Nova Scotia Liberal Party
| Nova Scotia Liberal Party | |
|---|---|
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| Party leader | Stephen McNeil |
| founding | 1883 |
| Headquarters | Halifax |
| Alignment | liberalism |
| Parliament seats |
33/51 |
| Website | www.liberal.ns.ca |
The Nova Scotia Liberal Party is a liberal political party in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia . Although it is ideologically similar to the Liberal Party of Canada , the two parties are organizationally independent. Stephen McNeil , the incumbent Prime Minister of the province , has been chairman since 2007 . Since the October 2013 elections, the Liberals have had 33 out of 51 MPs in the Nova Scotia House of Representatives .
history
The Liberal Party of Nova Scotia has its origins with the reformers around Joseph Howe , who campaigned for self- government in the 1830s and 1840s . Between 1848 and 1867, the Liberals ruled the Crown Colony several times .
The group broke up in the debate over the Canadian Confederation . Howe and many other liberals founded the Anti-Confederation Party , while the advocates of the Confederation joined the Confederation Party under Charles Tupper . The Anti-Confederation Party won the majority of the seats in the Canadian House of Commons due to Nova Scotia in 1867 and, under the leadership of William Annand, established the government in the newly founded province of Nova Scotia. In the years after 1867 Annand formed the Anti-Confederation Party into a new Liberal Party. At the same time, Tupper, with supporters from John Macdonald's coalition, formed a new Advanced Conservative Association of Nova Scotia .
Before 1956, the Liberal Party ruled the province almost entirely. It has been in power for 76 of the 89 years since joining the Confederation, mostly with fewer than five MPs in the opposition.
After 1956, the Liberals lost their hegemony in favor of the conservative party newly established by Robert Stanfield . In the period from 1956 to 1993 they were in government only between 1970 and 1978. Prime Minister during this period was Gerald Regan . In the 2003 and 2006 elections, the Liberals slipped to third place. After the poor 2006 result, then chairman Francis MacKenzie resigned and Stephen McNeil succeeded him. McNeil managed to regain official opposition status in 2009, and on October 8, 2013, the Liberals again won an absolute majority under his leadership.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Liberals back on top in Nova Scotia. In: The Chronicle Herald. October 8, 2013, accessed May 17, 2014 .