1953 Nova Scotia general election

Template:Short description The 1953 Nova Scotia general election was held on 26 May 1953 to elect members of the 45th House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Liberal party.

Results

Results by party

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Liberal	Progressive Conservative	CCF

Official results

Party		Party leader	# of candidates	Seats				Popular vote
				1949	Dissolution	Elected	Change	#	%	Change (pp)	Liberal	Angus Lewis Macdonald	37	27	27	23	-4	169,894	48.92%	–2.05%	Progressive Conservative	Robert Stanfield	37	8	8	12	+4	149,973	43.18%	+3.97%	Co-operative Commonwealth	Russell Cunningham	16	2	2	2	0	23,700	6.82%	–2.78%	Independent		1	0	0	0	0	2,065	0.59%	+0.37%
	Vacant				0
Total valid votes								345,632	99.52%	+0.06%
Blank and invalid ballots								1,658	0.48%	–0.06%
Total			91	37	37	37	–	347,290	100.00%	–
Registered voters / turnout								370,293	75.79%	-1.88%

Popular vote Liberal   48.92% PC   43.18% CCF   6.82% Independent   0.59%

Seats summary Liberal   62.16% PC   32.43% CCF   5.41%

Results by region

Party name			HRM	Cape Breton	Annapolis Valley	South Shore	Fundy-Northeast	Central Nova	Total
Parties winning seats in the legislature										Liberal	Seats:	5	7	3	1	2	5	23	Popular vote:	55.44%	46.98%	49.91%	45.58%	47.95%	49.25%	48.92%	Progressive Conservative	Seats:	0	0	3	5	4	0	12	Popular vote:	40.96%	30.13%	50.09%	53.49%	49.56%	39.00%	43.18%	Co-operative Commonwealth	Seats:	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	Popular vote:	3.60%	22.89%	–	0.93%	2.49%	5.61%	6.82%
Parties not winning seats in the legislature											Popular vote:	–	–	–	–	–	6.14%	0.59%
Total seats:			5	9	6	6	6	5	37

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

Electoral district	Candidates								Incumbent
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Annapolis	Template:Canadian party colour|	Henry Hicks 5,006 51.55%		Charles F. LeBrun 4,705 48.45%					Template:Canadian party colour|	Henry Hicks
Clare	Template:Canadian party colour|	Pierre E. Belliveau 2,307 58.46%		Desire J. Comeau 1,639 41.54%					Template:Canadian party colour|	Desire J. Comeau
Digby	Template:Canadian party colour|	Victor Cardoza 2,770 52.40%		Malcolm Stewart Leonard 2,516 47.60%					Template:Canadian party colour|	E. Keith Potter†
Hants West		Ken Eisner 3,120 46.37%	Template:Canadian party colour|	George Henry Wilson 3,608 53.63%					Template:Canadian party colour|	George Henry Wilson
Kings		David Durell Sutton 7,245 24.63%	Template:Canadian party colour|	George Arthur Boggs 7,481 25.43%					Template:Canadian party colour|	David Durell Sutton
		William H. Pipe 7,047 23.96%	Template:Canadian party colour|	Edward Haliburton 7,642 25.98%					Template:Canadian party colour|	William H. Pipe

South Shore

Electoral district	Candidates								Incumbent
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Lunenburg		Arthur L. Thurlow 6,940 21.53%	Template:Canadian party colour|	R. Clifford Levy 8,727 27.07%		Winfred Llewellyn 204 0.63%			Template:Canadian party colour|	Arthur L. Thurlow
		Gordon E. Romkey 7,381 22.90%	Template:Canadian party colour|	Harley J. Spence 8,741 27.12%		G. Boyd Crouse 241 0.75%			Template:Canadian party colour|	Gordon E. Romkey
Queens		Merrill D. Rawding 2,838 45.77%	Template:Canadian party colour|	W. S. Kennedy Jones 3,230 52.09%		Claude VanBuskirk 133 2.14%			Template:Canadian party colour|	Merrill D. Rawding
Shelburne	Template:Canadian party colour|	Wilfred Dauphinee 3,256 51.20%		James McKay Harding 3,103 48.80%					Template:Canadian party colour|	Wilfred Dauphinee
Yarmouth		Allan d'Entremont 4,067 23.59%	Template:Canadian party colour|	William Heartz Brown 4,859 28.18%					Template:Canadian party colour|	William Heartz Brown
		Donald J. Fraser 3,790 21.98%	Template:Canadian party colour|	Raymond Z. Bourque 4,524 26.24%					Template:Canadian party colour|	Donald J. Fraser

Fundy-Northeast

Electoral district	Candidates								Incumbent
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Colchester		Gordon Purdy 7,255 24.20%	Template:Canadian party colour|	Robert Stanfield 7,677 25.61%		Harvey Curtis 324 1.08%			Template:Canadian party colour|	Robert Stanfield
		Hector Hill 6,963 23.23%	Template:Canadian party colour|	George Isaac Smith 7,435 24.80%		Sydney Parker 326 1.09%			Template:Canadian party colour|	George Isaac Smith
Cumberland Centre		Archibald J. Mason 2,012 40.65%	Template:Canadian party colour|	Stephen T. Pyke 2,262 45.70%		Florence Welton 676 13.66%			Template:Canadian party colour|	Archibald J. Mason
Cumberland East		Martin J. Kaufman 4,214 48.96%	Template:Canadian party colour|	James A. Langille 4,393 51.04%					Template:Canadian party colour|	Martin J. Kaufman
Cumberland West	Template:Canadian party colour|	Allison T. Smith 2,799 54.55%		Thomas A. Giles 2,332 45.45%					Template:Canadian party colour|	Thomas A. Giles
Hants East		Alfred E. Reid 2,251 50.01%		Ernest M. Ettinger 2,250 49.99%					Template:Canadian party colour|	Ernest M. Ettinger

Halifax/Dartmouth/Eastern Shore

Electoral district	Candidates								Incumbent
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Halifax Centre	Template:Canadian party colour|	James Edward Rutledge 5,603 57.69%		R. Leo Simmonds 4,109 42.31%					Template:Canadian party colour|	James Edward Rutledge
Halifax East	Template:Canadian party colour|	Geoffrey W. Stevens 8,436 50.83%		Lt. Col. R.D. King 7,196 43.36%		Harper Power 964 5.81%			Template:Canadian party colour|	Geoffrey W. Stevens
Halifax North	Template:Canadian party colour|	Harold Connolly 8,148 61.37%		Harold J. Bartlow 4,481 33.75%		Richard J. Hardiman 648 4.88%			Template:Canadian party colour|	Harold Connolly
Halifax South	Template:Canadian party colour|	Angus Lewis Macdonald 5,751 59.68%		John R. Milledge 3,885 40.32%					Template:Canadian party colour|	Angus Lewis Macdonald
Halifax West	Template:Canadian party colour|	Ronald Manning Fielding 8,061 51.31%		Earle Haverstock 6,927 44.09%		L.C. Wilson 723 4.60%			Template:Canadian party colour|	Ronald Manning Fielding

Central Nova

Electoral district	Candidates								Incumbent
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Antigonish	Template:Canadian party colour|	Colin H. Chisholm 2,624 48.92%		Terrance Bernard Thompson 675 12.58%				Vincent J. MacDonald 2,065 38.50%	Template:Canadian party colour|	Colin H. Chisholm
Guysborough	Template:Canadian party colour|	Arthur W. MacKenzie 3,470 56.29%		A. Grant MacDonald 2,694 43.71%					Template:Canadian party colour|	Arthur W. MacKenzie
Pictou Centre	Template:Canadian party colour|	Alfred B. DeWolfe 5,155 45.41%		Robert D. MacDonald 4,534 39.94%		Donald Nicholson 1,662 14.64%			Template:Canadian party colour|	Alfred B. DeWolfe
Pictou East	Template:Canadian party colour|	John W. MacDonald 2,681 48.78%		William A. MacLeod 2,592 47.16%		Joseph D. Ryan 223 4.06%			Template:Canadian party colour|	John W. MacDonald
Pictou West	Template:Canadian party colour|	Stewart W. Proudfoot 2,628 50.09%		Harvey Veniot 2,619 49.91%					Template:Canadian party colour|	Stewart W. Proudfoot

Cape Breton

Electoral district	Candidates								Incumbent
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Cape Breton Centre		Martin MacPherson 2,816 30.70%		Charles P. Miller 1,905 20.77%	Template:Canadian party colour|	Michael James MacDonald 4,451 48.53%			Template:Canadian party colour|	Michael James MacDonald
Cape Breton East		Joseph McIntyre 3,934 37.88%		William Wilton 1,356 13.06%	Template:Canadian party colour|	Russell Cunningham 5,096 49.07%			Template:Canadian party colour|	Russell Cunningham
Cape Breton North	Template:Canadian party colour|	Alexander O'Handley 4,674 47.45%		John Norman MacAskill 3,115 31.62%		Daniel Joseph MacEachern 2,062 20.93%			Template:Canadian party colour|	Alexander O'Handley
Cape Breton South	Template:Canadian party colour|	John Smith MacIvor 6,467 44.67%		A.O. Gunn 3,384 23.38%		Vincent Allan Morrison 4,625 31.95%			Template:Canadian party colour|	John Smith MacIvor
Cape Breton West	Template:Canadian party colour|	Malcolm A. Patterson 3,730 48.86%		Edward Manson 2,562 33.56%		Harry Munroe 1,342 17.58%			Template:Canadian party colour|	Malcolm A. Patterson
Inverness	Template:Canadian party colour|	Alexander H. McKinnon 4,725 29.17%		Leo P. Boudreau 3,585 22.13%					Template:Canadian party colour|	Alexander H. McKinnon
	Template:Canadian party colour|	Roderick MacLean 4,513 27.86%		Alex A. MacInnis 3,374 20.83%					Template:Canadian party colour|	Roderick MacLean
Richmond	Template:Canadian party colour|	Earl Wallace Urquhart 2,970 58.30%		Francis Whyte 2,124 41.70%					Template:Canadian party colour|	Earl Wallace Urquhart
Victoria	Template:Canadian party colour|	Carleton L. MacMillan 2,247 56.47%		Joseph L. MacNeil 1,732 43.53%					Template:Canadian party colour|	Carleton L. MacMillan