1937 Nova Scotia general election
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The 1937 Nova Scotia general election was held on 20 June 1937 to elect members of the
Liberal Party
.
Results
Results by party
25 | 5 |
Liberal | Progressive Conservative |
Party | Party leader | # of candidates |
Seats | Popular vote | ||||||
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1933 | Dissolution | Elected | Change | # | % | Change (pp) | ||||
Liberal | Angus Lewis Macdonald | 30 | 22 | 21 | 25 | +3 | 165,397 | 52.69% | +0.35% | |
Progressive Conservative | Gordon Sidney Harrington | 30 | 8 | 8 | 5 | -3 | 143,670 | 45.77% | +0.06% | |
Labour
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1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3,396 | 1.08% | +0.30% | ||
Vacant | 1 | |||||||||
Total valid votes | 312,463 | 99.55% | – | |||||||
Blank and invalid ballots | 1,421 | 0.45% | – | |||||||
Total | 61 | 30 | 30 | 30 | – | 313,884 | 100.00% | – | ||
Registered voters / turnout | 312,817 | 79.67%[2] | -6.23% |
Retiring incumbents
- Liberal
- Progressive Conservative
- Seth M. Bartling, Queens
- William A. Flemming, Colchester
- Cape Breton West
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 | ||||||
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Liberal | PC | Labour | ||||||
Annapolis | John D. McKenzie 4,977 57.35% |
James Eugene Morse 3,702 42.65% |
John D. McKenzie | |||||
Digby | Joseph William Comeau 5,179 58.19% |
Edward Brenett Pugh 3,721 41.81% |
Joseph William Comeau | |||||
Hants | Alexander Stirling MacMillan 5,590 54.96% |
Leonard W. Fraser 4,581 45.04% |
Alexander Stirling MacMillan | |||||
Kings
|
John Alexander McDonald 7,470 32.34% |
George Nowlan 5,790 25.07% |
John Alexander McDonald |
South Shore
Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
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Liberal | PC | Labour | ||||||
Lunenburg | Frank R. Davis 8,073 28.28% |
Reginald E. Hyson 6,268 21.95% |
Frank R. Davis | |||||
Gordon E. Romkey 7,796 27.31% |
Vernon L. Pearson 6,414 22.47% |
Gordon E. Romkey | ||||||
Queens | J. Ross Byrne 2,715 48.09% |
John J. Cameron 2,931 51.91% |
Seth M. Bartling† | |||||
Shelburne | Henry R. L. Bill 3,215 58.41% |
Norman Emmons Smith 2,289 41.59% |
Henry R. L. Bill | |||||
Yarmouth | Lindsay C. Gardner 5,566 60.11% |
Peter Lorimer Judge 3,694 39.89% |
Lindsay C. Gardner |
Fundy-Northeast
Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
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Liberal | PC | Labour | ||||||
Colchester | Harry B. Havey 5,791 23.45% |
Frederick Murray Blois 6,698 27.13% |
William A. Flemming† | |||||
Edward G. McColough 5,614 22.74% |
George Y. Thomas 6,587 26.68% |
George Y. Thomas | ||||||
Cumberland
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John S. Smiley 8,047 22.58% |
Archie B. Smith 9,272 26.02% |
John S. Smiley | |||||
Archibald J. Mason 8,024 22.52% |
Percy Chapman Black 10,289 28.88% |
Percy Chapman Black |
Halifax/Dartmouth/Eastern Shore
Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
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Liberal | PC | Labour | ||||||
Halifax Centre | William Duff Forrest 5,186 54.61% |
Arthur Wilfred Morton 4,310 45.39% |
Guy Murray Logan† | |||||
Halifax East | Geoffrey W. Stevens 6,082 52.27% |
Josiah Frederick Fraser 5,554 47.73% |
Geoffrey W. Stevens | |||||
Halifax North | Harold Connolly 5,458 57.81% |
Gerald Patrick Flavin 3,984 42.19% |
Harold Connolly | |||||
Halifax South | Angus Lewis Macdonald 5,446 56.10% |
Richard Donahoe 4,262 43.90% |
Angus Lewis Macdonald | |||||
Halifax West | George E. Hagen 5,034 54.00% |
Earle C. Phinney 4,288 46.00% |
George E. Hagen |
Central Nova
Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
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Liberal | PC | Labour | ||||||
Antigonish | John L. MacIsaac 3,160 61.11% |
Robert H. Butts 2,011 38.89% |
John L. MacIsaac | |||||
Guysborough | Havelock Torrey 4,368 57.81% |
Howard Amos Rice 3,188 42.19% |
Clarence W. Anderson† | |||||
Pictou | Newton G. Munro 9,637 25.96% |
John A. MacGregor 8,890 23.95% |
Vacant | |||||
Josiah H. MacQuarrie 10,149 27.34% |
Rod H. MacLeod 8,441 22.74% |
Josiah H. MacQuarrie |
Cape Breton
Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
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Liberal | PC | Labour | ||||||
Cape Breton Centre
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Michael Dwyer 4,148 59.56% |
Robert Simpson MacLellan 2,816 40.44% |
Michael Dwyer | |||||
Cape Breton East
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Lauchlin Daniel Currie 4,172 40.12% |
Roderick Kerr 2,832 27.23% |
William T. Mercer 3,396 32.65% |
Lauchlin Daniel Currie | ||||
Cape Breton North
|
George Belcher Murray 4,679 51.73% |
Joseph Macdonald 4,366 48.27% |
Joseph Macdonald | |||||
Cape Breton South | George M. Morrison 5,879 52.00% |
Gordon Sidney Harrington 5,427 48.00% |
Gordon Sidney Harrington | |||||
Cape Breton West
|
Malcolm A. Patterson 2,883 50.80% |
Evan MacK. Forbes 2,792 49.20% |
Weldon W. Patton† | |||||
Inverness | Moses Elijah McGarry 5,836 25.27% |
Alexander Daniel McInnis 4,002 17.33% |
Moses Elijah McGarry | |||||
Richmond | Donald David Boyd 2,888 53.38% |
Benjamin Amedeé LeBlanc 2,522 46.62% |
George R. Deveau† | |||||
Victoria | John Malcolm Campbell 2,335 57.17% |
Frederick Walker Baldwin 1,749 42.83% |
Frederick Walker Baldwin |
References
- ^ "Election Returns 1937" (PDF). Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
- ^ While 313,884 votes were cast, only 249,215 electors voted as electors in several districts voted for two candidates.
Further reading
- The Canadian Annual Review of Public Affairs, 1937 and 1938. Toronto: The Annual Review Company. 1940.