1963 Nova Scotia general election

Results

Results by party

Retiring incumbents

Liberal

• Pierre E. Belliveau, Clare
• John W. MacDonald, Pictou East

Progressive Conservative

• George Henry Wilson, Hants West

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 I. Marshall 2,962 56.40% | |Melbourne Parker Armstrong 2,232 42.50% | |Murray Alton Bent 58 1.10% ||

| |Kenneth E. Green 2,075 45.81% || |Peter M. Nicholson 2,386 52.67% | |Dale A. Young 69 1.52% ||

| |Joseph C. LeBlanc 1,940 47.39% | | ||

| |Victor Cardoza 2,378 46.50% | |Louis A. Beeler 65 1.27% ||

| |W. Whitney Spicer 2,840 39.42% | |Arthur Benedict 171 2.37% ||

| |David Durell Sutton 2,405 38.97% | |George Turner 99 1.60% ||

| |Bruce M. Trenholm 1,333 34.73% | | ||

| |Edward D. MacArthur 3,067 44.15% | | || |Edward D. MacArthur |}

South Shore

|- || |George O. Lohnes 4,785 57.06% | |Leon J. Iverson 3,601 42.94% | | ||

| |Charles E. Harris 1,322 36.83% | | ||

| |Joye F. Davison 2,116 41.88% | | ||

| |W. Alton Snow 1,988 34.15% | | ||

| |Robert Quinlan Hood 3,133 45.60% | | ||

| |Irving Charles Pink 4,345 22.42% | |Angus Boyd MacGillivary 358 1.85% ||

| |Willard O'Brien 4,719 24.35% | | || |Willard O'Brien |}

Fundy-Northeast

|- || |Robert Stanfield 9,606 32.42% | |Gordon T. Purdy 5,515 18.61% | |Harvey T. Curtis 382 1.29% ||

| |Charles K. Sutherland 4,746 16.02% | |Helen K. Wright 233 0.79% ||

| |William Thomas Noiles 1,272 33.32% | | ||

| |Norman Willard Noonan 2,795 33.75% | |Lloyd L. Ayer 261 3.15% ||

| |Allison T. Smith 2,140 45.96% | | ||

| |George E. Fraser 2,356 45.47% | |Ralph Loomer 87 1.68% || |Albert J. Ettinger |}

Halifax/Dartmouth/Eastern Shore

|- || |Donald MacKeen Smith 5,478 58.57% | |Gordon S. Cowan 3,875 41.43% | | ||

| |Gordon L. S. Hart 8,150 43.60% | |Edward B. Doyle 657 3.52% ||

| |Duncan MacMillan 2,756 47.38% | | ||

| |John E. Ahern 7,360 44.86% | |Peggy Prowse 444 2.71% ||

| |George Douglas Burris 4,027 40.62% | |Gerald A. Guptill 329 3.32% ||

| |Merlin Nunn 3,183 33.62% | |Gordon A. Smith 298 3.15% ||

| |Charles H. Reardon 6,126 39.72% | |Harold J. Martell 506 3.28% || |Charles H. Reardon |}

Central Nova

|- || |William F. MacKinnon 3,334 54.58% | |Ronald Saint John Chisholm 2,774 45.42% | | ||

| |Thomas Edwin Kirk 2,880 47.14% | | ||

| |Thomas H. Frazer 3,801 39.79% | | ||

| |John Andrew McLean 2,649 49.90% || |A. Lloyd MacDonald 2,660 50.10% | | ||

| |Charles Ernest MacCarthy 2,038 40.46% | | || |Harvey Veniot |}

Cape Breton

|- || |Mike Laffin 3,699 54.12% | |Joseph Flaudio Rizzetto 939 13.74% | |Michael James MacDonald 2,197 32.14% ||

| |Bernard Currie 1,359 13.44% | |John L. MacKinnon 2,881 28.50% ||

| |Murray J. Ryan 2,961 28.04% | |John Dolhanty 1,399 13.25% ||

| |Charles Richard Sigut 1,213 19.36% | |Albert Ollie Wilson 1,709 27.27% ||

| |John F. MacIntosh 3,579 33.34% | |Edward Johnston 1,873 17.45% ||

| |Allan Sullivan 3,835 43.70% | | ||

| |Joseph Clyde Nunn 3,988 23.87% | | ||

| |Alfred J. Davis 4,026 24.10% || |William N. MacLean 4,219 25.25% | | ||

| |Earl Wallace Urquhart 2,587 49.21% | | ||

| |Fisher Hudson 1,890 49.42% || |Carleton L. MacMillan 1,934 50.58% | | || |Carleton L. MacMillan |}

References

References

1. Party was then the [[Nova Scotia New Democratic Party. Co-operative Commonwealth Federation]]
2. "Election Returns 1963". Elections Nova Scotia.
3. "Election Returns 1963 Recapitulation". Elections Nova Scotia.
4. While 342,074 votes were cast, only 311,562 electors voted as [[Colchester (provincial electoral district). Colchester]], [[Inverness (provincial electoral district). Inverness]] and [[Yarmouth (provincial electoral district). Yarmouth]] electors voted for two candidates.