1984 Nova Scotia general election
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52 seats of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly 27 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1984 Nova Scotia general election was held on November 6, 1984 to elect members of the
Progressive Conservative
party.
Results
Results by party
42 | 6 | 3 | 1 |
Progressive Conservative | Liberal | New Democratic | Labour |
Party | Party leader | # of candidates |
Seats | Popular vote | ||||||
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1981 | Dissolution | Elected | Change | # | % | Change (pp) | ||||
Progressive Conservative | John Buchanan | 52 | 37 | 38 | 42 | +5 | 209,298 | 50.41% | +3.13% | |
Liberal | A.M. "Sandy" Cameron | 52 | 13 | 12 | 6 | -7 | 129,310 | 31.15% | -1.81% | |
New Democratic | Alexa McDonough | 52 | 1 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 65,876 | 15.87% | -2.14% | |
Cape Breton Labour | Paul MacEwan | 14 | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 8,322 | 2.00% | – | |
Independent | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 630 | 0.15% | -1.03% | ||
Vacant | 0 | |||||||||
Total valid votes | 413,436 | 99.58% | +0.15% | |||||||
Blank and invalid ballots | 1,724 | 0.42% | +0.15% | |||||||
Total | 174 | 52 | 52 | 52 | – | 415,160 | 100.00% | – | ||
Registered voters / turnout | 614,899 | 67.52% | -6.65% |
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 | ||||||||||
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PC | Liberal | NDP | Cape Breton Labour | Independent | ||||||||
Annapolis East | Gerry Sheehy 3,736 56.02% |
Nita M. Irvine 2,011 30.15% |
Joan M. Boutilier 922 13.83% |
Gerry Sheehy | ||||||||
Annapolis West | Greg Kerr 2,809 53.68% |
Herb Anderson 2,019 38.58% |
Howard Langille 405 7.74% |
Greg Kerr | ||||||||
Clare | Guy LeBlanc 3,094 50.33% |
Chester Melanson 2,784 45.29% |
Alain Chabot 269 4.38% |
Chester Melanson | ||||||||
Digby | Merryl Lawton 3,451 60.66% |
Paul Scovil 1,657 29.13% |
Susan Jamieson 581 10.21% |
Joseph H. Casey† | ||||||||
Hants West | Ron Russell 4,634 55.65% |
Robert D. Lindsay 2,535 30.44% |
Alan St. C. Squires 1,158 13.91% |
Ron Russell | ||||||||
Kings North | George Archibald 3,655 49.57% |
Bob Wilson 1,858 25.20% |
Don Fraser 1,860 25.23% |
Edward Twohig† | ||||||||
Kings South | Paul Kinsman 3,673 45.31% |
Alan Sponagle 625 7.71% |
Bob Levy 3,694 45.57% |
Doug Milligan 114 1.41% |
Paul Kinsman | |||||||
Kings West
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George Moody 5,273 60.45% |
Doug McKeil 2,546 29.19% |
Ted Davis 904 10.36% |
George Moody |
South Shore
Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||||
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PC | Liberal | NDP | Cape Breton Labour | Independent | ||||||||
Argyle | Neil LeBlanc 2,894 52.51% |
J. Donald Doucette 2,422 43.95% |
Lawrence Meuse 195 3.54% |
Hugh Tinkham† | ||||||||
Lunenburg Centre | Maxine Cochran 5,239 56.60% |
Linton M. Wentzell 2,669 28.83% |
Angus J. Fields 1,349 14.57% |
Maxine Cochran | ||||||||
Lunenburg East | David Hatt 1,764 32.10% |
Jim Barkhouse 2,696 49.06% |
Janet Mooney 1,035 18.84% |
Ron Barkhouse† | ||||||||
Lunenburg West | Mel Pickings 3,435 51.25% |
Caroll W. Young 2,162 32.25% |
Martha Laurence 1,106 16.50% |
Mel Pickings | ||||||||
Queens | John Leefe 3,661 59.92% |
Hugh Mosher 1,532 25.07% |
Bill Zimmerman 917 15.01% |
John Leefe | ||||||||
Shelburne | Ron Leary 3,659 43.88% |
Harold Huskilson 3,843 46.09% |
Laurie Hitchens 601 7.21% |
Etheren Goreham 235 2.82% |
Harold Huskilson | |||||||
Yarmouth | Alex McIntosh 4,400 49.16% |
Fraser Mooney 3,755 41.96% |
Brian Doucette 795 8.88% |
Fraser Mooney |
Fundy-Northeast
Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||||
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PC | Liberal | NDP | Cape Breton Labour | Independent | ||||||||
Colchester North | Jack Coupar 3,796 46.65% |
Ed Lorraine 3,636 44.68% |
Alan M. Marchbank 706 8.68% |
Ed Lorraine | ||||||||
Colchester South | R. Colin Stewart 3,572 63.85% |
Fred A. Kennedy 1,530 27.35% |
Bernard A. Gay 492 8.80% |
R. Colin Stewart | ||||||||
Cumberland Centre | Douglas Marshall 1,804 41.03% |
Guy Brown 2,436 55.40% |
Stanley H. McCormick 157 3.57% |
Guy Brown | ||||||||
Cumberland East | Roger Stuart Bacon 4,837 61.35% |
Ira Drysdale 2,349 29.79% |
Barbara Anne Marsden 698 8.85% |
Roger Stuart Bacon | ||||||||
Cumberland West | Gardner Hurley 2,503 51.77% |
Gary Gordon 1,845 38.16% |
Sandy Graham 487 10.07% |
D. L. George Henley† | ||||||||
Hants East | Cora Etter 3,730 48.57% |
Jack Hawkins 3,192 41.57% |
Herbert H. Radley 757 9.86% |
Jack Hawkins | ||||||||
Truro—Bible Hill
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Ron Giffin 5,008 61.03% |
Kirby Eileen Grant 2,253 27.46% |
Andy Belliveau 945 11.52% |
Ron Giffin |
Central Halifax
Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||||
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PC | Liberal | NDP | Cape Breton Labour | Independent | ||||||||
Halifax Bedford Basin
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Joel Matheson 5,613 47.32% |
Alan Weeks 2,224 18.75% |
Paul Fiander 4,024 33.93% |
Joel Matheson | ||||||||
Halifax Chebucto | Helen Gillis 2,630 29.85% |
Dan Clarke 1,806 20.50% |
Alexa McDonough 4,374 49.65% |
Alexa McDonough | ||||||||
Halifax Citadel
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Art Donahoe 3,652 40.40% |
John Godfrey 2,524 27.92% |
Eileen O'Connell 2,864 31.68% |
Art Donahoe | ||||||||
Halifax Cornwallis | Terry Donahoe 5,273 47.80% |
Dale Godsoe 2,753 24.96% |
Tim Hill 3,005 27.24% |
Terry Donahoe | ||||||||
Halifax Needham | Edmund L. Morris 3,173 39.97% |
Walter Fitzgerald 2,208 27.81% |
Maureen MacDonald 2,514 31.67% |
Beatrice Kaizer 44 0.55% |
Edmund L. Morris |
Suburban Halifax
Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||||
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PC | Liberal | NDP | Cape Breton Labour | Independent | ||||||||
Bedford-Musquodoboit Valley
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Ken Streatch 4,953 59.98% |
John M. Dillon 1,755 21.25% |
Susan Coldwell 1,468 17.78% |
Alfred Nieforth 82 0.99% |
Ken Streatch | |||||||
Halifax Atlantic | John Buchanan 5,528 58.37% |
David C. Melnick 1,888 19.93% |
Rene Quigley 1,942 20.50% |
Arthur R. Canning 113 1.19% |
John Buchanan | |||||||
Halifax-St. Margaret's | Jerry Lawrence 5,141 57.39% |
Michael N. Kelly 1,559 17.40% |
Lillian Viau 2,258 25.21% |
Jerry Lawrence | ||||||||
Sackville | Malcolm A. MacKay 2,997 26.49% |
Bill MacDonald 3,763 33.26% |
John Holm 4,555 40.26% |
Malcolm A. MacKay
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Dartmouth/Cole Harbour/Eastern Shore
Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||||
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PC | Liberal | NDP | Cape Breton Labour | Independent | ||||||||
Cole Harbour | David Nantes 5,283 61.49% |
Dennis F. Cuvelier 1,614 18.78% |
Les MacDougall 1,695 19.73% |
David Nantes | ||||||||
Dartmouth East | Richard L. Weldon 3,101 33.84% |
Jim Smith 4,004 43.70% |
Gerry Legere 2,058 22.46% |
Richard L. Weldon | ||||||||
Dartmouth North | Laird Stirling 3,200 43.45% |
Pat Connolly 2,150 29.20% |
Chester Sanford 1,938 26.32% |
Ron Bugbee 76 1.03% |
Laird Stirling | |||||||
Dartmouth South | Roland J. Thornhill 4,534 58.20% |
Don Walker 1,666 21.39% |
Fred Lutley 1,590 20.41% |
Roland J. Thornhill | ||||||||
Halifax Eastern Shore | Tom McInnis 5,395 62.74% |
Paul MacKenzie 2,151 25.01% |
Kevin Wilson 1,053 12.25% |
Tom McInnis |
Central Nova
Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||||
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PC | Liberal | NDP | Cape Breton Labour | Independent | ||||||||
Antigonish | Liz Chisholm 4,854 44.89% |
Bill Gillis 5,167 47.78% |
Bill Woodfine 793 7.33% |
Bill Gillis | ||||||||
Guysborough | Chuck MacNeil 3,859 50.70% |
A.M. "Sandy" Cameron 3,469 45.57% |
Elsie Richard 284 3.73% |
A.M. "Sandy" Cameron | ||||||||
Pictou Centre | Jack MacIsaac 6,596 67.11% |
Bob Leahy 2,103 21.40% |
Kim Murray 1,130 11.50% |
Jack MacIsaac | ||||||||
Pictou East | Donald Cameron 4,367 63.75% |
Scott Johnston 1,754 25.61% |
Larry Duchesne 729 10.64% |
Donald Cameron | ||||||||
Pictou West | Donald P. McInnes 3,844 59.78% |
Bob Naylor 1,932 30.05% |
Lynn Curwin-Porteous 486 7.56% |
Franklin R. Fiske 168 2.61% |
Donald P. McInnes |
Cape Breton
Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||||
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PC | Liberal | NDP | Cape Breton Labour | Independent | ||||||||
Cape Breton Centre
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Mike Laffin 4,586 58.83% |
A. Beaver Parsons 1,264 16.22% |
Angus Grant 743 9.53% |
Dan MacKinnon 1,202 15.42% |
Mike Laffin | |||||||
Cape Breton East
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Donnie MacLeod 9,822 96.33% |
Cha Keliher 3,579 33.62% |
Jim Jobe 555 5.21% |
Blair Matheson 1,724 16.20% |
Donnie MacLeod | |||||||
Cape Breton North
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Brian Young 6,431 70.01% |
Hank Lamond 1,637 17.82% |
Tom Rose 709 7.72% |
M.J. Julian 409 4.45% |
Brian Young | |||||||
Cape Breton Nova | Jim Neville 1,747 23.87% |
John Ryan 1,066 14.56% |
Alex MacIsaac 674 9.21% |
Paul MacEwan 3,832 52.36% |
Paul MacEwan | |||||||
Cape Breton South | Murdock Smith 5,049 42.04% |
Vince MacLean 5,961 49.63% |
John Chisholm 633 5.27% |
Kim MacEwan 367 3.06% |
Vince MacLean | |||||||
Cape Breton—The Lakes | John Newell 4,535 51.29% |
John Coady 3,338 37.75% |
Richard Fogarty 813 9.19% |
Mary Strickland 156 1.76% |
John Newell | |||||||
Cape Breton West
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"Big" Donnie MacLeod 9,822 96.33% |
Russell MacKinnon 3,925 40.04% |
Terry Crawley 582 5.94% |
Linda Martin 261 2.66% |
"Big" Donnie MacLeod | |||||||
Inverness North | Norman J. MacLean 3,475 45.57% |
John Archie MacKenzie 3,209 42.08% |
Ben Boucher 913 11.97% |
Nancy Thomas 29 0.38% |
John Archie MacKenzie | |||||||
Inverness South | Billy Joe MacLean 3,349 63.44% |
Danny Graham 1,736 32.83% |
Al MacKinnon 246 4.65% |
Laddie Golemiec 33 0.62% |
Billy Joe MacLean | |||||||
Richmond | Greg MacIsaac 3,262 47.20% |
Richie Mann 2,790 40.37% |
Shirley McNamara 828 11.98% |
Ken Covey 31 0.45% |
Greg MacIsaac | |||||||
Victoria | Fisher Hudson 2,498 50.76% |
Elmourne K. MacKinnon 1,960 39.83% |
Fraser Patterson 387 7.86% |
Bernice MacLean 76 1.54% |
Fisher Hudson |
References
- ^ "Election Returns 1984" (PDF). Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved November 11, 2021.
- ^ "Election Returns 1984 Recapitulation" (PDF). Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved November 11, 2021.