51st General Assembly of Nova Scotia

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The 51st General Assembly of Nova Scotia represented Nova Scotia between 1974 and August 12, 1978.

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Division of seats

There were 46 members of the General Assembly, elected in the 1974 Nova Scotia general election.

LeaderParty# of Seats
  Gerald Regan Liberal31
  John Buchanan Progressive Conservative12
  Jeremy Akerman NDP3
Total46

List of members

RidingNamePosition
  Annapolis East Gerry Sheehy
  Annapolis West Peter Murray Nicholson
  Antigonish J. William Gillis
  Cape Breton South Vince MacLean speaker
Minister of Lands & Forests (1976)
  Cape Breton Centre James 'Buddy' MacEachern
  Cape Breton North Tom McKeough
  Cape Breton Nova Paul MacEwan
  Cape Breton East Jeremy Akerman
  Cape Breton West Allan Sullivan
  Clare Benoit Comeau
  Colchester Melinda MacLean
  Floyd Tucker
  Cumberland East Roger S. Bacon
  Cumberland West D. L. George Henley
  Cumberland Centre Guy Brown
  Dartmouth North Glen M. Bagnell
  Dartmouth South Roland J. Thornhill
  Digby Joseph H. Casey
  Guysborough A. M. "Sandy" Cameron
  Halifax Atlantic John Buchanan
  Halifax Cornwallis George M. Mitchell
  Halifax Citadel Ronald Wallace
  Halifax Chebucto Walter Fitzgerald
  Halifax Cobequid George Doucet speaker (1977)
  Halifax Eastern Shore Alexander Garnet Brown
  Halifax Needham Gerald Regan Premier
  Halifax St. Margarets Leonard L. Pace
  Hants East Jack Hawkins
  Hants West Robert D. Lindsay
  Inverness Bill MacEachern
  John Archie MacKenzie
  Kings North Glenn Ells
  Kings South Harry How
  Kings West Frank C. Bezanson
  Lunenburg Centre Bruce Cochran
  Lunenburg East Ronald T. Barkhouse
  Lunenburg West Maurice DeLorey
  Pictou East Donald W. Cameron
  Pictou West Dan Reid
  Pictou Centre Fraser MacLean
  Queens John Wickwire
  Richmond Gaston LeBlanc
  Shelburne Harold Huskilson
  Victoria Maynard MacAskil
  Yarmouth Fraser Mooney
  Hugh Tinkham

Former members of the 51st General Assembly

NamePartyElectoral DistrictCause of departureSucceeded byElected
 Allan Sullivan Liberal Cape Breton Westnamed to bench Osborne Fraser, LiberalSeptember 7, 1976
 Fraser MacLean Progressive Conservative Pictou Centreresigned Jack MacIsaac, PCSeptember 6, 1977

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Preceded by
50th General Assembly of Nova Scotia
General Assemblies of Nova Scotia
1974–1978
Succeeded by
52nd General Assembly of Nova Scotia