Nova Scotia's three main political parties have all announced who their candidates will be in next month's Pictou West byelection.

Premier Tim Houston called the byelection last weekend, about two weeks after former Pictou West MLA and Speaker of the House Karla MacFarlane's surprise announcement that she was retiring from provincial politics.

A few days before the byelection call, the Tories selected Marco MacLeod to represent them.

MacLead is a Scotsburn resident who runs a sawmill and previousl…