1953 Nova Scotia general election
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37 seats of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly 19 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Turnout | 75.79% 1.88pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1953 Nova Scotia general election was held on 26 May 1953 to elect members of the
Liberal party
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Results
Results by party
23 | 12 | 2 |
Liberal | Progressive Conservative | CCF |
Party | Party leader | # of candidates |
Seats | Popular vote | ||||||
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1949 | Dissolution | Elected | Change | # | % | Change (pp) | ||||
Liberal | Angus Lewis Macdonald | 37 | 27 | 27 | 23 | -4 | 169,894 | 48.92% | –2.05% | |
Progressive Conservative | Robert Stanfield | 37 | 8 | 8 | 12 | +4 | 149,973 | 43.18% | +3.97% | |
Co-operative Commonwealth | Russell Cunningham | 16 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 23,700 | 6.82% | –2.78% | |
Independent | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2,065 | 0.59% | +0.37% | ||
Vacant | 0 | |||||||||
Total valid votes | 345,632 | 99.52% | +0.06% | |||||||
Blank and invalid ballots | 1,658 | 0.48% | –0.06% | |||||||
Total | 91 | 37 | 37 | 37 | – | 347,290 | 100.00% | – | ||
Registered voters / turnout | 370,293 | 75.79%[3] | -1.88% |
Results by region
Party name | HRM
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Cape Breton | Annapolis Valley | South Shore
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Fundy-Northeast | Central Nova | Total | ||
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Parties winning seats in the legislature | |||||||||
Liberal
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Seats: | 5 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 23 | |
Popular vote: | 55.44% | 46.98% | 49.91% | 45.58% | 47.95% | 49.25% | 48.92% | ||
Progressive Conservative
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Seats: | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 12 | |
Popular vote: | 40.96% | 30.13% | 50.09% | 53.49% | 49.56% | 39.00% | 43.18% | ||
Co-operative Commonwealth
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Seats: | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
Popular vote: | 3.60% | 22.89% | – | 0.93% | 2.49% | 5.61% | 6.82% | ||
Parties not winning seats in the legislature | |||||||||
Independent | Popular vote: | – | – | – | – | – | 6.14% | 0.59% | |
Total seats: | 5 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 37 |
Retiring incumbents
- 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 | ||||||||
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Liberal | PC | CCF | Independent | |||||||
Annapolis | Henry Hicks 5,006 51.55% |
Charles F. LeBrun 4,705 48.45% |
Henry Hicks | |||||||
Clare | Pierre E. Belliveau 2,307 58.46% |
Desire J. Comeau 1,639 41.54% |
Desire J. Comeau | |||||||
Digby | Victor Cardoza 2,770 52.40% |
Malcolm Stewart Leonard 2,516 47.60% |
E. Keith Potter† | |||||||
Hants West | Ken Eisner 3,120 46.37% |
George Henry Wilson 3,608 53.63% |
George Henry Wilson | |||||||
Kings
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David Durell Sutton 7,245 24.63% |
George Arthur Boggs 7,481 25.43% |
David Durell Sutton
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William H. Pipe 7,047 23.96% |
Edward Haliburton 7,642 25.98% |
William H. Pipe |
South Shore
Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
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Liberal | PC | CCF | Independent | |||||||
Lunenburg | Arthur L. Thurlow 6,940 21.53% |
R. Clifford Levy 8,727 27.07% |
Winfred Llewellyn 204 0.63% |
Arthur L. Thurlow | ||||||
Gordon E. Romkey 7,381 22.90% |
Harley J. Spence 8,741 27.12% |
G. Boyd Crouse 241 0.75% |
Gordon E. Romkey | |||||||
Queens | Merrill D. Rawding 2,838 45.77% |
W. S. Kennedy Jones 3,230 52.09% |
Claude VanBuskirk 133 2.14% |
Merrill D. Rawding | ||||||
Shelburne | Wilfred Dauphinee 3,256 51.20% |
James McKay Harding 3,103 48.80% |
Wilfred Dauphinee | |||||||
Yarmouth | Allan d'Entremont 4,067 23.59% |
William Heartz Brown 4,859 28.18% |
William Heartz Brown | |||||||
Donald J. Fraser 3,790 21.98% |
Raymond Z. Bourque 4,524 26.24% |
Donald J. Fraser |
Fundy-Northeast
Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
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Liberal | PC | CCF | Independent | |||||||
Colchester | Gordon Purdy 7,255 24.20% |
Robert Stanfield 7,677 25.61% |
Harvey Curtis 324 1.08% |
Robert Stanfield | ||||||
Hector Hill 6,963 23.23% |
George Isaac Smith 7,435 24.80% |
Sydney Parker 326 1.09% |
George Isaac Smith | |||||||
Cumberland Centre | Archibald J. Mason 2,012 40.65% |
Stephen T. Pyke 2,262 45.70% |
Florence Welton 676 13.66% |
Archibald J. Mason | ||||||
Cumberland East | Martin J. Kaufman 4,214 48.96% |
James A. Langille 4,393 51.04% |
Martin J. Kaufman | |||||||
Cumberland West | Allison T. Smith 2,799 54.55% |
Thomas A. Giles 2,332 45.45% |
Thomas A. Giles | |||||||
Hants East[4] | Alfred E. Reid 2,251 50.01% |
Ernest M. Ettinger 2,250 49.99% |
Ernest M. Ettinger |
Halifax/Dartmouth/Eastern Shore
Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
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Liberal | PC | CCF | Independent | |||||||
Halifax Centre | James Edward Rutledge 5,603 57.69% |
R. Leo Simmonds 4,109 42.31% |
James Edward Rutledge | |||||||
Halifax East | Geoffrey W. Stevens 8,436 50.83% |
Lt. Col. R.D. King 7,196 43.36% |
Harper Power 964 5.81% |
Geoffrey W. Stevens | ||||||
Halifax North | Harold Connolly 8,148 61.37% |
Harold J. Bartlow 4,481 33.75% |
Richard J. Hardiman 648 4.88% |
Harold Connolly | ||||||
Halifax South | Angus Lewis Macdonald 5,751 59.68% |
John R. Milledge 3,885 40.32% |
Angus Lewis Macdonald | |||||||
Halifax West | Ronald Manning Fielding 8,061 51.31% |
Earle Haverstock 6,927 44.09% |
L.C. Wilson 723 4.60% |
Ronald Manning Fielding |
Central Nova
Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
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Liberal | PC | CCF | Independent | |||||||
Antigonish | Colin H. Chisholm 2,624 48.92% |
Terrance Bernard Thompson 675 12.58% |
Vincent J. MacDonald 2,065 38.50% |
Colin H. Chisholm | ||||||
Guysborough | Arthur W. MacKenzie 3,470 56.29% |
A. Grant MacDonald 2,694 43.71% |
Arthur W. MacKenzie | |||||||
Pictou Centre | Alfred B. DeWolfe 5,155 45.41% |
Robert D. MacDonald 4,534 39.94% |
Donald Nicholson 1,662 14.64% |
Alfred B. DeWolfe | ||||||
Pictou East | John W. MacDonald 2,681 48.78% |
William A. MacLeod 2,592 47.16% |
Joseph D. Ryan 223 4.06% |
John W. MacDonald | ||||||
Pictou West | Stewart W. Proudfoot 2,628 50.09% |
Harvey Veniot 2,619 49.91% |
Stewart W. Proudfoot |
Cape Breton
Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
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Liberal | PC | CCF | Independent | |||||||
Cape Breton Centre
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Martin MacPherson 2,816 30.70% |
Charles P. Miller 1,905 20.77% |
Michael James MacDonald 4,451 48.53% |
Michael James MacDonald | ||||||
Cape Breton East
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Joseph McIntyre 3,934 37.88% |
William Wilton 1,356 13.06% |
Russell Cunningham 5,096 49.07% |
Russell Cunningham | ||||||
Cape Breton North
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Alexander O'Handley 4,674 47.45% |
John Norman MacAskill 3,115 31.62% |
Daniel Joseph MacEachern 2,062 20.93% |
Alexander O'Handley | ||||||
Cape Breton South | John Smith MacIvor 6,467 44.67% |
A.O. Gunn 3,384 23.38% |
Vincent Allan Morrison 4,625 31.95% |
John Smith MacIvor | ||||||
Cape Breton West
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Malcolm A. Patterson 3,730 48.86% |
Edward Manson 2,562 33.56% |
Harry Munroe 1,342 17.58% |
Malcolm A. Patterson | ||||||
Inverness | Alexander H. McKinnon 4,725 29.17% |
Leo P. Boudreau 3,585 22.13% |
Alexander H. McKinnon | |||||||
Roderick MacLean 4,513 27.86% |
Alex A. MacInnis 3,374 20.83% |
Roderick MacLean | ||||||||
Richmond | Earl Wallace Urquhart 2,970 58.30% |
Francis Whyte 2,124 41.70% |
Earl Wallace Urquhart | |||||||
Victoria | Carleton L. MacMillan 2,247 56.47% |
Joseph L. MacNeil 1,732 43.53% |
Carleton L. MacMillan |
References
- ^ 16 November 1954 deferred by-election for Hants East seat, won by Liberal candidate
- ^ "Election Returns 1953" (PDF). Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved November 20, 2021.
- ^ While 347,290 votes were cast, only 280,661 electors voted as electors in several districts voted for two candidates.
- ^ In the riding of Hants East, Progressive Conservative Ernest M. Ettinger's 1-vote lead on election lead became a 1-vote lead for the Liberal's Alfred E. Reid after a judicial recount. After an appeal, a judge then decided to throw out the results of the general election; a by-election was held several months later to fill the seat and was won by Reid.