Election day in Nova Scotia as Tim Houston seeks 2nd term as premier

It’s predetermination time successful Nova Scotia, arsenic Tim Houston’s Progressive Conservatives activity a 2nd mandate.

Houston opted to telephone a threat predetermination connected Oct. 27 — ignoring his government’s predetermination law, which for nan first clip in Nova Scotia group a fixed predetermination date: July 15, 2025.

It was a move that was criticized by Liberal Leader Zach Churchill and NDP Leader Claudia Chender.

In a small complete 4 weeks of campaigning, topics specified arsenic housing, affordability and wellness attraction person dominated discussions.

In 2021, Houston’s run zeroed successful connected nan ailing health-care system, and his vow to hole it. During this 2024 campaign, nan different 2 awesome statement leaders person called Houston retired connected nan slow gait of improving nan crisis.

During a televised debate, Houston based on that nan strategy had crumbled nether 12 years of NDP and Liberal governments.

“We were taking complete from parties that were inactive successful wellness care,” he said Nov. 14.

Houston besides placed blasted during nan run connected erstwhile governments for nan lodging crisis, and said his government’s scheme to support nan creation of 41,200 caller lodging units by 2028 is already much than halfway there.

Meanwhile, nan Liberals person group a extremity of building 80,000 caller homes by 2032, but that scheme does not see nan building of much nationalist housing.

“We person to empower nan backstage assemblage to create marketplace lodging and we person to thin connected nan models that are moving nan champion successful our province, and that is nan not-for-profit exemplary and co-op options,” Churchill said.

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In position of lodging affordability, nan NDP has pledged to headdress rent increases astatine 2.5 per cent and springiness households that gain little than $70,000 a rebate averaging $900.

“We perceive everyplace we spell that group cannot spend to live, and that is perfectly our focus,” Chender said.

At nan dissolution of nan legislature, nan Progressive Conservatives held 34 seats, nan Liberals had 14 seats, nan NDP held six and location was 1 independent member.

Check retired Global News’ sum of nan parties’ platforms and nan leaders’ promises made.

As well, Global News has profiled each 55 ridings successful nan province pinch a database of candidates and really nan ridings person voted successful past elections.

For unrecorded results and study opening astatine 8 p.m. AT erstwhile polls close, head to our unrecorded results page. 

— pinch files from The Canadian Press