51st General Assembly of Nova Scotia

The 51st General Assembly of Nova Scotia represented Nova Scotia between May 23, 1974 and August 12, 1978.

51st General Assembly of Nova Scotia
Majority parliament
May 23, 1974 – August 12, 1978
Parliament leaders
Premier	Gerald Regan October 28, 1970 – October 5, 1978
Leader of the Opposition	John Buchanan March 6, 1971 – October 5, 1978
Party caucuses
Government	Liberal Party
Opposition	Progressive Conservative Party
Recognized	New Democratic Party
House of Assembly
Speaker of the House	Vincent MacLean May 23, 1974 – October 27, 1976
	George Doucet February 22, 1977 – August 12, 1978
Members	46 MLA seats
Sovereign
Monarch	Elizabeth II February 6, 1952
Lieutenant Governor	Clarence Gosse October 1, 1973
Sessions
1st session May 23, 1974 – November 27, 1974
2nd session February 3, 1975 – February 17, 1976
3rd session February 17, 1976 – May 20, 1976
4th session February 22, 1977 – February 7, 1978
5th session February 7, 1978 – August 12, 1978
← 50th → 52nd

Division of seats

There were 46 members of the General Assembly, elected in the 1974 Nova Scotia general election.

	Leader	Party	# of Seats
	Gerald Regan	Liberal	31
	John Buchanan	Progressive Conservative	12
	Jeremy Akerman	NDP	3
Total			46

List of members

	Riding	Name	Party	First elected / previously elected	Position
	Annapolis East	Gerry Sheehy	Progressive Conservative	1970
	Annapolis West	Peter Murray Nicholson	Liberal	1956
	Antigonish	J. William Gillis	Liberal	1970
	Cape Breton South	Vince MacLean	Liberal	1974	speaker Minister of Lands & Forests (1976)
	Cape Breton Centre	James 'Buddy' MacEachern	NDP	1974
	Cape Breton North	Tom McKeough	Progressive Conservative	1960
	Cape Breton Nova	Paul MacEwan	NDP	1970
	Cape Breton East	Jeremy Akerman	NDP	1970
	Cape Breton West	Allan Sullivan	Liberal	1970
		Osborne Fraser (1976)	Liberal	1976
	Clare	Benoit Comeau	Liberal	1967
	Colchester	Melinda MacLean	Liberal	1974
		Floyd Tucker	Liberal	1974
	Cumberland East	Roger S. Bacon	Progressive Conservative	1970
	Cumberland West	D. L. George Henley	Progressive Conservative	1963
	Cumberland Centre	Guy Brown	Liberal	1974
	Dartmouth North	Glen M. Bagnell	Liberal	1970
	Dartmouth South	Roland J. Thornhill	Progressive Conservative	1974
	Digby	Joseph H. Casey	Liberal	1970
	Guysborough	A. M. "Sandy" Cameron	Liberal	1973
	Halifax Atlantic	John Buchanan	Progressive Conservative	1967
	Halifax Cornwallis	George M. Mitchell	Liberal	1970
	Halifax Citadel	Ronald Wallace	Liberal	1970
	Halifax Chebucto	Walter Fitzgerald	Liberal	1974
	Halifax Cobequid	George Doucet	Liberal	1974	speaker (1977)
	Halifax Eastern Shore	Alexander Garnet Brown	Liberal	1969
	Halifax Needham	Gerald Regan	Liberal	1967	Premier
	Halifax St. Margarets	Leonard L. Pace	Liberal	1970
	Hants East	Jack Hawkins	Liberal	1970
	Hants West	Robert D. Lindsay	Liberal	1970
	Inverness	Bill MacEachern	Liberal	1974
		John Archie MacKenzie	Liberal	1970
	Kings North	Glenn Ells	Liberal	1974
	Kings South	Harry How	Progressive Conservative	1970
	Kings West	Frank C. Bezanson	Liberal	1971
	Lunenburg Centre	Bruce Cochran	Progressive Conservative	1974
	Lunenburg East	Ronald T. Barkhouse	Progressive Conservative	1974
	Lunenburg West	Maurice DeLorey	Liberal	1970
	Pictou East	Donald W. Cameron	Progressive Conservative	1974
	Pictou West	Dan Reid	Liberal	1974
	Pictou Centre	Fraser MacLean	Progressive Conservative	1974
		Jack MacIsaac (1977)	Progressive Conservative	1977
	Queens	John Wickwire	Progressive Conservative	1974
	Richmond	Gaston LeBlanc	Liberal	1974
	Shelburne	Harold Huskilson	Liberal	1970
	Victoria	Maynard MacAskil	Liberal	1974
	Yarmouth	Fraser Mooney	Liberal	1970
		Hugh Tinkham	Liberal	1974

Former members of the 51st General Assembly

	Name	Party	Electoral District	Cause of departure	Succeeded by	Elected
	Allan Sullivan	Liberal	Cape Breton West	named to bench	Osborne Fraser, Liberal	September 7, 1976
	Fraser MacLean	Progressive Conservative	Pictou Centre	resigned	Jack MacIsaac, PC	September 6, 1977