1945 Nova Scotia general 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.

1945 Nova Scotia general election

October 23, 1945

30 seats of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly
16 seats needed for a majority

Turnout

64.68%

1.63pp

	First party	Second party	Third party
		CCF	PC
Leader	Angus Lewis Macdonald	Donald MacDonald	Frederick Murray Blois
Party	Liberal	Co-operative Commonwealth	Progressive Conservative
Leader since	August 31, 1945	1941	1940
Leader's seat	Halifax South	Cape Breton South (Lost re-election)	Colchester (Lost re-election)
Last election	23	3	4
Seats won	28	2	0
Seat change	5	1	4
Popular vote	-	-	-
Percentage	52.7%	13.6%	33.5%
Swing

Premier before election

Angus Lewis Macdonald
Liberal

Premier after election

Angus Lewis Macdonald
Liberal

Results

Results by party

↓
28	2
Liberal	CCF

	Party	Leader	1941	Seats won	% change	Popular vote	(%)
	Liberal	Angus L. Macdonald	23	28	+27%		52.7%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Donald MacDonald	3	2	-33%		13.6%
	Progressive Conservative	Frederick Murray Blois	4	0	-100%		33.5%
	Other		0	0	0%		0.1%
Totals			30	30			100%

Popular vote

Liberal			52.70%
PC			33.50%
CCF			13.60%
Others			0.10%

Seats summary

Liberal			93.33%
CCF			6.67%

Retiring incumbents

Co-operative Commonwealth

Liberal

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

Electoral district	Candidates								Incumbent
Electoral district	Liberal		PC		CCF		Independent		Incumbent
Annapolis		Henry Hicks		Horton Wheelock Phinney						John D. McKenzie†
Digby		Joseph William Comeau		Kenneth Earl Smith		Edgar Lawrence Outhouse				Joseph William Comeau
Hants		Robert A. MacLellan		Norman Dudley Murray		Frederick Charles Gilmore Scott				Alexander Stirling MacMillan†
Kings		David Durell Sutton		William Lawrence Chisholm						John Alexander McDonald†

South Shore

Electoral district	Candidates								Incumbent
Electoral district	Liberal		PC		CCF		Independent		Incumbent
Lunenburg		Frank R. Davis		R. Clifford Levy						Frank R. Davis
Lunenburg		Gordon E. Romkey		James A. MacLeod						Gordon E. Romkey
Queens		Merrill D. Rawding		Leonard William Fraser		Clarence Webber				Harry Dennis Madden†
Shelburne		Wilfred Dauphinee		Frederick William Bower		Cecil James O'Donnell				Wilfred Dauphinee
Yarmouth		Henry A. Waterman		Frank Parker Day						Henry A. Waterman

Fundy-Northeast

Electoral district	Candidates								Incumbent
Electoral district	Liberal		PC		CCF		Independent		Incumbent
Colchester		Gordon Purdy		Frederick Murray Blois		Clarence Vincent Fleury				Frederick Murray Blois
Colchester		Robert F. McLellan		William A. Flemming		Sidney Mansfield Parker				George Scott Dickey†
Cumberland		Martin J. Kaufman		Archie B. Smith		John James Crummey				Archie B. Smith
Cumberland		Kenneth Judson Cochrane		Norman Shaw Sanford		Joseph Bernard Murphy				Kenneth Judson Cochrane

Halifax/Dartmouth/Eastern Shore

Electoral district	Candidates								Incumbent
Electoral district	Liberal		PC		CCF		Independent		Incumbent
Halifax Centre		James Edward Rutledge		Carl Palm Bethune		R.B. Mitchell				James Edward Rutledge
Halifax East		Geoffrey W. Stevens		A.L. Mattatall		Cecil Clyde Russell				Geoffrey W. Stevens
Halifax North		Harold Connolly		Bernard James Vaughn		Thomas Burgess		Alexander Munro		Harold Connolly
Halifax South		Angus Lewis Macdonald		Arthur John Haliburton		Richard Leo Rooney		Andrew Matthews		Vacant
Halifax West		Ronald Manning Fielding		Malcolm Edgbert Walker		Fred Young				Ronald Manning Fielding

Central Nova

Electoral district	Candidates								Incumbent
Electoral district	Liberal		PC		CCF		Independent		Incumbent
Antigonish		John Patrick Gorman		Douglas MacDonald						John Patrick Gorman
Guysborough		Arthur W. MacKenzie		Harold Vans Hudson						Havelock Torrey†
Pictou		Alfred B. DeWolfe		Ernest G. Irish		G. Miller Dick		George J. White		Ernest G. Irish
Pictou		Josiah H. MacQuarrie		John A. MacGregor		Donald L. Nicholson				Josiah H. MacQuarrie

Cape Breton

Electoral district	Candidates								Incumbent
Electoral district	Liberal		PC		CCF		Independent		Incumbent
Cape Breton Centre		Ronald McIsaac		Frank Doucette		Michael James MacDonald				Douglas MacDonald†
Cape Breton East		Gus McGillivray		Kenneth Daniel Beaton		Russell Cunningham				Douglas Neil Brodie†
Cape Breton North		Alexander O'Handley		Malcolm McDonald		Wendell Coldwell				Alexander O'Handley
Cape Breton South		John Smith MacIvor		Malcolm Cameron		Donald MacDonald				Donald MacDonald
Cape Breton West		Malcolm A. Patterson		Horace L. Ferguson		Robert Orr				Malcolm A. Patterson
Inverness		Alexander H. McKinnon		Alexander Angus MacInnes						Alexander H. McKinnon
Richmond		Lauchlin Daniel Currie		Frederick Albert Thurgood						Lauchlin Daniel Currie
Victoria		John Malcolm Campbell		William Ross MacAulay						John Malcolm Campbell

References

Government of Nova Scotia. "Election Summary From 1867 - 2006" (PDF). Elections Statistics. Elections Nova Scotia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-09-12. Retrieved 2006-12-02.

Elections and referendums in Nova Scotia
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Referendums	1929 2004
See also: List of Nova Scotia by-elections

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