| Election Name: | 1897 Nova Scotia general election |
| Country: | Nova Scotia |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Party Colour: | no |
| Party Name: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1894 Nova Scotia general election |
| Previous Year: | 1894 |
| Previous Mps: | 31st General Assembly of Nova Scotia |
| Election Date: | April 13–20, 1897 |
| Elected Mps: | members |
| Next Election: | 1901 Nova Scotia general election |
| Next Year: | 1901 |
| Next Mps: | 33rd General Assembly of Nova Scotia |
| Majority Seats: | 20 |
| Image1: | George Henry Murray (cropped).jpg |
| Image1 Size: | 150x150px |
| Leader1: | George Henry Murray |
| Leader Since1: | 1896 |
| Leaders Seat1: | Victoria |
| Last Election1: | 26 |
| Seats1: | 35 |
| Seat Change1: | 9 |
| Popular Vote1: | 84,888 |
| Percentage1: | 55.57% |
| Swing1: | 3.52pp |
| Leader2: | William MacKay |
| Leader Since2: | 1894 |
| Party2: | Liberal-Conservative |
| Leaders Seat2: | Cape Breton (Lost re-election) |
| Last Election2: | 12 |
| Seats2: | 3 |
| Seat Change2: | 9 |
| Popular Vote2: | 67,254 |
| Percentage2: | 44.03% |
| Swing2: | 3.30pp |
| Premier | |
| Posttitle: | Premier after election |
| Before Election: | George Henry Murray |
| After Election: | George Henry Murray |
The 1897 Nova Scotia general election was held from 13 April to 20 April 1897 to elect members of the 32nd House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Liberal party.
| 35 | 3 | |
| Liberal | Liberal-Conservative |
| Party leader |
| Seats | Popular vote | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1894 | Dissolution | Elected | Change | % | Change (pp) | Liberal | George Henry Murray | 40 | 26 | 28 | 35 | +9 | 84,888 | 55.57% | +3.52% | Liberal-Conservative | William MacKay | 36 | 12 | 10 | 3 | align="right" | -9 | 67,254 | 44.03% | align="right" | -3.30% | Independent/Other | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 605 | 0.40% | align="right" | -0.22% | ||
| Vacant | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total valid votes | 152,747 | 100.00% | – | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Blank and invalid ballots | 0 | 0.00% | – | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 77 | 38 | 38 | 38 | – | 152,747 | 100.00% | – | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1897 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|||James Wilberforce Longley
1,871
26.38% ||Thomas R. Jones
1,680
23.69% |||||James Wilberforce Longley|-|||Joseph A. Bancroft
1,878
26.48%||C. S. Harrington
1,664
23.46% |||||Joseph A. Bancroft|-| rowspan="2"|Digby|||Angus Morrison Gidney
1,498
31.14%||Frank E. Comeau
940
19.54% |||||Angus Morrison Gidney|-|||Ambroise-Hilaire Comeau
1,512
31.43% ||M.R. Timpany
860
17.88% |||||Ambroise-Hilaire Comeau|-| rowspan="2"|Hants||William McDonald Douglas
1,707
24.35%|||Charles Smith Wilcox
1,746
24.91% |||||Charles Smith Wilcox|- |||Arthur Drysdale
1,839
26.24%||James A. Thompson
1,717
24.50% |||||Arthur Drysdale|-| rowspan="2"|Kings|||Brenton Dodge
2,354
33.08% ||Peter Innis
1,460
20.52% |||||Brenton Dodge|-|||Harry H. Wickwire
2,195
30.85% ||Leander Rand
1,107
15.56% |||||Harry H. Wickwire|-|}
|-| rowspan="2"|Lunenburg|||John Drew Sperry
2,581
25.52% ||A.J. Wolff
2,512
24.84% |||||Allan Moreash†|-|||Charles Edward Church
2,514
24.86% ||Emanuel Hebb
2,507
24.78% |||||Charles Edward Church|-| rowspan="4"|Queens|||Edward Matthew Farrell
876
26.38% |rowspan=2||rowspan=2|John Hutt
666
20.05% |rowspan=2||rowspan=2||rowspan=2 ||rowspan=2|Edward Matthew Farrell|-||R. R. McLeod
184
5.54%|-|||Thomas Keillor
712
21.44% |rowspan=2||rowspan=2|T. H. Siddell
179
5.39% |rowspan=2||rowspan=2||rowspan=2 ||rowspan=2|Richard Hunt†|-||John Millard
704
21.20%|-| rowspan="2"|Shelburne|||Thomas Johnston
Acclaimed
|||||||Thomas Robertson|-|||Thomas Robertson
Acclaimed
|| |||||Thomas Johnston|-| rowspan="2"|Yarmouth|||William Law
1,501
29.14% ||Joseph R. Wyman
958
18.60% ||E. C. Simonson (Prohibitionist-Temperance)
605
11.74%|||William Law|-|||Henry S. LeBlanc
1,473
28.60% ||Albert A. Pothier
614
11.92%|||||Albert A. Pothier|-|}
|-| rowspan="2"|Colchester||Alfred Dickie
2,240
24.22%|||Thomas McMullen
2,363
25.55% |||||Firman McClure†|- |||Frederick Andrew Laurence
2,358
25.50%||Wilbert David Dimock
2,286
24.72% |||||Frederick Andrew Laurence|-| rowspan="2"|Cumberland|||Thomas Reuben Black
3,487
29.14% ||A.A. McKinnon
2,689
22.47% |||||Thomas Reuben Black|-|||Alexander E. Fraser
3,251
27.16% ||J. C. McDougall
2,541
21.23% |||||Alexander E. Fraser|-|}
|-| rowspan="3"|Halifax|||William Bernard Wallace
5,101
17.36% ||Miner T. Foster
4,754
16.18% |||||William Bernard Wallace|-|||David McPherson
5,307
18.06% ||John Fitzwilliam Stairs
4,563
15.53% |||||William Roche†|-|||George Mitchell
5,312
18.07%||T. W. Walsh
4,350
14.80% |||||William Anderson Black†|-|}
|-| rowspan="2"|Antigonish|||Angus McGillivray
1,263
27.77% ||Charles B. Whidden
1,123
24.69% |||||Angus McGillivray|- |||Christopher P. Chisholm
1,176
25.86%||Hugh MacDonald
986
21.68% |||||Christopher P. Chisholm|-| rowspan="2"|Guysborough|||William Akins Fergusson
1,525
29.90% ||C. Ernest Gregory
1,065
20.88% |||||Daniel H. MacKinnon†|-|||John Howard Sinclair
1,523
29.86% ||Charles S. Elliott
987
19.35% |||||John Howard Sinclair|-| rowspan="3"|Pictou|||James Drummond McGregor
3,456
17.24%||William Cameron
3,262
16.28% |||||William Cameron|-|||Edward Mortimer Macdonald
3,422
17.07% ||Charles Elliott Tanner
3,289
16.41% |||||Charles Elliott Tanner|- ||John McIntosh
3,299
16.46% |||Matthew Henry Fitzpatrick
3,314
16.54%|||||Alexander Grant†|-|}
|-| rowspan="2"|Cape Breton|||Arthur Samuel Kendall
3,705
29.35% ||William MacKay
2,669
21.14%|||||William MacKay|-|||Alexander Johnston
3,559
28.19% ||John McCormick
2,691
21.32% |||||John McCormick|-| rowspan="2"|Inverness|||James MacDonald
2,646
32.94% ||John H. Jameison
1,537
19.13% |||||John H. Jameison|-|||Moses J. Doucet
2,501
31.13% ||Alexander Campbell
1,350
16.80% |||||Alexander Campbell|-| rowspan="2"|Richmond|||Simon Joyce
958
25.86% ||John Morrison
910
24.57% |||||Simon Joyce|-|||Duncan Finlayson
1,034
27.92% ||Remi Benoit
802
21.65% |||||Joseph Matheson†|-| rowspan="2"|Victoria|||George Henry Murray
1,273
36.59% ||John A. McDonald
651
18.71% |||||George Henry Murray|-|||John Gillis Morrison
1,093
31.42% ||A. G. McLeod
462
13.28% |||||John Gillis Morrison|-|}