1953_Nova_Scotia_general_election
The 1953 Nova Scotia general election was held on 26 May 1953 to elect members of the 45th House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Liberal party.
Quick Facts 37 seats of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly 19 seats needed for a majority, Turnout ...
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37 seats of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly 19 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 75.79%  1.88pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Results by party
| 23 | 12 | 2 |
| Liberal | Progressive Conservative | CCF |
More information Party, Party leader ...
| Party | Party leader | # of candidates |
Seats | Popular vote | ||||||
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| 1949 | Dissolution | Elected | Change | # | % | Change (pp) | ||||
| Liberal | Angus Lewis Macdonald | 37 | 27 | 27 | 23 | -4 | 169,894 | 48.92% | –2.05% | |
| Progressive Conservative | Robert Stanfield | 37 | 8 | 8 | 12 | +4 | 149,973 | 43.18% | +3.97% | |
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Russell Cunningham | 16 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 23,700 | 6.82% | –2.78% | |
| Independent | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2,065 | 0.59% | +0.37% | ||
| Vacant | 0 | |||||||||
| Total valid votes | 345,632 | 99.52% | +0.06% | |||||||
| Blank and invalid ballots | 1,658 | 0.48% | –0.06% | |||||||
| Total | 91 | 37 | 37 | 37 | – | 347,290 | 100.00% | – | ||
| Registered voters / turnout | 370,293 | 75.79%[3] | -1.88% | |||||||
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Results by region
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| Party name | HRM | Cape Breton | Annapolis Valley | South Shore | Fundy-Northeast | Central Nova | Total | ||
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| Parties winning seats in the legislature | |||||||||
| Liberal | Seats: | 5 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 23 | |
| Popular vote: | 55.44% | 46.98% | 49.91% | 45.58% | 47.95% | 49.25% | 48.92% | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Seats: | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 12 | |
| Popular vote: | 40.96% | 30.13% | 50.09% | 53.49% | 49.56% | 39.00% | 43.18% | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Seats: | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Popular vote: | 3.60% | 22.89% | – | 0.93% | 2.49% | 5.61% | 6.82% | ||
| Parties not winning seats in the legislature | |||||||||
| Independent | Popular vote: | – | – | – | – | – | 6.14% | 0.59% | |
| Total seats: | 5 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 37 | ||
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† 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 | Independent | |||||||
| Annapolis | Henry Hicks 5,006 51.55% |
Charles F. LeBrun 4,705 48.45% |
Henry Hicks | |||||||
| Clare | Pierre E. Belliveau 2,307 58.46% |
Desire J. Comeau 1,639 41.54% |
Desire J. Comeau | |||||||
| Digby | Victor Cardoza 2,770 52.40% |
Malcolm Stewart Leonard 2,516 47.60% |
E. Keith Potter† | |||||||
| Hants West | Ken Eisner 3,120 46.37% |
George Henry Wilson 3,608 53.63% |
George Henry Wilson | |||||||
| Kings | David Durell Sutton 7,245 24.63% |
George Arthur Boggs 7,481 25.43% |
David Durell Sutton | |||||||
| William H. Pipe 7,047 23.96% |
Edward Haliburton 7,642 25.98% |
William H. Pipe | ||||||||
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South Shore
More information Electoral district, Candidates ...
| Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
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| Liberal | PC | CCF | Independent | |||||||
| Lunenburg | Arthur L. Thurlow 6,940 21.53% |
R. Clifford Levy 8,727 27.07% |
Winfred Llewellyn 204 0.63% |
Arthur L. Thurlow | ||||||
| Gordon E. Romkey 7,381 22.90% |
Harley J. Spence 8,741 27.12% |
G. Boyd Crouse 241 0.75% |
Gordon E. Romkey | |||||||
| Queens | Merrill D. Rawding 2,838 45.77% |
W. S. Kennedy Jones 3,230 52.09% |
Claude VanBuskirk 133 2.14% |
Merrill D. Rawding | ||||||
| Shelburne | Wilfred Dauphinee 3,256 51.20% |
James McKay Harding 3,103 48.80% |
Wilfred Dauphinee | |||||||
| Yarmouth | Allan d'Entremont 4,067 23.59% |
William Heartz Brown 4,859 28.18% |
William Heartz Brown | |||||||
| Donald J. Fraser 3,790 21.98% |
Raymond Z. Bourque 4,524 26.24% |
Donald J. Fraser | ||||||||
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Fundy-Northeast
More information Electoral district, Candidates ...
| Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
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| Liberal | PC | CCF | Independent | |||||||
| Colchester | Gordon Purdy 7,255 24.20% |
Robert Stanfield 7,677 25.61% |
Harvey Curtis 324 1.08% |
Robert Stanfield | ||||||
| Hector Hill 6,963 23.23% |
George Isaac Smith 7,435 24.80% |
Sydney Parker 326 1.09% |
George Isaac Smith | |||||||
| Cumberland Centre | Archibald J. Mason 2,012 40.65% |
Stephen T. Pyke 2,262 45.70% |
Florence Welton 676 13.66% |
Archibald J. Mason | ||||||
| Cumberland East | Martin J. Kaufman 4,214 48.96% |
James A. Langille 4,393 51.04% |
Martin J. Kaufman | |||||||
| Cumberland West | Allison T. Smith 2,799 54.55% |
Thomas A. Giles 2,332 45.45% |
Thomas A. Giles | |||||||
| Hants East[4] | Alfred E. Reid 2,251 50.01% |
Ernest M. Ettinger 2,250 49.99% |
Ernest M. Ettinger | |||||||
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Halifax/Dartmouth/Eastern Shore
More information Electoral district, Candidates ...
| Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
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| Liberal | PC | CCF | Independent | |||||||
| Halifax Centre | James Edward Rutledge 5,603 57.69% |
R. Leo Simmonds 4,109 42.31% |
James Edward Rutledge | |||||||
| Halifax East | Geoffrey W. Stevens 8,436 50.83% |
Lt. Col. R.D. King 7,196 43.36% |
Harper Power 964 5.81% |
Geoffrey W. Stevens | ||||||
| Halifax North | Harold Connolly 8,148 61.37% |
Harold J. Bartlow 4,481 33.75% |
Richard J. Hardiman 648 4.88% |
Harold Connolly | ||||||
| Halifax South | Angus Lewis Macdonald 5,751 59.68% |
John R. Milledge 3,885 40.32% |
Angus Lewis Macdonald | |||||||
| Halifax West | Ronald Manning Fielding 8,061 51.31% |
Earle Haverstock 6,927 44.09% |
L.C. Wilson 723 4.60% |
Ronald Manning Fielding | ||||||
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Central Nova
More information Electoral district, Candidates ...
| Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
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| Liberal | PC | CCF | Independent | |||||||
| Antigonish | Colin H. Chisholm 2,624 48.92% |
Terrance Bernard Thompson 675 12.58% |
Vincent J. MacDonald 2,065 38.50% |
Colin H. Chisholm | ||||||
| Guysborough | Arthur W. MacKenzie 3,470 56.29% |
A. Grant MacDonald 2,694 43.71% |
Arthur W. MacKenzie | |||||||
| Pictou Centre | Alfred B. DeWolfe 5,155 45.41% |
Robert D. MacDonald 4,534 39.94% |
Donald Nicholson 1,662 14.64% |
Alfred B. DeWolfe | ||||||
| Pictou East | John W. MacDonald 2,681 48.78% |
William A. MacLeod 2,592 47.16% |
Joseph D. Ryan 223 4.06% |
John W. MacDonald | ||||||
| Pictou West | Stewart W. Proudfoot 2,628 50.09% |
Harvey Veniot 2,619 49.91% |
Stewart W. Proudfoot | |||||||
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Cape Breton
More information Electoral district, Candidates ...
| Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
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| Liberal | PC | CCF | Independent | |||||||
| Cape Breton Centre | Martin MacPherson 2,816 30.70% |
Charles P. Miller 1,905 20.77% |
Michael James MacDonald 4,451 48.53% |
Michael James MacDonald | ||||||
| Cape Breton East | Joseph McIntyre 3,934 37.88% |
William Wilton 1,356 13.06% |
Russell Cunningham 5,096 49.07% |
Russell Cunningham | ||||||
| Cape Breton North | Alexander O'Handley 4,674 47.45% |
John Norman MacAskill 3,115 31.62% |
Daniel Joseph MacEachern 2,062 20.93% |
Alexander O'Handley | ||||||
| Cape Breton South | John Smith MacIvor 6,467 44.67% |
A.O. Gunn 3,384 23.38% |
Vincent Allan Morrison 4,625 31.95% |
John Smith MacIvor | ||||||
| Cape Breton West | Malcolm A. Patterson 3,730 48.86% |
Edward Manson 2,562 33.56% |
Harry Munroe 1,342 17.58% |
Malcolm A. Patterson | ||||||
| Inverness | Alexander H. McKinnon 4,725 29.17% |
Leo P. Boudreau 3,585 22.13% |
Alexander H. McKinnon | |||||||
| Roderick MacLean 4,513 27.86% |
Alex A. MacInnis 3,374 20.83% |
Roderick MacLean | ||||||||
| Richmond | Earl Wallace Urquhart 2,970 58.30% |
Francis Whyte 2,124 41.70% |
Earl Wallace Urquhart | |||||||
| Victoria | Carleton L. MacMillan 2,247 56.47% |
Joseph L. MacNeil 1,732 43.53% |
Carleton L. MacMillan | |||||||
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- 16 November 1954 deferred by-election for Hants East seat, won by Liberal candidate
- "Election Returns 1953" (PDF). Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved November 20, 2021.
- While 347,290 votes were cast, only 280,661 electors voted as electors in several districts voted for two candidates.
- In the riding of Hants East, Progressive Conservative Ernest M. Ettinger's 1-vote lead on election lead became a 1-vote lead for the Liberal's Alfred E. Reid after a judicial recount. 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 Reid.