Election Name: | 1901 Nova Scotia general election |
Country: | Nova Scotia |
Type: | parliamentary |
Party Colour: | no |
Party Name: | no |
Previous Election: | 1897 Nova Scotia general election |
Previous Year: | 1897 |
Previous Mps: | 32nd General Assembly of Nova Scotia |
Election Date: | October 2, 1901 |
Elected Mps: | members |
Next Election: | 1906 Nova Scotia general election |
Next Year: | 1906 |
Next Mps: | 34th 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: | 35 |
Seats1: | 36 |
Seat Change1: | 1 |
Popular Vote1: | 80,196 |
Percentage1: | 58.79% |
Swing1: | 3.22pp |
Leader2: | Charles Smith Wilcox |
Leader Since2: | 1898 |
Party2: | Liberal-Conservative |
Leaders Seat2: | Hants (Lost re-election) |
Last Election2: | 3 |
Seats2: | 2 |
Seat Change2: | 1 |
Popular Vote2: | 55,889 |
Percentage2: | 40.97% |
Swing2: | 3.06pp |
Premier | |
Posttitle: | Premier after election |
Before Election: | George Henry Murray |
After Election: | George Henry Murray |
The 1901 Nova Scotia general election was held on 2 October 1901 to elect members of the 33rd House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Liberal party.
36 | 2 | |
Liberal | Liberal-Conservative |
Party leader |
| Seats | Popular vote | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1897 | Dissolution | Elected | Change | % | Change (pp) | Liberal | George Henry Murray | 40 | 35 | 34 | 36 | +1 | 80,196 | 58.79% | +3.22% | Liberal-Conservative | Charles Smith Wilcox | 32 | 3 | 4 | 2 | align="right" | -1 | 55,889 | 40.97% | align="right" | -3.06% | Independent/Other | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 326 | 0.24% | align="right" | -0.16% | ||
Vacant | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total valid votes | 136,411 | 100.00% | – | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blank and invalid ballots | 0 | 0.00% | – | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total | 73 | 38 | 38 | 38 | – | 136,411 | 100.00% | – |
1901 Nova Scotia Provincial Election[1] [2]
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
1,825
29.60% ||W. C. Healey
1,348
21.87% |||||James Wilberforce Longley|-|||Joseph A. Bancroft
1,750
28.39% ||Frank Andrews
1,242
20.15% |||||Joseph A. Bancroft|-| rowspan="2"|Digby|||Ambroise-Hilaire Comeau
1,507
37.12% ||J. K. Tobin
611
15.05% |||||Ambroise-Hilaire Comeau|-|||Angus Morrison Gidney
1,400
34.48% ||Louis Dugas
542
13.35% |||||Angus Morrison Gidney|-| rowspan="2"|Hants|||Arthur Drysdale
2,092
29.54% ||A. S. Sanford
1,458
20.58%|||||Arthur Drysdale|-|||Francis Parker McHeffey
1,914
27.02% ||Charles Smith Wilcox
1,619
22.86% |||||Charles Smith Wilcox|-| rowspan="2"|Kings|||Brenton Dodge
2,225
33.97% ||J. W. Ryan
1,116
17.04% |||||Brenton Dodge|-|||Harry H. Wickwire
2,122
32.40% ||Peter Innes
1,087
16.60% |||||Harry H. Wickwire|-|}
|-| rowspan="2"|Lunenburg|||Edward Doran Davison
2,932
28.24% ||A. J. Wolfe
2,335
22.49% |||||John Drew Sperry†|-|||Alexander Kenneth Maclean
2,923
28.15% ||J. A. Roberts
2,192
21.11% |||||Charles Edward Church†|-| rowspan="2"|Queens|||Edward Matthew Farrell
925
27.95% ||John Hutt
783
23.66%|| |||Edward Matthew Farrell|-|||Charles F. Cooper
843
25.48% ||W. L. Libbey
758
22.91% |||||Thomas Keillor†|-| rowspan="2"|Shelburne|||Thomas Johnston
817
41.98% || ||Arthur Hood
326
16.75%|||Thomas Johnston|-|||Thomas Robertson
803
41.26% || |||||Thomas Robertson|-| rowspan="2"|Yarmouth|||Augustus Stoneman
Acclamation|| |||||Augustus Stoneman|-|||Henry S. LeBlanc
Acclamation|| |||||Henry S. LeBlanc|-|}
|-| rowspan="2"|Colchester|||Benjamin Franklin Pearson
2,169
25.34%||A. S. Black
2,151
25.13% |||||Thomas McMullen†|-|||Frederick Andrew Laurence
2,185
25.53% ||John Fitzwilliam Stairs
2,054
24.% |||||Frederick Andrew Laurence|-| rowspan="2"|Cumberland|||Thomas Reuben Black
2,944
25.50%||C. R. Smith
2,720
23.56%|||||Thomas Reuben Black|- ||M. L. Tucker
2,933
25.41% |||Daniel McLeod
2,946
25.52% |||||Alexander E. Fraser†|-|}
|-| rowspan="3"|Halifax|||George Mitchell
4,955
17.56%||Adam Brown Crosby
4,707
16.68% |||||George Mitchell|-|||David McPherson
5,049
17.89%||G. M. Campbell
4,487
15.90% |||||David McPherson|-|||Michael Edwin Keefe
4,840
17.15% ||J. J. Stewart
4,185
14.83% |||||Michael Edwin Keefe|-|}
|-| rowspan="2"|Antigonish|||Angus McGillivray
Acclamation|||||||Angus McGillivray|-|||Christopher P. Chisholm
Acclamation|||||||Christopher P. Chisholm|-| rowspan="2"|Guysborough|||William Whitman
1,498
35.79%||John Keating
620
14.81% |||||William Akins Fergusson†|-|||John Howard Sinclair
1,511
36.11% ||H. T. Harding
556
13.29% |||||John Howard Sinclair|-| rowspan="3"|Pictou|||Edward Mortimer Macdonald
3,703
20.61%||George E. Munro
3,011
16.76% |||||Edward Mortimer Macdonald|-||Robert Dewar
3,157
17.57%|||Charles Elliott Tanner
3,186
17.73%|||||Charles Elliott Tanner|- |||George Patterson
3,534
19.67% ||William Cameron
1,377
7.66% |||||Matthew Henry Fitzpatrick†|-|}
|-| rowspan="2"|Cape Breton|||Daniel Duncan McKenzie
3,840
32.29% ||Colin McKinnon
2,205
18.54% |||||Daniel Duncan McKenzie|-|||Neil J. Gillis
3,691
31.04% ||Vincent Mullins
2,157
18.14% |||||Neil J. Gillis|-| rowspan="4"|Inverness|||James MacDonald
2,270
27.39% |rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Charles Edward McMillan
1,326
16.00% |rowspan=2||rowspan=2||rowspan=2 ||rowspan=2|James McDonald|-||J. L. McDougall
1,317
15.89%|-|||Moses J. Doucet
1,734
20.92% |rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Daniel McNeil
1,137
13.72% |rowspan=2||rowspan=2||rowspan=2 ||rowspan=2|Moses J. Doucet|-||Alexander Macdonald
504
6.08%|-| rowspan="2"|Richmond|||Duncan Finlayson
1,090
34.64% ||D. G. Stewart
562
17.86% |||||Duncan Finlayson|-|||Simon Joyce
994
31.59% ||Felix Landry
501
15.92% |||||Simon Joyce|-| rowspan="2"|Victoria|||George Henry Murray
1,177
37.85% ||John A. McDonald
581
18.68% |||||George Henry Murray|-|||John Gillis Morrison
1,023
32.89% ||John J. McCabe
329
10.58% |||||John Gillis Morrison|-|}