The leader of the Opposition in Nova Scotia is the MLA in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly who leads the political party recognized as the Official Opposition. This status generally goes to the leader of the second largest party in the Legislative Assembly. Claudia Chender, the leader of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party, is scheduled to become the leader of the opposition.[1]
Since 1928, when its upper house, the Legislative Council of Nova Scotia was abolished, the province has had a unicameral parliamentary government. From Confederation, however, Nova Scotia has exclusively followed the modern Westminster convention whereby the leader of the opposition is the leader of the party that controls the second most seats in the House of Assembly.
| Picture | Name | Party | Term | Conservative | 1848–1857 | 1857–1860 | 1860–1864 | 1864–1867 |
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| Picture | Name | Party | Term | 1867–1874 | 1875–1878 | N/A | 1879–1882 | 1883–1886 | 1887–1890 | 1891–1894 | 1895–1897 | 1898–1901 | 1902–1908 | 1909 | 1910–1911 | 1912–1916 | 1917–1920 | 1921–1925 | 1926–1930 | 1931–1933 | 1934–1937 | 1938–1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942–1945 | 1946–1949 | 1950–1956 | 1957–1960 | 1961–1963 | 1964–1967 | 1968–1970 | 1970–1971 | 1971–1978 | 1978–1979 | 1980 | 1980–1984 | 1985 | 1985–1986 | 1986–1992 | 1992–1993 | 1993–1995 | 1995–1998 | 1998–1999 | Robert Chisholm (NDP), Russell MacLellan (Liberal), Wayne Gaudet (Liberal) | Duties shared between Liberals and NDP | 1999–2001 | 2001 | 2001–2009 | 2009–2013 | Jamie Baillie | Progressive Conservative | 2013–2018 | Karla MacFarlane | Progressive Conservative | 2018 | Tim Houston | Progressive Conservative | 2018–2021 | Iain Rankin | Liberal | 2021–2022 | Zach Churchill | 2022–2024 | Claudia Chender | 2024–present--> |
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