Follow the leader
Keep track of the party leaders as they criss-cross their way around the province. Where did they go? Where are they headed? Can you detect a pattern?
The coloured dots show where the leaders have been since May 5, when the campaign started. The little men mark the locations where the leaders are scheduled to be for the day. On some days, the leaders will visit more than one community.
- PC Leader Rodney MacDonald
- NDP Leader Darrell Dexter
- Liberal Leader Stephen McNeil
Tuesday June 9
PC Leader Rodney MacDonald
- Cast Ballot - Mabou Fire Hall
- 1:00 pm - Mabou Fire Hall, 11287 Route 19, Mabou
- Election night speech
- 7:00 pm - Mabou Community Hall, 11538 Route 19 in Mabou
NDP Leader Darrell Dexter
- Cast Ballot, Poll # 12
- 9:00am - St. Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Church - 320 Flying Cloud Drive - Cole Harbour
- Get the vote out with candidate Mat Whynott
- Hammonds Plains-Upper Sackville Campaign Headquarters - 716 Old Sackville Road, Sackville
- Lake City Ballroom
- NDP Election Night Location - Dartmouth Harbourview Holiday Inn - 101 Wyse Road, Dartmouth
Liberal Leader Stephen McNeil
Overall Results
| Party | Elected | Leading | Total | Vote Share (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Updated: Jun. 9, 2009, 10:11 PM ADT | ||||
| NDP | 31 | 0 | 31 | 45.26 |
| LIB | 11 | 0 | 11 | 27.22 |
| PC | 10 | 0 | 10 | 24.52 |
| GRN | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.33 |
| IND | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.67 |
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All results are unofficial until final ballot counts are verified by Elections Nova Scotia.
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Nova Scotia Votes Headlines
- Dexter to present budget in early fall
- The day after his party's historic win, Nova Scotia NDP Leader Darrell Dexter said it will be early fall before his government will be able to present a budget in the legislature.
- N.S. voter turnout 59 per cent: preliminary count
- Voter turnout was 59 per cent Tuesday among Nova Scotians who were registered prior to the provincial election, an Elections Nova Scotia spokesman said Wednesday.
- Michael tips hat to Dexter on NDP win in N.S.
- Newfoundland and Labrador's New Democratic Party leader has sent a congratulatory message to Nova Scotia premier-designate Darrell Dexter, following Tuesday night's resounding win in that province's election.
- N.S. voters elect 1st NDP government
- Nova Scotia has its first NDP government — and a majority government at that — ending a decade of rule by the Progressive Conservatives, who have been reduced to third-party status.
- MacDonald's Tories turfed by disenchanted voters
- Nova Scotia voters refused to give the Progressive Conservatives a fourth straight mandate in Tuesday's provincial election.
- Liberals see gains, form Nova Scotia's Official Opposition
- The Nova Scotia Liberals are leading in 11 seats in the provincial election, up from nine in 2006, which was the party's worst showing.
- Nova Scotia sends record 12 women to Province House in election
- Nova Scotia's legislative assembly will have a record number of female members when it reconvenes after voters elected a total of 12 women candidates in Tuesday's poll.
- More than half of Tory cabinet defeated
- Several prominent names from the former Progressive Conservative government will not be returning to the next session of the legislature, after more than half of the cabinet went down to defeat in Tuesday's election.
- NDP has iron grip on Metro Halifax
- Metro Halifax is again a New Democrat stronghold as Darrell Dexter's party took the majority of districts around Nova Scotia's capital city on Tuesday night.
- Voters turn south shore orange
- The NDP has won all five districts in Nova Scotia's South Shore.
Features
Voter Information
- 2006 RESULTS Election map
- See how the province voted last time around



