{{short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Victor Newcombe Thorpe portrait 1973.jpg | image_size = 150px | name = Victor Thorpe | caption = | honorific_suffix = MLA | birth_date = {{Birth date|1912|6|18}} | birth_place = Centreville, Nova Scotia | death_date = {{Death year and age|1985|1912}} | office = MLA for Kings North | term_start = 1967 | term_end = 1974 | predecessor = Gladys Porter | successor = Glenn Ells | party = Progressive Conservative | spouse = | occupation = }}
'''Victor Newcombe Thorpe''' was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, Canada for the constituency of Kings North. He sat as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia from 1967 to 1974.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nslegislature.ca/sites/default/files/constituencies/pdfs/kings%20north.pdf|title=Electoral History for Kings North|publisher=Nova Scotia Legislative Library|accessdate=April 4, 2018|archive-date=April 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180404202019/https://nslegislature.ca/sites/default/files/constituencies/pdfs/kings%20north.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Thorpe was born in Centreville, Nova Scotia.<ref name="bio directory">{{cite book|last1=Elliott|first1=Shirley B.|author-link1=Shirley Elliott|title=The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, 1758–1983 : a biographical directory|url=https://archive.org/details/legislativeassem0000unse/page/215|accessdate=2018-04-04|year=1984|publisher=Public Archives of Nova Scotia|isbn=0-88871-050-X|page=[https://archive.org/details/legislativeassem0000unse/page/215 215]}}</ref> He was elected in 1967,<ref name=election84>{{cite web|title=Complete Returns of General Election for the House of Assembly 1967|url=http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/General%20Election%201967.pdf|publisher=Elections Nova Scotia|year=1967|accessdate=November 3, 2014|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000021/http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/General%20Election%201967.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> and was re-elected in 1970.<ref name=election88>{{cite web|title=Complete Returns of General Election for the House of Assembly 1970|url=http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/General%20Election%201970.pdf|publisher=Elections Nova Scotia|year=1970|accessdate=November 3, 2014|archive-date=March 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303212752/http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/General|url-status=dead}}</ref> He did not re-offer in 1974.
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