Highlights from election night
- Halifax's Mayor Mike Savage has been re-elected in HRM and he will lead a council with far more women on it.
- Amanda McDougall unseated incumbent Cecil Clarke in the mayoral race in CBRM. The municipality's first female mayor.
- Murray Scott will be Cumberland County's first mayor.
- Upsets: Incumbents were voted out in Annapolis and Richmond county votes.
- Wolfville mayoral election 'challenging' after controversial letter attempts to sway Acadia student vote
- Amherst residents voted no to adding fluoride to the town's water supply, 2.296 to 1,481
- Truro Mayor Bill Mills has been re-elected. In a plebiscite, residents voted 2,311 yes to 1,728 no on the question: “Do you support a managed urban deer bow/crossbow hunt in the Town of Truro to control and reduce the urban deer population?