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1974 Nova Scotia general election

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1974 Nova Scotia general election
← 1970 April 2, 1974 1978 →
46 seats of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly
24 seats needed for a majority
Turnout77.89% Increase0.57pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Lib
PC
NDP
Leader Gerald Regan John Buchanan Jeremy Akerman
Party Liberal Progressive Conservative New Democratic
Leader since July 24, 1965 March 6, 1971 November 9, 1968
Leader's seat Halifax Needham Halifax Atlantic Cape Breton East
Last election 23 21 2
Seats won 31 12 3
Seat change Increase8 Decrease9 Increase1
Popular vote 206,648 166,388 55,902
Percentage 47.57% 38.31% 12.87%
Swing Increase1.94pp Decrease8.12pp Increase6.28pp
Premier before election

Gerald Regan
Liberal

Premier after election

Gerald Regan
Liberal

The 1974 Nova Scotia general election was held on 2 April 1974 to elect members of the 51st House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Liberal Party.

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Results

Results by party

↓
31 12 3
Liberal Progressive Conservative New Democratic
Official results [1][2]
Party Party leader # of
candidates 		Seats Popular vote
1970 Dissolution Elected Change # % Change (pp)
  Liberal Gerald Regan 46 23 24 31 +8 206,648 47.57% +1.94%
  Progressive Conservative John Buchanan 46 21 19 12 -9 166,388 38.31% -8.12%
  New Democratic Jeremy Akerman 46 2 2 3 +1 55,902 12.87% +6.28%
  Independent 6 0 1 0 0 2,220 0.51% +0.13%
  Vacant 0  
Total valid votes 431,158 99.26% +0.23%
Blank and invalid ballots 3,205 0.74% -0.23%
Total 144 46 46 46 – 434,363 100.00% –
Registered voters / turnout 507,190 77.89%[3] +0.57%
Popular vote
Liberal
 
 47.57%
PC
 
 38.31%
New Democratic
 
 12.87%
Independent
 
 0.51%
Seats summary
Liberal
 
 67.39%
PC
 
 26.09%
New Democratic
 
 6.52%

Results by region

Party name HRM Cape Breton Annapolis Valley South Shore Fundy-Northeast Central Nova Total
Parties winning seats in the legislature
  Liberal Seats: 8 6 6 4 4 3 31
  Popular vote: 48.73% 42.68% 51.25% 51.37% 48.19% 48.05% 47.57%
  Progressive Conservative Seats: 2 1 2 3 2 2 12
  Popular vote: 38.34% 32.67% 42.11% 39.63% 42.33% 41.57% 38.31%
  New Democratic Party Seats: 0 3 0 0 0 0 3
  Popular vote: 12.93% 24.21% 6.64% 6.48% 9.06% 10.37% 12.87%
Parties not winning seats in the legislature
Independent Popular vote: – 0.45% – 2.52% 0.42% – 0.51%
Total seats: 10 10 8 7 6 5 46

Retiring incumbents

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 NDP Independent
Annapolis East Hank De Boer
2,583
43.48% 		Gerry Sheehy
3,134
52.76% 		Murray A. Bent
223
3.75% 		Gerry Sheehy
Annapolis West Peter M. Nicholson
2,636
53.00% 		J.R. Kerr
2,150
43.22% 		David N. Lowe
188
3.78% 		Peter M. Nicholson
Clare Benoit Comeau
2,959
61.07% 		Vincent L. Doucet
1,218
25.14% 		Jean L. Belliveau
668
13.79% 		Benoit Comeau
Digby Joseph H. Casey
3,525
65.90% 		John R. Nichols
1,590
29.73% 		C.B. Haight
234
4.37% 		Joseph H. Casey
Hants West Robert D. Lindsay
4,148
48.07% 		Ron Russell
3,707
42.96% 		Gary E. Tonks
774
8.97% 		Robert D. Lindsay
Kings North Glenn Ells
3,536
49.39% 		David J. Waterbury
3,124
43.63% 		George W. Graves
500
6.98% 		Victor Thorpe†
Kings South Edgar K. Aston
1,999
33.11% 		Harry How
3,576
59.22% 		John P. O'Meara
463
7.67% 		Harry How
Kings West Frank Bezanson
5,031
58.34% 		Kathleen E. Howlett
3,206
37.23% 		Donald Wolsey
374
4.34% 		Frank Bezanson

South Shore

Electoral district Candidates Incumbent
Liberal PC NDP Independent
Lunenburg Centre James Kinley
3,878
39.08% 		Bruce Cochran
4,086
41.18% 		Ralph E. Deamond
421
4.24% 		Walton Cook
1,538
15.50% 		Walton Cook
Lunenburg East Joseph Saunders
1,963
41.06% 		Ron Barkhouse
2,536
53.04% 		Anthony W.E. Zinck
282
5.90% 		Maurice L. Zinck†
Lunenburg West Maurice DeLory
3,635
54.92% 		Ella Spence
2,643
39.93% 		William R. Griswold
341
5.15% 		Maurice DeLory
Queens R. Keith Wyer
2,649
40.58% 		John Wickwire
2,905
44.50% 		A.J. d'Entremont
974
14.92% 		Floyd MacDonald†
Shelburne Harold Huskilson
4,119
47.58% 		Ron Hatfield
3,732
43.11% 		Dewey Waybret
806
9.31% 		Harold Huskilson
Yarmouth Fraser Mooney
8,098
32.87% 		Martin Cottreau
4,029
16.35% 		Lawrence Dukeshire
637
2.59% 		Fraser Mooney
Hugh Tinkham
7,068
28.69% 		George A. Snow
4,300
17.45% 		Leslie Babin
504
2.05% 		George A. Snow

Fundy-Northeast

Electoral district Candidates Incumbent
Liberal PC NDP Independent
Colchester Melinda MacLean
9,514
25.87% 		Gerald Ritcey
7,182
19.53% 		Eda Forsythe
1,515
4.12% 		Bob Kirk
159
0.43% 		Gerald Ritcey
Floyd Tucker
8,662
23.55% 		Ron Giffin
7,974
21.68% 		Allan Marchbank
1,771
4.82% 		George Isaac Smith†
Cumberland Centre Guy Brown
2,283
52.16% 		Raymond M. Smith
1,601
36.58% 		Elory Tabor
493
11.26% 		Raymond M. Smith
Cumberland East Ronald S. MacNeil
3,490
40.82% 		Roger Stuart Bacon
4,125
48.25% 		David W. D'Aubin
934
10.93% 		Roger Stuart Bacon
Cumberland West W.J. Brown
2,205
45.86% 		D. L. George Henley
2,323
48.32% 		A. Bradley Colpitts
280
5.82% 		D. L. George Henley
Hants East Jack Hawkins
3,322
49.88% 		Avard Ettinger
2,690
40.39% 		Clair White
549
8.24% 		John G. Stanhope Sr.
99
1.49% 		Jack Hawkins

Halifax/Dartmouth/Eastern Shore

Electoral district Candidates Incumbent
Liberal PC NDP Independent
Halifax Atlantic Darrell E. Wentzell
4,380
35.90% 		John Buchanan
6,229
51.06% 		Colin Campbell
1,591
13.04% 		John Buchanan
Halifax Chebucto Walter Fitzgerald
5,608
53.47% 		Dennis Ashworth
3,233
30.82% 		Burris Devanney
1,648
15.71% 		James L. Connolly†
Halifax Citadel Ronald Wallace
4,299
48.73% 		Richard MacLean
3,071
34.81% 		Michael Bradfield
1,452
16.46% 		Ronald Wallace
Halifax Cobequid George Doucet
8,691
49.57% 		Silvia Hudson
6,878
39.23% 		George C. Cann
1,964
11.20% 		George Riley†
Halifax Cornwallis George M. Mitchell
5,391
47.52% 		George T.H. Cooper
3,833
33.79% 		Muriel Duckworth
2,121
18.70% 		George M. Mitchell
Halifax Eastern Shore Alexander Garnet Brown
6,437
52.90% 		Hanson D. Josey
4,205
34.56% 		John T. Kennedy
1,527
12.55% 		Alexander Garnet Brown
Halifax Needham Gerald Regan
4,364
61.49% 		James H. Vaughan
1,854
26.12% 		Martin Dolin
879
12.39% 		Gerald Regan
Halifax-St. Margaret's Leonard L. Pace
7,238
47.87% 		George C. Piercey
6,084
40.24% 		Richard Rogers
1,798
11.89% 		Leonard L. Pace
Dartmouth North Glen M. Bagnell
7,091
51.41% 		Richard L. Weldon
4,839
35.08% 		Joseph Bouchard
1,863
13.51% 		Glen M. Bagnell
Dartmouth South D. Scott MacNutt
5,871
44.24% 		Roland J. Thornhill
6,491
48.91% 		Norman H. Dares
908
6.84% 		D. Scott MacNutt

Central Nova

Electoral district Candidates Incumbent
Liberal PC NDP Independent
Antigonish Bill Gillis
5,141
56.88% 		Ronald A. MacDonald
3,172
35.09% 		Patrick D. Gough
726
8.03% 		Bill Gillis
Guysborough A.M. "Sandy" Cameron
3,688
55.66% 		Fenwick MacIntosh
2,652
40.02% 		William Sugg
286
4.32% 		A.M. "Sandy" Cameron
Pictou Centre Lawrence MacKinnon
4,954
42.54% 		Fraser MacLean
5,100
43.80% 		Dave MacKenzie
1,591
13.66% 		Ralph F. Fiske†
Pictou East J. Lester MacLellan
2,945
42.09% 		Donald Cameron
3,217
45.98% 		Joanne E. Kohout
835
11.93% 		A. Lloyd MacDonald†
Pictou West Dan Reid
2,624
43.99% 		Harvey Veniot
2,602
43.62% 		Charles Parker
739
12.39% 		Harvey Veniot

Cape Breton

Electoral district Candidates Incumbent
Liberal PC NDP Independent
Cape Breton Centre Albert J. Boudreau
1,703
21.76% 		Mike Laffin
2,743
35.05% 		Buddy MacEachern
3,380
43.19% 		Mike Laffin
Cape Breton East Vincent Kachafanas
3,443
30.83% 		Frederick Adshade
1,611
14.43% 		Jeremy Akerman
5,929
53.10% 		Archie MacDonald
183
1.64% 		Jeremy Akerman
Cape Breton North Barry LeBlanc
4,155
33.57% 		Tom MacKeough
4,889
39.50% 		Len J. Arsenault
3,333
26.93% 		Tom MacKeough
Cape Breton Nova Ronald DiPenta
1,275
17.19% 		Percy Gaum
2,334
31.46% 		Paul MacEwan
3,809
51.35% 		Paul MacEwan
Cape Breton South Vince MacLean
6,487
50.87% 		John Francis Burke
3,721
29.18% 		Earl Johnston
2,441
19.14% 		Angus Currie
102
0.80% 		John Francis Burke
Cape Breton West Allan Sullivan
6,281
53.46% 		Kenneth Andrews
3,199
27.23% 		Frank Boone
2,269
19.31% 		Allan Sullivan
Inverness William MacEachern
5,606
26.50% 		Norman J. MacLean
4,832
22.84% 		Donald MacKay
621>br>2.94% 		Catherine M. Haig
139
0.66% 		Norman J. MacLean
John Archie MacKenzie
5,403
25.54% 		Joseph Shannon
4,088
19.32% 		Winston Bennett
466
2.20% 		John Archie MacKenzie
Richmond Gaston LeBlanc
3,697
57.62% 		Joseph Stewart
2,138
33.32% 		Stanley Pashkoski
581
9.06% 		Gerald Doucet†
Victoria Maynard MacAskill
2,573
59.44% 		Fisher Hudson
1,542
35.62% 		Colin A. Gillis
214
4.94% 		Fisher Hudson

References

  1. ^ "Election Returns 1974" (PDF). Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved November 14, 2021.
  2. ^ "Election Returns 1974 Recapitulation" (PDF). Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved November 14, 2021.
  3. ^ While 434,363 votes were cast, only 395,028 electors voted as Colchester, Inverness and Yarmouth electors voted for two candidates.

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