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- ↑ The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia: a biographical directory from 1984 to the Present: Leblanc, Susan, page 146 Nova Scotia Legislature
- ↑ "Nova Scotia election: NDP Susan Leblanc unseats Liberal Joanne Bernard in Dartmouth North". Global News, May 30, 2017.
- ↑ Co-Artistic Directors
- ↑ About Susan Leblanc
- ↑ https://globalnews.ca/news/10865516/nova-scotia-election-2024-dartmouth-north/
- ↑ "Provincial General Election 2021-08-17- Official Results". Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved October 7, 2021.
- ↑ "Statement of Votes & Statistics, Volume I" (PDF). Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved July 17, 2021.
- ↑ "May 30th, 2017 - 40th Nova Scotia Provincial General Election". Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved July 17, 2021.