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1916 Nova Scotia general election

Canadian provincial election

Field	Value
election_name	1916 Nova Scotia general election
country	Nova Scotia
type	parliamentary
party_colour	no
party_name	no
previous_election	1911 Nova Scotia general election
previous_year	1911
outgoing_members	35th General Assembly of Nova Scotia
election_date	June 20, 1916
elected_mps	members
next_election	1920 Nova Scotia general election
next_year	1920
seats_for_election	43 seats of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly
majority_seats	22
image1	George Henry Murray (cropped).jpg
image1_size	150x150px
colour1
leader1	George Henry Murray
leader_since1	1896
party1
leaders_seat1	Victoria
last_election1	27
seats1	30
seat_change1	3
popular_vote1	136,829
percentage1	50.4%
swing1	0.7pp
image2	Charles Elliott Tanner (cropped).png
image2_size	150x150px
colour2
leader2	Charles Elliott Tanner
leader_since2	1912
party2	Liberal-Conservative
leaders_seat2	Pictou
(Lost re-election)
last_election2	11
seats2	13
seat_change2	2
popular_vote2	130,430
percentage2	48.8%
swing2	3.4pp
map_image	1916 Nova Scotia general election - Results by riding.svg
map_caption	Results by riding
title	Premier
posttitle	Premier after election
before_election	George Henry Murray
before_party
after_election	George Henry Murray
after_party

(Lost re-election) The 1916 Nova Scotia general election was held on 20 June 1916 to elect members of the 36th House of Assembly of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Liberal party.

Results

Results by party

Liberal	Liberal-Conservative

Party	Party leader	# of
candidates	Seats	Popular vote	1911	Dissolution]]	Elected	Change	#	%	Change (pp)
Liberal	George Henry Murray	43	27		30	+3	136,829	50.77%	-0.32%	Liberal-Conservative	Charles Elliott Tanner
	Vacant
Total valid votes	269,474	100.00%	–
Blank and invalid ballots	0	0.00%	–
Total	89	38	38	43	–	269,474	100.00%	–

Retiring incumbents

Liberal

Charles P. Bissett, Richmond
Archibald M. Covert, Kings
Fullton Johnson Logan, Halifax
James MacDonald, Inverness
Smith Nickerson, Shelburne

Liberal-Conservative

Harry Hatheway Marshall, Digby
Norman Phinney, Annapolis

Nominated candidates

Legend

bold denotes party leader

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

Valley

|- || |Orlando Daniels 2,149 26.34% | |Obediah Parker Goucher 2,020 24.76% | | | | ||

Orlando Daniels

Frank R. Elliott
2,077
25.46%

| |Earle C. Phinney 1,912 23.44% | | | | ||

Norman Phinney†

Henry W.B. Warner
1,903
26.81%

| |Felix M. Gaudet 1,604 22.59% | | | | ||

Harry Hatheway Marshall†

Joseph William Comeau
2,002
28.20%

| |Walton K. Tibert 1,590 22.40% | | | | ||

Joseph William Comeau

| |Burchill R. Fulmer 1,929 23.63% || |Albert Parsons 2,142 26.24% | | | | ||

Albert Parsons

James William Reid
2,051
25.13%

| |Herbert W. Sangster 2,041 25.00% | | | | ||

James William Reid

| |Charles Alexander Campbell 2,318 24.53% || |James E. Kinsman 2,421 25.62% | | | | ||

Archibald M. Covert†

Harry H. Wickwire
2,499
26.44%

| |Joseph D. Spidell 2,212 23.41% | | | | || |Harry H. Wickwire |}

South Shore

|- || |John James Kinley 2,992 26.90% | |Alfred Clairmonte Zwicker 2,082 18.72% | | | | ||

Alfred Clairmonte Zwicker

| |Oscar G. Donovan 2,768 24.88% || |Joseph Willis Margeson 3,282 29.50% | | | | ||

Joseph Willis Margeson

| |Frederick R. Freeman 977 23.33% || |William Lorimer Hall 1,116 26.65% | | | | ||

William Lorimer Hall

Jordan W. Smith
1,098
26.22%

| |D.C. Mulhall 997 23.81% | | | | ||

Jordan W. Smith

Robert Irwin
1,442
27.82%

| |Wendell H. Currie 1,205 23.24% | | | | ||

Robert Irwin

Maurice Nickerson
1,424
27.47%

| |W.C. Hall 1,113 21.47% | | | | ||

Smith Nickerson†

Ernest Howard Armstrong
1,931
28.36%

| |Joseph O. Difon 1,304 19.15% | | | | ||

Ernest Howard Armstrong

Henry d'Entremont
1,839
27.00%

| |Howard Corning 1,736 25.49% | | | | || |Howard Corning |}

Fundy-Northeast

|- | |Gilbert H. Vernon 2,212 22.62% || |Robert H. Kennedy 2,665 27.25% | | | | ||

Robert H. Kennedy

| |Frederick B. Schurman 2,158 22.07% || |Frank Stanfield 2,745 28.07% | | | | ||

Frank Stanfield

James Ralston
3,951
17.05%

| |Daniel A. Morrison 3,620 15.62% | |James B. Nelson 727 3.14% | | ||

James Ralston

| |Joshua H. Livingstone 3,554 15.33% || |James W. Kirkpatrick 3,791 16.36% | | | | ||

New seat

Rufus Carter
3,962
17.09%

| |J. Flemming Gilroy 3,572 15.41% | | | | || |Rufus Carter |}

Halifax

|- | |John Brown Douglas 6,359 9.78% || |Hector MacInnes 6,735 10.36% | | | | ||

New seat

John L. Connolly
6,545
10.06%

| |John W. Regan 6,387 9.82% | | | | ||

New seat

George Everett Faulkner
6,606
10.16%

| |Felix P. Quinn 6,370 9.79% | | | | ||

George Everett Faulkner

Henry Bauld
6,855
10.54%

| |E.F. Williams 6,266 9.63% | | | | ||

Fullton Johnson Logan†

Robert Emmett Finn
6,703
10.31%

| |F.P. Bligh 6,213 9.55% | | | | || |Robert Emmett Finn |}

Central Nova

|- || |Fred Robert Trotter 1,300 27.16% | |Allan MacDonald 953 19.91% | | | | ||

Fred Robert Trotter

William Chisholm
1,366
28.54%

| |John Stanfield O'Brien 1,167 24.38% | | | | ||

John Stanfield O'Brien

James F. Ellis
1,752
29.65%

| |John Bell 1,093 18.50% | | | | ||

James F. Ellis

James Cranswick Tory
1,827
30.92%

| |Duncan S. Chisholm 1,236 20.92% | | | | ||

James Cranswick Tory

Robert M. McGregor
4,555
17.68%

| |John W. McKay 4,210 16.34% | |John B. Strickland 450 1.75% | | ||

Robert M. McGregor

Robert Hugh MacKay
4,309
16.73%

| |J. William Sutherland 3,557 13.81% | | | | ||

Robert Hugh MacKay

Robert Henry Graham
4,512
17.52%

| |Charles Elliott Tanner 4,165 16.17% | | | | || |Charles Elliott Tanner |}

Cape Breton

|- | |D.J. Hartigan 6,764 12.11% || |Neil Ferguson 6,885 12.33% | | | |J. B. McLachlan (Socialist) 1,038 1.86% ||

New seat

| |D.C. McDonald 6,692 11.98% || |Robert Hamilton Butts 6,935 12.42% | | | | ||

Robert Hamilton Butts

Daniel Alexander Cameron
7,036
12.60%

| |Finlay McDonald 6,721 12.04% | | | | ||

New seat

| |Michael T. Sullivan 6,390 11.44% || |John Carey Douglas 7,381 13.22% | | | | ||

John Carey Douglas

Donald MacLennan
2,655
26.65%

| |Thomas Gallant 2,531 25.40% | | | | ||

Donald MacLennan

John C. Bourinot
2,540
25.49%

| |Duncan F. MacLean 2,238 22.46% | | | | ||

James MacDonald†

| |Simon Joyce 918 19.60% || |Benjamin Amedeé LeBlanc 1,388 29.63% | | | | ||

Simon Joyce

| |Alexander Finlayson 994 21.22% || |John Alexander MacDonald 1,384 29.55% | | | | ||

Charles P. Bissett†

George Henry Murray
1,212
27.80%

| |Joseph Hays 886 20.32% | | | | ||

George Henry Murray

John Gillis Morrison
1,189
27.27%

| |Phillip McLeod 1,073 24.61% | | | | || |Vacant |}

References

"Nova Scotia Provincial Elections 1867-2016". Elections Nova Scotia.
"Electoral Districts- History". Nova Scotia Legislature.

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