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. Like the Canadian federal government, Nova Scotia uses a unicameral Westminster-style parliamentary government, in which the leader of the opposition is the leader of the party that controls the second most seats in the House of Assembly.

[edit] Leaders of the Opposition of the colony of Nova Scotia (1848-1867)

	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

[edit] Leaders of the Opposition of the Province of Nova Scotia, since Confederation (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 MacKay	Liberal Conservative	1887-1890
	C.H. Cahan	Liberal Conservative	1891-1894
	William MacKay	Liberal Conservative	1895-1897
	Charles E. Tanner	Liberal Conservative	1902-1908
	Charles S. Wilcox	Liberal Conservative	1909
	J.M. Baille	Liberal Conservative	1910-1911
	Charles E. Tanner	Liberal Conservative	1912-1916
	W.L. Hall	Liberal Conservative	1917-1920
	Daniel G. MacKenzie	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	1941-1945
	Russell Cunningham	CCF	1945-1949
	Robert L. Stanfield	Progressive Conservative	1950-1956
	Henry D. Hicks	Liberal	1956-1960
	Earl Urquhart	Liberal	1961-1965
	Peter M. Nicholson	Liberal	1965-1967
	Gerald A. Regan	Liberal	1967-1970
	George I. Smith	Progressive Conservative	1970-1971
	John Buchanan	Progressive Conservative	1971-1978
	Gerald A. Regan	Liberal	1979
	A.M. (Sandy) Cameron	Liberal	1980-1984
	N/A	Liberal	1984-1993
	Terrence Donahoe	Progressive Conservative	1993-1997
	Robert Chisholm	New Democratic Party	1998-2001
	Darrell Dexter	New Democratic Party	2001-Present

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