Nova Scotia general election, 2013

2013 Nova Scotia general election

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51 seats in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly 26 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout	59.08%
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Stephen McNeil Jamie Baillie Darrell Dexter Party Liberal Progressive Conservative New Democratic Leader since April 28, 2007 October 26, 2010 June 2, 2002 Leader's seat Annapolis Cumberland South Cole Harbour ran in Cole Harbour-Portland Valley (lost) Last election 11 seats, 27.20% 10 seats, 24.54% 31 seats, 45.24% Seats before 12 7 31 Seats won 33 11 7 Seat change 21 4 24 Popular vote 190,112 109,452 111,622 Percentage 45.71% 26.31% 26.84% Swing 18.51pp 1.77pp 18.40pp
Popular vote by riding. As this is an FPTP election, seat totals are not determined by popular vote, but instead via results by each riding.
Premier before election Darrell Dexter New Democratic Premier-elect Stephen McNeil Liberal

The 2013 Nova Scotia general election, formally the 39th Nova Scotia general election, was held on October 8, 2013, to elect members to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.

The result of the election was a Liberal victory under the leadership of Stephen McNeil, with the Liberals winning their first election since 1998. The Progressive Conservatives under the leadership of Jamie Baillie improved on their 2009 results and formed the official opposition, despite winning fewer votes than the New Democratic Party (NDP). The NDP, which had won power for the first time in 2009 under the leadership of Darrell Dexter was reduced to third place and became the first one-term government since 1882. Dexter was defeated in the riding he contested in Cole Harbour-Portland Valley by Liberal candidate Tony Ince.

Timeline

• June 24, 2009 – The New Democratic Party under Darrell Dexter win 31 out of 52 seats. The Progressive Conservatives are reduced to 10 seats and Rodney MacDonald announces that he will step down as leader. Karen Casey is named as interim leader. ^[1]
• September 4, 2009 – Antigonish MLA Angus MacIsaac resigns his seat, citing family reasons.
• September 10, 2009 – Former Premier Rodney MacDonald resigns his Inverness seat in the legislature.
• October 20, 2009 – By-elections are held in Inverness and Antigonish. PC candidate Allan MacMaster and NDP candidate Maurice Smith are elected, respectively.
• February 9, 2010 – Richard Hurlburt resigns from the legislature following revelations that he had spent his constituency allowance on a generator and a 40" television, which together cost over $11,000. ^[2]
• March 11, 2010 – Dave Wilson resigns from the legislature and is later charged and pleaded guilty.
• March 25, 2010 – Trevor Zinck is suspended from the NDP caucus over problems with his constituency expenses. ^[3]
• June 22, 2010 – Two byelections are held to replace Hurlburt and Wilson in Yarmouth and Glace Bay, respectively. Zach Churchill is elected in Yarmouth and Geoff MacLellan is elected in Glace Bay.
• August 16, 2010 – Karen Casey announces her resignation as interim leader of the Progressive Conservatives. ^[4]
• August 18, 2010 – Jamie Baillie is chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party.
• October 26, 2010 – Jamie Baillie wins a byelection and represents the constituency of Cumberland South.
• January 10, 2011 – PC MLA Karen Casey crosses the floor to join the Liberal caucus.
• February 14, 2011 – Trevor Zinck is announced as one of four people facing criminal charges in connection with the RCMP investigation into 2010s MLA expense scandal. Zinck is charged with fraud exceeding $5,000, breach of trust by a public officer, and 2 counts of theft over $5,000. ^[5]
• March 25, 2011 – Cape Breton North PC MLA Cecil Clarke resigns his seat to run in the 2011 federal election.
• June 21, 2011 – PC candidate Eddie Orrell wins the by-election in Cape Breton North.
• April 19, 2012 – Former MLA Dave Wilson is sentenced to 9 months in jail and to a period of 18 months probation for his role in the expenses scandal. ^[6]
• June 5, 2012 – The Atlantica Party is deregistered by Elections Nova Scotia. ^[7]
• July 27, 2012 – Former MLA Richard Hurlburt is sentenced to 12 months of house arrest, followed by 12 months of probation for his role in the expenses scandal. ^[8]
• September 25, 2012 – The Nova Scotia Electoral Boundaries Commission released their final report on riding redistribution, which recommends dropping one seat in the legislature. ^[9]
• December 6, 2012 – The law to implement new electoral boundaries in the province was passed in the legislature. ^[10]
• May 29, 2013 – Manning MacDonald resigns his seat in the legislature as MLA for Cape Breton South. ^[11]
• June 19, 2013 – Trevor Zinck resigns his seat in the legislature after he pleaded guilty to charges of fraud and breach of trust. ^[12]
• September 7, 2013 – Premier Darrell Dexter calls a general election for October 8, 2013.

Campaign

The election campaign began the week after Labour Day, when the Legislature would normally have been expected to return to work, had there been no election campaign. As criticism or defence of government policy would dominate the agenda, and by convention electoral mandates are understood to last about four years, despite a lack of fixed election dates, the timing was not controversial.

The Muskrat Falls or Lower Churchill Project, its associated Maritime Link, and electricity policy generally, immediately emerged as the key issue in the early campaign. . Liberals emphasized Nova Scotia Power's (NSPI) dominance of power generation, and its ability to exclude alternatives through its near-monopoly ownership of the distribution network, covering 129/130 Nova Scotians. They also promised to remove a conservation charge, named for demand response programs that never materialized (though many passive conservation programs run by Efficiency Nova Scotia did prove effective) – instead proposing that NSPI pay for it from its return. Liberals and Conservatives criticized NSPI's unaccountable 9.2% guaranteed rate of return even for unwise investments. Conservatives acknowledged that it was under pressure to meet a tough renewable standard (which they would relax) but also promised to freeze rates. The NDP government continued to defend Muskrat Falls as the only viable alternative to replace coal-fired power, even though this project was before the Nova Scotia Utilities Review Board as of the election call, remained unchanged and this was reflected in their campaign materials – they criticized the Liberal plan as likely to lead to higher power rates. The basis for these criticisms was unclear. However, a similar attempt to open generation competition in New Brunswick failed, in part because New Brunswick Power retained monopoly control of the distribution and transmission network, which intimidates competitors and makes it easy in practice to exclude them.

Other issues in the campaign:

• A proposed passenger ferry from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia to Portland, Maine, re-instituting summer service that ran for decades until the 1990s, replacing a car-focused service that ran to Bar Harbor, Maine until the NDP government cancelled it. This was of particular interest to South Shore candidates, especially Yarmouth. Associated issues include the collapse of all public transit on the South Shore (with the withdrawal of TryTown from operating public buses from Yarmouth to Halifax) and a general lack of transport strategy, that could leave some of the 130,000 passengers per year stranded. It remained unclear as of election time whether an announced deal to resume service May 1, 2014, had held, and what other transport policy applied Darrell Dexter had referred to stories from Yarmouth about the impact of the loss of ferries a "mythology" which effectively made this a campaign issue before the campaign had begun.

Party standings

Results by party

Party		Party leader	# of candidates	Seats				Popular vote
				2009	Dissolution	Elected	% Change	#	%	Change
	Liberal	Stephen McNeil	51	11	12	33	+200.0%	190,112	45.71%	+18.51pp
	Progressive Conservative	Jamie Baillie	51	10	7	11	+10.0%	109,452	26.31%	+1.77pp
	New Democratic	Darrell Dexter	51	31	31	7	-77.4%	111,622	26.84%	-18.40pp
	Green	John Percy	16	0	0	0	0.0%	3,528	0.85%	-1.49pp
	Independents		7	0	0	0	0.0%	1,238	0.30%	-0.38pp
	Vacant				1
Total			176	52	52	51	-0.02%	415,952	100.00%	0.00%

Results by region

Party name			HRM	C.B.	Valley	S. Shore	Fundy	Central	Total
Parties winning seats in the legislature
	New Democratic Party	Seats:	2	2	-	2	1	-	7
		Popular vote:	31.29%	25.16%	17.40%	24.68%	26.26%	31.51%	26.84%
	Liberal	Seats:	18	3	4	3	3	2	33
		Popular vote:	48.72%	46.89%	52.02%	43.55%	40.68%	28.71%	45.71%
	Progressive Conservative	Seats:	-	3	2	1	2	3	11
		Popular vote:	18.62%	27.69%	27.58%	30.76%	32.01%	39.78%	26.31%
Parties not winning seats in the legislature
	Green	Popular vote:	0.98%	0.00%	2.11%	1.01%	1.05%	0.00%	0.85%
	Independents	Popular vote:	0.39%	0.26%	0.89%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.3%
Total seats:			20	8	6	6	6	5	51

Retiring incumbents

Liberal

• Wayne Gaudet, Clare ^[13]
• Harold "Junior" Theriault, Digby-Annapolis ^[14]

New Democratic

• Vicki Conrad, Queens ^[15]
• Howard Epstein, Halifax Chebucto ^[16]
• Bill Estabrooks, Timberlea-Prospect ^[17]
• Marilyn More, Dartmouth South-Portland Valley ^[18]
• Michele Raymond, Halifax Atlantic ^[19]
• Graham Steele, Halifax Fairview ^[17]

Nominated candidates

Annapolis Valley

Electoral District	Candidates											Incumbent
		NDP		Liberal		PC		Green		Independent
Annapolis		Henry Spurr		Stephen McNeil		Ginny Hurlock [20]		Ron Neufeld				Stephen McNeil
Clare-Digby		Dean Kenley		Gordon Wilson		Paul Emile LeBlanc [21]				Ian Thurber		Wayne Gaudet†
			merged district
				Harold Theriault†
Hants West		Brian Stephens		Claude O'Hara		Chuck Porter		Torin Buzek				Chuck Porter
Kings North		Jim Morton		Stephen Pearl		John Lohr [22]		Mary Lou Harley				Jim Morton
Kings South		Ramona Jennex		Keith Irving		Shane Buchan [21]		Sheila Richardson				Ramona Jennex
Kings West		Bob Landry		Leo Glavine		Jody Frowley		Barbara Lake				Leo Glavine

South Shore

Electoral District	Candidates											Incumbent
		NDP		Liberal		PC		Green		Independent
Argyle-Barrington		Kenn Baynton		Kent Blades		Chris d'Entremont						Chris d'Entremont
Chester-St. Margaret's		Denise Peterson-Rafuse		Tim Harris		Janet Irwin [21]						Denise Peterson-Rafuse
Lunenburg		Pam Birdsall		Suzanne Lohnes-Croft		Brian Pickings						Pam Birdsall
Lunenburg West		Gary Ramey		Mark Furey		David Mitchell [21]		Robert Pierce				Gary Ramey
Queens-Shelburne		Sterling Belliveau		Benson Frail		Bruce Inglis [23]		Madeline Taylor				Sterling Belliveau
	merged district
		Vicki Conrad†
Yarmouth		Charles Webster		Zach Churchill		John Cunningham		Vanessa Goodwin-Clairmont				Zach Churchill

Fundy-Northeast

Electoral District	Candidates											Incumbent
		NDP		Liberal		PC		Green		Independent
Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley		Gary Burrill		Tom Martin		Larry Harrison [24]						Gary Burrill
Colchester North		Jim Wyatt		Karen Casey		John MacDonald [21]						Karen Casey
Cumberland North		Brian Skabar		Terry Farrell		Judith Giroux [21]		Jason Blanch				Brian Skabar
Cumberland South		Larry Duchesne		Kenny Jackson		Jamie Baillie [21]		Bruce McCulloch				Jamie Baillie
Hants East		John MacDonell		Margaret Miller		Kim Williams [25]						John MacDonell
Truro–Bible Hill–Millbrook–Salmon River		Lenore Zann		Barry Mellish		Charles Cox [21]						Lenore Zann

Central Halifax

Electoral District	Candidates											Incumbent
		NDP		Liberal		PC		Green		Independent
Clayton Park West		Blake Wright		Diana Whalen		Jaime D. Allen						Diana Whalen
Fairview-Clayton Park		Abad Khan		Patricia Arab		Travis Price		Raland Kinley		Katie Campbell		New Riding
Halifax Armdale		Drew Moore		Lena Diab		Irvine Carvery						Graham Steele†
Halifax Chebucto		Gregor Ash		Joachim Stroink [26]		Christine Dewell [21]				Michael Marshall		Howard Epstein†
Halifax Citadel-Sable Island		Leonard Preyra		Labi Kousoulis		Andrew Black		Brynn Horley		Frederic Boileau-Cadieux		Leonard Preyra
Halifax Needham		Maureen MacDonald		Chris Poole		Mary Hamblin [27]		Kris MacLellan				Maureen MacDonald

Suburban Halifax

Electoral District	Candidates											Incumbent
		NDP		Liberal		PC		Green		Independent
Bedford		Mike Poworoznyk		Kelly Regan		Joan Christie [28]		Ian Charles				Kelly Regan
Halifax Atlantic		Tanis Crosby		Brendan Maguire		Ryan Brennan						Michèle Raymond†
Hammonds Plains-Lucasville		Peter Lund		Ben Jessome		Gina Byrne [29]				Jonathan Dean		New Riding
Sackville-Beaver Bank		Mat Whynott		Stephen Gough		Sarah Reeves [30]						Mat Whynott
Sackville-Cobequid		Dave Wilson		Graham Cameron		Peter Mac Isaac [31]		John Percy				Dave Wilson
Timberlea-Prospect		Linda Moxsom-Skinner		Iain Rankin		Bruce Pretty		Thomas Trappenberg				Bill Estabrooks†
Waverley-Fall River-Beaver Bank		Percy Paris		Bill Horne [32]		Brian Wong [33]						Percy Paris

Dartmouth/Cole Harbour/Eastern Shore

Electoral District	Candidates											Incumbent
		NDP		Liberal		PC		Green		Independent
Cole Harbour-Eastern Passage		Becky Kent		Joyce Treen [34]		Lloyd Jackson						Becky Kent
Cole Harbour-Portland Valley		Darrell Dexter		Tony Ince		Greg Frampton						Darrell Dexter
Dartmouth East		Deborah Stover		Andrew Younger		Mike MacDonell						Andrew Younger
Dartmouth North		Steve Estey		Joanne Bernard		Sean Brownlow						Vacant
Dartmouth South		Mary Vingoe		Allan Rowe		Gord Gamble [35]				Jim Murray		Marilyn More†
Eastern Shore		Sid Prest		Kevin Murphy [36]		Stephen Brine						Sid Prest
Preston-Dartmouth		Andre Cain		Keith Colwell		Andrew Mecke						Keith Colwell

Central Nova

Electoral District	Candidates											Incumbent
		NDP		Liberal		PC		Green		Independent
Antigonish		Maurice Smith		Randy Delorey [37]		Darren Thompson						Maurice Smith
Guysborough–Eastern Shore–Tracadie		Jim Boudreau		Lloyd Hines [38]		Neil DeCoff						Jim Boudreau
Pictou Centre		Ross Landry		Bill Muirhead		Pat Dunn [39]						Ross Landry
Pictou East		Clarrie MacKinnon		Francois Rochon		Tim Houston [40]						Clarrie MacKinnon
Pictou West		Charlie Parker		Glennie Langille		Karla MacFarlane [41]						Charlie Parker

Cape Breton

Electoral District	Candidates											Incumbent
		NDP		Liberal		PC		Green		Independent
Cape Breton Centre		Frank Corbett		David Wilton [42]		Edna Lee [43]						Frank Corbett
Cape Breton-Richmond		Bert Lewis		Michel Samson		Joe Janega [44]						Michel Samson
Glace Bay		Mary Beth MacDonald		Geoff MacLellan		Tom Bethell						Geoff MacLellan
Inverness		Michelle Smith		Jackie Rankin [45]		Allan MacMaster						Allan MacMaster
Northside-Westmount		Cecil Snow		John Higgins [46]		Eddie Orrell						Eddie Orrell
Sydney River-Mira-Louisbourg		Delton McDonald		Josephine Kennedy [47]		Alfie MacLeod						Alfie MacLeod
Sydney-Whitney Pier		Gordie Gosse		Derek Mombourquette [48]		Leslie MacPhee						Gordie Gosse
	merged district
		Vacant
Victoria-The Lakes		John Frank Toney		Pam Eyking [49]		Keith Bain				Stemer MacLeod		Keith Bain

Opinion polls

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  Voting intentions during the 2013 election campaign
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  Voting intentions since the 2009 election

Polling Firm	Last Day of Polling	Link	NDP	Liberal	PC	Green
Election 2013	13-10-08!October 8, 2013	HTML	26.84	45.71	26.31	0.85
Forum Research	13-10-07!October 7, 2013	PDF	26	48	23	3
Forum Research	13-10-06!October 6, 2013	PDF	28	47	23	2
Abacus Data	13-10-06!October 6, 2013	PDF	26	46	27	1
Forum Research	13-10-05!October 5, 2013	PDF	28	47	23	2
Abacus Data	13-10-05!October 5, 2013	PDF	27	48	24	1
Forum Research	13-10-07!October 4, 2013	PDF	28	46	24	2
Abacus Data	13-10-03!October 3, 2013	PDF	28	46	25	1
Corporate Research Associates	13-10-03!October 3, 2013	HTML	31	47	20	2
Corporate Research Associates	13-10-03!October 3, 2013	HTML	29	52	17	2
Abacus Data	13-10-02!October 2, 2013	PDF	28	50	22	1
Corporate Research Associates	13-10-02!October 2, 2013	HTML	27	54	17	2
Abacus Data	13-10-01!October 1, 2013	PDF	26	51	23	1
Corporate Research Associates	13-10-01!October 1, 2013	HTML	28	55	16	2
Corporate Research Associates	13-09-30!September 30, 2013	HTML	27	56	15	2
Corporate Research Associates	13-09-29!September 29, 2013	HTML	24	57	17	2
Corporate Research Associates	13-09-28!September 28, 2013	HTML	26	56	17	2
Corporate Research Associates	13-09-27!September 27, 2013	HTML	26	55	16	2
Corporate Research Associates	13-09-26!September 26, 2013	HTML	27	56	16	2
Corporate Research Associates	13-09-25!September 25, 2013	HTML	29	53	17	2
Corporate Research Associates	13-09-24!September 24, 2013	HTML	27	51	20	2
Corporate Research Associates	13-09-23!September 23, 2013	HTML	29	49	20	2
Corporate Research Associates	13-09-22!September 22, 2013	HTML	29	49	21	2
Corporate Research Associates	13-09-21!September 21, 2013	HTML	29	48	21	2
Corporate Research Associates	13-09-20!September 20, 2013	HTML	29	47	21	2
Corporate Research Associates	13-09-19!September 19, 2013	HTML	28	47	23	2
Corporate Research Associates	13-09-18!September 18, 2013	HTML	28	48	23	2
Corporate Research Associates	13-08-31!August 31, 2013	PDF	31	41	25	3
Corporate Research Associates	13-05-30!May 30, 2013	PDF	26	45	26	3
Corporate Research Associates	13-03-03!March 3, 2013	PDF	32	39	24	5
Corporate Research Associates	12-11-30!November 30, 2012	PDF	29	41	27	3
Corporate Research Associates	12-09-02!September 2, 2012	PDF	31	41	22	5
Corporate Research Associates	12-06-04!June 4, 2012	PDF	35	33	28	4
Corporate Research Associates	12-02-26!February 26, 2012	PDF	44	27	25	3
Corporate Research Associates	11-11-29!November 29, 2011	PDF	45	22	29	4
Corporate Research Associates	11-08-31!August 31, 2011	PDF	41	26	30	4
Corporate Research Associates	11-05-30!May 30, 2011	PDF	42	22	31	4
Corporate Research Associates	11-03-03!March 3, 2011	PDF	34	35	26	4
Corporate Research Associates	10-11-23!November 23, 2010	PDF	38	31	26	4
Corporate Research Associates	10-08-31!August 31, 2010	PDF	37	35	21	7
Corporate Research Associates	10-05-31!May 31, 2010	PDF	37	35	24	4
Corporate Research Associates	10-02-24!February 24, 2010	PDF	46	26	22	5
Corporate Research Associates	09-12-01!December 1, 2009	HTML	53	22	21	4
Corporate Research Associates	09-08-29!August 29, 2009	PDF	60	18	16	6
Election 2009	09-06-09!June 9, 2009	PDF	45.24	27.20	24.54	2.34

Analysis

On election night, the Liberal Party formed a majority government by a comfortable margin. This was the first time the Liberals had formed government in Nova Scotia since 1999, and their first majority government victory since the 1993 election. From mid 2012, the Liberals had led every public poll and entered the campaign with a 20-point lead over the New Democratic Party (NDP).

While the Liberals had been relatively successful in the Annapolis Valley and on Cape Breton Island during the 2009 election, they were completely shut out of the South Shore, Fundy, and Central Nova Scotia. More importantly, the NDP had dominated the Halifax metropolitan area, winning 14 out of 20 seats. In 2009, the NDP had been able to count on a large number of ridings in and around Halifax, while achieving historic gains across the province, including in traditionally Progressive Conservative (PC) and Liberal areas of rural Nova Scotia. In 2009, the PCs fell from first place to third place in the Legislature, and were completely shut out of the Halifax metropolitan area.

In the 2013 election, NDP support collapsed across the province, as it lost all of its seats in Central Nova Scotia, three of its seats in Fundy, and three of its seats on the South Shore. However, the most important shift was in the Halifax metropolitan area, where NDP support dropped from 54.07% in 2009 to 31.29% in 2013. The party wound up losing 13 of its seats, as the Liberals won 18 of 20 seats in and around Halifax. Strong NDP areas in 2009, like Dartmouth, Central Halifax, and suburban areas north and east of the Harbour swung from the NDP to the Liberals. Among the casualties was Dexter, who lost his own seat to Liberal challenger Tony Ince by 21 votes. He was the first premier since Ernest Armstrong to be defeated in his own riding.

The NDP had very poor vote concentration in the 2013 election. In Halifax, where it won 31.29% of the vote, it won only two seats. While the party finished second in the popular vote ahead of the PCs, its support was spread out around the province and not concentrated in enough areas to translate into seats. Combined with its collapse in Halifax, this left the NDP with only seven seats to the Tories' 11.

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34. Joyce Treen to represent Liberals in Cole Harbour-Eastern Passage. June 20, 2013.
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36. Eastern Shore Liberals nominate Kevin Murphy. May 7, 2013.
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49. Liberals nominate Pam Eyking in Victoria-The Lakes. April 27, 2013.

External links

• Elections Nova Scotia
  • Elections Nova Scotia - October 8, 2013 Nova Scotia Provincial General Election
• Nova Scotia Votes 2013 (CBC News)
• 2013 NS Votes (The Chronicle Herald)
• 62nd Nova Scotia General Election (ThreeHundredEight.com)
• Nova Scotia Election 2013 (Election Almanac)