List_of_Nova_Scotia_opposition_leaders

List of Nova Scotia opposition leaders

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This is a list of leaders of the opposition party in the Nova Scotia Legislature, both as a colony and a Province of Canada. Since 1928, when its upper house, the Legislative Council of Nova Scotia was abolished, the province has had a unicameral parliamentary government. From Confederation, however, Nova Scotia has exclusively followed the modern Westminster convention whereby the leader of the opposition is the leader of the party that controls the second most seats in the House of Assembly.

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Name	Party	Term
James W. Johnston	Conservative	1848–1857
William Young	Liberal	1857–1860
James W. Johnston	Conservative	1860–1864
A.G. Archibald	Liberal	1864–1867

Name	Party	Term
Hiram Blanchard	Liberal Conservative	1867–1874
Simon H. Holmes	Conservative	1875–1878
N/A	Liberal	1879–1882
Adam C. Bell	Liberal Conservative	1883–1886
William McKay	Liberal Conservative	1887–1890
C.H. Cahan	Liberal Conservative	1891–1894
William McKay	Liberal Conservative	1895–1897
Charles S. Wilcox	Liberal Conservative	1898–1901
Charles E. Tanner	Liberal Conservative	1902–1908
Charles S. Wilcox	Liberal Conservative	1909
John M. Baillie	Liberal Conservative	1910–1911
Charles E. Tanner	Liberal Conservative	1912–1916
W.L. Hall	Liberal Conservative	1917–1920
Daniel G. McKenzie	United Farmers/Labour	1921–1925
William Chisholm	Liberal	1926–1930
Alexander S. MacMillan	Liberal	1931–1933
Gordon S. Harrington	Conservative	1934–1937
Percy C. Black	Conservative	1938–1939
Fred M. Blois	Conservative	1940
Leonard W. Fraser	Conservative	1941
Fred M. Blois	Conservative	1942–1945
Russell Cunningham	CCF	1946–1949
Robert L. Stanfield	Progressive Conservative	1950–1956
Henry D. Hicks	Liberal	1957–1960
Earl W. Urquhart	Liberal	1961–1963
Peter M. Nicholson	Liberal	1964–1967
Gerald A. Regan	Liberal	1968–1970
George I. Smith	Progressive Conservative	1970–1971
John Buchanan	Progressive Conservative	1971–1978
Gerald A. Regan	Liberal	1978–1979
Benoit Comeau	Liberal	1980
A.M. (Sandy) Cameron	Liberal	1980–1984
Vincent MacLean	Liberal	1985
Bill Gillis	Liberal	1985–1986
Vincent MacLean	Liberal	1986–1992
Bill Gillis	Liberal	1992–1993
Terrence Donahoe	Progressive Conservative	1993–1995
John Hamm	Progressive Conservative	1995–1998
Robert Chisholm	New Democratic Party	1998–1999
Robert Chisholm (NDP), Russell MacLellan (Liberal), Wayne Gaudet (Liberal)	Duties shared between Liberals and NDP	1999–2001
John MacDonell	New Democratic Party	2001
Darrell Dexter	New Democratic Party	2001–2009
Stephen McNeil	Liberal	2009–2013
Jamie Baillie	Progressive Conservative	2013–2018
Karla MacFarlane	Progressive Conservative	2018
Tim Houston	Progressive Conservative	2018–2021
Iain Rankin	Liberal	2021–2022
Zach Churchill	Liberal	2022-present

List_of_Nova_Scotia_opposition_leaders

List of Nova Scotia opposition leaders

Leaders of the opposition of the colony of Nova Scotia (1848–1867)

Leaders of the opposition of the Province of Nova Scotia, since Confederation (1867–present)

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