1916 Nova Scotia general election explained

The 1916 Nova Scotia general election was held on 20 June 1916 to elect members of the 36th House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Liberal party.

Results

Results by party

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Liberal	Liberal-Conservative

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Party leader	of candidates	Seats				Popular vote
1911		Dissolution	Elected	Change		%	Change (pp)	Liberal	George Henry Murray	43	27		30	+3	136,829	50.77%	align="right"	-0.32%	Liberal-Conservative	Charles Elliott Tanner	43	11		13	+2	130,430	48.40%	+3.02%	Independent/Other		1	0		0	0	1,038	0.38%	align="right"	-1.39%	Labour	None	2	0		0	0	1,117	0.43%	align="right"	-1.34%
	Vacant
Total valid votes								269,474	100.00%	–
Blank and invalid ballots								0	0.00%	–
Total			89	38	38	43	–	269,474	100.00%	–

Retiring incumbents

Liberal

• Charles P. Bissett, Richmond
• Archibald M. Covert, Kings
• Fullton Johnson Logan, Halifax
• James MacDonald, Inverness
• Smith Nickerson, Shelburne

Liberal-Conservative

• Harry Hatheway Marshall, Digby
• Norman Phinney, Annapolis

Nominated candidates

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

Valley

|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Annapolis|||Orlando Daniels
2,149
26.34%||Obediah Parker Goucher
2,020
24.76%|||||||Orlando Daniels|-|||Frank R. Elliott
2,077
25.46%||Earle C. Phinney
1,912
23.44%|||||||Norman Phinney†|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Digby|||Henry W.B. Warner
1,903
26.81%||Felix M. Gaudet
1,604
22.59%|||||||Harry Hatheway Marshall†|-|||Joseph William Comeau
2,002
28.20%||Walton K. Tibert
1,590
22.40%|||||||Joseph William Comeau|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Hants||Burchill R. Fulmer
1,929
23.63%|||Albert Parsons
2,142
26.24%|||||||Albert Parsons|-|||James William Reid
2,051
25.13%||Herbert W. Sangster
2,041
25.00%|||||||James William Reid|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kings||Charles Alexander Campbell
2,318
24.53%|||James E. Kinsman
2,421
25.62%|||||||Archibald M. Covert†|-|||Harry H. Wickwire
2,499
26.44%||Joseph D. Spidell
2,212
23.41%|||||||Harry H. Wickwire|}

South Shore

|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Lunenburg|||John James Kinley
2,992
26.90%||Alfred Clairmonte Zwicker
2,082
18.72%|||||||Alfred Clairmonte Zwicker|-||Oscar G. Donovan
2,768
24.88%|||Joseph Willis Margeson
3,282
29.50%|||||||Joseph Willis Margeson|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Queens||Frederick R. Freeman
977
23.33%|||William Lorimer Hall
1,116
26.65%|||||||William Lorimer Hall|-|||Jordan W. Smith
1,098
26.22%||D.C. Mulhall
997
23.81%|||||||Jordan W. Smith|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Shelburne|||Robert Irwin
1,442
27.82%||Wendell H. Currie
1,205
23.24%|||||||Robert Irwin|-|||Maurice Nickerson
1,424
27.47%||W.C. Hall
1,113
21.47%|||||||Smith Nickerson†|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Yarmouth |||Ernest Howard Armstrong
1,931
28.36%||Joseph O. Difon
1,304
19.15%|||||||Ernest Howard Armstrong|-|||Henry d'Entremont
1,839
27.00%||Howard Corning
1,736
25.49%|||||||Howard Corning|}

Fundy-Northeast

|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Colchester||Gilbert H. Vernon
2,212
22.62%|||Robert H. Kennedy
2,665
27.25%|||||||Robert H. Kennedy|-||Frederick B. Schurman
2,158
22.07%|||Frank Stanfield
2,745
28.07%|||||||Frank Stanfield|-|rowspan=3 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cumberland|||James Ralston
3,951
17.05%||Daniel A. Morrison
3,620
15.62%||James B. Nelson
727
3.14%|||||James Ralston|-||Joshua H. Livingstone
3,554
15.33%|||James W. Kirkpatrick
3,791
16.36%|||||||New seat|-|||Rufus Carter
3,962
17.09%||J. Flemming Gilroy
3,572
15.41%|||||||Rufus Carter|}

Halifax

|-|rowspan=5 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax||John Brown Douglas
6,359
9.78%|||Hector MacInnes
6,735
10.36%|||||||New seat|-|||John L. Connolly
6,545
10.06%||John W. Regan
6,387
9.82%|||||||New seat|-|||George Everett Faulkner
6,606
10.16%||Felix P. Quinn
6,370
9.79%|||||||George Everett Faulkner|-|||Henry Bauld
6,855
10.54%||E.F. Williams
6,266
9.63%|||||||Fullton Johnson Logan†|-|||Robert Emmett Finn
6,703
10.31%||F.P. Bligh
6,213
9.55%|||||||Robert Emmett Finn|}

Central Nova

|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Antigonish |||Fred Robert Trotter
1,300
27.16%||Allan MacDonald
953
19.91%|||||||Fred Robert Trotter|-|||William Chisholm
1,366
28.54%||John Stanfield O'Brien
1,167
24.38%|||||||John Stanfield O'Brien|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Guysborough|||James F. Ellis
1,752
29.65%||John Bell
1,093
18.50%|||||||James F. Ellis|-|||James Cranswick Tory
1,827
30.92%||Duncan S. Chisholm
1,236
20.92%|||||||James Cranswick Tory|-|rowspan=3 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Pictou|||Robert M. McGregor
4,555
17.68%||John W. McKay
4,210
16.34%||John B. Strickland
450
1.75%|||||Robert M. McGregor|-|||Robert Hugh MacKay
4,309
16.73%||J. William Sutherland
3,557
13.81%|||||||Robert Hugh MacKay|-|||Robert Henry Graham
4,512
17.52%||Charles Elliott Tanner
4,165
16.17%|||||||Charles Elliott Tanner|}

Cape Breton

|-|rowspan=4 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton||D.J. Hartigan
6,764
12.11%|||Neil Ferguson
6,885
12.33%||||J. B. McLachlan (Socialist)
1,038
1.86%|||New seat|-||D.C. McDonald
6,692
11.98%|||Robert Hamilton Butts
6,935
12.42%|||||||Robert Hamilton Butts|-|||Daniel Alexander Cameron
7,036
12.60%||Finlay McDonald
6,721
12.04%|||||||New seat|-||Michael T. Sullivan
6,390
11.44%|||John Carey Douglas
7,381
13.22%|||||||John Carey Douglas|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Inverness|||Donald MacLennan
2,655
26.65%||Thomas Gallant
2,531
25.40%|||||||Donald MacLennan|-|||John C. Bourinot
2,540
25.49%||Duncan F. MacLean
2,238
22.46%|||||||James MacDonald†|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Richmond||Simon Joyce
918
19.60%|||Benjamin Amedeé LeBlanc
1,388
29.63%|||||||Simon Joyce|-||Alexander Finlayson
994
21.22%|||John Alexander MacDonald
1,384
29.55%|||||||Charles P. Bissett†|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Victoria|||George Henry Murray
1,212
27.80%||Joseph Hays
886
20.32%|||||||George Henry Murray|-|||John Gillis Morrison
1,189
27.27%||Phillip McLeod
1,073
24.61%|||||||Vacant|}

Further reading

• Book: Hopkins, J. Castell . The Canadian Annual Review of Public Affairs, 1916 . 1917 . The Annual Review Publishing Company . Toronto .