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1945 Nova Scotia general election

Canadian provincial election

Field	Value
election_name	1945 Nova Scotia general election
country	Nova Scotia
type	parliamentary
party_colour	no
party_name	no
previous_election	1941 Nova Scotia general election
previous_year	1941
outgoing_members	42nd General Assembly of Nova Scotia
election_date	October 23, 1945
elected_mps	members
next_election	1949 Nova Scotia general election
next_year	1949
seats_for_election	30 seats of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly
majority_seats	16
turnout	64.68% 1.63pp
image1	Angus L Macdonald portrait.jpg
image1_size	150x150px
colour1
leader1	Angus Lewis Macdonald
leader_since1	August 31, 1945
party1
leaders_seat1	Halifax South
last_election1	23
seats1	28
seat_change1	5
popular_vote1	153,493
percentage1	53.1%
swing1	0.5pp
image2	Donald MacDonald circa 1954 Edit.jpg
colour2
leader2	Donald MacDonald
leader_since2	1941
party2
leaders_seat2	Cape Breton South
(Lost re-election)
last_election2	3
seats2	2
seat_change2	1
popular_vote2	39,637
percentage2	13.6%
swing2	6.6pp
image3	PC
colour3
leader3	Frederick Murray Blois
leader_since3	1940
party3
leaders_seat3	Colchester
(Lost re-election)
last_election3	4
seats3	0
seat_change3	4
popular_vote3	95,573
percentage3	33.5%
swing3	7.8pp
title	Premier
posttitle	Premier after election
before_election	Angus Lewis Macdonald
before_party
after_election	Angus Lewis Macdonald
after_party

(Lost re-election) (Lost re-election) The 1945 Nova Scotia general election was held on 23 October 1945 to elect members of the 43rd House of Assembly of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Liberal party. The Progressive Conservatives were entirely shut out of the Assembly, making the CCF's two MLAs the only opposition members.

Results

Results by party

Liberal	CCF

Party	Party leader	# of
candidates	Seats	Popular vote	1941	Dissolution]]	Elected	Change	#	%	Change (pp)
Liberal	Angus Lewis Macdonald	30	22		28	+6	153,493	53.05%	+0.14%	Co-operative Commonwealth	Donald MacDonald
	Vacant
Total valid votes	289,337	99.37%	–
Blank and invalid ballots	1,697	0.58%	–
Total	82	30	30	30	–	291,034	100.00%	–
Registered voters / turnout	370,945	64.68%

Retiring incumbents

**Co-operative Commonwealth **

Douglas Neil Brodie, Cape Breton East
Douglas MacDonald, Cape Breton Centre

Liberal

Alexander Stirling MacMillan, Hants
Harry Dennis Madden, Queens
John McDonald, Kings
John D. McKenzie, Annapolis
Havelock Torrey, Guysborough

Progressive Conservative

George Scott Dickey, 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

|- || |Henry Hicks 4,880 59.06% | |Horton Wheelock Phinney 3,383 40.94% | | | | ||

John D. McKenzie†

Joseph William Comeau
4,714
59.13%

| |Kenneth Earl Smith 2,706 33.94% | |Edgar Lawrence Outhouse 552 6.92% | | ||

Joseph William Comeau

Robert A. MacLellan
4,951
52.66%

| |Norman Dudley Murray 3,194 33.98% | |Frederick Charles Gilmore Scott 1,256 13.36% | | ||

Alexander Stirling MacMillan†

David Durell Sutton
7,027
59.66%

| |William Lawrence Chisholm 4,751 40.34% | | | | || |John Alexander McDonald† |}

South Shore

|- || |Frank R. Davis 6,867 27.31% | |R. Clifford Levy 5,854 23.28% | | | | ||

Frank R. Davis

Gordon E. Romkey
6,839
27.20%

| |James A. MacLeod 5,585 22.21% | | | | ||

Gordon E. Romkey

Merrill D. Rawding
2,844
48.17%

| |Leonard William Fraser 2,503 42.39% | |Clarence Webber 557 9.43% | | ||

Harry Dennis Madden†

Wilfred Dauphinee
3,214
55.85%

| |Frederick William Bower 2,203 38.28% | |Cecil James O'Donnell 338 5.87% | | ||

Wilfred Dauphinee

Henry A. Waterman
5,000
55.20%

| |Frank Parker Day 4,058 44.80% | | | | || |Henry A. Waterman |}

Fundy-Northeast

|- || |Gordon Purdy 7,714 29.18% | |Frederick Murray Blois 5,515 20.86% | |Clarence Vincent Fleury 547 2.07% | | ||

Frederick Murray Blois

Robert F. McLellan
6,631
25.09%

| |William A. Flemming 5,383 20.37% | |Sidney Mansfield Parker 642 2.43% | | ||

George Scott Dickey†

Martin J. Kaufman
6,540
21.67%

| |Archie B. Smith 6,271 20.77% | |John James Crummey 2,867 9.50% | | ||

Archie B. Smith

Kenneth Judson Cochrane
6,995
23.17%

| |Norman Shaw Sanford 5,807 19.24% | |Joseph Bernard Murray 1,706 5.65% | | || |Kenneth Judson Cochrane |}

Halifax/Dartmouth/Eastern Shore

|- || |James Edward Rutledge 4,737 55.22% | |Carl Palm Bethune 2,279 26.57% | |R.B. Mitchell 1,562 18.21% | | ||

James Edward Rutledge

Geoffrey W. Stevens
6,206
53.48%

| |A.L. Mattatall 3,033 26.14% | |Cecil Clyde Russell 2,366 20.39% | | ||

Geoffrey W. Stevens

Harold Connolly
6,089
59.43%

| |Bernard Joseph Vaughan 1,777 17.34% | |Thomas Burgess 2,120 20.69% | |Alexander Munro 260 2.54% ||

Harold Connolly

Angus Lewis Macdonald
5,181
61.26%

| |Arthur John Haliburton 2,067 24.44% | |Richard Leo Rooney 1,080 12.77% | |Andrew Matthews 129 1.53% ||

Vacant

Ronald Manning Fielding
4,997
49.11%

| |Malcolm Edgbert Walker 2,786 27.38% | |Fred Young 2,392 23.51% | | || |Ronald Manning Fielding |}

Central Nova

|- || |John Patrick Gorman 2,650 61.83% | |Douglas MacDonald 1,636 38.17% | | | | ||

John Patrick Gorman

Arthur W. MacKenzie
3,456
62.07%

| |Harold Vans Hudson 2,112 37.93% | | | | ||

Havelock Torrey†

Alfred B. DeWolfe
9,020
24.83%

| |Ernest G. Irish 7,061 19.44% | |G. Miller Dick 1,576 4.34% | |George J. White 245 0.67% ||

Ernest G. Irish

Josiah H. MacQuarrie
10,031
27.61%

| |John A. MacGregor 6,704 18.46% | |Donald L. Nicholson 1,688 4.65% | | || |Josiah H. MacQuarrie |}

Cape Breton

|- | |Ronald McIsaac 2,726 38.37% | |Frank Doucette 518 7.29% || |Michael James MacDonald 3,860 54.34% | | ||

Douglas MacDonald†

| |Gus McGillivray 2,719 30.03% | |Kenneth Daniel Beaton 1,002 11.07% || |Russell Cunningham 5,332 58.90% | | ||

Douglas Neil Brodie†

Alexander O'Handley
3,328
38.48%

| |Malcolm McDonald 2,416 27.94% | |Wendell Coldwell 2,904 33.58% | | ||

Alexander O'Handley

John Smith MacIvor
4,778
43.10%

| |Malcolm Cameron 1,861 16.79% | |Donald MacDonald 4,448 40.12% | | ||

Donald MacDonald

Malcolm A. Patterson
2,826
49.82%

| |Horace L. Ferguson 1,002 17.67% | |Robert Orr 1,844 32.51% | | ||

Malcolm A. Patterson

Alexander H. McKinnon
5,283
70.59%

| |Alexander Angus MacInnes 2,201 29.41% | | | | ||

Alexander H. McKinnon

Lauchlin Daniel Currie
3,149
76.66%

| |Frederick Albert Thurgood 959 23.34% | | | | ||

Lauchlin Daniel Currie

John Malcolm Campbell
2,101
64.69%

| |William Ross MacAulay 1,147 35.31% | | | | || |John Malcolm Campbell |}

References

"Election Returns 1941". Elections Nova Scotia.
While 291,034 votes were cast, only 238,966 electors voted as electors in several districts voted for two candidates.

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