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1878 Nova Scotia general election

Canadian provincial election

Field	Value
election_name	1878 Nova Scotia general election
country	Nova Scotia
type	parliamentary
party_colour	no
party_name	no
previous_election	1874 Nova Scotia general election
previous_year	1874
outgoing_members	26th General Assembly of Nova Scotia
election_date	September 17, 1878
elected_mps	[members](27th-general-assembly-of-nova-scotia)
next_election	1882 Nova Scotia general election
next_year	1882
elected_members	28th General Assembly of Nova Scotia
seats_for_election	38 seats of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly
majority_seats	20
image1	Simon Hugh Holmes.jpg
image1_size	150x150px
colour1
leader1	Simon Hugh Holmes
leader_since1	1874
party1	Liberal-Conservative
leaders_seat1	Pictou
last_election1	11
seats1	30
seat_change1	19
popular_vote1	52,517
percentage1	51.85%
swing1	18.18pp
image2	Lib
colour2
leader2	Philip Carteret Hill
leader_since2	1875
party2
leaders_seat2	Halifax
(Lost re-election)
last_election2	20
seats2	8
seat_change2	12
popular_vote2	47,388
percentage2	46.78%
swing2	7.61pp
title	Premier
posttitle	Premier after election
before_election	Philip Carteret Hill
before_party
after_election	Simon Hugh Holmes
after_party	Liberal-Conservative

(Lost re-election) The 1878 Nova Scotia general election was held on 17 September 1878 to elect members of the 27th House of Assembly of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Liberal-Conservative Party.

Results

Results by party

Liberal-Conservative	Liberal

Party	Party leader	# of
candidates	Seats	Popular vote	[1874](1874-nova-scotia-general-election)	Dissolution]]	Elected	Change	#	%	Change (pp)
Liberal-Conservative	Simon Hugh Holmes	38	11	13	30	+19	52,517	51.85%	+18.18%	Liberal	Philip Carteret Hill
	Vacant	1
Total valid votes	101,293	100.00%	–
Blank and invalid ballots	0	0.00%	–
Total	82	38	38	38	–	101,293	100.00%	–

Retiring incumbents

Independent/Other

Hiram Black, Cumberland
Charles Boudroit, Richmond
John J. McKinnon, Inverness
John B. North, Kings

Liberal

Charles Henry Davison, Lunenburg
Edward Farrell, Halifax
Charles M. Franchville, Guysborough
John A. Fraser, Victoria
Thomas Johnston, Shelburne
John Lovitt, Yarmouth
Daniel MacDonald, Antigonish
David McCurdy, Victoria

Liberal-Conservative

William Henry Allison, Hants
Hugh J. Cameron, Pictou
Avard Longley, Annapolis
Murdoch McRae, Richmond
Alfred Putnam, Hants
Douglas Benjamin Woodworth, Kings

Nominated candidates

1878 Nova Scotia Provincial Election

Legend

bold denotes party leader

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

Valley

|- | |O. M. Taylor 1,235 24.49% || |William Botsford Troop 1,350 26.77% | | ||

William Botsford Troop

| |E. Bent 1,163 23.06% || |Caleb Shaffner 1,295 25.68% | | ||

Avard Longley†

| |Urbine Doucette 738 20.20% 833 22.80% 725 19.85% |- | |John S. McNeill 527 14.43% |- || |Henri M. Robicheau 830 22.72% | | | | ||

Henri M. Robicheau

Thomas Barlow Smith
1,507
25.58%

| |F. S. Creelman 1,465 24.87% | | ||

William Henry Allison†

| |William Dawson Laurence 1,298 22.03% || |Nathaniel Spence 1,621 27.52% | | ||

Alfred Putnam†

| |G. W. Fisher 1,414 24.87% || |William C. Bill 1,601 28.16% | | ||

Douglas Benjamin Woodworth†

| |E. A. Forsyth 1,143 20.11% || |James S. MacDonald 1,527 26.86% | | ||

John B. North†
}

South Shore

|- | |James Daniel Eisenhauer 1,263 21.98% || |Charles A. Smith 1,719 29.91% | | ||

James Daniel Eisenhauer

| |F. B. Wade 1,286 22.38% || |Edward James 1,479 25.74% | | ||

Charles Henry Davison†

| |Samuel Freeman 531 21.33% || |Leander Ford 607 24.38% | | ||

Samuel Freeman

| |Jason M. Mack 503 20.20% 534 21.45% |- | |Albert M. Hemeon 315 12.65% |- | |William F. MacCoy 892 22.92% || |Nathaniel Whitworth White 1,140 29.29% | | ||

Nathaniel Whitworth White

| |M. Nickerson 871 22.38% || |Nehemiah McGray 989 25.41% | | ||

Thomas Johnston†

Albert Gayton
1,086
29.22%

| | | |W. V. Brown 470 12.65% ||

Albert Gayton

Joseph Robbins Kinney
1,000
26.91%
669
18.%
-

| |A. S. Lent 491 13.21% |- |}

Fundy-Northeast

|- | |C. N. Cummings 1,402 21.77% || |William Albert Patterson 1,846 28.66% | | ||

William Albert Patterson

| |Fred Tupper 1,308 20.31% || |William Blair 1,885 29.27% | | ||

Vacant

| |William Oxley 1,657 25.78% || |Charles James Townshend 1,792 27.88% | | ||

Hiram Black†

| |C. Lewis 1,311 20.40% || |Edward Vickery 1,667 25.94% | | ||

Edward Vickery
}

Halifax

|- | |Philip Carteret Hill 2,866 15.76% || |Charles James MacDonald 3,375 18.55% | | ||

Philip Carteret Hill

| |Donald Archibald 2,722 14.96% || |William D. Harrington 3,353 18.43% | | ||

Donald Archibald

| |Michael Joseph Power 2,739 15.06% || |John Pugh 3,135 17.23% | | ||

Edward Farrell†
}

Central Nova

|- | | || |John Sparrow David Thompson Acclamation | | ||

John Sparrow David Thompson

Angus McGillivray
Acclamation

| | | | ||

Daniel MacDonald†

| |D. C. Fraser 596 19.22% || |Joseph William Hadley 803 25.89% | | ||

Charles M. Franchville†

| |Otto Schwartz Weeks 502 16.19% 698 22.51% |- | |H. R. Cunningham 502 16.19% |- | |George Murray 2,349 15.85% || |Simon Hugh Holmes 2,752 18.57% | | ||

Simon Hugh Holmes

| |John D. McLeod 2,250 15.18% || |Adam Carr Bell 2,694 18.18% | | ||

Hugh J. Cameron†

| |Robert McNeil 2,183 14.73% || |Alexander MacKay 2,592 17.49% | | ||

Alexander MacKay
}

Cape Breton

|- 930 16.82% || |Hector Francis McDougall 1,027 18.57% |- | |J. H. Hearn 716 12.95% |- | |Joseph McVarish 371 6.71% |- 614 11.10% || |Ebenezer Tilton Moseley 1,523 27.54% |- | |Michael McKinnon 349 6.31% |- || |Duncan J. Campbell 1,650 27.36% | |D. Gillies 1,393 23.10% | | ||

Duncan J. Campbell

| |John McKinnon 1,440 23.88% || |Alexander Campbell 1,548 25.67% | | ||

John J. McKinnon†

Isidore LeBlanc
599
26.11%

| |Edward Gagnon 551 24.02% | | ||

Charles Boudroit†

| |Joseph Matheson 501 21.84% || |Alexander McCuish 643 28.03% | | ||

Murdoch McRae†

William F. McCurdy
594
25.36%

| |J. S. McLean 368 15.71% | |William Kidston 193 8.24% ||

David McCurdy†

| |John Ross 580 24.77% || |John Angus Morrison 607 25.92% | | ||

John A. Fraser†
}

References

"Nova Scotia Provincial Elections 1867-2016". Elections Nova Scotia.
(July 5, 2011). "Electoral Districts- History". Nova Scotia Legislature.
(July 5, 2011). "Electoral Districts- History". Nova Scotia Legislature.
Listed and elected as an Independent candidate, however, he sat in the House as a Liberal

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