List of Nova Scotia Opposition Leaders

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.

Leaders of the Opposition of the colony of Nova Scotia (1848-1867)
PictureNamePartyTerm
  James W. Johnston Conservative 1848-1857
 William Young Liberal 1857-1860
  James W. Johnston Conservative 1860-1864
 A.G. Archibald Liberal 1864-1867

Leaders of the Opposition of the Province of Nova Scotia, since Confederation (1867)
PictureNamePartyTerm
 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), Russel 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-present
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