Becky Kent

Rebecca J. Kent is a Canadian politician. She represented the electoral district of Cole Harbour-Eastern Passage in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 2007 to 2013. She was a member of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party.^{[citation needed]} She presently sits on the Halifax Regional Council.

Kent, an early childhood educator,^[1] was elected as a municipal councillor for the Halifax Regional Municipality district of Woodside-Eastern Passage in 2004.^[2] She entered provincial politics in October 2007, winning a by-election in the Cole Harbour-Eastern Passage riding.^[3][4] She was re-elected in the 2009 election.^[5] In January 2011, Kent was elected Deputy Speaker.^[6] In March 2013, she was appointed ministerial assistant to the Minister of Education.^[7] Kent was defeated by Liberal Joyce Treen when she ran for re-election in the 2013 election.^[8] In the 2020 Halifax municipal election, she returned to Halifax Regional Council as a councillor for Dartmouth South - Eastern Passage.^[9]