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1920 Nova Scotia general election

Canadian provincial election

Field	Value
election_name	1920 Nova Scotia general election
country	Nova Scotia
type	parliamentary
party_colour	no
party_name	no
previous_election	1916 Nova Scotia general election
previous_year	1916
outgoing_members	36th General Assembly of Nova Scotia
election_date	July 27, 1920
elected_mps	members
next_election	1925 Nova Scotia general election
next_year	1925
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	30
seats1	29
seat_change1	1
popular_vote1	154,627
percentage1	44.4%
swing1	6.0pp
image2	UF
colour2
leader2	Daniel George McKenzie
leader_since2	January 20, 1920
party2
leaders_seat2	Ran in Cumberland (Won)
last_election2	New party
seats2	6
seat_change2	6
popular_vote2	47,798
percentage2	14.0%
swing2	New party
image4	Lab
colour4
leader4	No leader
party4
last_election4	0
seats4	5
seat_change4	5
popular_vote4	64,495
percentage4	16.9%
swing4	16.5pp
image5	Con
colour5
leader5	William Lorimer Hall
leader_since5	June 29, 1922
party5	Liberal-Conservative
leaders_seat5	Queens
(Lost re-election)
last_election5	13
seats5	3
seat_change5	10
popular_vote5	81,044
percentage5	24.7%
swing5	24.1pp
title	Premier
posttitle	Premier after election
before_election	George Henry Murray
before_party
after_election	George Henry Murray
after_party

(Lost re-election) The 1920 Nova Scotia general election was held on 27 July 1920 to elect members of the 37th House of Assembly of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. The Liberal party won a majority of seats in the Legislaure with only 44 percent of the vote.

This was the first general election in which women could vote and run for office.

Members were elected in multi-member districts electing from two to five members each, through plurality block voting.

Results

Results by party

Liberal	United Farmers	Labour	Liberal-Conservative

Party	Party leader	# of
candidates	Seats	Popular vote	1916	Dissolution]]	Elected	Change	#	%	Change (pp)
Liberal	George Henry Murray	40	30		29	-1	154,627	44.44%	-6.34%	Liberal-Conservative	William Lorimer Hall
	Vacant
Total valid votes	347,964	100.00%	–
Blank and invalid ballots	0	0.00%	–
Total	100	43	43	43	–	347,964	100.00%	–

Retiring incumbents

Liberal

James F. Ellis, Guysborough
George Everett Faulkner, Halifax
Robert Hugh MacKay, Pictou
Fred Robert Trotter, Antigonish

Liberal-Conservative

Neil Ferguson, Cape Breton
James W. Kirkpatrick, Cumberland
Hector MacInnes, Halifax
Frank Stanfield, Colchester

Nominated candidates

Legend

bold denotes party leader

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

Valley

|- || |Frank R. Elliott 3,330 27.90% | | | |Vernon B. Leonard 2,512 21.05% | | ||

Frank R. Elliott

Orlando Daniels
3,630
30.41%

| | | |Edgar C. Shaffner 2,463 20.64% | | ||

Orlando Daniels

Henry W.B. Warner
2,997
30.93%

| | | |Glidden Campbell 1,835 18.94% | | ||

Henry W.B. Warner

Joseph William Comeau
3,165
32.67%

| | | |Emede Robicheau 1,692 17.46% | | ||

Joseph William Comeau

| | | |Albert Parsons 2,083 21.06% || |John Alexander MacDonald 2,179 22.03% | |Wiley V. Davison 998 10.09% ||

Albert Parsons

James William Reid
3,035
30.69%

| | | |Walter J. Aylword 1,594 16.12% | | ||

James William Reid

John Alexander McDonald
4,705
28.21%

| |James E. Kinsman 3,622 21.71% | | | | ||

James E. Kinsman

Harry H. Wickwire
4,917
29.48%

| |C.R. Bill 3,437 20.60% | | | | || |Harry H. Wickwire |}

South Shore

|- || |John James Kinley 4,900 30.24% | |Lemeau J. Hebb 3,237 19.98% | | | | ||

John James Kinley

Aubrey Sperry
4,795
29.60%

| |Foster W. Verge 3,270 20.18% | | | | ||

Vacant

George S. McClearn
1,607
26.15%

| |William Lorimer Hall 1,485 24.17% | | | | ||

William Lorimer Hall

Jordan W. Smith
1,737
28.27%

| |Robert Smith 1,316 21.42% | | | | ||

Jordan W. Smith

Robert Irwin
1,917
28.64%

| |William T. Brannen 1,623 24.25% | | | | ||

Robert Irwin

Frank E. Smith
1,774
26.51%

| |Wendell H. Currie 1,379 20.60% | | | | ||

Frank E. Smith

| |Ernest Howard Armstrong 3,052 31.55% || |Howard Corning 3,416 35.31% | | | | ||

Ernest Howard Armstrong

Amédée Melanson
3,207
33.15%

| | | | | | || |Vacant |}

Fundy-Northeast

|- | | | |Robert H. Kennedy 3,096 23.33% || |Harry L. Taggart 3,430 25.84% | | ||

Robert H. Kennedy

| | | |William R. Dunbar 3,213 24.21% || |Robert Hunter Smith 3,533 26.62% | | ||

Frank Stanfield†

| |James Ralston 4,486 14.55% | |Grace McLeod Rogers 2,470 8.01% | | || |Archibald Terris 4,716 15.30% ||

James Ralston

| |Varley B. Fullerton 2,659 8.63% | |Percy L. Spicer 1,864 6.05% || |Gilbert Nelson Allen 4,934 16.01% | | ||

James W. Kirkpatrick†

| |Rufus Carter 3,215 10.43% | |Everett C. Leslie 1,714 5.56% || |Daniel George McKenzie 4,766 15.46% | | || |Rufus Carter |}

Halifax

|- || |Adam Dunlap Burris 5,936 9.07% | |John B. Archibald 4,045 6.18% | |Joseph S. Wallace 3,409 5.21% | |Ronald A. McDonald 3,369 5.15% ||

Hector MacInnes†

John L. Connolly
5,817
8.89%

| |Robert A. Brenton 3,860 5.90% | |Peter McN. Kuhn 3,165 4.83% | |Patrick J. Healy 3,336 5.10% ||

John L. Connolly

John Brown Douglas
6,057
9.25%

| |Frederick W. Stevens 3,642 5.56% | | | |Joseph H. McKenzie 3,157 4.82% ||

George Everett Faulkner†

Henry Bauld
6,554
10.01%

| |Francis A. Gillis 3,595 5.49% | | | | ||

Henry Bauld

Robert Emmett Finn
6,285
9.60%

| |Edward L. Power 3,236 4.94% | | | | || |Robert Emmett Finn |}

Central Nova

|- | |Alexander Stirling MacMillan 1,725 23.65% | | || |Angus J. MacGillivray 1,804 24.73% | | ||

Fred Robert Trotter†

William Chisholm
2,059
28.23%

| | | |Fred R. Irish 1,706 23.39% | | ||

William Chisholm

Clarence W. Anderson
2,359
30.36%

| | | |D.P. Floyd 1,483 19.09% | | ||

James F. Ellis†

James Cranswick Tory
2,619
33.71%

| | | |J.A. Dillon 1,309 16.85% | | ||

James Cranswick Tory

Robert M. McGregor
6,056
15.78%

| |John Bell 4,416 11.51% | |Alexander D. MacKay 5,984 15.59% | |Henry D. Fraser 6,012 15.66% ||

Robert M. McGregor

John Welsford MacDonald
6,287
16.38%

| | | | | |Bertha A. Donaldson 2,930 7.63% ||

Robert Hugh MacKay†

Robert Henry Graham
6,696
17.45%

| | | | | | || |Robert Henry Graham |}

Cape Breton

|- | |W.F. Carroll 6,471 9.08% | |Neil R. McArthur 2,809 3.94% | | || |Joseph Steele 9,800 13.75% ||

Neil Ferguson†

| |A.B. MacGillivray 5,334 7.49% | |A.C. MacCormick 2,749 3.86% | | || |Arthur R. Richardson 9,177 12.88% ||

Vacant

| |Daniel Alexander Cameron 5,729 8.04% | |Ewen MacKay Forbes 2,343 3.29% | | || |Forman Waye 9,407 13.20% ||

Daniel Alexander Cameron

| |N. MacDonald 5,270 7.40% | |Charles B. Smith 2,338 3.28% | | || |D. W. Morrison 9,830 13.80% ||

Vacant

Donald MacLennan
3,461
26.32%

| |Moses Elijah McGarry 2,643 20.10% | | | |John J. McNeil 1,763 13.40% ||

Donald MacLennan

John C. Bourinot
3,204
24.36%

| |Malcolm McKay 2,081 15.82% | | | | ||

John C. Bourinot

| |G.H. Murray 1,761 24.35% || |Benjamin Amedeé LeBlanc 1,823 25.20% | | | | ||

Benjamin Amedeé LeBlanc

| |George R. Deveau 1,728 23.89% || |John Alexander MacDonald 1,921 26.56% | | | | ||

John Alexander MacDonald

George Henry Murray
2,078
32.42%

| |Guy McL. Matheson 1,109 17.30% | | | | ||

George Henry Murray

Angus Gladstone Buchanan
2,013
31.41%

| |Phillip McLeod 1,209 18.86% | | | | || |Vacant |}

References

Notes

References

[https://nslegislature.ca/about/history/history-voting-nova-scotia History of Voting in Nova Scotia]
"Nova Scotia Provincial Elections 1867-2016". Elections Nova Scotia.
(July 5, 2011). "Electoral Districts- History". Nova Scotia Legislature.

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