1953 Nova Scotia general election

Results

Results by party

Results by region

Retiring incumbents

Progressive Conservative

• E. Keith Potter, Digby

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 5,006 51.55% | |Charles F. LeBrun 4,705 48.45% | | | | ||

| |Desire J. Comeau 1,639 41.54% | | | | ||

| |Malcolm Stewart Leonard 2,516 47.60% | | | | ||

| |Ken Eisner 3,120 46.37% || |George Henry Wilson 3,608 53.63% | | | | ||

| |David Durell Sutton 7,245 24.63% || |George Arthur Boggs 7,481 25.43% | | | | ||

| |William H. Pipe 7,047 23.96% || |Edward Haliburton 7,642 25.98% | | | | || |William H. Pipe |}

South Shore

|- | |Arthur L. Thurlow 6,940 21.53% || |R. Clifford Levy 8,727 27.07% | |Winfred Llewellyn 204 0.63% | | ||

| |Gordon E. Romkey 7,381 22.90% || |Harley J. Spence 8,741 27.12% | |G. Boyd Crouse 241 0.75% | | ||

| |Merrill D. Rawding 2,838 45.77% || |W. S. Kennedy Jones 3,230 52.09% | |Claude VanBuskirk 133 2.14% | | ||

| |James McKay Harding 3,103 48.80% | | | | ||

| |Allan d'Entremont 4,067 23.59% || |William Heartz Brown 4,859 28.18% | | | | ||

| |Donald J. Fraser 3,790 21.98% || |Raymond Z. Bourque 4,524 26.24% | | | | || |Donald J. Fraser |}

Fundy-Northeast

|- | |Gordon Purdy 7,255 24.20% || |Robert Stanfield 7,677 25.61% | |Harvey Curtis 324 1.08% | | ||

| |Hector Hill 6,963 23.23% || |George Isaac Smith 7,435 24.80% | |Sydney Parker 326 1.09% | | ||

| |Archibald J. Mason 2,012 40.65% || |Stephen T. Pyke 2,262 45.70% | |Florence Welton 676 13.66% | | ||

| |Martin J. Kaufman 4,214 48.96% || |James A. Langille 4,393 51.04% | | | | ||

| |Thomas A. Giles 2,332 45.45% | | | | ||

| |Alfred E. Reid 2,251 50.01% | |Ernest M. Ettinger 2,250 49.99% | | | | || |Ernest M. Ettinger |}

Halifax/Dartmouth/Eastern Shore

|- || |James Edward Rutledge 5,603 57.69% | |R. Leo Simmonds 4,109 42.31% | | | | ||

| |Lt. Col. R.D. King 7,196 43.36% | |Harper Power 964 5.81% | | ||

| |Harold J. Bartlow 4,481 33.75% | |Richard J. Hardiman 648 4.88% | | ||

| |John R. Milledge 3,885 40.32% | | | | ||

|| |Ronald Manning Fielding 8,061 51.31% | |Earle Haverstock 6,927 44.09% | |L.C. Wilson 723 4.60% | | || |Ronald Manning Fielding |}

Central Nova

|- || |Colin H. Chisholm 2,624 48.92% | |Terrance Bernard Thompson 675 12.58% | | | |Vincent J. MacDonald 2,065 38.50% ||

| |A. Grant MacDonald 2,694 43.71% | | | | ||

| |Robert D. MacDonald 4,534 39.94% | |Donald Nicholson 1,662 14.64% | | ||

| |William A. MacLeod 2,592 47.16% | |Joseph D. Ryan 223 4.06% | | ||

| |Harvey Veniot 2,619 49.91% | | | | || |Stewart W. Proudfoot |}

Cape Breton

|- | |Martin MacPherson 2,816 30.70% | |Charles P. Miller 1,905 20.77% || |Michael James MacDonald 4,451 48.53% | | ||

| |Joseph McIntyre 3,934 37.88% | |William Wilton 1,356 13.06% || |Russell Cunningham 5,096 49.07% | | ||

| |John Norman MacAskill 3,115 31.62% | |Daniel Joseph MacEachern 2,062 20.93% | | ||

| |A.O. Gunn 3,384 23.38% | |Vincent Allan Morrison 4,625 31.95% | | ||

| |Edward Manson 2,562 33.56% | |Harry Munroe 1,342 17.58% | | ||

| |Leo P. Boudreau 3,585 22.13% | | | | ||

| |Alex A. MacInnis 3,374 20.83% | | | | ||

| |Francis Whyte 2,124 41.70% | | | | ||

| |Joseph L. MacNeil 1,732 43.53% | | | | || |Carleton L. MacMillan |}

References

References

1. 16 November 1954 deferred by-election for Hants East seat, won by Liberal candidate
2. "Election Returns 1953". Elections Nova Scotia.
3. While 347,290 votes were cast, only 280,661 electors voted as electors in several districts voted for two candidates.
4. In the riding of Hants East, Progressive Conservative [[Ernest M. Ettinger]]'s 1-vote lead on election lead became a 1-vote lead for the Liberal's [[Alfred E. Reid]] after a judicial recount. After an appeal, a judge then decided to throw out the results of the general election; a by-election was held several months later to fill the seat and was won by Reid.