Canadian federal elections have provided the following results in Nova Scotia.
Regional profile
Nova Scotia has historically been a conservative region, with former prime ministers Charles Tupper and Robert Borden (native sons who governed as leaders of the historical Conservative Party), and Brian Mulroney (who governed as leader of the successor Progressive Conservative, or PC, Party) along with PC Opposition leader Robert Stanfield (who was previously the province's premier) holding seats in the province for extended periods of time. However, unlike rural ridings in the prairies, most Nova Scotia voters hold Red Tory views rather than socially conservative ones, as reflected in Nova Scotia being one of the few areas in the country where the PCs remained competitive between their 1993 collapse and their 2003 merger with the Canadian Alliance into the present-day Conservative Party of Canada. The Liberals swept Nova Scotia in their 1993 landslide, but lost all eleven seats in 1997—six to the New Democratic Party (NDP) and five to the PCs. Cuts to employment insurance and social programs contributed to the Liberals' losses across Atlantic Canada. Under former leader Alexa McDonough, the NDP made major gains there in 1997, picking up seats in the Halifax and Cape Breton areas. The Liberals resurged to four Nova Scotia seats in 2000 after reversing their employment insurance changes.
Today, the Liberals are at their strongest in Cape Breton and the Halifax area, the NDP are at their strongest in the Halifax area, and the Conservatives are at their strongest in rural mainland Nova Scotia. In 2015, the Liberals swept Nova Scotia in convincing fashion, winning an outright majority of the votes cast in all but one riding; that year, they won every seat in Atlantic Canada. In 2019, the Liberals maintained their dominance in the province, winning 10 out of 11 ridings, with one riding, West Nova, going Conservative. In 2021, the Liberal vote share was stable but they lost two additional seats, Cumberland—Colchester and minister Bernadette Jordan's South Shore—St. Margarets, to the Conservatives.
Votes by party throughout time
Detailed results 2025
| style="background-color:whitesmoke" |Acadie—Annapolis | |Ronnie LeBlanc22,49146.6% || |Chris d'Entremont23,02447.7% | |Ingrid Deon1,7683.7% | |Matthew Piggott5831.2% | |James Strange4320.9%
|Chris d'Entremont |- | style="background-color:whitesmoke" |Cape Breton—Canso—Antigonish || |Jaime Battiste24,90851.6% | |Allan MacMaster20,87043.2% | |Joanna Clark1,9304.0%
|Ryan Smyth3330.7% | |Rebecca Wall (Ind.)2370.5% || |Mike Kelloway‡ |- | style="background-color:whitesmoke" |Central Nova || |Sean Fraser26,07851.9% | |Brycen Jenkins21,46542.7% | |Jesiah MacDonald1,6493.3% | |Gerald Romsa4550.9% | |Charlie MacEachern3310.7% | |Alexander MacKenzie (Ind.)2350.5% || |Sean Fraser¢ |- | style="background-color:whitesmoke" |Cumberland—Colchester || |Alana Hirtle23,92948.3% | |Stephen Ellis22,70145.8% | |Larry Duchesne1,8733.8% | |Kelly-Ann Callaghan6941.4% | |Paul Church3330.7%
|Stephen Ellis |- | style="background-color:whitesmoke" |Dartmouth—Cole Harbour || |Darren Fisher40,36767.7% | |Isabelle Obeid13,55722.7% | |Keith Morrison4,2017.0% | |Rana Zaman6281.1% | |Michelle Lindsay7501.3% | |Joseph Shea (Libert.)1310.2% || |Darren Fisher |- | style="background-color:whitesmoke"|Halifax || |Shannon Miedema32,88663.0% | |Mark Boudreau9,93919.1% | |Lisa Roberts8,64216.6% | |Amethyste Hamel-Gregory4220.8% | |Maricar Aliasut2710.5%
|Vacant$ |- | style="background-color:whitesmoke" |Halifax West || |Lena Metlege Diab36,20065.6% | |Rob Batherson15,02027.2% | |Rae Tench3,0835.6% | |Ron G. Parker4970.9% | |Adam LeRue3840.7%
|Lena Metlege Diab |- | style="background-color:whitesmoke" |Kings—Hants || |Kody Blois35,83660.6% | |Joel Hirtle19,77333.4% | |Paul Doerr2,1543.6% | |Karen Beazley8251.4% | |Alexander Cargill5911.0%
|Kody Blois |- | style="background-color:whitesmoke" |Sackville—Bedford—Preston || |Braedon Clark36,06262.0% | |Dave Carroll18,86032.4% | |Isaac Wilson2,3244.0% | |Andre Anderson5260.9% | |Ryan Slaney4180.7%
|Darrell Samson† |- | style="background-color:whitesmoke" |South Shore—St. Margarets || |Jessica Fancy-Landry27,83154.9% | |Rick Perkins20,86441.1%
|Mark Embrett8181.6% | |Patrick Shea Boyd6981.4% | |Hayden Henderson (Ind.)5001.0% || |Rick Perkins |- | style="background-color:whitesmoke" rowspan=4 |Sydney—Glace Bay | rowspan=4 | | rowspan=4|Mike Kelloway25,76654.6% | rowspan=4| | rowspan=4|Anna Manley17,97838.1% | rowspan=4| | rowspan=4|Kimberly Losier1,7893.8% | rowspan=4| | rowspan=4| | rowspan=4| | rowspan=4|Jeffrey Evely5891.2% | |Nik Boisvert (M-L)85 0.2% | rowspan=4| | rowspan=4|Jaime Battiste‡
|Chris Gallant (CFP)169 0.4%
|Michael Pittman (Libert.)189 0.4%
|Joe Ward (Ind.)601 1.3% |}<noinclude>
2021
2019
2015
2011
2008
2006
All incumbent MPs in Nova Scotia were re-elected. There were six Liberal, three Conservatives and two NDP MPs in the province.
2004
With Toronto's Jack Layton replacing Alexa McDonough as leader, the NDP saw its hold on the Halifax Region slip somewhat, losing Dartmouth. The Liberals, after having gained MP Scott Brison from the Progressive Conservatives in 2003, held Kings-Hants. A hoped-for breakthrough for the Conservatives remained elusive.
Maps
Cape Breton-Canso Central Nova Dartmouth-Cole Harbour Halifax Halifax West Kings-Hants North Nova Sackville-Eastern Shore South Shore-St. Margaret's Sydney-Victoria West Nova
2000
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