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1933 Nova Scotia general election

Canadian provincial election

Field	Value
election_name	1933 Nova Scotia general election
country	Nova Scotia
type	parliamentary
party_colour	no
party_name	no
previous_election	1928 Nova Scotia general election
previous_year	1928
outgoing_members	39th General Assembly of Nova Scotia
election_date	August 22, 1933
elected_mps	members
next_election	1937 Nova Scotia general election
next_year	1937
seats_for_election	30 seats of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly
majority_seats	16
turnout	85.90%
image1	Angus L Macdonald portrait.jpg
image1_size	150x150px
colour1
leader1	Angus Lewis Macdonald
leader_since1	October 1, 1930
party1
leaders_seat1	Halifax South
last_election1	20
seats1	22
seat_change1	2
popular_vote1	166,170
percentage1	52.34%
swing1	4.37pp
image2	Gordon Sidney Harrington.jpg
colour2
leader2	Gordon Sidney Harrington
leader_since2	1930
party2	Liberal-Conservative
leaders_seat2	Cape Breton Centre
ran in Cape Breton South (Won)
last_election2	22
seats2	8
seat_change2	14
popular_vote2	145,107
percentage2	45.71%
swing2	3.20pp
title	Premier
posttitle	Premier after election
before_election	Gordon Sidney Harrington
before_party	Liberal-Conservative
after_election	Angus Lewis Macdonald
after_party

ran in Cape Breton South (Won) The 1933 Nova Scotia general election was held on 22 August 1933 to elect members of the 40th 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	1928	Dissolution]]	Elected	Change	#	%	Change (pp)
Liberal	Angus Lewis Macdonald	30	20	15	22	+2	166,170	52.34%	+4.37%	Liberal-Conservative	Gordon Sidney Harrington
	Vacant	7
Total valid votes	316,082	99.56%	–
Blank and invalid ballots	1,403	0.44%	–
Total	66	43	43	30	-13	317,485	100.00%	–
Registered voters / turnout	295,957	85.90%	–

Retiring incumbents

Liberal

William Chisholm, Antigonish
René W.E. Landry, Yarmouth
Michael M. Morrison, Guysborough
Wishart McLea Robertson, Shelburne

Liberal-Conservative

Robert Hamilton Butts, Cape Breton East
Reginald Tucker Caldwell, Kings
Robert Albert Douglas, Pictou
Donald W. MacKay, Queens
Harry Thompson MacKenzie, Annapolis
Hugh Allan MacQuarrie, Pictou
Daniel George McKenzie, Cumberland
James A. Proudfoot, Inverness

Nominated candidates

Legend

bold denotes party leader

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

Valley

|- 3,967 44.65% 4,917 55.35% ||

Obediah Parker Goucher

Harry Thompson MacKenzie†
-
3,703
40.80%
5,372
59.20%

Joseph William Comeau
-

Alexander Stirling MacMillan
-
4,603
46.35%
5,328
53.65%

Albert Parsons
-

Vacant
-
6,098
47.65%
6,700
52.35%

George Nowlan
-

Reginald Tucker Caldwell†
}

South Shore

|- | |Wallace Norman Rehfuss 6,744 21.78% || |Frank R. Davis 8,369 27.03% | | | | ||

Vacant

| |Melbourne M. Gardner 7,049 22.77% || |Gordon E. Romkey 8,799 28.42% | | | | ||

Gordon E. Romkey
2,880
50.91%
2,777
49.09%

Donald W. MacKay†
-

Vacant
-
2,500
43.46%
3,252
56.54%

Henry R. L. Bill
-

Wishart McLea Robertson†
-
3,646
38.49%
5,826
61.51%

Lindsay C. Gardner
-

René W.E. Landry†
}

Fundy-Northeast

|- || |William A. Flemming 6,748 27.04% | |Thomas R. Johnson 6,043 24.21% | | | | ||

William A. Flemming

George Y. Thomas
6,398
25.64%

| |R. Edgar McLeod 5,769 23.11% | | | | ||

Vacant

| |Archibald Terris 8,291 22.73% || |John S. Smiley 9,540 26.15% | | | | ||

Archibald Terris
9,406
25.78%
9,242
25.34%

Percy Chapman Black
-

Daniel George McKenzie†
}

Halifax/Dartmouth/Eastern Shore

|- | |Russell McInnes 3,967 43.94% || |Guy Murray Logan 4,915 54.44% | |Joseph S. Wallace 146 1.62% | | || |Vacant Halifax |- | |Josiah Frederick Fraser 5,595 47.14% || |Geoffrey W. Stevens 6,273 52.86% | | | | || |Josiah Frederick Fraser Halifax |- | |Gerald P. Flavin 3,410 38.48% || |Gordon Benjamin Isnor 5,452 61.52% | | | | || |Gordon Benjamin Isnor Halifax |- | |George H. Murphy 4,325 46.66% || |Angus Lewis Macdonald 4,945 53.34% | | | | || |George Henry Murphy Halifax |- | |Angus MacDonald Morton 3,957 45.17% || |George E. Hagen 4,804 54.83% | | | | || |Angus MacDonald Morton Halifax |}

Central Nova

|- 2,482 45.68% 2,951 54.32% ||

John L. MacIsaac

William Chisholm†
-
3,408
43.44%
4,437
56.56%

Clarence W. Anderson
-

Michael E. Morrison†
-

| |John Doull 8,546 22.10% || |Donald F. Fraser 10,377 26.83% | | | | ||

John Doull
8,861
22.91%
10,887
28.15%

Hugh Allan MacQuarrie†
-

Robert Albert Douglas†
}

Cape Breton

|- 2,969 43.53% 3,263 47.84% 588 8.62% ||

Gordon Sidney Harrington

Joseph Macdonald
-
3,632
38.97%
3,655
39.21%
1,737
18.64%
297
3.19%

Daniel R. Cameron
-

Robert Hamilton Butts†
-

Joseph Macdonald
4,448
47.50%

| |Luke Daye 4,330 46.24% | |John McDonald 586 6.26% | | ||

New riding

Gordon Sidney Harrington
4,757
43.81%

| |Malcolm A. Patterson 4,650 42.83% | | | |Lauchlin D. McKay 1,451 13.36% ||

New riding

Weldon W. Patton
3,036
53.49%

| |Alonzo Martell 2,640 46.51% | | | | || |Alonzo Martell Richmond-West Cape Breton |- 4,862 46.36% 5,626 53.64% ||

Moses Elijah McGarry

James A. Proudfoot†
-

| |Benjamin A. LeBlanc 2,603 46.46% || |George R. Deveau 3,000 53.54% | | | | || |Vacant Richmond-West Cape Breton |- 2,216 52.18% 2,031 47.82% ||

Donald Buchanan McLeod

Vacant
}

References

Notes

References

"Election Returns 1933". Elections Nova Scotia.

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