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1941 Nova Scotia general election
Canadian provincial election
Canadian provincial election
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| election_name | 1941 Nova Scotia general election |
| country | Nova Scotia |
| type | parliamentary |
| party_colour | no |
| party_name | no |
| previous_election | 1937 Nova Scotia general election |
| previous_year | 1937 |
| outgoing_members | 41st General Assembly of Nova Scotia |
| election_date | October 28, 1941 |
| elected_mps | members |
| next_election | 1945 Nova Scotia general election |
| next_year | 1945 |
| seats_for_election | 30 seats of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly |
| majority_seats | 16 |
| turnout | 63.05% 16.62pp |
| image1 | Lib |
| colour1 | |
| leader1 | Alexander Stirling MacMillan |
| leader_since1 | July 10, 1940 |
| party1 | |
| leaders_seat1 | Hants |
| last_election1 | 25 |
| seats1 | 23 |
| seat_change1 | 2 |
| popular_vote1 | 137,884 |
| percentage1 | 52.7% |
| swing1 | 0.0pp |
| image2 | PC |
| colour2 | |
| leader2 | Frederick Murray Blois |
| leader_since2 | 1940 |
| party2 | |
| leaders_seat2 | Colchester |
| last_election2 | 5 |
| seats2 | 4 |
| seat_change2 | 1 |
| popular_vote2 | 104,123 |
| percentage2 | 40.3% |
| swing2 | 5.5pp |
| image3 | CCF |
| colour3 | |
| leader3 | No leader |
| party3 | |
| last_election3 | Did not contest |
| seats3 | 3 |
| seat_change3 | 3 |
| popular_vote3 | 18,583 |
| percentage3 | 7.0% |
| swing3 | 7.0pp |
| title | Premier |
| posttitle | Premier after election |
| before_election | Alexander Stirling MacMillan |
| before_party | |
| after_election | Alexander Stirling MacMillan |
| after_party |
The 1941 Nova Scotia general election was held on 28 October 1941 to elect members of the 42nd House of Assembly of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Liberal party.
Results
Results by party
| Liberal | Progressive Conservative | CCF |
|---|
| Party | Party leader | # of | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| candidates | Seats | Popular vote | 1937 | Dissolution]] | Elected | Change | # | % | Change (pp) | ||
| Liberal | Angus Lewis Macdonald | 30 | 24 | 22 | -2 | 137,884 | 52.91% | -0.02% | Progressive Conservative | Frederick Murray Blois | |
| Vacant | |||||||||||
| Total valid votes | 260,590 | 99.37% | – | ||||||||
| Blank and invalid ballots | 1,651 | 0.63% | – | ||||||||
| Total | 64 | 30 | 30 | 30 | – | 262,241 | 100.00% | – | |||
| Registered voters / turnout | 341,788 | 63.05% | -6.23% |
- The CCF ran in the 1933 election but did not run any candidates in 1937. The party elected 1 MLA in the 1939 Cape Breton East by-election.{{Bar box|title=Popular vote|titlebar=#ddd|width=600px|barwidth=410px|bars=
Retiring incumbents
Liberal
- Henry R. L. Bill, Shelburne
- George Belcher Murray, Cape Breton North
Nominated candidates
Legend
bold denotes party leader
† denotes an incumbent who is not running for re-election or was defeated in nomination contest
Valley
|- || |John D. McKenzie 4,292 60.60% | |Hanson Taylor Dowell 2,790 39.40% | | ||
| John D. McKenzie |
|---|
| Joseph William Comeau |
| 4,818 |
| 62.34% |
| |James John Wallis 2,910 37.66% | | ||
| Joseph William Comeau |
|---|
| Alexander Stirling MacMillan |
| 4,871 |
| 57.56% |
| |Norman Dexter Blanchard 3,592 42.44% | | ||
| Alexander Stirling MacMillan |
|---|
| John Alexander McDonald |
| 6,654 |
| 62.58% |
| |Raymond Crosby 3,978 37.42% | | || |John Alexander McDonald |}
South Shore
|- || |Frank R. Davis 6,366 29.39% | |R. Clifford Levy 4,601 21.24% | | ||
| Frank R. Davis |
|---|
| Gordon E. Romkey |
| 6,288 |
| 29.03% |
| |Angus J. Walters 4,404 20.33% | | ||
| Gordon E. Romkey |
|---|
| Harry Dennis Madden |
| 2,461 |
| 50.13% |
| |John J. Cameron 2,448 49.87% | | ||
| John J. Cameron |
|---|
| Wilfred Dauphinee |
| 2,422 |
| 50.73% |
| |Frederick William Bower 2,352 49.27% | | ||
| Henry R. L. Bill† |
|---|
| Henry A. Waterman |
| 4,551 |
| 63.02% |
| |Peter Lorimer Judge 2,670 36.98% | | || |Henry A. Waterman |}
Fundy-Northeast
|- | |Alexander Murdoch Sutherland 5,160 23.74% || |Frederick Murray Blois 5,842 26.88% | | ||
| Frederick Murray Blois |
|---|
| |Robert F. McLellan 5,301 24.39% || |George Scott Dickey 5,432 24.99% | | ||
| George Scott Dickey |
|---|
| |Archibald J. Mason 7,040 22.87% || |Archie B. Smith 7,954 25.84% | | ||
| Archie B. Smith |
|---|
| Kenneth Judson Cochrane |
| 7,970 |
| 25.90% |
| |Leonard William Fraser 7,814 25.39% | | || |Leonard William Fraser |}
Halifax/Dartmouth/Eastern Shore
|- || |James Edward Rutledge 4,226 59.49% | |Arthur Wilfred Morton 2,878 40.51% | | ||
| James Edward Rutledge |
|---|
| Geoffrey W. Stevens |
| 5,094 |
| 60.39% |
| |Norman Dudley Murray 3,341 39.61% | | ||
| Geoffrey W. Stevens |
|---|
| Harold Connolly |
| 4,124 |
| 64.98% |
| |Helen Macdonald Lownds 1,962 30.91% | |James Ronald Clark 261 4.11% ||
| Harold Connolly |
|---|
| Joseph Richard Murphy |
| 4,381 |
| 58.75% |
| |Arthur James Haliburton 3,076 41.25% | | ||
| Joseph Richard Murphy |
|---|
| Ronald Manning Fielding |
| 4,459 |
| 58.37% |
| |John Shenstone Roper 3,180 41.63% | | || |Vacant |}
Central Nova
|- || |John A. MacIsaac 2,759 61.49% | |Michael Ignatius Webb 1,728 38.51% | | ||
| Vacant |
|---|
| Havelock Torrey |
| 3,759 |
| 64.15% |
| |John Donald McIntyre 2,101 35.85% | | ||
| Havelock Torrey |
|---|
| |Newton G. Munro 7,562 23.16% || |Ernest G. Irish 8,256 25.28% | | ||
| Newton G. Munro |
|---|
| Josiah H. MacQuarrie |
| 8,780 |
| 26.89% |
| |W. Thomas Hayden 8,055 24.67% | | || |Josiah H. MacQuarrie |}
Cape Breton
|- | |Gus Brown 2,275 30.96% | |John Clifford Gregor 1,155 15.72% || |Douglas MacDonald 3,918 53.32% ||
| Douglas MacDonald |
|---|
| |Lauchlin Daniel Currie 4,052 39.44% | | || |Douglas Neil Brodie 6,222 60.56% ||
| Lauchlin Daniel Currie |
|---|
| Alexander O'Handley |
| 3,344 |
| 39.97% |
| |Joseph Angus MacDougall 2,387 28.53% | |Robert Silas Bartlett 2,636 31.50% ||
| George Belcher Murray† |
|---|
| |George M. Morrison 3,946 35.96% | |Donald John MacLean 3,019 27.51% || |Donald MacDonald 4,008 36.53% ||
| George M. Morrison |
|---|
| Malcolm A. Patterson |
| 2,306 |
| 41.10% |
| |John Alexander MacDonald 1,767 31.49% | |Robert Joseph Orr 1,538 27.41% ||
| Malcolm A. Patterson |
|---|
| Alexander H. McKinnon |
| 5,302 |
| 63.54% |
| |Alexander Daniel McInnis 3,043 36.46% | | ||
| Alexander H. McKinnon |
|---|
| Donald David Boyd |
| 2,176 |
| 50.59% |
| |Benjamin Amedeé LeBlanc 2,125 49.41% | | ||
| Donald David Boyd |
|---|
| John Malcolm Campbell |
| 2,176 |
| 63.05% |
| |John Roderick Fraser 1,275 36.95% | | || |John Malcolm Campbell |}
References
References
- "Election Returns 1941". Elections Nova Scotia.
- While 260,590 votes were cast, only 215,491 electors voted as electors in several districts voted for two candidates.
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