1878 Nova Scotia general election explained

Election Name:	1878 Nova Scotia general election
Country:	Nova Scotia
Type:	parliamentary
Party Colour:	no
Party Name:	no
Previous Election:	1874 Nova Scotia general election
Previous Year:	1874
Previous Mps:	26th General Assembly of Nova Scotia
Election Date:	September 17, 1878
Elected Mps:	members
Next Election:	1882 Nova Scotia general election
Next Year:	1882
Next Mps:	28th General Assembly of Nova Scotia
Majority Seats:	20
Image1:	Simon Hugh Holmes.jpg
Image1 Size:	150x150px
Leader1:	Simon Hugh Holmes
Leader Since1:	1874
Party1:	Liberal-Conservative
Leaders Seat1:	Pictou
Last Election1:	11
Seats1:	30
Seat Change1:	19
Popular Vote1:	52,517
Percentage1:	51.85%
Swing1:	18.18pp
Leader2:	Philip Carteret Hill
Leader Since2:	1875
Leaders Seat2:	Halifax (Lost re-election)
Last Election2:	20
Seats2:	8
Seat Change2:	12
Popular Vote2:	47,388
Percentage2:	46.78%
Swing2:	7.61pp
Premier
Posttitle:	Premier after election
Before Election:	Philip Carteret Hill
After Election:	Simon Hugh Holmes
After Party:	Liberal-Conservative

The 1878 Nova Scotia general election was held on 17 September 1878 to elect members of the 27th House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Liberal-Conservative Party.

Results

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30	8
Liberal-Conservative	Liberal

1878 Nova Scotia Provincial Election^[1]

Legend
bold denotes party leader
† denotes an incumbent who is not running for re-election or was defeated in nomination contest

|-| rowspan="2"|Annapolis ||O. M. Taylor
1,235
24.49%|||William Botsford Troop
1,350
26.77% |||||William Botsford Troop|- ||E. Bent
1,163
23.06%|||Caleb Shaffner
1,295
25.68% |||||Avard Longley†|-| rowspan="3"|Digby||Urbine Doucette
738
20.20%|rowspan=2 ||rowspan=2|Benjamin Van Blarcom
833
22.80%|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Colin Campbell
725
19.85%|rowspan=2 ||rowspan=2|Colin Campbell|- ||John S. McNeill
527
14.43%|-|||Henri M. Robicheau
830
22.72%|||||||Henri M. Robicheau|-| rowspan="2"|Hants|||Thomas Barlow Smith
1,507
25.58%||F. S. Creelman
1,465
24.87% |||||William Henry Allison†|- ||William Dawson Laurence
1,298
22.03%|||Nathaniel Spence
1,621
27.52%|||||Alfred Putnam†|-| rowspan="2"|Kings ||G. W. Fisher
1,414
24.87%|||William C. Bill
1,601
28.16% |||||Douglas Benjamin Woodworth†|- ||E. A. Forsyth
1,143
20.11%|||James S. MacDonald
1,527
26.86% |||||John B. North†|-|}

|-| rowspan="2"|Lunenburg ||James Daniel Eisenhauer
1,263
21.98%|||Charles A. Smith
1,719
29.91% |||||James Daniel Eisenhauer|- ||F. B. Wade
1,286
22.38%|||Edward James
1,479
25.74% |||||Charles Henry Davison†|-| rowspan="3"|Queens ||Samuel Freeman
531
21.33%|||Leander Ford
607
24.38% |||||Samuel Freeman|- ||Jason M. Mack
503
20.20%|rowspan=2 ||rowspan=2|James C. Bartling
534
21.45% |rowspan=2||rowspan=2||rowspan=2 ||rowspan=2|Jason M. Mack|-||Albert M. Hemeon
315
12.65%|-| rowspan="2"|Shelburne ||William F. MacCoy
892
22.92%|||Nathaniel Whitworth White
1,140
29.29% |||||Nathaniel Whitworth White|- ||M. Nickerson
871
22.38%|||Nehemiah McGray
989
25.41% |||||Thomas Johnston†|-| rowspan="3"|Yarmouth|||Albert Gayton
1,086
29.22%||||W. V. Brown
470
12.65%|||Albert Gayton|- |||Joseph Robbins Kinney^[2]
1,000
26.91%|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Bowman Corning
669
18.% |rowspan=2||rowspan=2||rowspan=2 ||rowspan=2|John Lovitt†|-||A. S. Lent
491
13.21%|-|}

|-| rowspan="2"|Colchester ||C. N. Cummings
1,402
21.77%|||William Albert Patterson
1,846
28.66% |||||William Albert Patterson|- ||Fred Tupper
1,308
20.31%|||William Blair
1,885
29.27% |||||Vacant|-| rowspan="2"|Cumberland ||William Oxley
1,657
25.78%|||Charles James Townshend
1,792
27.88% |||||Hiram Black†|- ||C. Lewis
1,311
20.40%|||Edward Vickery
1,667
25.94% |||||Edward Vickery|-|}

|-| rowspan="2"|Antigonish |||||John Sparrow David Thompson
Acclamation |||||John Sparrow David Thompson|- |||Angus McGillivray
Acclamation|| |||||Daniel MacDonald†|-| rowspan="3"|Guysborough ||D. C. Fraser
596
19.22%|||Joseph William Hadley
803
25.89% |||||Charles M. Franchville†|- ||Otto Schwartz Weeks
502
16.19%|rowspan=2 ||rowspan=2|Alexander N. McDonald
698
22.51% |rowspan=2||rowspan=2||rowspan=2 ||rowspan=2|Otto Schwartz Weeks|-||H. R. Cunningham
502
16.19%|-| rowspan="3"|Pictou ||George Murray
2,349
15.85%|||Simon Hugh Holmes
2,752
18.57% |||||Simon Hugh Holmes|- ||John D. McLeod
2,250
15.18%|||Adam Carr Bell
2,694
18.18% |||||Hugh J. Cameron†|-||Robert McNeil
2,183
14.73%|||Alexander MacKay
2,592
17.49% |||||Alexander MacKay|-|}

|-| rowspan="5"|Cape Breton |rowspan=3||rowspan=3|Alonzo J. White
930
16.82%|||Hector Francis McDougall
1,027
18.57%|rowspan=3||rowspan=3||rowspan=3 ||rowspan=3|Alonzo J. White|- ||J. H. Hearn
716
12.95%|-||Joseph McVarish
371
6.71%|-|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|D. McKenzie
614
11.10%|||Ebenezer Tilton Moseley
1,523
27.54%|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||rowspan=2 ||rowspan=2|Ebenezer Tilton Moseley|-||Michael McKinnon
349
6.31%|-| rowspan="2"|Inverness|||Duncan J. Campbell
1,650
27.36%||D. Gillies
1,393
23.10%|||||Duncan J. Campbell|- ||John McKinnon
1,440
23.88% |||Alexander Campbell
1,548
25.67% |||||John J. McKinnon†|-| rowspan="2"|Richmond|||Isidore LeBlanc
599
26.11%||Edward Gagnon
551
24.02%|||||Charles Boudroit†|- ||Joseph Matheson
501
21.84% |||Alexander McCuish
643
28.03%|||||Murdoch McRae†|-| rowspan="2"|Victoria|||William F. McCurdy
594
25.36%||J. S. McLean
368
15.71% ||William Kidston
193
8.24%|||David McCurdy†|- ||John Ross
580
24.77%|||John Angus Morrison
607
25.92%|||||John A. Fraser†|-|}

Web site: Electoral Districts- History . Nova Scotia Legislature . December 18, 2021.
Listed and elected as an Independent candidate, however, he sat in the House as a Liberal