The Nova Scotia Progressive Conservatives have defied the global trend this year which has seen incumbent governments in other provinces and countries either lose seats or face electoral defeat.
What made the difference in the Atlantic province, analysts say, could be as simple as focusing on issues that matter to the electorate, while some other factors were at play as well.
Premier Tim Houston expanded his majority government in a landslide win that garnered his party 43 seats in the 55-seat legislature. That’s nine more seats than the party had at dissolution, putting the PCs in supermajority territory. A supermajority occurs when a party holds at least two-thirds of the seats in the House of Assembly….