Nova Scotia MLA History: Members, Parties, and Constituencies Since 1867

Data.novascotia.ca provides a list of all Nova Scotia Members of the Legislative Assembly from Confederation in 1867 to the present. The dataset includes MLA names, party affiliations, constituencies, and service start and end dates. Its presence on multiple government platforms indicates its status as an official historical record.

Use Cases

• Tracking party dominance over time using the Party and Start Date columns.
• Analyzing constituency representation changes using the constituency and Name of MLA columns.
• Calculating individual MLA tenure lengths using the Start Date and End Date columns.
• Mapping historical political affiliations of regions using the constituency and Party columns.

Strengths

• Covers a long historical time range from 1867 to the present.
• Contains structured temporal data with explicit Start Date and End Date columns.
• Is published on multiple official government data platforms (Socrata, Open Canada).

Limitations

• Metadata conflicts exist: one source lists a last update of 2026-04 17, while another shows 2024-09-19.
• Row count and dataset size are not provided by any source.
• Column descriptions and detailed documentation are absent.

Provenance

Source

data.novascotia.ca

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official legislative records and Hansard.

Time Range

1867 to present

Freshness

2026-04-17 15:29:24.083551 (most recent date cited, though this future date is likely an error)

Geography

Nova Scotia, Canada