Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Leader and premier-elect Tim Houston celebrates with his family while addressing supporters at the PC party election headquarters in New Glasgow, N.S. on Tuesday, November 26, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese

Voter turnout in this week's provincial election in Nova Scotia hit an all-time low, with only 45 per cent of the electorate casting a ballot, according to unofficial results from Elections Nova Scotia.

Nova Scotians have gone to the polls in a contest expected to see a return to power for the Progressive Conservatives, with the NDP and Liberals in a close struggle for second. Here's the latest on the race to form the next provincial government between the main three parties: the Progressive Conservatives led by Tim Houston,

Nova Scotia Liberal Leader Zach Churchill has lost his seat in the provincial election, and his party was booted out of official Opposition status by the NDP. Elections Nova Scotia says Churchill lost to Progressive Conservative Nick Hilton by 14 votes in the riding of Yarmouth.

A second term and supermajority for Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston has Newfoundland and Labrador PC Leader Tony Wakeham hopeful some of the success can translate to this province in an election.

Less than half of all eligible voters turned out for Nova Scotia’s provincial election, with almost 66,000 fewer voters casting ballots than in the province's 2021 election.