title: 50th General Assembly of Nova Scotia
text: # 50th General Assembly of Nova Scotia
  
  The 50th General Assembly of Nova Scotia represented Nova Scotia between 1970 and February 23, 1974.
  
  ## Division of seats
  
  There were 46 members of the General Assembly, elected in the 1970 Nova Scotia general election.
  
  | | Leader | Party | # of Seats |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | | Gerald Regan | Liberal | 23 |
  | | George Isaac Smith | Progressive Conservative | 21 |
  | | Jeremy Akerman | NDP | 2 |
  | Total | Total | Total | 46 |
  
  ## List of members
  
  | Riding | Name | Position |
  | - | - | - |
  | Annapolis East | Gerry Sheehy | |
  | Annapolis West | Peter Murray Nicholson | |
  | Antigonish | J. William Gillis | |
  | Cape Breton South | John Francis Burke | |
  | Cape Breton Centre | Mike Laffin | |
  | Cape Breton North | Tom McKeough | |
  | Cape Breton Nova | Paul MacEwan | |
  | Cape Breton East | Jeremy Akerman | |
  | Cape Breton West | Allan Sullivan | |
  | Clare | Benoit Comeau | |
  | Colchester | G. I. Smith | |
  | | Gerald Ritcey | |
  | Cumberland East | Roger S. Bacon | |
  | Cumberland West | D. L. George Henley | |
  | Cumberland Centre | Raymond M. Smith | |
  | Dartmouth North | Glen M. Bagnell | |
  | Dartmouth South | D. Scott MacNutt | |
  | Digby | Joseph H. Casey | |
  | Guysborough | Angus MacIsaac | |
  | Halifax Atlantic | John Buchanan | |
  | Halifax Cornwallis | George M. Mitchell | speaker Minister of Development (1973) |
  | Halifax Citadel | Ronald Wallace | |
  | Halifax Chebucto | James L. Connolly | speaker (1973) |
  | Halifax Cobequid | George Riley | |
  | Halifax Eastern Shore | Alexander Garnet Brown | |
  | Halifax Needham | Gerald Regan | Premier |
  | Halifax St. Margarets | Leonard L. Pace | |
  | Hants East | Jack Hawkins | |
  | Hants West | Robert D. Lindsay | |
  | Inverness | Norman J. MacLean | |
  | | John Archie MacKenzie | |
  | Kings North | Victor Thorpe | |
  | Kings South | Harry How | |
  | Kings West | Gordon Tidman | |
  | Lunenburg Centre | Walton Cook | |
  | Lunenburg East | Maurice L. Zinck | |
  | Lunenburg West | Maurice DeLory | |
  | Pictou East | A. Lloyd MacDonald | |
  | Pictou West | Harvey Veniot | |
  | Pictou Centre | Ralph F. Fiske | |
  | Queens | W. S. Kennedy Jones | |
  | Richmond | Gerald Doucet | |
  | Shelburne | Harold Huskilson | |
  | Victoria | Fisher Hudson | |
  | Yarmouth | Fraser Mooney | |
  | | George A. Snow | |
  
  ## Former members of the 50th General Assembly
  
  | Name | Party | Electoral District | Cause of departure | Succeeded by | Elected |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Gordon A. Tidman | Progressive Conservative | Kings West | seat declared vacant | Frank Bezanson, Liberal | November 16, 1971 |
  | W. S. Kennedy Jones | Progressive Conservative | Queens | resigned | Floyd MacDonald, PC | November 16, 1971 |
  | Angus MacIsaac | Progressive Conservative | Guysborough | ran for federal seat | A. M. Cameron, Liberal | June 5, 1973 |
  