In the 2025 Canadian federal election, 11 members of Parliament were elected to the House of Commons from the province of Nova Scotia (3.2% of all members).
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All 11 Nova Scotian seats in the House of Commons | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Registered | 799,595 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 577,740 (72.25%)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2022 electoral redistribution
editThe 2025 Canadian federal election was the first election to utilize the electoral districts established following the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution. The House of Commons increased from 338 seats to 343 seats. Nova Scotia's seat allocation stayed the same at 11 seats. This ensures that the average population per constituency in Nova Scotia is 88,126 (according to the 2021 Canadian census), which is 19,722 less people per electoral district than the national average.[2]
Timeline
edit| Seat | Before | Change | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Member | Party | Reason | Date | Member | Party | |
| Halifax | August 31, 2024 | Andy Fillmore | █ Liberal | Resigned to run for the mayoralty of Halifax, Nova Scotia | April 14, 2025 (cancelled) | █ Vacant | |
Predictions
edit| Polling firm | Last date of polling |
Link | LPC | CPC | NDP | GPC | PPC | Others | Margin of error[a] |
Sample size[b] |
Polling method[c] | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abacus Data | March 20, 2025 | [3] | 46 | 37 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 1 | ± 4.1 pp | 600 | Online | 9 |
| Cardinal Research | November 15, 2024 | [4] | 40 | 37 | 17 | 3 | 1 | N/a | ± 3.5 pp | 1046 | Telephone | 3 |
| Narrative Research | August 18, 2024 | [5] | 30 | 43 | 21 | 4 | 2 | 0 | ± 2.6 pp | 400 | Telephone | 13 |
Results
editSummary
edit| Party | Votes | Vote % | Vote +/- | Seats | Seat +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | 330,556 |  14.9pp |
10 / 11 (91%) |
3 | ||
| Conservative | 203,290 | 5.8pp |
1 / 11 (9%) |
 2 | ||
| New Democratic | 30,129 | 16.9pp |
0 / 11 (0%) |
 0 | ||
| Green | 5,442 | 1.0pp |
0 / 11 (0%) |
0 | ||
| People's | 5,126 | 3.1pp |
0 / 11 (0%) |
0 | ||
| Independents and minor parties | 3,197 | 0.3pp |
0 / 11 (0%) |
0 | ||
| Total | 577,740 | – | 11 / 11 (100%) |
1[d] | ||
Comparison with national results
edit| Party | Popular vote % | Seats in caucus | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NS | Natl. | diff. | |||
| Liberal | 57.2 | 43.7 | +13.5 | 10 / 169 (6%) | |
| Conservative | 35.2 | 41.3 | -6.1 | 1 / 144 (0.7%) | |
| New Democratic | 5.2 | 6.3 | -1.1 | 0 / 7 (0%) | |
| Green | 0.9 | 1.2 | -0.3 | 0 / 1 (0%) | |
| People's | 0.9 | 0.7 | +0.2 | no caucus | |
| Total | – | – | – | 11 / 343 (3%) | |
Student vote results
editStudent votes are mock elections that run parallel to actual elections, in which students not of voting age participate. They are administered by Student Vote Canada. These are for educational purposes and do not count towards the results.[6]
| Party | Leader | Seats | Popular vote | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elected | % | Δ | Votes | % | Δ (pp) | |||
| Liberal | Mark Carney | 8 | 72.73 | 4 | 11,460 | 39.99 | 11.88 | |
| Conservative | Pierre Poilievre | 3 | 27.27 | 1 | 8,611 | 30.05 | 9.85 | |
| New Democratic | Jagmeet Singh | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3,694 | 12.89 | 18.67 | |
| Green | Elizabeth May & Jonathan Pedneault | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2,657 | 9.27 | 1.65 | |
| People's | Maxime Bernier | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,638 | 5.72 | 0.87 | |
| Other | 0 | 0 | 0 | 597 | 2.08 | 0.54 | ||
| Total | 11 | 100.00 | 0 | 28,657 | 100.00 | – | ||
| Source: Student Vote Canada[7] | ||||||||
Aftermath
editSeveral months following the election, Chris d'Entremont, the Conservative MP for Acadie—Annapolis, crossed the floor to the Liberal Party. This meant that Nova Scotia's entire delegation to the House of Commons were members of the Liberal Party.[8]
See also
editNotes
edit- ↑ In cases when linked poll details distinguish between the margin of error associated with the total sample of respondents (including undecided and non-voters) and that of the subsample of decided/leaning voters, the former is included in the table. Also not included is the margin of error created by rounding to the nearest whole number or any margin of error from methodological sources. Most online polls (because of their opt-in method of recruiting panelists which results in a non-random sample) cannot have a margin of error. In such cases, shown is what the margin of error would be for a survey using a random probability-based sample of equivalent size.
- ↑ Refers to the total, "raw" sample size, including undecided and non-voters, and before demographic weighting is applied. Fractions in parentheses apply to rolling polls (see below) and indicate the proportion of the sample that is independent from the previous poll in the series.
- ↑ "Telephone" refers to traditional telephone polls conducted by live interviewers; "IVR" refers to automated Interactive Voice Response polls conducted by telephone; "online" refers to polls conducted exclusively over the internet; "telephone/online" refers to polls which combine results from both telephone and online surveys, or for which respondents are initially recruited by telephone and then asked to complete an online survey. "Rolling" polls contain overlapping data from one poll to the next.
- ↑ 1 seat was vacant at the dissolution of Parliament.
References
edit- 1 2 "Election Night Results - Provinces & Territories".
- ↑ "New House of Commons Seat Allocation" (Press release). Gatineau: Elections Canada. July 8, 2022. Archived from the original on July 8, 2022. Retrieved July 8, 2022.
- ↑ "Abacus Data Poll: What's Happening in Nova Scotia". Abacus Data. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- ↑ "Nova Scotia Provincial Polling November 7-15, 2024". Cardinal Research. Retrieved November 21, 2024.
- ↑ https://narrativeresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/24-3-Federal-Voting-Intentions-FINAL.pdf[permanent dead link]
- ↑ "Student Vote Canada".
- ↑ "Student Vote Canada 2025 — Results". Retrieved April 29, 2025.
- ↑ Tasker, John Paul (4 November 2025). "Nova Scotia MP Chris d'Entremont resigns from Conervative caucus to join the Liberals". CBC News.