Nova Scotia election set for Oct. 8
Four years after Nova Scotia elected its first NDP government, voters are about to get the chance to pass judgement on its performance.
NDP Leader Darrell Dexter has asked Lt.-Gov. J.J. Grant to dissolve the House of Assembly. That sets in motion, a provincial election for Tuesday, Oct. 8.
Dexter campaigned Saturday in Cape Breton. He met with Grant at a hotel in Sydney, N.S.
At dissolution, the NDP held 31 seats in the legislature, the Liberals 12, and the Progressive Conservative Party, seven.
Two seats were vacant.
The election will be fought on a new electoral map that cuts the number of seats in the legislature to 51 from 52.
