.6			22	55.0	4	Independents	1.4	38
1871	14	43.7			24	52.2			4.0	38
1867	2 ^[C]	38.5 ^[C]			36 ^[D]	58.6 ^[D]			2.9	38

[edit] Notes

^A Includes results for Progressive Conservatives.

^B Includes results for Co-operative Commonwealth Federation prior to 1963; and also results for the Labour party prior to 1937.

^C Includes Pro Confederation.

^D Includes Anti-Confederates.

^E Includes 2.0% for Cape Breton Labour Party.

[edit] References

Government of Nova Scotia. Election Summary From 1867 - 2006 (PDF). Elections Statistics. Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved on 2006-12-02.

[edit] See also

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