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1886 Nova Scotia general election

Canadian provincial election

Field	Value
election_name	1886 Nova Scotia general election
country	Nova Scotia
type	parliamentary
party_colour	no
party_name	no
previous_election	1882 Nova Scotia general election
previous_year	1882
outgoing_members	28th General Assembly of Nova Scotia
election_date	June 8–15, 1886
elected_mps	[members](29th-general-assembly-of-nova-scotia)
next_election	1890 Nova Scotia general election
next_year	1890
elected_members	30th General Assembly of Nova Scotia
seats_for_election	38 seats of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly
majority_seats	20
image1	William Stevens Fielding, premier of Nova Scotia.jpg
image1_size	150x150px
colour1
leader1	William Stevens Fielding
leader_since1	1884
party1
leaders_seat1	Halifax
last_election1	24
seats1	29
seat_change1	5
popular_vote1	62,361
percentage1	54.88%
swing1	3.14pp
image2	Con
colour2
leader2	Adam Carr Bell
leader_since2	1882
party2	Liberal-Conservative
leaders_seat2	Pictou
last_election2	14
seats2	8
seat_change2	6
popular_vote2	50,149
percentage2	44.13%
swing2	3.05pp
title	Premier
posttitle	Premier after election
before_election	William Stevens Fielding
before_party
after_election	William Stevens Fielding
after_party

The 1886 Nova Scotia general election was held from 8 June to 15 June 1886 to elect members of the 29th House of Assembly of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Liberal party.

Results

Results by party

Liberal	Liberal-Conservative	Independent

Party	Party leader	# of
candidates	Seats	Popular vote	[1882](1882-nova-scotia-general-election)	Dissolution]]	Elected	Change	#	%	Change (pp)
Liberal	William Stevens Fielding	39	24	24	29	+5	62,361	54.88%	+3.14%	Liberal-Conservative	Adam Carr Bell
	Vacant	0
Total valid votes	113,630	100.00%	–
Blank and invalid ballots	0	0.00%	–
Total	78	38	38	38	–	113,630	100.00%	–

Retiring incumbents

Liberal

William Buchanan, Cape Breton
Thomas Lewis Dodge, Kings
Isidore LeBlanc, Richmond
William F. McCurdy, Victoria
William Thomas Pipes, Cumberland
Alonzo J. White, Cape Breton

Liberal-Conservative

William Blair, Colchester
John Archibald McDonald, Victoria

Nominated candidates

1886 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

|- || |James Wilberforce Longley 1,556 25.25% | |R. J. Ellison 1,531 24.85% | | ||

James Wilberforce Longley

| |Henry M. Munro 1,535 24.91% || |Frank Andrews 1,540 24.99% | | ||

Henry M. Munro

Henri M. Robicheau
1,108
42.35%

| |Robert G. Munroe 522 19.95% | | ||

Henri M. Robicheau

John S. McNeill
986
37.69%

| | | | ||

John S. McNeill

Allen Haley
1,552
25.50%

| |Allan MacDougall 1,508 24.77% | | ||

Allen Haley

Archibald Frame
1,522
25.00%

| |Nathaniel Spence 1,505 24.72% | | ||

Nathaniel Spence

| |Alfred P. Welton 1,535 24.92% || |William C. Bill 1,560 25.32% | | ||

Thomas Lewis Dodge†

Leander Rand
1,635
26.54%

| |Thomas R. Harris 1,430 23.21% | | ||

Thomas R. Harris
}

South Shore

|- || |Charles Edward Church 1,924 29.13% | |Charles A. Smith 1,475 22.33% | | ||

Charles Edward Church

George A. Ross
1,798
27.22%

| |Aubrey B. Caldwell 1,408 21.32% | | ||

George A. Ross

Jason M. Mack
787
29.25%

| |Leander Ford 622 23.11% | | ||

Jason M. Mack

Joseph H. Cook
762
28.32%

| |James C. Bartling 520 19.32% | | ||

Joseph H. Cook

Thomas Johnston
1,188
30.97%

| |Alfred K. Smith 860 22.42% | | ||

Thomas Johnston

William F. MacCoy
1,063
27.71%

| |Charles Cahan 725 18.90% | | ||

William F. MacCoy

Albert Gayton
1,643
39.43%

| | | | ||

Albert Gayton

William Law
1,745
41.88%

| |Thomas Corning 779 18.69% | | ||

Thomas Corning
}

Fundy-Northeast

|- || |George Clarke 2,053 27.47% | |S. E. Gourley 1,700 22.75% | | ||

William Blair†

Frederick Andrew Laurence
1,938
25.93%

| |William Albert Patterson 1,782 23.85% | | ||

William Albert Patterson

Thomas Reuben Black
2,083
25.15%

| |C. J. Macfarlane 1,855 22.40% | |James B. Wilson 341 4.12% ||

Thomas Reuben Black

| |George W. Forrest 1,939 23.41% || |Richard L. Black 2,064 24.92% | | ||

William Thomas Pipes†
}

Halifax

|- || |William Stevens Fielding 4,042 19.76% | |John Y. Payzant 2,816 13.76% | | ||

William Stevens Fielding

Michael Joseph Power
3,822
18.68%

| |J. N. Lyons 2,866 14.01% | | ||

Michael Joseph Power

William Roche
3,931
19.21%

| |William D. Harrington 2,981 14.57% | | ||

William D. Harrington
}

Central Nova

|- || |Angus McGillivray 1,384 34.30% | |Rod K. McDonald 482 11.95% | | ||

Angus McGillivray

Colin Francis McIsaac
1,269
31.45%

| |Charles B. Whidden 900 22.30% | | ||

Charles B. Whidden

James A. Fraser
1,036
33.67%

| |Joseph William Hadley 565 18.36% | | ||

John A. Fraser

Otto Schwartz Weeks
931
30.26%

| |J. F. L. Parsons 545 17.71% | | ||

Otto Schwartz Weeks

Jeffrey McColl
2,606
16.70%

| |Robert Hockin 2,565 16.44% | | ||

Robert Hockin

| |John D. McLeod 2,514 16.11% || |Charles H. Munro 2,578 16.52% | | ||

Charles H. Munro

| |Robert Drummond 2,498 16.01% || |Adam Carr Bell 2,844 18.22% | | ||

Adam Carr Bell
}

Cape Breton

|- | |George Henry Murray 1,253 24.13% || |Colin Chisholm 1,633 31.44% | | ||

Alonzo J. White†

| |Ronald Gillies 745 14.35% || |William MacKay 1,562 30.08% | | ||

William Buchanan†

John McKinnon
1,854
31.13%

| |Angus MacLennan 1,363 22.89% | | ||

Angus MacLennan

Daniel McNeil
1,764
29.62%

| |Alexander Campbell 974 16.36% | | ||

Alexander Campbell

| |Angus S. McLean 455 19.65% || |David A. Hearn 534 23.07% | | ||

Isidore LeBlanc†

Joseph Matheson
616
26.61%
316
13.65%
-

| |Charles LeNoir 394 17.02% |- | |John J. McCabe 385 13.21% | |Murdoch G. McLeod 463 15.89% || |John Lemuel Bethune 779 26.74% ||

John Archibald McDonald†
510
17.51%

| |John Morrison 408 14.01% |- | |John Munroe 368 12.63% |- |}

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.

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