1960 Nova Scotia general election
Appearance
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43 seats of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly 22 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Turnout | 82.02% 2.19pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1960 Nova Scotia general election was held on 7 June 1960 to elect members of the 47th House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Progressive Conservatives.
Results
[edit]Results by party
[edit]27 | 15 | 1 |
Progressive Conservative | Liberal | CCF |
Party | Party leader | # of candidates |
Seats | Popular vote | ||||||
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1956 | Dissolution | Elected | Change | # | % | Change (pp) | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Robert Stanfield | 43 | 24 | 24 | 27 | +3 | 168,023 | 48.11% | -0.44% | |
Liberal | Henry Hicks | 43 | 18 | 17 | 15 | -3 | 147,951 | 42.36% | -5.29% | |
Co-operative Commonwealth | Michael James MacDonald | 34 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 31,036 | 8.89% | +5.94% | |
Independent | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 650 | 0.19% | -0.05% | ||
Vacant | 1 | |||||||||
Total valid votes | 347,660 | 99.54% | +0.15% | |||||||
Blank and invalid ballots | 1,596 | 0.46% | -0.15% | |||||||
Total | 121 | 43 | 43 | 43 | – | 349,256 | 100.00% | – | ||
Registered voters / turnout | 388,805 | 82.02%[3] | +2.19% |
Retiring incumbents
[edit]- Liberal
- Progressive Conservative
Nominated candidates
[edit]Legend
bold denotes party leader
† denotes an incumbent who is not running for re-election or was defeated in nomination contest
Valley
[edit]Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
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PC | Liberal | CCF | Independent | |||||||
Annapolis East | Hanson Dowell 2,666 48.69% |
Henry Hicks 2,658 48.55% |
Murray Alton Bent 151 2.76% |
Henry Hicks | ||||||
Annapolis West | Charles T. LeBrun 2,068 42.74% |
Peter M. Nicholson 2,571 53.14% |
Louis A. Beeler 199 4.11% |
Peter M. Nicholson | ||||||
Clare | Kenneth Weaver 2,034 47.87% |
Pierre E. Belliveau 2,215 52.13% |
Pierre E. Belliveau | |||||||
Digby | E. Keith Potter 2,593 48.15% |
Victor Cardoza 2,651 49.23% |
Foster Journeay 141 2.62% |
Malcolm Stewart Leonard† | ||||||
Hants West | George Henry Wilson 3,623 49.27% |
Gerald Regan 3,412 46.40% |
Howard B. Wile 319 4.34% |
George Henry Wilson | ||||||
Kings North | Gladys Porter 3,060 51.19% |
Eric Balcom 2,782 46.54% |
Levitte Joseph Melanson 136 2.28% |
Eric Balcom | ||||||
Kings South | Edward Haliburton 2,388 57.29% |
Bruce Trenholm 1,581 37.93% |
George R. Goucher 199 4.77% |
Edward Haliburton | ||||||
Kings West | R.F. Hazel 3,425 45.18% |
Edward D. MacArthur 3,937 51.93% |
George Turner 219 2.89% |
Hiram Thomas† |
South Shore
[edit]Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
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PC | Liberal | CCF | Independent | |||||||
Lunenburg Centre | George O. Lohnes 4,384 52.25% |
Nathan Simeon Joudrey 3,832 45.67% |
Arthur William Benedict 175 2.09% |
George O. Lohnes | ||||||
Lunenburg East | Maurice L. Zinck 2,140 58.37% |
Kirk S. Hennigar 1,405 38.33% |
Albro Boehner 121 3.30% |
Maurice L. Zinck | ||||||
Lunenburg West | Harley J. Spence 2,858 52.94% |
Frederick E.L. Fowke 2,541 47.06% |
Harley J. Spence | |||||||
Queens | W. S. Kennedy Jones 3,770 59.04% |
Della P. Richardson 2,616 40.96% |
W. S. Kennedy Jones | |||||||
Shelburne | James McKay Harding 3,539 52.94% |
William Russell MacKay 3,146 47.06% |
James McKay Harding | |||||||
Yarmouth | George A. Burridge 4,811 24.82% |
Eric Spinney 4,309 22.23% |
Willard Franklyn Allen 650 3.35% |
Eric Spinney | ||||||
George A. Snow 4,578 23.62% |
Willard O'Brien 5,037 25.98% |
Willard O'Brien |
Fundy-Northeast
[edit]Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
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PC | Liberal | CCF | Independent | |||||||
Colchester | Robert Stanfield 8,574 28.82% |
Hugh Charles MacKinnon 5,439 18.28% |
Harvey T. Curtis 704 2.37% |
Robert Stanfield | ||||||
George Isaac Smith 8,219 27.62% |
Gordon Purdy 6,127 20.59% |
Helen K. Wright 692 2.33% |
George Isaac Smith | |||||||
Cumberland Centre | Stephen T. Pyke 2,308 52.91% |
Ralph F. Gilroy 1,753 40.19% |
John R. Tabor 301 6.90% |
Stephen T. Pyke | ||||||
Cumberland East | James A. Langille 5,081 57.08% |
Walter T. Purdy 3,471 39.00% |
Lloyd L. Ayer 349 3.92% |
James A. Langille | ||||||
Cumberland West | George Percy Graham 2,219 45.79% |
Allison T. Smith 2,418 49.90% |
Thomas Alton Johnstone 209 4.31% |
Allison T. Smith | ||||||
Hants East | Ernest M. Ettinger 2,426 49.50% |
Carl Spencer Grant 2,207 45.03% |
Alfred James Scothorn 268 5.47% |
Ernest M. Ettinger |
Halifax/Dartmouth/Eastern Shore
[edit]Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
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PC | Liberal | CCF | Independent | |||||||
Halifax Centre | Donald MacKeen Smith 4,921 48.01% |
Gordon S. Cowan 4,651 45.38% |
James M. Murray 678 6.61% |
Gordon S. Cowan | ||||||
Halifax County-Dartmouth | Murray Ritcey 7,653 43.05% |
Gordon L. S. Hart 8,258 46.46% |
Percy W. Dares 1,864 10.49% |
Geoffrey W. Stevens† | ||||||
Halifax East | Nelson Gaetz 2,432 44.06% |
Duncan MacMillan 2,787 50.49% |
Wallace H. Mason 301 5.45% |
Duncan MacMillan | ||||||
Halifax North | Robert Mullane 7,444 44.09% |
John E. Ahern 7,974 47.23% |
Charles A. Moulton 1,466 8.68% |
John E. Ahern | ||||||
Halifax Northwest | Gordon H. Fitzgerald 4,209 46.55% |
Ronald Manning Fielding 4,182 46.26% |
L.C. Wilson 650 7.19% |
Ronald Manning Fielding | ||||||
Halifax South | Richard Donahoe 5,861 54.65% |
Robert James Butler 4,302 40.12% |
Ralph Loomer 561 5.23% |
Richard Donahoe | ||||||
Halifax West | D. C. McNeil 6,684 45.06% |
Charles H. Reardon 6,925 46.68% |
Harold J. Martell 1,225 8.26% |
Charles H. Reardon |
Central Nova
[edit]Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
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PC | Liberal | CCF | Independent | |||||||
Antigonish | William F. MacKinnon 3,177 54.77% |
Vincent J. MacDonald 2,495 43.01% |
Alex MacPherson 129 2.22% |
William F. MacKinnon | ||||||
Guysborough | Alexander MacIsaac 3,123 49.98% |
Norman Robert Anderson 2,934 46.95% |
Leslie Wilfred Myers 192 3.07% |
Vacant | ||||||
Pictou Centre | Donald R. MacLeod 4,755 43.92% |
James H. Power 3,615 33.39% |
Doris Nicholson 2,456 22.69% |
Donald R. MacLeod | ||||||
Pictou East | William A. MacLeod 2,424 44.55% |
John W. MacDonald 2,568 47.20% |
Barrie M. Hould 449 8.25% |
William A. MacLeod | ||||||
Pictou West | Harvey Veniot 2,744 52.28% |
W.A. Broidy 2,353 44.83% |
W.E. Salsman 152 2.90% |
Harvey Veniot |
Cape Breton
[edit]Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
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PC | Liberal | CCF | Independent | |||||||
Cape Breton Centre | Lowell Murray 1,964 27.19% |
James P. McNeil 1,887 26.13% |
Michael James MacDonald 3,371 46.68% |
Michael James MacDonald | ||||||
Cape Breton East | Layton Fergusson 4,862 45.56% |
Joe A. Wadden 1,567 14.68% |
John L. MacKinnon 4,243 39.76% |
Layton Fergusson | ||||||
Cape Breton North | Tom MacKeough 5,257 46.83% |
Ted Sullivan 3,094 27.56% |
Thomas R. MacDonald 2,875 25.61% |
John Michael Macdonald† | ||||||
Cape Breton Nova | Percy Gaum 2,525 36.93% |
Wilfred Gillis 2,094 30.63% |
Albert Ollie Wilson 2,218 32.44% |
Percy Gaum | ||||||
Cape Breton South | Donald C. MacNeil 5,153 46.23% |
Ritchie MacCoy 3,718 33.36% |
Bernard O'Neil 2,275 20.41% |
Donald C. MacNeil | ||||||
Cape Breton West | Edward Manson 4,192 45.37% |
Herbert Shannon 3,652 39.53% |
John R. Lynk 1,395 15.10% |
Edward Manson | ||||||
Inverness | Archie Neil Chisholm 3,923 24.43% |
Joseph Clyde Nunn 4,113 25.62% |
Stephen James MacLellan 353 2.20% |
Joseph Clyde Nunn | ||||||
Ralph Mauger MacKichan 3,648 22.72% |
Roderick MacLean 4,018 25.03% |
Roderick MacLean | ||||||||
Richmond | Byron Seymour Langley 2,491 48.89% |
Earl Wallace Urquhart 2,604 51.11% |
Earl Wallace Urquhart | |||||||
Victoria | Leonard Walter Jones 1,817 46.96% |
Carleton L. MacMillan 2,052 53.04% |
Carleton L. MacMillan |
References
[edit]- ^ "Election Returns 1960" (PDF). Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
- ^ "Election Returns 1960 Recapitulation" (PDF). Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
- ^ While 349,256 votes were cast, only 318,900 electors voted as Colchester, Inverness and Yarmouth electors voted for two candidates.
Further reading
[edit]- Saywell, John T., ed. (1961). Canadian Annual Review for 1960. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.