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1945 Nova Scotia general election

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1945 Nova Scotia general election

← 1941 October 23, 1945 1949 →

30 seats of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly
16 seats needed for a majority
Turnout64.68% Increase1.63pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
CCF
PC
Leader Angus Lewis Macdonald Donald MacDonald Frederick Murray Blois
Party Liberal Co-operative Commonwealth Progressive Conservative
Leader since August 31, 1945 1941 1940
Leader's seat Halifax South Cape Breton South
(Lost re-election)
Colchester
(Lost re-election)
Last election 23 3 4
Seats won 28 2 0
Seat change Increase5 Decrease1 Decrease4
Popular vote 153,493 39,637 95,573
Percentage 53.1% 13.6% 33.5%
Swing Increase0.5pp Increase6.6pp Decrease7.8pp

Premier before election

Angus Lewis Macdonald
Liberal

Premier after election

Angus Lewis Macdonald
Liberal

The 1945 Nova Scotia general election was held on 23 October 1945 to elect members of the 43rd House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Liberal party. The Progressive Conservatives were entirely shut out of the Assembly, making the CCF's two MLAs the only opposition members.

Results

Results by party

28 2
Liberal CCF
Official results [1]
Party Party leader # of
candidates
Seats Popular vote
1941 Dissolution Elected Change # % Change (pp)
  Liberal Angus Lewis Macdonald 30 22 28 +6 153,493 53.05% +0.14%
  Co-operative Commonwealth Donald MacDonald 20 3 2 -1 39,637 13.70% +6.57%
  Progressive Conservative Frederick Murray Blois 29 5 0 -5 95,573 33.03% -6.93%
  Independent/Other 3 0 0 0 634 0.22% N/A
  Vacant  
Total valid votes 289,337 99.37%
Blank and invalid ballots 1,697 0.58%
Total 82 30 30 30 291,034 100.00%
Registered voters / turnout 370,945 64.68%[2]
Popular vote
Liberal
53.05%
PC
33.03%
CCF
13.70%
Others
0.22%
Seats summary
Liberal
93.33%
CCF
6.67%

Retiring incumbents

Co-operative Commonwealth
Liberal
Progressive Conservative

Nominated candidates

Legend
bold denotes party leader
† denotes an incumbent who is not running for re-election or was defeated in nomination contest

Valley

Electoral district Candidates Incumbent
Liberal PC CCF Independent
Annapolis Henry Hicks
4,880
59.06%
Horton Wheelock Phinney
3,383
40.94%
John D. McKenzie
Digby Joseph William Comeau
4,714
59.13%
Kenneth Earl Smith
2,706
33.94%
Edgar Lawrence Outhouse
552
6.92%
Joseph William Comeau
Hants Robert A. MacLellan
4,951
52.66%
Norman Dudley Murray
3,194
33.98%
Frederick Charles Gilmore Scott
1,256
13.36%
Alexander Stirling MacMillan
Kings David Durell Sutton
7,027
59.66%
William Lawrence Chisholm
4,751
40.34%
John Alexander McDonald

South Shore

Electoral district Candidates Incumbent
Liberal PC CCF Independent
Lunenburg Frank R. Davis
6,867
27.31%
R. Clifford Levy
5,854
23.28%
Frank R. Davis
Gordon E. Romkey
6,839
27.20%
James A. MacLeod
5,585
22.21%
Gordon E. Romkey
Queens Merrill D. Rawding
2,844
48.17%
Leonard William Fraser
2,503
42.39%
Clarence Webber
557
9.43%
Harry Dennis Madden
Shelburne Wilfred Dauphinee
3,214
55.85%
Frederick William Bower
2,203
38.28%
Cecil James O'Donnell
338
5.87%
Wilfred Dauphinee
Yarmouth Henry A. Waterman
5,000
55.20%
Frank Parker Day
4,058
44.80%
Henry A. Waterman

Fundy-Northeast

Electoral district Candidates Incumbent
Liberal PC CCF Independent
Colchester Gordon Purdy
7,714
29.18%
Frederick Murray Blois
5,515
20.86%
Clarence Vincent Fleury
547
2.07%
Frederick Murray Blois
Robert F. McLellan
6,631
25.09%
William A. Flemming
5,383
20.37%
Sidney Mansfield Parker
642
2.43%
George Scott Dickey
Cumberland Martin J. Kaufman
6,540
21.67%
Archie B. Smith
6,271
20.77%
John James Crummey
2,867
9.50%
Archie B. Smith
Kenneth Judson Cochrane
6,995
23.17%
Norman Shaw Sanford
5,807
19.24%
Joseph Bernard Murray
1,706
5.65%
Kenneth Judson Cochrane

Halifax/Dartmouth/Eastern Shore

Electoral district Candidates Incumbent
Liberal PC CCF Independent
Halifax Centre James Edward Rutledge
4,737
55.22%
Carl Palm Bethune
2,279
26.57%
R.B. Mitchell
1,562
18.21%
James Edward Rutledge
Halifax East Geoffrey W. Stevens
6,206
53.48%
A.L. Mattatall
3,033
26.14%
Cecil Clyde Russell
2,366
20.39%
Geoffrey W. Stevens
Halifax North Harold Connolly
6,089
59.43%
Bernard Joseph Vaughan
1,777
17.34%
Thomas Burgess
2,120
20.69%
Alexander Munro
260
2.54%
Harold Connolly
Halifax South Angus Lewis Macdonald
5,181
61.26%
Arthur John Haliburton
2,067
24.44%
Richard Leo Rooney
1,080
12.77%
Andrew Matthews
129
1.53%
Vacant
Halifax West Ronald Manning Fielding
4,997
49.11%
Malcolm Edgbert Walker
2,786
27.38%
Fred Young
2,392
23.51%
Ronald Manning Fielding

Central Nova

Electoral district Candidates Incumbent
Liberal PC CCF Independent
Antigonish John Patrick Gorman
2,650
61.83%
Douglas MacDonald
1,636
38.17%
John Patrick Gorman
Guysborough Arthur W. MacKenzie
3,456
62.07%
Harold Vans Hudson
2,112
37.93%
Havelock Torrey
Pictou Alfred B. DeWolfe
9,020
24.83%
Ernest G. Irish
7,061
19.44%
G. Miller Dick
1,576
4.34%
George J. White
245
0.67%
Ernest G. Irish
Josiah H. MacQuarrie
10,031
27.61%
John A. MacGregor
6,704
18.46%
Donald L. Nicholson
1,688
4.65%
Josiah H. MacQuarrie

Cape Breton

Electoral district Candidates Incumbent
Liberal PC CCF Independent
Cape Breton Centre Ronald McIsaac
2,726
38.37%
Frank Doucette
518
7.29%
Michael James MacDonald
3,860
54.34%
Douglas MacDonald
Cape Breton East Gus McGillivray
2,719
30.03%
Kenneth Daniel Beaton
1,002
11.07%
Russell Cunningham
5,332
58.90%
Douglas Neil Brodie
Cape Breton North Alexander O'Handley
3,328
38.48%
Malcolm McDonald
2,416
27.94%
Wendell Coldwell
2,904
33.58%
Alexander O'Handley
Cape Breton South John Smith MacIvor
4,778
43.10%
Malcolm Cameron
1,861
16.79%
Donald MacDonald
4,448
40.12%
Donald MacDonald
Cape Breton West Malcolm A. Patterson
2,826
49.82%
Horace L. Ferguson
1,002
17.67%
Robert Orr
1,844
32.51%
Malcolm A. Patterson
Inverness Alexander H. McKinnon
5,283
70.59%
Alexander Angus MacInnes
2,201
29.41%
Alexander H. McKinnon
Richmond Lauchlin Daniel Currie
3,149
76.66%
Frederick Albert Thurgood
959
23.34%
Lauchlin Daniel Currie
Victoria John Malcolm Campbell
2,101
64.69%
William Ross MacAulay
1,147
35.31%
John Malcolm Campbell

References

  1. ^ "Election Returns 1941" (PDF). Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
  2. ^ While 291,034 votes were cast, only 238,966 electors voted as electors in several districts voted for two candidates.
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