Election Name: | 1906 Nova Scotia general election |
Country: | Nova Scotia |
Type: | parliamentary |
Party Colour: | no |
Party Name: | no |
Previous Election: | 1901 Nova Scotia general election |
Previous Year: | 1901 |
Previous Mps: | 33rd General Assembly of Nova Scotia |
Election Date: | June 20, 1906 |
Elected Mps: | members |
Next Election: | 1911 Nova Scotia general election |
Next Year: | 1911 |
Next Mps: | 35th 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: | 36 |
Seats1: | 32 |
Seat Change1: | 4 |
Popular Vote1: | 87,267 |
Percentage1: | 55.08% |
Swing1: | 3.71pp |
Image2 Size: | 150x150px |
Leader2: | Charles Elliott Tanner |
Leader Since2: | 1901 |
Party2: | Liberal-Conservative |
Leaders Seat2: | Pictou |
Last Election2: | 2 |
Seats2: | 5 |
Seat Change2: | 3 |
Popular Vote2: | 67,028 |
Percentage2: | 42.32% |
Swing2: | 1.11pp |
Premier | |
Posttitle: | Premier after election |
Before Election: | George Henry Murray |
After Election: | George Henry Murray |
The 1906 Nova Scotia general election was held on 20 June 1906 to elect members of the 34th House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Liberal party.
32 | 5 | 1 | |
Liberal | Liberal-Conservative | Other |
Party leader |
| Seats | Popular vote | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1901 | Dissolution | Elected | Change | % | Change (pp) | Liberal | George Henry Murray | 40 | 36 | 36 | 32 | align="right" | -4 | 87,267 | 55.08% | align="right" | -3.71% | Liberal-Conservative | Charles Elliott Tanner | 32 | 2 | 2 | 5 | +3 | 67,028 | 42.32% | +1.11% | Independent/Other | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4,125 | 2.60% | +2.36% | ||
Vacant | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total valid votes | 158,420 | 100.00% | – | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blank and invalid ballots | 0 | 0.00% | – | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total | 74 | 38 | 38 | 38 | – | 158,420 | 100.00% | – |
1906 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|||Orlando Daniels
2,062
29.46% ||A. L. Davison
1,674
23.91% |||||Orlando Daniels|-|||Joseph A. Bancroft
1,826
26.09% ||Alfred Wightman
1,438
20.54% |||||Joseph A. Bancroft|-| rowspan="2"|Digby|||Ambroise-Hilaire Comeau
1,376
32.51% ||M. H. Marshall
829
19.59% |||||Ambroise-Hilaire Comeau|-|||Angus Morrison Gidney
1,253
29.61% ||A. A. Theriault
774
18.29% |||||Angus Morrison Gidney|-| rowspan="2"|Hants|||Arthur Drysdale
1,934
26.19%||E. A. O'Brien
1,800
24.37%|||||Arthur Drysdale|- ||Francis Parker McHeffey
1,792
24.27%|||Charles Smith Wilcox
1,859
25.17% |||||Francis Parker McHeffey|-| rowspan="2"|Kings[2] |||Brenton Dodge
2,152
25.83% ||||E. W. Sawyer
1,977
23.72% (Union Reform)|||Brenton Dodge|- ||Harry H. Wickwire
2,056
24.67% || |||Charles Alexander Campbell
2,148
25.78% (Union Reform)|||Harry H. Wickwire|-|}
|-| rowspan="2"|Lunenburg|||Charles Uniacke Mader
2,274
26.12% ||C. S. Marshall
2,147
24.66% |||||Charles Uniacke Mader|-|||Henry March
2,254
25.89% ||C. A. Lander
2,031
23.33% |||||John Drew Sperry†|-| rowspan="2"|Queens|||Edward Matthew Farrell
1,008
31.28% ||J. S. Hughes
754
23.40% |||||Edward Matthew Farrell|-|||Charles F. Cooper
874
27.13% ||J. C. Pyke
586
18.19% |||||Charles F. Cooper|-| rowspan="2"|Shelburne|||Moses H. Nickerson
1,083
28.08% ||N. R. Craig
930
24.11% |||||Moses H. Nickerson|-|||Robert Irwin
975
25.28% ||T. C. Lockwood
869
22.53% |||||George A. Cox†|-| rowspan="2"|Yarmouth|||Ernest Howard Armstrong
1,586
34.20% ||A. M. Perrin
815
17.57% |||||George G. Sanderson†|-|||Henry S. LeBlanc
1,425
30.72% ||Raymond Neri d'Entremont
812
17.51% |||||Henry S. LeBlanc|-|}
|-| rowspan="2"|Colchester|||William Davison Hill
2,567
28.76% ||J. H. McCleave
2,177
24.39% |||||Henry T. Laurence†|-|||Benjamin Franklin Pearson
2,386
26.73% ||John Suckling
1,795
20.11% |||||Benjamin Franklin Pearson|-| rowspan="2"|Cumberland|||Elisha B. Paul
3,619
26.57% ||C. F. Jameison
2,995
21.99%|||||Elisha B. Paul|-|||William Thomas Pipes
3,587
26.34% ||Daniel J. McLeod
3,419
25.10% |||||Daniel J. McLeod|-|}
|-| rowspan="3"|Halifax|||David McPherson
5,550
19.23% ||G.M. Campbell
4,423
15.33% |||||David McPherson|-|||George Everett Faulkner
5,475
18.97% ||W.M. Sedgewick
4,093
14.18% |||||George Mitchell†|-|||Robert Emmett Finn
5,372
18.62% ||W.F. O'Connor
3,943
13.66% |||||Michael Edwin Keefe†|-|}
|-| rowspan="2"|Antigonish |||Fred Robert Trotter
Acclamation|||||||Fred Robert Trotter |- |||Christopher P. Chisholm
Acclamation|| || |||Christopher P. Chisholm|-| rowspan="2"|Guysborough|||James F. Ellis
1,705
29.30% ||Simon Osborn Giffin
1,325
22.77% |||||James F. Ellis|-|||William Whitman
1,634
28.08% ||G.A.R. Rowlings
1,155
19.85% |||||William Whitman|-| rowspan="3"|Pictou|||Robert M. McGregor
3,832
17.50%||George E. Munro
3,372
15.40%|||||Robert M. McGregor|-||George Patterson
3,546
16.19% |||John M. Baillie
3,617
16.52%|||||George Patterson|-||Robert Hugh MacKay
3,546
16.19%|||Charles Elliott Tanner
3,983
18.19%|| |||Charles Elliott Tanner |-|}
|-| rowspan="2"|Cape Breton|||Arthur Samuel Kendall
5,225
26.66% ||J. W. Madden
4,777
24.37% |||||Arthur Samuel Kendall|-|||Neil J. Gillis
4,897
24.98% ||Robert Hamilton Butts
4,702
23.99% |||||Neil J. Gillis|-| rowspan="4"|Inverness|||James MacDonald
2,052
22.26%|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Daniel McNeil
1,099
11.92% |rowspan=2||rowspan=2||rowspan=2 ||rowspan=2|James MacDonald|- ||H. C. Hache
1,540
16.70%|-||Moses J. Doucet
1,530
16.59%|rowspan=2 ||rowspan=2|Charles Edward McMillan
1,639
17.78% |rowspan=2||rowspan=2||rowspan=2 ||rowspan=2|Moses J. Doucet|-||Dougald MacLachan
1,360
14.75%|-| rowspan="2"|Richmond|||Charles P. Bissett
1,140
36.66%||Edward Doyle
398
12.80% |||||Charles P. Bissett|- ||Simon Joyce
766
24.63% |||Felix Landry
806
25.92%|||||Simon Joyce|-| rowspan="2"|Victoria|||George Henry Murray
Acclamation|||||||George Henry Murray|-|||John Gillis Morrison
Acclamation|| |||||John Gillis Morrison|-|}