| Election Name: | 1882 Nova Scotia general election |
| Country: | Nova Scotia |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Party Colour: | no |
| Party Name: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1878 Nova Scotia general election |
| Previous Year: | 1878 |
| Previous Mps: | 27th General Assembly of Nova Scotia |
| Election Date: | June 20, 1882 |
| Elected Mps: | members |
| Next Election: | 1886 Nova Scotia general election |
| Next Year: | 1886 |
| Next Mps: | 29th General Assembly of Nova Scotia |
| Majority Seats: | 20 |
| Image1: | Lib |
| Leader1: | None |
| Last Election1: | 8 |
| Seats1: | 24 |
| Seat Change1: | 16 |
| Popular Vote1: | 50,206 |
| Percentage1: | 51.74% |
| Swing1: | 4.96pp |
| Image2 Size: | 150x150px |
| Leader2: | John Sparrow David Thompson |
| Leader Since2: | 1882 |
| Party2: | Liberal-Conservative |
| Leaders Seat2: | Antigonish |
| Last Election2: | 30 |
| Seats2: | 14 |
| Seat Change2: | 16 |
| Popular Vote2: | 45,779 |
| Percentage2: | 47.18% |
| Swing2: | 4.67pp |
| Premier | |
| Posttitle: | Premier after election |
| Before Election: | John Sparrow David Thompson |
| Before Party: | Liberal-Conservative |
| After Election: | William Thomas Pipes |
The 1882 Nova Scotia general election was held on 20 June 1882 to elect members of the 28th House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Liberal Party, their first of ten consecutive wins that would see them retain power until 1925. The Conservatives were the only one-term government in Nova Scotia until 2013 when the NDP lost.
The Liberals did not have a formal leader at the time of the election. After their victory, the newly-elected caucus selected William Thomas Pipes to be Premier.
| 24 | 14 | |
| Liberal | Liberal-Conservative |
| Party leader |
| Seats | Popular vote | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1878 | Dissolution | Elected | Change | % | Change (pp) | Liberal | None | 38 | 8 | 8 | 24 | +16 | 50,206 | 51.74% | +4.96% | Liberal-Conservative | John Sparrow David Thompson | 37 | 30 | 29 | 14 | align="right" | -16 | 45,779 | 47.18% | align="right" | -4.67% | Independent/Other | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,043 | 1.08% | align="right" | -0.29% | ||
| Vacant | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total valid votes | 97,028 | 100.00% | – | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Blank and invalid ballots | 0 | 0.00% | – | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 79 | 38 | 38 | 38 | – | 97,028 | 100.00% | – | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1882 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||William Botsford Troop
1,212
23.57%|||James Wilberforce Longley
1,340
26.06% |||||William Botsford Troop|-||Caleb Shaffner
1,261
24.52%|||Henry M. Munro
1,329
25.85% |||||Caleb Shaffner|-| rowspan="2"|Digby||George Taylor
752
21.23%|||Henri M. Robicheau
1,048
29.59% ||William Lent
92
2.60%|||Henri M. Robicheau|-||Urbine Doucette
664
18.75% |||John S. McNeill
986
27.84% |||||Benjamin Van Blarcom†|-| rowspan="2"|Hants|||Nathaniel Spence
1,236
25.05%||Archibald Frame
1,209
24.50%|||||Nathaniel Spence|- ||F. S. Creelman
1,229
24.90%|||Allen Haley
1,261
25.55%|||||Thomas Barlow Smith†|-| rowspan="2"|Kings|||Thomas R. Harris
1,345
24.17% ||C. B. Hickey
1,198
21.53%||James Lyons
318
5.71%|||James S. MacDonald†|- ||William C. Bill
1,267
22.77%|||Thomas Lewis Dodge
1,437
25.82% |||||William C. Bill|-|}
|-| rowspan="2"|Lunenburg||Charles A. Smith
1,195
22.78% |||Charles Edward Church
1,539
29.34%|||||Charles A. Smith|-||W. R. Calder
1,075
20.50%|||George A. Ross
1,436
27.38%|||||Edward James†|-| rowspan="2"|Queens||Leander Ford
548
22.50%|||Joseph H. Cook
689
28.28% |||||Leander Ford|-||James C. Bartling
555
22.78% |||Jason M. Mack
644
26.44% |||||James C. Bartling|-| rowspan="2"|Shelburne||John Allan
547
17.51%|||Thomas Johnston
947
30.31% |||||Nathaniel Whitworth White†|-||Nehemiah McGray
692
22.15% |||William F. MacCoy
938
30.03%|||||Nehemiah McGray|-| rowspan="2"|Yarmouth|||||Albert Gayton
1,344
39.26%|||||Albert Gayton|- |||Thomas Corning
1,203
35.14% ||T. B. Flint
876
25.59% |||||Joseph Robbins Kinney†|-|}
|-| rowspan="2"|Colchester |||William Blair
1,507
24.64%||S. D. McLellan
1,387
22.68%||Samuel Rettie
474
7.75%|||William Blair|- |||William Albert Patterson
1,497
24.48%||W. H. Guild
1,251
20.45%|||||William Albert Patterson|-| rowspan="2"|Cumberland|||Charles James Townshend
1,690
24.98%||Charles Smith
1,682
24.86%|||||Charles James Townshend|- ||Edward Vickery
1,519
22.45% |||William Thomas Pipes
1,875
27.71%|||||Edward Vickery|-|}
|-| rowspan="3"|Halifax||J. F. L. Parsons
2,475
16.06%|||Michael Joseph Power
2,591
16.82%|||||John Fitzwilliam Stairs†|-|||William D. Harrington
2,737
17.76%||J. G. Foster
2,543
16.50%|||||William D. Harrington|- ||John Pugh
2,508
16.28% |||William Stevens Fielding
2,554
16.58%|||||John Pugh|-|}
|-| rowspan="2"|Antigonish|||John Sparrow David Thompson
1,166
41.60%||Joseph McDonald
543
19.37% |||||John Sparrow David Thompson|- |||||Angus McGillivray
1,094
39.03%|||||Angus McGillivray|-| rowspan="2"|Guysborough||Alexander N. McDonald
518
19.81%|||Otto Schwartz Weeks
871
33.31% |||||Alexander N. McDonald|-||Joseph William Hadley
414
15.83%|||John A. Fraser
812
31.05% |||||Joseph William Hadley|-| rowspan="3"|Pictou |||Robert Hockin
2,492
17.41%||Jeffrey McColl
2,411
16.84%|||||Simon Hugh Holmes†|- |||Charles H. Munro
2,489
17.39%||Edward Mortimer MacDonald
2,250
15.72%|||||Vacant|- |||Adam Carr Bell
2,473
17.28%||Cornelius Dwyer
2,200
15.37% |||||Adam Carr Bell|-|}
|-| rowspan="2"|Cape Breton||Ebenezer Tilton Moseley
1,192
21.48% |||Alonzo J. White
1,600
28.83%|||||Ebenezer Tilton Moseley|-||Colin Chisholm
1,178
21.23% |||William Buchanan
1,579
28.46%|||||Hector Francis McDougall†|-| rowspan="2"|Inverness||Angus MacLennan
1,387
24.70%|||Duncan J. Campbell
1,435
25.55% |||||Duncan J. Campbell|- |||Alexander Campbell
1,477
26.30%||John McKinnon
1,317
23.45%|||||Alexander Campbell|-| rowspan="3"|Richmond||Neil L. McNeil
150
8.45%|||Isidore LeBlanc
538
30.31%|||||Isidore LeBlanc|- |||Murdoch McRae
407
22.93%|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Joseph Matheson
354
19.94%|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||rowspan=2 ||rowspan=2|Alexander McCuish|-||Alexander McCuish
326
18.37%|-| rowspan="2"|Victoria|||John Archibald McDonald
874
32.94%||D.J. McLeod
498
18.77%||John Munroe
159
5.99%|||John Morrison|- ||John Morrison
522
19.68% |||William F. McCurdy
600
22.62%|||||William F. McCurdy|-|}