1941_Nova_Scotia_general_election
The 1941 Nova Scotia general election was held on 28 October 1941 to elect members of the 42nd House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Liberal party.
Quick Facts 30 seats of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly 16 seats needed for a majority, Turnout ...
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| Turnout | 63.05%  16.62pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Results by party
| 23 | 4 | 3 |
| Liberal | Progressive Conservative | CCF |
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| Party | Party leader | # of candidates |
Seats | Popular vote | ||||||
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| 1937 | Dissolution | Elected | Change | # | % | Change (pp) | ||||
| Liberal | Angus Lewis Macdonald | 30 | 24 | 22 | -2 | 137,884 | 52.91% | -0.02% | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Frederick Murray Blois | 28 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 104,123 | 39.96% | -6.02% | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | 6 | 0 | 0 | 3 | +3 | 18,583 | 7.13% | N/A | ||
| Vacant | ||||||||||
| Total valid votes | 260,590 | 99.37% | – | |||||||
| Blank and invalid ballots | 1,651 | 0.63% | – | |||||||
| Total | 64 | 30 | 30 | 30 | – | 262,241 | 100.00% | – | ||
| Registered voters / turnout | 341,788 | 63.05%[2] | -6.23% | |||||||
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* The CCF ran in the 1933 election but did not run any candidates in 1937. The party elected 1 MLA in the 1939 Cape Breton East by-election.
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bold denotes party leader
† denotes an incumbent who is not running for re-election or was defeated in nomination contest
Valley
More information Electoral district, Candidates ...
| Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
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| Liberal | PC | CCF | ||||||
| Annapolis | John D. McKenzie 4,292 60.60% |
Hanson Taylor Dowell 2,790 39.40% |
John D. McKenzie | |||||
| Digby | Joseph William Comeau 4,818 62.34% |
James John Wallis 2,910 37.66% |
Joseph William Comeau | |||||
| Hants | Alexander Stirling MacMillan 4,871 57.56% |
Norman Dexter Blanchard 3,592 42.44% |
Alexander Stirling MacMillan | |||||
| Kings | John Alexander McDonald 6,654 62.58% |
Raymond Crosby 3,978 37.42% |
John Alexander McDonald | |||||
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South Shore
More information Electoral district, Candidates ...
| Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
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| Liberal | PC | CCF | ||||||
| Lunenburg | Frank R. Davis 6,366 29.39% |
R. Clifford Levy 4,601 21.24% |
Frank R. Davis | |||||
| Gordon E. Romkey 6,288 29.03% |
Angus J. Walters 4,404 20.33% |
Gordon E. Romkey | ||||||
| Queens | Harry Dennis Madden 2,461 50.13% |
John J. Cameron 2,448 49.87% |
John J. Cameron | |||||
| Shelburne | Wilfred Dauphinee 2,422 50.73% |
Frederick William Bower 2,352 49.27% |
Henry R. L. Bill† | |||||
| Yarmouth | Henry A. Waterman 4,551 63.02% |
Peter Lorimer Judge 2,670 36.98% |
Henry A. Waterman | |||||
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Fundy-Northeast
More information Electoral district, Candidates ...
| Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
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| Liberal | PC | CCF | ||||||
| Colchester | Alexander Murdoch Sutherland 5,160 23.74% |
Frederick Murray Blois 5,842 26.88% |
Frederick Murray Blois | |||||
| Robert F. McLellan 5,301 24.39% |
George Scott Dickey 5,432 24.99% |
George Scott Dickey | ||||||
| Cumberland | Archibald J. Mason 7,040 22.87% |
Archie B. Smith 7,954 25.84% |
Archie B. Smith | |||||
| Kenneth Judson Cochrane 7,970 25.90% |
Leonard William Fraser 7,814 25.39% |
Leonard William Fraser | ||||||
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Halifax/Dartmouth/Eastern Shore
More information Electoral district, Candidates ...
| Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
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| Liberal | PC | CCF | ||||||
| Halifax Centre | James Edward Rutledge 4,226 59.49% |
Arthur Wilfred Morton 2,878 40.51% |
James Edward Rutledge | |||||
| Halifax East | Geoffrey W. Stevens 5,094 60.39% |
Norman Dudley Murray 3,341 39.61% |
Geoffrey W. Stevens | |||||
| Halifax North | Harold Connolly 4,124 64.98% |
Helen Macdonald Lownds 1,962 30.91% |
James Ronald Clark 261 4.11% |
Harold Connolly | ||||
| Halifax South | Joseph Richard Murphy 4,381 58.75% |
Arthur James Haliburton 3,076 41.25% |
Joseph Richard Murphy | |||||
| Halifax West | Ronald Manning Fielding 4,459 58.37% |
John Shenstone Roper 3,180 41.63% |
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Central Nova
More information Electoral district, Candidates ...
| Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
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| Liberal | PC | CCF | ||||||
| Antigonish | John A. MacIsaac 2,759 61.49% |
Michael Ignatius Webb 1,728 38.51% |
Vacant | |||||
| Guysborough | Havelock Torrey 3,759 64.15% |
John Donald McIntyre 2,101 35.85% |
Havelock Torrey | |||||
| Pictou | Newton G. Munro 7,562 23.16% |
Ernest G. Irish 8,256 25.28% |
Newton G. Munro | |||||
| Josiah H. MacQuarrie 8,780 26.89% |
W. Thomas Hayden 8,055 24.67% |
Josiah H. MacQuarrie | ||||||
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Cape Breton
More information Electoral district, Candidates ...
| Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
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| Liberal | PC | CCF | ||||||
| Cape Breton Centre | Gus Brown 2,275 30.96% |
John Clifford Gregor 1,155 15.72% |
Douglas MacDonald 3,918 53.32% |
Douglas MacDonald | ||||
| Cape Breton East | Lauchlin Daniel Currie 4,052 39.44% |
Douglas Neil Brodie 6,222 60.56% |
Lauchlin Daniel Currie | |||||
| Cape Breton North | Alexander O'Handley 3,344 39.97% |
Joseph Angus MacDougall 2,387 28.53% |
Robert Silas Bartlett 2,636 31.50% |
George Belcher Murray† | ||||
| Cape Breton South | George M. Morrison 3,946 35.96% |
Donald John MacLean 3,019 27.51% |
Donald MacDonald 4,008 36.53% |
George M. Morrison | ||||
| Cape Breton West | Malcolm A. Patterson 2,306 41.10% |
John Alexander MacDonald 1,767 31.49% |
Robert Joseph Orr 1,538 27.41% |
Malcolm A. Patterson | ||||
| Inverness | Alexander H. McKinnon 5,302 63.54% |
Alexander Daniel McInnis 3,043 36.46% |
Alexander H. McKinnon | |||||
| Richmond | Donald David Boyd 2,176 50.59% |
Benjamin Amedeé LeBlanc 2,125 49.41% |
Donald David Boyd | |||||
| Victoria | John Malcolm Campbell 2,176 63.05% |
John Roderick Fraser 1,275 36.95% |
John Malcolm Campbell | |||||
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- "Election Returns 1941" (PDF). Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
- While 260,590 votes were cast, only 215,491 electors voted as electors in several districts voted for two candidates.
- Government of Nova Scotia. "Election Summary From 1867 - 2006" (PDF). Elections Statistics. Elections Nova Scotia. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 12, 2008. Retrieved December 2, 2006.