63rd General Assembly of Nova Scotia

63rd General Assembly of Nova Scotia is the assembly of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly that was determined in the 2017 Nova Scotia election.[1][2]

Seating plan

Johns

Comer

LeBlanc

Ryan

Harrison

Paon

Smith-McCrossin

Craig

Rushton

Halman

Lohr

Adams

MacKay

Dunn

Bain

Masland

MacFarlane

HOUSTON

MacMaster

Chender

BURRILL

Roberts

Leblanc

Murphy

Churchill

Furey

Regan

MacLellan

MCNEIL

Casey

Wilson

Delorey

Colwell

Glavine

Kousoulis

Horne

Arab

Mombourquette

Rankin

Ince

Diab

Hines

Porter

Miller

Jessome

Maguire

Lohnes-Croft

DiCostanzo

Irving

List of members

	Riding	Member	Party	Notes
	Annapolis	Stephen McNeil	Liberal	Premier of Nova Scotia
	Antigonish	Randy Delorey	Liberal
	Argyle-Barrington	Chris d'Entremont	Progressive Conservative	Resigned July 31, 2019
		Colton LeBlanc	Progressive Conservative	Elected September 3, 2019
	Bedford	Kelly Regan	Liberal
	Cape Breton Centre	Tammy Martin	NDP	Resigned February 6, 2020
		Kendra Coombes	NDP	Elected March 10, 2020
	Cape Breton-Richmond	Alana Paon	Progressive Conservative	Progressive Conservative until June 24, 2019; removed from caucus after refusing to comply with a motion from the House of Assembly management commission to have the driveway to her constituency office paved to bring her office in line with the province’s accessibility rules.
			Independent
	Chester-St. Margaret's	Hugh MacKay	Liberal	Liberal until February 23, 2020; resigned from caucus after facing charges of impaired driving.
			Independent
	Clare-Digby	Gordon Wilson	Liberal
	Clayton Park West	Rafah DiCostanzo	Liberal
	Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley	Larry Harrison	Progressive Conservative
	Colchester North	Karen Casey	Liberal
	Cole Harbour-Eastern Passage	Barbara Adams	Progressive Conservative
	Cole Harbour-Portland Valley	Tony Ince	Liberal
	Cumberland North	Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin	Progressive Conservative
	Cumberland South	Jamie Baillie	Progressive Conservative	Resigned January 24, 2018
		Tory Rushton	Progressive Conservative	Elected June 19, 2018
	Dartmouth East	Tim Halman	Progressive Conservative
	Dartmouth North	Susan Leblanc	NDP
	Dartmouth South	Claudia Chender	NDP
	Eastern Shore	Kevin Murphy	Liberal
	Fairview-Clayton Park	Patricia Arab	Liberal
	Glace Bay	Geoff MacLellan	Liberal
	Guysborough–Eastern Shore–Tracadie	Lloyd Hines	Liberal
	Halifax Armdale	Lena Diab	Liberal
	Halifax Atlantic	Brendan Maguire	Liberal
	Halifax Chebucto	Gary Burrill	NDP	Leader of the New Democratic Party
	Halifax Citadel-Sable Island	Labi Kousoulis	Liberal
	Halifax Needham	Lisa Roberts	NDP
	Hammonds Plains-Lucasville	Ben Jessome	Liberal
	Hants East	Margaret Miller	Liberal
	Hants West	Chuck Porter	Liberal
	Inverness	Allan MacMaster	Progressive Conservative
	Kings North	John Lohr	Progressive Conservative
	Kings South	Keith Irving	Liberal
	Kings West	Leo Glavine	Liberal
	Lunenburg	Suzanne Lohnes-Croft	Liberal
	Lunenburg West	Mark Furey	Liberal
	Northside-Westmount	Eddie Orrell	Progressive Conservative	Resigned July 31, 2019
		Murray Ryan	Progressive Conservative	Elected September 3, 2019
	Pictou Centre	Pat Dunn	Progressive Conservative
	Pictou East	Tim Houston	Progressive Conservative	Leader of the Opposition
	Pictou West	Karla MacFarlane	Progressive Conservative
	Preston-Dartmouth	Keith Colwell	Liberal
	Queens-Shelburne	Kim Masland	Progressive Conservative
	Sackville-Beaver Bank	Brad Johns	Progressive Conservative
	Sackville-Cobequid	Dave Wilson	NDP	Resigned November 16, 2018
		Steve Craig	Progressive Conservative	Elected June 19, 2019
	Sydney-Whitney Pier	Derek Mombourquette	Liberal
	Sydney River-Mira-Louisbourg	Alfie MacLeod	Progressive Conservative	Resigned July 31, 2019
		Brian Comer	Progressive Conservative	Elected September 3, 2019
	Timberlea-Prospect	Iain Rankin	Liberal
	Truro-Bible Hill-Millbrook-Salmon River	Lenore Zann	Independent	Resigned September 12, 2019
		Dave Ritcey	Progressive Conservative	Elected March 10, 2020
	Victoria-The Lakes	Keith Bain	Progressive Conservative
	Waverley-Fall River-Beaverbank	Bill Horne	Liberal
	Yarmouth	Zach Churchill	Liberal

Membership changes in the 63rd Assembly

Number of members per party by date		2017	2018			2019						2020
		May 30	Jan 24	Jun 19	Nov 16	Jun 9	Jun 19	Jun 24	Jul 31	Sep 3	Sep 12	Feb 6	Feb 23	Mar 10
	Liberal	27											26
	Progressive Conservative	17	16	17			18	17	14	17				18
	NDP	7			6	5						4		5
	Independent	0				1		2			1		2
	Vacant	0	1	0	1		0		3	0	1	2		0

Membership changes in the 63rd General Assembly
	Date	Name	District	Party	Reason
	May 30, 2017	See list of members			Election day of the 40th Nova Scotia general election
	January 24, 2018	Jamie Baillie	Cumberland South	Progressive Conservative	Resignation
	June 19, 2018	Tory Rushton	Cumberland South	Progressive Conservative	Elected in by-election
	November 16, 2018	Dave Wilson	Sackville-Cobequid	NDP	Resignation
	June 9, 2019	Lenore Zann	Truro-Bible Hill-Millbrook-Salmon River	Independent	Changing affiliation as means to run in federal politics as a Liberal candidate[3][4]
	June 19, 2019	Steve Craig	Sackville-Cobequid	Progressive Conservative	Elected in by-election
	June 24, 2019	Alana Paon	Cape Breton-Richmond	Independent	Removed from the Progressive Conservative caucus
	July 31, 2019	Chris d'Entremont	Argyle-Barrington	Progressive Conservative	Resignation as means to run in federal politics for the Conservative Party.
	July 31, 2019	Eddie Orrell	Northside-Westmount	Progressive Conservative	Resignation as means to run in federal politics for the Conservative Party.
	July 31, 2019	Alfie MacLeod	Sydney River-Mira-Louisbourg	Progressive Conservative	Resignation as means to run in federal politics for the Conservative Party.
	September 3, 2019	Colton LeBlanc	Argyle-Barrington	Progressive Conservative	Elected in by-election
	September 3, 2019	Murray Ryan	Northside-Westmount	Progressive Conservative	Elected in by-election
	September 3, 2019	Brian Comer	Sydney River-Mira-Louisbourg	Progressive Conservative	Elected in by-election
	September 12, 2019	Lenore Zann	Truro-Bible Hill-Millbrook-Salmon River	Independent	Resignation as means to run in federal politics for the Liberal Party.
	February 6, 2020	Tammy Martin	Cape Breton Centre	NDP	Resignation
	February 23, 2020	Hugh MacKay	Chester-St. Margaret's	Independent	Resigned from Liberal caucus
	March 10, 2020	Kendra Coombes	Cape Breton Centre	NDP	Elected in by-election
	March 10, 2020	Dave Ritcey	Truro-Bible Hill-Millbrook-Salmon River	Progressive Conservative	Elected in by-election

References

1. "Current Assembly Members / Members of the Legislative Assembly / People / The Nova Scotia Legislature". nslegislature.ca. Retrieved 2017-06-02.
2. News, Michael MacDonald in; 2017, Politics | May 31st (2017-05-31). "Nova Scotia Liberals win their second straight majority government". National Observer. Retrieved 2017-06-02.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
3. "Lenore Zann seeks federal Liberal nomination for Cumberland-Colchester". CBC News. June 9, 2019. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
4. "Longtime NDP MLA Lenore Zann to run for federal Liberal nomination". CTV News. June 9, 2019. Retrieved 2019-06-09.