1949 Nova Scotia general election explained

The 1949 Nova Scotia general election was held on 9 June 1949 to elect members of the 44th House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Liberal party. The Progressive Conservatives returned to the legislature after their wipeout in the 1945 general election, but their eight seats put them in a distant second place to the Liberals' 37.

Results

Results by party

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Liberal	Progressive Conservative	CCF

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Party leader	of candidates	Seats				Popular vote
1945		Dissolution	Elected	Change		%	Change (pp)	Liberal	Angus Lewis Macdonald	38	28		28	0	178,177	50.97%	align="right"	-2.08%	Progressive Conservative	Robert Stanfield	37	0		7	+7	134,311	39.21%	+6.18%	Co-operative Commonwealth	Donald MacDonald	22	2		2	0	34,036	9.60%	align="right"	-4.10%	Independent/Other		1	0		0	0	749	0.22%	N/A
	Vacant
Total valid votes								342,533	%	–
Blank and invalid ballots								1,857	0.54%	–
Total			96	30	30	37	–	344,390	100.00%	–
Registered voters / turnout								369,117	77.67%[2]

Retiring incumbents

Liberal

• John Malcolm Campbell, Victoria
• John Patrick Gorman, Antigonish
• Gordon Purdy, Colchester
• Henry A. Waterman, Yarmouth

Nominated candidates

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

Valley

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Annapolis|||Henry Hicks
5,091
52.29%||Louisa Anna Shaw
198
2.03%||Harry Thompson MacKenzie
4,447
45.68%|||||Henry Hicks|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Clare||Benoit Comeau
2,078
49.55%|||||Desire J. Comeau
2,116
50.45%|||||New riding|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Digby||Blanchard Spring Morrell
2,748
49.26%|||||E. Keith Potter
2,830
50.74%|||||Vacant|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Hants West^[3] ||George B. Cole
2,530
39.67%||Ralph Loomer
569
8.92%||George Henry Wilson
2,529
39.66%||Gordon B. Crossley
749
11.75%|||New riding|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kings|||David Durell Sutton
7,322
25.34%||||Hiram Thomas
7,061
24.44%|||||David Durell Sutton|-|||William H. Pipe
7,369
25.51%||||Edward Haliburton
7,138
24.71%|||||New seat|}

South Shore

|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Lunenburg|||Arthur L. Thurlow
7,145
23.49%||Orris A. MacLaren
844
2.77%||R. Clifford Levy
6,935
22.80%|||||Vacant|-|||Gordon E. Romkey
7,814
25.69%||Lemuel O. Murphy
871
2.86%||Fred Rhodenizer
6,807
22.38%|||||Gordon E. Romkey|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Queens|||Merrill D. Rawding
3,166
50.21%||J.N. McIntyre
299
4.74%||E.M. More
2,840
45.04%|||||Merrill D. Rawding|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Shelburne|||Wilfred Dauphinee
3,436
53.20%||||Reginald Donald Ross
3,023
46.80%|||||Wilfred Dauphinee|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Yarmouth ||Joseph Israel Pothier
4,601
24.38%|||||William Heartz Brown
5,322
28.20%|||||New seat|-|||Donald J. Fraser
4,751
25.18%||||Alfred B. d'Entremont
4,197
22.24%|||||Henry A. Waterman†|}

Fundy-Northeast

|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Colchester||W.J. MacDonald
6,968
23.23%||A.L. Lynds
513
1.71%|||Robert Stanfield
8,081
26.94%|||||Gordon Purdy†|-||Robert F. McLellan
6,857
22.86%|||||George Isaac Smith
7,580
25.27%|||||Robert F. McLellan|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cumberland Centre|||Archibald J. Mason
2,219
42.41%||Florence Welton
1,406
26.87%||Archie B. Smith
1,607
30.71%|||||New riding|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cumberland East|||Martin J. Kaufman
4,280
49.79%||Brenton Garnhum
697
8.11%||Arnold G. McLellan
3,619
42.10%|||||Martin J. Kaufman

Cumberland|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cumberland West||Kenneth Judson Cochrane
2,645
48.38%|||||Thomas A. Giles
2,822
51.62%|||||Kenneth Judson Cochrane
Cumberland|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Hants East||Robert A. MacLellan
2,069
46.62%||Johnston B. Hart
272
6.13%|||Ernest M. Ettinger
2,097
47.25%|||||Robert A. MacLellan
Hants|}

Halifax/Dartmouth/Eastern Shore

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax Centre|||James Edward Rutledge
5,725
54.71%||Elmore Webber
1,167
11.15%||Jack L. Dowell
3,573
34.14%|||||James Edward Rutledge|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax East|||Geoffrey W. Stevens
7,703
52.22%||Wallace Mason
2,773
18.80%||R. Graham Murray
4,274
28.98%|||||Geoffrey W. Stevens|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax North|||Harold Connolly
7,944
54.79%||Arthur Kenneth Green
2,066
14.25%||Richard Donahoe
4,489
30.96%|||||Harold Connolly|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax South|||Angus Lewis Macdonald
6,097
59.57%||Edward Coombs
926
9.05%||John R. Milledge
3,212
31.38%|||||Angus Lewis Macdonald|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax West|||Ronald Manning Fielding
6,788
49.88%||Fred M. Young
3,027
22.24%||Malcolm Edgbert Walker
3,795
27.88%|||||Ronald Manning Fielding|}

Central Nova

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Antigonish |||Colin H. Chisholm
3,179
58.23%||||Terrance Bernard Thompson
2,280
41.77%|||||John Patrick Gorman†|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Guysborough|||Arthur W. MacKenzie
4,041
64.19%||||Hugh A.K. Forbes
2,254
35.81%|||||Arthur W. MacKenzie|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Pictou Centre|||Alfred B. DeWolfe
5,283
47.49%||Alvin M. Stewart
1,343
12.07%||John A. MacGregor
4,499
40.44%|||||Alfred B. DeWolfe

Pictou|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Pictou East|||John W. MacDonald
2,455
46.55%||Collie G. Ross
603
11.43%||William A. MacLeod
2,216
42.02%|||||Vacant
Pictou|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Pictou West|||Stewart W. Proudfoot
2,817
55.04%||||Donald R. Gilchrist
2,301
44.96%|||||New riding|}

Cape Breton

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton Centre||Ronald McIsaac
3,271
40.17%|||Michael James MacDonald
3,339
41.01%||Joseph A. MacDonald
1,532
18.82%|||||Michael James MacDonald|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton East||Charles Roy MacDonald
3,829
36.59%|||Russell Cunningham
4,543
43.41%||Thomas Horace Dickson
2,093
20.00%|||||Russell Cunningham|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton North|||Alexander O'Handley
4,727
46.13%||Wendell Coldwell
2,502
24.42%||John Michael Macdonald
3,018
29.45%|||||Alexander O'Handley|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton South|||John Smith MacIvor
6,742
47.20%||Vincent Allan Morrison
3,740
26.18%||Ross Anderson MacKimmie
3,802
26.62%|||||John Smith MacIvor|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton West|||Malcolm A. Patterson
3,444
51.14%||Arthur Briggs
1,171
17.39%||David McLeod
2,120
31.48%|||||Malcolm A. Patterson|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Inverness|||Alexander H. McKinnon
6,168
37.72%||||Alcorn A. Munro
2,368
14.48%|||||Alexander H. McKinnon|-|||Roderick MacLean
5,562
34.01%||||George H. Penny
2,254
13.78%|||||New seat|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Richmond|||Lauchlin Daniel Currie
3,254
66.49%||||D.W. Morrison
1,640
33.51%|||||Lauchlin Daniel Currie|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Victoria|||Carleton L. MacMillan
2,486
61.75%||||Phillip MacLeod
1,540
38.25%|||||John Malcolm Campbell†|}

Notes and References

1. 27 November 1950 deferred by-election for Hants West seat, won by PC candidate
2. While 344,390 votes were cast, only 286,694 electors voted as electors in several districts voted for two candidates.
3. In the riding of Hants West, Progressive Conservative George Henry Wilson's 3-vote lead on election night, became a tie after a judicial recount. The Returning Officer then cast the deciding vote for the Liberal's George B. Cole. 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 Wilson.