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Brendan Maguire joins the Nova Scotia Progressive Conservatives (2024)

February 22, 2024

Nova ScotiaProvincialHouse of Assembly

What the record says

Brendan Maguire changed from Liberal to Progressive Conservative and was sworn as Minister of Community Services on February 22, 2024. Same-day timing is observed; causation is not established by the appointment record.

Participants

1 participants named in the record

Brendan Maguire
CTF-EP-000087-01
Nova Scotia Liberal PartyToProgressive Conservative Association of Nova ScotiaTo another partyWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.
Riding
not recorded
Effective
February 22, 2024
Kind of transition
Changed party affiliation
Voluntary
Not recorded
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not recorded
What happened afterwards
Recorded outcomes only. An absence here means nothing has been recorded, not that nothing happened, and no causal link to the affiliation change is asserted unless a source establishes one.
- cabinet appointment — Minister of Community Services
  February 22, 2024 · result: yes · causation: not established · influence access, office
  Brendan Maguire was sworn as Minister of Community Services on the same day as the affiliation change. The appointment record establishes timing and office, not an exchange or causal bargain.
- reelected
  November 26, 2024 · result: yes · causation: not established · election validation
  Brendan Maguire was elected in Halifax Atlantic as a Progressive Conservative in the 2024 general election. This voter validation is distinct from the earlier appointment.

How rare is this?

1 recorded transitions match leaving Nova Scotia Liberal Party, joining Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia and at the provincial level, across 1 events and 1 named people (Crossing the Floor Database, release 2026-08-01.1, consulted October 2, 2026). The most recent is Fred Tilley, 2024 — the 1st on record. The earliest on record is Fred Tilley, 2024.

0 of the 1 are recorded to the day; the other 1 are recorded to the year only, so no exact interval can be quoted.
0 of the 1 meet the database's publication standard; the other 1 are unreviewed leads.
None of the 1 carries any recorded outcome after the transition: no re-election or appointment rate can be quoted from this set.
Withdrawn records are excluded from this set.
No senator appears in this count: we hold Senate events, but none has passed the publication gate.

How the comparable set is defined

Claims and the sources cited for them

Every statement this record makes is stored as a separate claim with its own review state and its own citations. A claim with no citation is shown as such rather than omitted.

Brendan Maguire changed from Nova Scotia Liberal to Progressive Conservative on February 22, 2024.
Supported
Field:
affiliation_change
Confidence:
High
Signed by:
Official-source deterministic verifier
Concerns a living person
- Wikipedia: Brendan Maguire
  UND
  Legacy record-level citation; claim-level locator pending review.
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-000065 · Reliability tier: tertiary · Rights: link only
- Brendan Maguire - Wikipedia
  UND
  Legacy record-level citation; claim-level locator pending review.
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-000126 · Reliability tier: tertiary · Rights: link only
- Brendan Maguire Sworn into Cabinet
  Government of Nova Scotia · February 22, 2024 · record Brendan Maguire sworn into cabinet; 2024-02-22 · EN
  The provincial release states the party change and swearing-in date.
  Archived copy — March 16, 2025
  CTF-S-NS-MAGUIRE-CABINET-2024 · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026
Brendan Maguire was sworn as Minister of Community Services on the same day as the affiliation change. The appointment record establishes timing and office, not an exchange or causal bargain.
Supported
Field:
cabinet_appointment
Confidence:
High
Signed by:
Official-source deterministic verifier
Concerns a living person
- Brendan Maguire Sworn into Cabinet
  Government of Nova Scotia · February 22, 2024 · record Brendan Maguire sworn into cabinet; 2024-02-22 · EN
  The release records the same-day swearing-in.
  Archived copy — March 16, 2025
  CTF-S-NS-MAGUIRE-CABINET-2024 · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026
Brendan Maguire was elected in Halifax Atlantic as a Progressive Conservative in the 2024 general election. This voter validation is distinct from the earlier appointment.
Supported
Field:
reelected
Confidence:
High
Signed by:
Official-source deterministic verifier
Concerns a living person
- Distribution of Seats by Party — May 2026
  Elections Nova Scotia · May 2026 · record Distribution of Seats by Party; Halifax Atlantic; Brendan Maguire; May 2026 · EN
  The official seat distribution lists Halifax Atlantic and Maguire in the PC caucus following the 2024 election.
  No archived copy has been captured for this source. If the address stops resolving, the citation cannot be checked from here.
  CTF-S-ENS-MAGUIRE-SEATS-2026 · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026

Corrections to this record

Permanent citation address did not resolve
The permanent URI published for this record was https://crossingthefloor.ca/en/crossings/brendan-maguire-2024. This site has never served a language-prefixed route and has no /id/ route, so that address returned HTTP 404: any citation made against it did not resolve to the record. The permanent URI is now https://crossingthefloor.ca/crossings/brendan-maguire-2024, the canonical record address. The record's facts, dates, parties, participants, sources and public identifier (CTF-E-000087) are unchanged; only the stored address was corrected.
September 1, 2026 · material correction · CTF-COR-URI-000087
Brendan Maguire cabinet outcome
The same-day Community Services appointment is recorded as an observed office gain; causation is not established.
August 1, 2026 · material correction · CTF-COR-OUTCOME-000087

Editorial review passes

Which checks have been run against this record, and what each one concluded. A review that has not happened is shown as pending, never as passed.

fact checkapproved · August 1, 2026

Revision history

Every change to this record is appended here. Nothing is edited away.

r3 corrected
Corrected the stored permanent URI. It pointed at /en/crossings/brendan-maguire-2024, a path this site has never served, so the citation target returned HTTP 404. It now points at /crossings/brendan-maguire-2024, the canonical record address. No fact, date, party, participant or source in this record was changed.
September 1, 2026
r2 expanded
Added the exact party-change date and same-day cabinet appointment without inferring causation.
August 1, 2026 · Official-source deterministic verifier
r1 created
Imported from the legacy archive as an unpublished research lead. Historical narrative, motive labels, and benefit scores were not treated as verified claims.
July 31, 2026 · Crossing the Floor project maintainer

Jurisdiction

Jurisdiction: Nova Scotia
Level: Provincial
Legislature: Legislature of Nova Scotia
Chamber: House of Assembly

Place and party names on this page come from the institutional tables, never from free text on the record.

Record identifier

Record identifier: CTF-E-000087
Revision: 3
Published: August 1, 2026
Last verified: August 1, 2026
Record last changed: September 1, 2026
Evidence on this record: 1 claims, 3 citations
Session: not recordedNo parliamentary session is recorded on this event. The session is never inferred from the date.

Cite this record

Crossing the Floor. “Brendan Maguire joins the Nova Scotia Progressive Conservatives (2024)” (CTF-E-000087). The Crossing the Floor Database, release 2026-08-01.1. https://crossingthefloor.ca/crossings/brendan-maguire-2024 (consulted —).

Permanent address: https://crossingthefloor.ca/crossings/brendan-maguire-2024
Release: 2026-08-01.1
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 InternationalLicence recorded on this release: OGL-Canada-2.0 (project-authored structured data only)

All records·Coverage·Corrections

CorroboratedVerifiedChanged party affiliationIndividual

Brendan Maguire joins the Nova Scotia Progressive Conservatives (2024)

February 22, 2024

Nova ScotiaProvincialHouse of Assembly

What the record says

Participants

1 participants named in the record

Brendan Maguire
CTF-EP-000087-01
Nova Scotia Liberal PartyToProgressive Conservative Association of Nova ScotiaTo another partyWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.
Riding
not recorded
Effective
February 22, 2024
Kind of transition
Changed party affiliation
Voluntary
Not recorded
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not recorded
What happened afterwards
Recorded outcomes only. An absence here means nothing has been recorded, not that nothing happened, and no causal link to the affiliation change is asserted unless a source establishes one.
- cabinet appointment — Minister of Community Services
  February 22, 2024 · result: yes · causation: not established · influence access, office
  Brendan Maguire was sworn as Minister of Community Services on the same day as the affiliation change. The appointment record establishes timing and office, not an exchange or causal bargain.
- reelected
  November 26, 2024 · result: yes · causation: not established · election validation
  Brendan Maguire was elected in Halifax Atlantic as a Progressive Conservative in the 2024 general election. This voter validation is distinct from the earlier appointment.

How rare is this?

0 of the 1 are recorded to the day; the other 1 are recorded to the year only, so no exact interval can be quoted.
0 of the 1 meet the database's publication standard; the other 1 are unreviewed leads.
None of the 1 carries any recorded outcome after the transition: no re-election or appointment rate can be quoted from this set.
Withdrawn records are excluded from this set.
No senator appears in this count: we hold Senate events, but none has passed the publication gate.

How the comparable set is defined

Claims and the sources cited for them

Every statement this record makes is stored as a separate claim with its own review state and its own citations. A claim with no citation is shown as such rather than omitted.

Brendan Maguire changed from Nova Scotia Liberal to Progressive Conservative on February 22, 2024.
Supported
Field:
affiliation_change
Confidence:
High
Signed by:
Official-source deterministic verifier
Concerns a living person
- Wikipedia: Brendan Maguire
  UND
  Legacy record-level citation; claim-level locator pending review.
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-000065 · Reliability tier: tertiary · Rights: link only
- Brendan Maguire - Wikipedia
  UND
  Legacy record-level citation; claim-level locator pending review.
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-000126 · Reliability tier: tertiary · Rights: link only
- Brendan Maguire Sworn into Cabinet
  Government of Nova Scotia · February 22, 2024 · record Brendan Maguire sworn into cabinet; 2024-02-22 · EN
  The provincial release states the party change and swearing-in date.
  Archived copy — March 16, 2025
  CTF-S-NS-MAGUIRE-CABINET-2024 · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026
Brendan Maguire was sworn as Minister of Community Services on the same day as the affiliation change. The appointment record establishes timing and office, not an exchange or causal bargain.
Supported
Field:
cabinet_appointment
Confidence:
High
Signed by:
Official-source deterministic verifier
Concerns a living person
- Brendan Maguire Sworn into Cabinet
  Government of Nova Scotia · February 22, 2024 · record Brendan Maguire sworn into cabinet; 2024-02-22 · EN
  The release records the same-day swearing-in.
  Archived copy — March 16, 2025
  CTF-S-NS-MAGUIRE-CABINET-2024 · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026
Brendan Maguire was elected in Halifax Atlantic as a Progressive Conservative in the 2024 general election. This voter validation is distinct from the earlier appointment.
Supported
Field:
reelected
Confidence:
High
Signed by:
Official-source deterministic verifier
Concerns a living person
- Distribution of Seats by Party — May 2026
  Elections Nova Scotia · May 2026 · record Distribution of Seats by Party; Halifax Atlantic; Brendan Maguire; May 2026 · EN
  The official seat distribution lists Halifax Atlantic and Maguire in the PC caucus following the 2024 election.
  No archived copy has been captured for this source. If the address stops resolving, the citation cannot be checked from here.
  CTF-S-ENS-MAGUIRE-SEATS-2026 · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026

Corrections to this record

Permanent citation address did not resolve
The permanent URI published for this record was https://crossingthefloor.ca/en/crossings/brendan-maguire-2024. This site has never served a language-prefixed route and has no /id/ route, so that address returned HTTP 404: any citation made against it did not resolve to the record. The permanent URI is now https://crossingthefloor.ca/crossings/brendan-maguire-2024, the canonical record address. The record's facts, dates, parties, participants, sources and public identifier (CTF-E-000087) are unchanged; only the stored address was corrected.
September 1, 2026 · material correction · CTF-COR-URI-000087
Brendan Maguire cabinet outcome
The same-day Community Services appointment is recorded as an observed office gain; causation is not established.
August 1, 2026 · material correction · CTF-COR-OUTCOME-000087

Editorial review passes

Which checks have been run against this record, and what each one concluded. A review that has not happened is shown as pending, never as passed.

fact checkapproved · August 1, 2026

Revision history

Every change to this record is appended here. Nothing is edited away.

r3 corrected
Corrected the stored permanent URI. It pointed at /en/crossings/brendan-maguire-2024, a path this site has never served, so the citation target returned HTTP 404. It now points at /crossings/brendan-maguire-2024, the canonical record address. No fact, date, party, participant or source in this record was changed.
September 1, 2026
r2 expanded
Added the exact party-change date and same-day cabinet appointment without inferring causation.
August 1, 2026 · Official-source deterministic verifier
r1 created
Imported from the legacy archive as an unpublished research lead. Historical narrative, motive labels, and benefit scores were not treated as verified claims.
July 31, 2026 · Crossing the Floor project maintainer

Jurisdiction

Jurisdiction: Nova Scotia
Level: Provincial
Legislature: Legislature of Nova Scotia
Chamber: House of Assembly

Place and party names on this page come from the institutional tables, never from free text on the record.

Record identifier

Record identifier: CTF-E-000087
Revision: 3
Published: August 1, 2026
Last verified: August 1, 2026
Record last changed: September 1, 2026
Evidence on this record: 1 claims, 3 citations
Session: not recordedNo parliamentary session is recorded on this event. The session is never inferred from the date.

Cite this record

Crossing the Floor. “Brendan Maguire joins the Nova Scotia Progressive Conservatives (2024)” (CTF-E-000087). The Crossing the Floor Database, release 2026-08-01.1. https://crossingthefloor.ca/crossings/brendan-maguire-2024 (consulted —).

Permanent address: https://crossingthefloor.ca/crossings/brendan-maguire-2024
Release: 2026-08-01.1
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 InternationalLicence recorded on this release: OGL-Canada-2.0 (project-authored structured data only)

All records·Coverage·Corrections

What the record says

Participants

Brendan Maguire

What happened afterwards

How rare is this?

Claims and the sources cited for them

Corrections to this record

Editorial review passes

Revision history

What the record says

Participants

Brendan Maguire

What happened afterwards

How rare is this?

Claims and the sources cited for them

Corrections to this record

Editorial review passes

Revision history