| Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
| David M. Morse | |
| Birth Date: | 31 October 1954 |
| Birth Place: | Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Assembly: | Nova Scotia House of |
| Constituency Am: | Kings South |
| Term Start: | July 27, 1999 |
| Term End: | June 9, 2009 |
| Predecessor: | Robbie Harrison |
| Successor: | Ramona Jennex |
| Party: | Progressive Conservative |
David M. Morse (born October 31, 1954) is a Canadian politician in Nova Scotia. He represented the electoral district of Kings South in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1999 to 2009 as a member of the Progressive Conservatives.
Morse graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Mount Allison University, and then received a master's degree in Business Administration from McMaster University. Morse was a self-employed life and disability insurance broker before running for politics in 1999.
Morse first attempted to enter provincial politics in 1998, running as the Progressive Conservative candidate in Kings South.[1] He finished third in the 1998 election, losing to Liberal incumbent Robbie Harrison.[2] In the 1999 election, Morse was again nominated as the Progressive Conservative candidate in the riding,[3] this time defeating Harrison.[4] Morse was re-elected in the 2003[5] and 2006 elections.[6]
On January 18, 2001, Morse was appointed to the Executive Council of Nova Scotia as Minister of Environment and Labour.[7] In a December 2002 cabinet shuffle, Morse was named Minister of Community Services.[8] He retained that post following both the 2003 election,[9] and the swearing-in of the Rodney MacDonald government in February 2006.[10] Following the 2006 election, Morse was shuffled to Minister of Natural Resources.[11] In January 2009, Morse was named Minister of Environment, Minister of Emergency Management, and Minister Responsible for Military Relations.[12] In the 2009 election, Morse was defeated by NDP candidate Ramona Jennex.[13] [14]
On October 27, 2010, Morse announced that was he was seeking the Conservative Party of Canada nomination in the riding of Kings—Hants for the 2011 federal election.[15] He became the candidate on January 6, 2011, winning the nomination by acclamation.[16] On election night, Morse was defeated by Liberal incumbent Scott Brison.[17]
Morse was nominated again as the Conservative candidate in Kings—Hants for the 2015 federal election.[18] On October 19, 2015, Brison defeated Morse by over 24,000 votes.[19]
Morse and his wife, Lynn Morse, have five children, three of whom are in the military.
|- |New Democratic Party|Ramona Jennex|align="right"|4,038|align="right"|41.18|align="right"||- |Progressive Conservative|David Morse|align="right"|2,759|align="right"|28.14|align="right"||- |Liberal|Paula Howatt|align="right"|2,639|align="right"|26.91|align="right"||-
|}|- |Progressive Conservative|David Morse|align="right"|3,788|align="right"|42.36|align="right"||- |New Democratic Party|David Mangle|align="right"|3,130|align="right"|35.00|align="right"||- |Liberal|Ray Savage|align="right"|1,797|align="right"|20.10|align="right"||-
|}
|- |Progressive Conservative|David Morse|align="right"|3,347|align="right"|37.65|align="right"||- |New Democratic Party|David Mangle|align="right"|2,794|align="right"|31.43|align="right"||- |Liberal|Maura Ryan|align="right"|2,682|align="right"|30.17|align="right"||}
|- |Progressive Conservative|David Morse|align="right"|3,890|align="right"|40.23|align="right"||- |Liberal|Robbie Harrison|align="right"|3,213|align="right"|33.23|align="right"||- |New Democratic Party|Mary DeWolfe|align="right"|2,567|align="right"|26.55|align="right"||}