Nova Scotia Liberal Party
Nova Scotia Liberal Party | |
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| Leader | Derek Mombourquette (interim) |
| President | Margaret Miller |
| Secretary | David Mackeigan |
| Founded | 1883 |
| Headquarters | 5151 George Street Suite 1400 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2T3 |
| Youth wing | Nova Scotia Young Liberals |
| Ideology | Liberalism |
| Political position | Centre |
| National affiliation | Liberal Party of Canada |
| Colours | Red |
| Seats in House of Assembly | 2 / 55 |
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The Nova Scotia Liberal Party (officially the Liberal Association of Nova Scotia) is a centrist provincial political party in Nova Scotia, Canada and the provincial section of the Liberal Party of Canada. The party currently holds two seats in the Legislature, under the interim leadership of Derek Mombourquette. The party was in power most recently from the 2013 election until the 2021 election.
The party is the only party in the province with uninterrupted presence in the legislature since confederation. It has formed the Government of Nova Scotia for 90 of the approximately 160 years since it became a province of Canada. It won 25 of the province's 42 elections, but was supplanted by the NDP as the official opposition for three consecutive elections in 1999, 2003 and 2006, and again in the most recent election in 2024. It produced 14 of the province's 29 premiers, including:
- William Stevens Fielding - after a 12 year tenure as Premier (1884-96) went on to become the longest serving federal finance minister
- George Henry Murray - whose premiership between 1896 and 1923 was the longest unbroken tenure for a head of government in Canadian history
- Angus L. MacDonald - the only premier to have occupied the office over two non-consecutive terms, tenure broken by a stint as the naval services minister in MacKenzie King's wartime cabinet.
Prior to 2017, the party and its counterparts in Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick were formally the provincial branches of the Liberal Party of Canada. The national party ended its confederated organizational model in 2016 and severed formal governance relationship with all provincial liberal parties. The Nova Scotia Liberal Party (along with the Prince Edward Island Liberal Party) has however continued its formal affiliation with the national party by amending the governance and membership provisions in its constitution to align them with applicable rules and requirements of the national party, create overlapping governance organizational and administrative structures that serve the functions of both a provincial branch of a national party and a provincial party.