1928 Nova Scotia general election
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The 1928 Nova Scotia general election was held on 1 October 1928 to elect members of the 39th House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Liberal-Conservative party.
Results
[edit]Results by party
[edit]22 | 20 | 1 |
Liberal-Conservative | Liberal | Labour |
Party | Party leader | # of candidates | Seats | Popular vote | ||||||
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1925 | Dissolution | Elected | Change | # | % | Change (pp) | ||||
Liberal-Conservative | Edgar Nelson Rhodes | 42 | 39 | 22 | -17 | 210,442 | 49.11% | -9.97% | ||
Liberal | William Chisholm | 43 | 3 | 20 | +17 | 206,541 | 48.20% | +11.90% | ||
Labour | None | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 11,529 | 4.62% | -1.93% | ||
Vacant | ||||||||||
Total valid votes | 428,512 | 100.00% | – | |||||||
Blank and invalid ballots | 0 | 0.00% | – | |||||||
Total | 88 | 43 | 43 | 43 | – | 428,512 | 100.00% | – |
Retiring incumbents
[edit]- Liberal-Conservative
- William Boardman Armstrong, Colchester
- William Hudson Farnham, Digby
- Alexander Montgomerie, Halifax
- Alexander O'Handley, Cape Breton East
- William Drysdale Piercey, Halifax
Nominated candidates
[edit]Legend
bold denotes party leader
† denotes an incumbent who is not running for re-election or was defeated in nomination contest 0
Valley
[edit]Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
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Liberal-Conservative | Liberal | Labour | ||||||
Annapolis | Obediah Parker Goucher 3,689 25.90% | John D. McKenzie 3,450 24.22% | Obediah Parker Goucher | |||||
Harry Thompson MacKenzie 3,645 25.59% | Daniel Owen 3,461 24.30% | Harry Thompson MacKenzie | ||||||
Digby | Jean-Louis Philippe Robicheau 3,125 22.88% | Joseph William Comeau 3,763 27.55% | Jean-Louis Philippe Robicheau | |||||
H.E. Wagner 3,213 23.52% | Alexander Stirling MacMillan 3,557 26.04% | William Hudson Farnham† | ||||||
Hants | Albert Parsons 4,087 26.46% | James William Reid 3,823 24.75% | Albert Parsons | |||||
Edgar Nelson Rhodes 4,008 25.95% | Robert Gass 3,528 22.84% | Edgar Nelson Rhodes | ||||||
Kings | George Nowlan 5,452 27.25% | James F. Durno 5,003 25.01% | George Nowlan | |||||
Reginald Tucker Caldwell 5,540 27.69% | Frederick J. Porter 4,010 20.04% | Reginald Tucker Caldwell |
South Shore
[edit]Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
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Liberal-Conservative | Liberal | Labour | ||||||
Lunenburg | Wallace Norman Rehfuss 5,709 23.71% | John James Kinley 6,533 27.13% | Wallace Norman Rehfuss | |||||
William Haslam Smith 5,535 22.98% | Gordon E. Romkey 6,304 26.18% | William Haslam Smith | ||||||
Queens | William Lorimer Hall 2,206 29.36% | Frederick Dickie 1,649 21.95% | William Lorimer Hall | |||||
Donald W. MacKay 1,937 25.78% | Roland M. Irving 1,721 22.91% | Vacant | ||||||
Shelburne | Ernest Reginald Nickerson 2,121 23.26% | Henry R. L. Bill 2,474 27.13% | Ernest Reginald Nickerson | |||||
Norman Emmons Smith 2,052 22.50% | Wishart McLea Robertson 2,473 27.12% | Norman Emmons Smith | ||||||
Yarmouth | John Flint Cahan 3,666 24.26% | Lindsay C. Gardner 4,141 27.41% | John Flint Cahan | |||||
Raymond Neri d'Entremont 3,286 21.75% | René W.E. Landry 4,016 26.58% | Raymond Neri d'Entremont |
Fundy-Northeast
[edit]Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
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Liberal-Conservative | Liberal | Labour | ||||||
Colchester | William A. Flemming 4,882 27.74% | William R. Dunbar 3,583 20.36% | William Boardman Armstrong† | |||||
Frank Stanfield 5,298 30.10% | Donald L. MacKinnon 3,839 21.81% | Frank Stanfield | ||||||
Cumberland | John S. Smiley 6,230 15.99% | Archibald Terris 6,667 17.11% | Archibald Terris | |||||
Percy Chapman Black 7,710 19.78% | Charles H. Read 5,758 14.78% | Percy Chapman Black | ||||||
Daniel George McKenzie 6,605 16.95% | Kenneth Judson Cochrane 5,999 15.39% | Daniel George McKenzie |
Halifax
[edit]Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
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Liberal-Conservative | Liberal | Labour | ||||||
Halifax | John Archibald Walker 11,076 9.95% | Edward Joseph Cragg 11,215 10.08% | John Archibald Walker | |||||
Frederick P. Bligh 11,082 9.96% | Gordon Benjamin Isnor 11,357 10.21% | William Drysdale Piercey† | ||||||
Josiah Frederick Fraser 11,298 10.15% | Thomas J. Byrne 10,939 9.83% | Josiah Frederick Fraser | ||||||
John Francis Mahoney 11,589 10.41% | Bernard W. Russell 10,855 9.76% | John Francis Mahoney | ||||||
Angus MacDonald Morton 11,273 10.13% | William J. Kennedy 10,591 9.52% | Alexander Montgomerie† |
Central Nova
[edit]Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
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Liberal-Conservative | Liberal | Labour | ||||||
Antigonish | John D. MacIntyre 1,792 20.95% | John L. MacIsaac 2,431 28.42% | John L. MacIsaac | |||||
John F. McLellan 1,925 22.50% | William Chisholm 2,407 28.14% | William Chisholm | ||||||
Guysborough | Simon Osborn Giffin 2,980 23.60% | Clarence W. Anderson 3,337 26.43% | Simon Osborn Giffin | |||||
Howard Amos Rice 3,018 23.90% | Michael E. Morrison 3,293 26.08% | Howard Amos Rice | ||||||
Pictou | John Doull 7,836 18.21% | Donald F. Fraser 7,052 16.38% | John Doull | |||||
Hugh Allan MacQuarrie 7,249 16.84% | A.T. Logan 6,836 15.88% | Hugh Allan MacQuarrie | ||||||
Robert Albert Douglas 7,572 17.59% | Clifford E. Carruthers 6,498 15.10% | Robert Albert Douglas |
Cape Breton
[edit]Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
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Liberal-Conservative | Liberal | Labour | ||||||
Cape Breton Centre | Gordon Sidney Harrington 5,949 29.22% | Malcolm A. Patterson 4,384 21.54% | Gordon Sidney Harrington | |||||
Joseph Macdonald 5,762 28.31% | Luke Daye 4,261 20.93% | Joseph Macdonald | ||||||
Cape Breton East | Daniel R. Cameron 5,541 21.98% | Lauchlin Daniel Currie 4,724 18.73% | Forman Waye 2,273 9.01% | Vacant | ||||
Robert Hamilton Butts 5,568 22.08% | Dan C. McDonald 4,520 17.93% | James B. McLachlan 2,589 10.27% | Alexander O'Handley† | |||||
Inverness | Hubert Meen Aucoin 3,865 23.37% | Moses Elijah McGarry 4,318 26.11% | Hubert Meen Aucoin | |||||
Malcolm McKay 3,930 23.77% | James A. Proudfoot 4,422 26.74% | Malcolm McKay | ||||||
Richmond-West Cape Breton | Benjamin Amedeé LeBlanc 2,044 24.77% | Alonzo Martell 2,055 24.90% | Benjamin Amedeé LeBlanc | |||||
John Angus Stewart 2,035 24.66% | Edward C. Doyle 2,118 25.67% | John Angus Stewart | ||||||
Victoria | H.A. Grant 1,640 23.75% | Donald Buchanan McLeod 1,840 26.65% | Donald Buchanan McLeod | |||||
Phillip McLeod 1,652 23.92% | Daniel Alexander Cameron 1,773 25.68% | Phillip McLeod |
References
[edit]- ^ "Nova Scotia Provincial Elections 1867-2016" (PDF). Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved December 22, 2021.
- ^ "Electoral Districts- History". Nova Scotia Legislature. Retrieved December 22, 2021.
Further reading
[edit]- Lemieux, Rodolphe; Falconer, Robert; Colquhoun, A. H. U.; Carrel, Frank; Beatty, E. W., eds. (1929). The Canadian Annual Review of Public Affairs, 1928–29. Toronto: The Annual Review Company.