| Election Name: | 1984 Nova Scotia general election |
| Country: | Nova Scotia |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Party Colour: | no |
| Party Name: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1981 Nova Scotia general election |
| Previous Year: | 1981 |
| Previous Mps: | 53rd General Assembly of Nova Scotia |
| Election Date: | November 6, 1984 |
| Elected Mps: | members |
| Next Election: | 1988 Nova Scotia general election |
| Next Year: | 1988 |
| Next Mps: | 55th General Assembly of Nova Scotia |
| Seats For Election: | 52 seats of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly |
| Majority Seats: | 27 |
| Turnout: | 67.52% 6.65pp |
| Image1: | PC |
| Leader1: | John Buchanan |
| Leader Since1: | March 6, 1971 |
| Leaders Seat1: | Halifax Atlantic |
| Last Election1: | 37 |
| Seats1: | 42 |
| Seat Change1: | 5 |
| Popular Vote1: | 209,298 |
| Percentage1: | 50.41% |
| Swing1: | 3.13pp |
| Leader2: | A.M. "Sandy" Cameron |
| Leader Since2: | June 8, 1980 |
| Leaders Seat2: | (lost re-election) |
| Last Election2: | 13 |
| Seats2: | 6 |
| Seat Change2: | 7 |
| Popular Vote2: | 129,310 |
| Percentage2: | 31.15% |
| Swing2: | 1.81pp |
| Leader4: | Alexa McDonough |
| Leader Since4: | November 16, 1980 |
| Leaders Seat4: | Halifax Chebucto |
| Last Election4: | 1 |
| Seats4: | 3 |
| Seat Change4: | 2 |
| Popular Vote4: | 65,876 |
| Percentage4: | 15.87% |
| Swing4: | 2.14pp |
| Image5: | CBL |
| Leader5: | Paul MacEwan |
| Leader Since5: | 1982 |
| Leaders Seat5: | Cape Breton Nova |
| Last Election5: | New Party |
| Seats5: | 1 |
| Seat Change5: | 1 |
| Popular Vote5: | 8,322 |
| Percentage5: | 2.00% |
| Swing5: | 2.00pp |
| Premier | |
| Posttitle: | Premier after election |
| Before Election: | John Buchanan |
| After Election: | John Buchanan |
The 1984 Nova Scotia general election was held on November 6, 1984 to elect members of the 54th House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Progressive Conservative party.
| 42 | 6 | 3 | 1 | |
| Progressive Conservative | Liberal | New Democratic | Labour |
| Party leader |
| Seats | Popular vote | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | align="right" | -7 | 129,310 | 31.15% | align="right" | -1.81% | New Democratic | Alexa McDonough | 52 | 1 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 65,876 | 15.87% | align="right" | -2.14% | Cape Breton Labour | Paul MacEwan | 14 | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 8,322 | 2.00% | – | Independent | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | align="right" | -1 | 630 | 0.15% | align="right" | -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% | align="right" | -6.65% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Legend
bold denotes party leader
† denotes an incumbent who is not running for re-election or was defeated in nomination contest
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Annapolis East|||Gerry Sheehy
3,736
56.02%||Nita M. Irvine
2,011
30.15%||Joan M. Boutilier
922
13.83%|| |||||Gerry Sheehy|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Annapolis West|||Greg Kerr
2,809
53.68%||Herb Anderson
2,019
38.58%||Howard Langille
405
7.74%|||||||Greg Kerr|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Clare|||Guy LeBlanc
3,094
50.33%||Chester Melanson
2,784
45.29%||Alain Chabot
269
4.38%|||||||Chester Melanson|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Digby|||Merryl Lawton
3,451
60.66%||Paul Scovil
1,657
29.13%||Susan Jamieson
581
10.21%|||||||Joseph H. Casey†|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|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|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kings North|||George Archibald
3,655
49.57%||Bob Wilson
1,858
25.20%||Don Fraser
1,860
25.23%|||||||Edward Twohig†|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|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|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kings West|||George Moody
5,273
60.45%||Doug McKeil
2,546
29.19%||Ted Davis
904
10.36%|||||||George Moody|}
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Argyle|||Neil LeBlanc
2,894
52.51%||J. Donald Doucette
2,422
43.95%||Lawrence Meuse
195
3.54%|| |||||Hugh Tinkham†|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Lunenburg Centre|||Maxine Cochran
5,239
56.60%||Linton M. Wentzell
2,669
28.83%||Angus J. Fields
1,349
14.57%|||||||Maxine Cochran|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Lunenburg East||David Hatt
1,764
32.10%|||Jim Barkhouse
2,696
49.06%||Janet Mooney
1,035
18.84%|||||||Ron Barkhouse†|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Lunenburg West|||Mel Pickings
3,435
51.25%||Caroll W. Young
2,162
32.25%||Martha Laurence
1,106
16.50%|||||||Mel Pickings|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Queens|||John Leefe
3,661
59.92%||Hugh Mosher
1,532
25.07%||Bill Zimmerman
917
15.01%|||||||John Leefe|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|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|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Yarmouth |||Alex McIntosh
4,400
49.16%||Fraser Mooney
3,755
41.96%||Brian Doucette
795
8.88%|| |||||Fraser Mooney|}
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Colchester North|||Jack Coupar
3,796
46.65%||Ed Lorraine
3,636
44.68%||Alan M. Marchbank
706
8.68%|||||||Ed Lorraine|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|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|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cumberland Centre||Douglas Marshall
1,804
41.03%|||Guy Brown
2,436
55.40%||Stanley H. McCormick
157
3.57%|||||||Guy Brown|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cumberland East|||Roger Stuart Bacon
4,837
61.35%||Ira Drysdale
2,349
29.79%||Barbara Anne Marsden
698
8.85%|||||||Roger Stuart Bacon|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cumberland West|||Gardner Hurley
2,503
51.77%||Gary Gordon
1,845
38.16%||Sandy Graham
487
10.07%|||||||D. L. George Henley†|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Hants East|||Cora Etter
3,730
48.57%||Jack Hawkins
3,192
41.57%||Herbert H. Radley
757
9.86%|||||||Jack Hawkins|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Truro—Bible Hill|||Ron Giffin
5,008
61.03%||Kirby Eileen Grant
2,253
27.46%||Andy Belliveau
945
11.52%|||||||Ron Giffin|}
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax Bedford Basin|||Joel Matheson
5,613
47.32%||Alan Weeks
2,224
18.75%||Paul Fiander
4,024
33.93%|||||||Joel Matheson|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax Chebucto||Helen Gillis
2,630
29.85%||Dan Clarke
1,806
20.50%|||Alexa McDonough
4,374
49.65%|||||||Alexa McDonough|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax Citadel|||Art Donahoe
3,652
40.40%||John Godfrey
2,524
27.92%||Eileen O'Connell
2,864
31.68%|||||||Art Donahoe|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax Cornwallis|||Terry Donahoe
5,273
47.80%||Dale Godsoe
2,753
24.96%||Tim Hill
3,005
27.24%|||||||Terry Donahoe|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|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|}
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Bedford-Musquodoboit Valley|||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|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|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|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|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|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Sackville||Malcolm A. MacKay
2,997
26.49%||Bill MacDonald
3,763
33.26%|||John Holm
4,555
40.26%|||||||Malcolm A. MacKay|-|}
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cole Harbour|||David Nantes
5,283
61.49%||Dennis F. Cuvelier
1,614
18.78%||Les MacDougall
1,695
19.73%|||||||David Nantes|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Dartmouth East||Richard L. Weldon
3,101
33.84%|||Jim Smith
4,004
43.70%||Gerry Legere
2,058
22.46%|||||||Richard L. Weldon|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|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|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Dartmouth South|||Roland J. Thornhill
4,534
58.20%||Don Walker
1,666
21.39%||Fred Lutley
1,590
20.41%|||||||Roland J. Thornhill|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax Eastern Shore|||Tom McInnis
5,395
62.74%||Paul MacKenzie
2,151
25.01%||Kevin Wilson
1,053
12.25%|||||||Tom McInnis|-|}
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Antigonish ||Liz Chisholm
4,854
44.89%|||Bill Gillis
5,167
47.78%||Bill Woodfine
793
7.33%|||||||Bill Gillis|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Guysborough|||Chuck MacNeil
3,859
50.70%||A.M. "Sandy" Cameron
3,469
45.57%||Elsie Richard
284
3.73%|||||||A.M. "Sandy" Cameron|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Pictou Centre|||Jack MacIsaac
6,596
67.11%||Bob Leahy
2,103
21.40%||Kim Murray
1,130
11.50%|||||||Jack MacIsaac|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Pictou East|||Donald Cameron
4,367
63.75%||Scott Johnston
1,754
25.61%||Larry Duchesne
729
10.64%|||||||Donald Cameron|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|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|}
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton Centre|||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|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton East|||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|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton North|||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|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|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|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|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|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|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|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton West|||"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|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|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|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|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|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|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|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|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|}