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1928 Nova Scotia general election

Canadian provincial election

Field	Value
election_name	1928 Nova Scotia general election
country	Nova Scotia
type	parliamentary
party_colour	no
party_name	no
previous_election	1925 Nova Scotia general election
previous_year	1925
outgoing_members	38th General Assembly of Nova Scotia
election_date	October 1, 1928
elected_mps	members
next_election	1933 Nova Scotia general election
next_year	1933
seats_for_election	43 seats of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly
majority_seats	22
image1	Edgar Nelson Rhodes (cropped).jpg
image1_size	150x150px
colour1
leader1	Edgar Nelson Rhodes
leader_since1	May 21, 1925
party1	Liberal-Conservative
leaders_seat1	Hants
last_election1	39
seats1	22
seat_change1	17
popular_vote1	210,442
percentage1	51.7%
swing1	9.97pp
image2	William Chisholm (cropped).jpg
image2_size	150x150px
colour2
leader2	William Chisholm
leader_since2	1925
party2
leaders_seat2	Antigonish
last_election2	3
seats2	20
seat_change2	17
popular_vote2	206,541
percentage2	47.2%
swing2	11.90pp
image3	Lab
colour3
leader3	No leader
party3
last_election3	1
seats3	1
seat_change3
popular_vote3	11,529
percentage3	1.1%
swing3	1.93pp
title	Premier
posttitle	Premier after election
before_election	Edgar Nelson Rhodes
before_party	Liberal-Conservative
after_election	Edgar Nelson Rhodes
after_party	Liberal-Conservative

The 1928 Nova Scotia general election was held on 1 October 1928 to elect members of the 39th 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	Labour

Party	Party leader	# of
candidates	Seats	Popular vote	1925	Dissolution]]	Elected	Change	#	%	Change (pp)
Liberal-Conservative	Edgar Nelson Rhodes	42	39		22	-17	210,442	49.11%	-9.97%	Liberal	William Chisholm
	Vacant
Total valid votes	428,512	100.00%	–
Blank and invalid ballots	0	0.00%	–
Total	88	43	43	43	–	428,512	100.00%	–

Retiring incumbents

**Liberal-Conservative **

William Boardman Armstrong, Colchester
William Hudson Farnham, Digby
Alexander Montgomerie, Halifax
Alexander O'Handley, Cape Breton East
William Drysdale Piercey, Halifax

Nominated candidates

Legend

bold denotes party leader

† denotes an incumbent who is not running for re-election or was defeated in nomination contest 0

Valley

|- || |Obediah Parker Goucher 3,689 25.90% | |John D. McKenzie 3,450 24.22% | | ||

Obediah Parker Goucher

Harry Thompson MacKenzie
3,645
25.59%

| |Daniel Owen 3,461 24.30% | | ||

Harry Thompson MacKenzie

| |Jean-Louis Philippe Robicheau 3,125 22.88% || |Joseph William Comeau 3,763 27.55% | | ||

Jean-Louis Philippe Robicheau

| |H.E. Wagner 3,213 23.52% || |Alexander Stirling MacMillan 3,557 26.04% | | ||

William Hudson Farnham†

Albert Parsons
4,087
26.46%

| |James William Reid 3,823 24.75% | | ||

Albert Parsons

Edgar Nelson Rhodes
4,008
25.95%

| |Robert Gass 3,528 22.84% | | ||

Edgar Nelson Rhodes

George Nowlan
5,452
27.25%

| |James F. Durno 5,003 25.01% | | ||

George Nowlan

Reginald Tucker Caldwell
5,540
27.69%

| |Frederick J. Porter 4,010 20.04% | | || |Reginald Tucker Caldwell |}

South Shore

|- | |Wallace Norman Rehfuss 5,709 23.71% || |John James Kinley 6,533 27.13% | | ||

Wallace Norman Rehfuss

| |William Haslam Smith 5,535 22.98% || |Gordon E. Romkey 6,304 26.18% | | ||

William Haslam Smith

William Lorimer Hall
2,206
29.36%

| |Frederick Dickie 1,649 21.95% | | ||

William Lorimer Hall

Donald W. MacKay
1,937
25.78%

| |Roland M. Irving 1,721 22.91% | | ||

Vacant

| |Ernest Reginald Nickerson 2,121 23.26% || |Henry R. L. Bill 2,474 27.13% | | ||

Ernest Reginald Nickerson

| |Norman Emmons Smith 2,052 22.50% || |Wishart McLea Robertson 2,473 27.12% | | ||

Norman Emmons Smith

| |John Flint Cahan 3,666 24.26% || |Lindsay C. Gardner 4,141 27.41% | | ||

John Flint Cahan

| |Raymond Neri d'Entremont 3,286 21.75% || |René W.E. Landry 4,016 26.58% | | || |Raymond Neri d'Entremont |}

Fundy-Northeast

|- || |William A. Flemming 4,882 27.74% | |William R. Dunbar 3,583 20.36% | | ||

William Boardman Armstrong†

Frank Stanfield
5,298
30.10%

| |Donald L. MacKinnon 3,839 21.81% | | ||

Frank Stanfield

| | | |John S. Smiley 6,230 15.99% || |Archibald Terris 6,667 17.11% ||

Archibald Terris

Percy Chapman Black
7,710
19.78%

| |Charles H. Read 5,758 14.78% | | ||

Percy Chapman Black

Daniel George McKenzie
6,605
16.95%

| |Kenneth Judson Cochrane 5,999 15.39% | | || |Daniel George McKenzie |}

Halifax

|- | |John Archibald Walker 11,076 9.95% || |Edward Joseph Cragg 11,215 10.08% | | ||

John Archibald Walker

| |Frederick P. Bligh 11,082 9.96% || |Gordon Benjamin Isnor 11,357 10.21% | | ||

William Drysdale Piercey†

Josiah Frederick Fraser
11,298
10.15%

| |Thomas J. Byrne 10,939 9.83% | | ||

Josiah Frederick Fraser

John Francis Mahoney
11,589
10.41%

| |Bernard W. Russell 10,855 9.76% | | ||

John Francis Mahoney

Angus MacDonald Morton
11,273
10.13%

| |William J. Kennedy 10,591 9.52% | | || |Alexander Montgomerie† |}

Central Nova

|- | |John D. MacIntyre 1,792 20.95% || |John L. MacIsaac 2,431 28.42% | | ||

John L. MacIsaac

| |John F. McLellan 1,925 22.50% || |William Chisholm 2,407 28.14% | | ||

William Chisholm

| |Simon Osborn Giffin 2,980 23.60% || |Clarence W. Anderson 3,337 26.43% | | ||

Simon Osborn Giffin

| |Howard Amos Rice 3,018 23.90% || |Michael E. Morrison 3,293 26.08% | | ||

Howard Amos Rice

John Doull
7,836
18.21%

| |Donald F. Fraser 7,052 16.38% | | ||

John Doull

Hugh Allan MacQuarrie
7,249
16.84%

| |A.T. Logan 6,836 15.88% | | ||

Hugh Allan MacQuarrie

Robert Albert Douglas
7,572
17.59%

| |Clifford E. Carruthers 6,498 15.10% | | || |Robert Albert Douglas |}

Cape Breton

|- || |Gordon Sidney Harrington 5,949 29.22% | |Malcolm A. Patterson 4,384 21.54% | | ||

Gordon Sidney Harrington

Joseph Macdonald
5,762
28.31%

| |Luke Daye 4,261 20.93% | | ||

Joseph Macdonald

Daniel R. Cameron
5,541
21.98%

| |Lauchlin Daniel Currie 4,724 18.73% | |Forman Waye 2,273 9.01% ||

Vacant

Robert Hamilton Butts
5,568
22.08%

| |Dan C. McDonald 4,520 17.93% | |James B. McLachlan 2,589 10.27% ||

Alexander O'Handley†

| |Hubert Meen Aucoin 3,865 23.37% || |Moses Elijah McGarry 4,318 26.11% | | ||

Hubert Meen Aucoin

| |Malcolm McKay 3,930 23.77% || |James A. Proudfoot 4,422 26.74% | | ||

Malcolm McKay

| |Benjamin Amedeé LeBlanc 2,044 24.77% || |Alonzo Martell 2,055 24.90% | | ||

Benjamin Amedeé LeBlanc

| |John Angus Stewart 2,035 24.66% || |Edward C. Doyle 2,118 25.67% | | ||

John Angus Stewart

| |H.A. Grant 1,640 23.75% || |Donald Buchanan McLeod 1,840 26.65% | | ||

Donald Buchanan McLeod

| |Phillip McLeod 1,652 23.92% || |Daniel Alexander Cameron 1,773 25.68% | | || |Phillip McLeod |}

References

"Nova Scotia Provincial Elections 1867-2016". Elections Nova Scotia.
(July 5, 2011). "Electoral Districts- History". Nova Scotia Legislature.

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