Election Name: | 1941 Nova Scotia general election |
Country: | Nova Scotia |
Type: | parliamentary |
Party Colour: | no |
Party Name: | no |
Previous Election: | 1937 Nova Scotia general election |
Previous Year: | 1937 |
Previous Mps: | 41st General Assembly of Nova Scotia |
Election Date: | October 28, 1941 |
Elected Mps: | members |
Next Election: | 1945 Nova Scotia general election |
Next Year: | 1945 |
Next Mps: | 43rd General Assembly of Nova Scotia |
Majority Seats: | 16 |
Turnout: | 63.05% 16.62pp |
Image1: | Lib |
Leader1: | Alexander Stirling MacMillan |
Leader Since1: | July 10, 1940 |
Leaders Seat1: | Hants |
Last Election1: | 25 |
Seats1: | 23 |
Seat Change1: | 2 |
Popular Vote1: | 137,884 |
Percentage1: | 52.7% |
Swing1: | 0.0pp |
Leader2: | Frederick Murray Blois |
Leader Since2: | 1940 |
Leaders Seat2: | Colchester |
Last Election2: | 5 |
Seats2: | 4 |
Seat Change2: | 1 |
Popular Vote2: | 104,123 |
Percentage2: | 40.3% |
Swing2: | 5.5pp |
Image3: | CCF |
Leader3: | No leader |
Last Election3: | Did not contest |
Seats3: | 3 |
Seat Change3: | 3 |
Popular Vote3: | 18,583 |
Percentage3: | 7.0% |
Swing3: | 7.0pp |
Premier | |
Posttitle: | Premier after election |
Before Election: | Alexander Stirling MacMillan |
After Election: | Alexander Stirling MacMillan |
The 1941 Nova Scotia general election was held on 28 October 1941 to elect members of the 42nd House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Liberal party.
23 | 4 | 3 | |
Liberal | Progressive Conservative | CCF |
Party leader |
| Seats | Popular vote | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1937 | Dissolution | Elected | Change | % | Change (pp) | Liberal | Angus Lewis Macdonald | 30 | 24 | 22 | align="right" | -2 | 137,884 | 52.91% | align="right" | -0.02% | Progressive Conservative | Frederick Murray Blois | 28 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 104,123 | 39.96% | align="right" | -6.02% | Co-operative Commonwealth | 6 | 0 | 0 | 3 | +3 | 18,583 | 7.13% | N/A | ||||
Vacant | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total valid votes | 260,590 | 99.37% | – | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blank and invalid ballots | 1,651 | 0.63% | – | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total | 64 | 30 | 30 | 30 | – | 262,241 | 100.00% | – | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Registered voters / turnout | 341,788 | 63.05%[1] | align="right" | -6.23% |
* The CCF ran in the 1933 election but did not run any candidates in 1937. The party elected 1 MLA in the 1939 Cape Breton East by-election.
Legend
bold denotes party leader
† denotes an incumbent who is not running for re-election or was defeated in nomination contest
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Annapolis|||John D. McKenzie
4,292
60.60%||Hanson Taylor Dowell
2,790
39.40%|||||John D. McKenzie|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Digby|||Joseph William Comeau
4,818
62.34%||James John Wallis
2,910
37.66%|||||Joseph William Comeau|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Hants|||Alexander Stirling MacMillan
4,871
57.56%||Norman Dexter Blanchard
3,592
42.44%|||||Alexander Stirling MacMillan|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kings|||John Alexander McDonald
6,654
62.58%||Raymond Crosby
3,978
37.42%|||||John Alexander McDonald|}
|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Lunenburg|||Frank R. Davis
6,366
29.39%||R. Clifford Levy
4,601
21.24%|||||Frank R. Davis|-|||Gordon E. Romkey
6,288
29.03%||Angus J. Walters
4,404
20.33%|||||Gordon E. Romkey|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Queens|||Harry Dennis Madden
2,461
50.13%||John J. Cameron
2,448
49.87%|||||John J. Cameron|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Shelburne|||Wilfred Dauphinee
2,422
50.73%||Frederick William Bower
2,352
49.27%|||||Henry R. L. Bill†|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Yarmouth |||Henry A. Waterman
4,551
63.02%||Peter Lorimer Judge
2,670
36.98%|||||Henry A. Waterman|}
|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Colchester||Alexander Murdoch Sutherland
5,160
23.74%|||Frederick Murray Blois
5,842
26.88%|||||Frederick Murray Blois|-||Robert F. McLellan
5,301
24.39%|||George Scott Dickey
5,432
24.99%|||||George Scott Dickey|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cumberland||Archibald J. Mason
7,040
22.87%|||Archie B. Smith
7,954
25.84%|||||Archie B. Smith|-|||Kenneth Judson Cochrane
7,970
25.90%||Leonard William Fraser
7,814
25.39%|||||Leonard William Fraser|}
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax Centre|||James Edward Rutledge
4,226
59.49%||Arthur Wilfred Morton
2,878
40.51%|||||James Edward Rutledge|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax East|||Geoffrey W. Stevens
5,094
60.39%||Norman Dudley Murray
3,341
39.61%|||||Geoffrey W. Stevens|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax North|||Harold Connolly
4,124
64.98%||Helen Macdonald Lownds
1,962
30.91%||James Ronald Clark
261
4.11%|||Harold Connolly|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax South|||Joseph Richard Murphy
4,381
58.75%||Arthur James Haliburton
3,076
41.25%|||||Joseph Richard Murphy|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax West|||Ronald Manning Fielding
4,459
58.37%||John Shenstone Roper
3,180
41.63%|||||Vacant|}
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Antigonish |||John A. MacIsaac
2,759
61.49%||Michael Ignatius Webb
1,728
38.51%|||||Vacant|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Guysborough|||Havelock Torrey
3,759
64.15%||John Donald McIntyre
2,101
35.85%|||||Havelock Torrey|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Pictou||Newton G. Munro
7,562
23.16%|||Ernest G. Irish
8,256
25.28%|||||Newton G. Munro|-|||Josiah H. MacQuarrie
8,780
26.89%||W. Thomas Hayden
8,055
24.67%|||||Josiah H. MacQuarrie|}
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton Centre||Gus Brown
2,275
30.96%||John Clifford Gregor
1,155
15.72%|||Douglas MacDonald
3,918
53.32%|||Douglas MacDonald|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton East||Lauchlin Daniel Currie
4,052
39.44%|||||Douglas Neil Brodie
6,222
60.56%|||Lauchlin Daniel Currie|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton North|||Alexander O'Handley
3,344
39.97%||Joseph Angus MacDougall
2,387
28.53%||Robert Silas Bartlett
2,636
31.50%|||George Belcher Murray†|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton South||George M. Morrison
3,946
35.96%||Donald John MacLean
3,019
27.51%|||Donald MacDonald
4,008
36.53%|||George M. Morrison|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton West|||Malcolm A. Patterson
2,306
41.10%||John Alexander MacDonald
1,767
31.49%||Robert Joseph Orr
1,538
27.41%|||Malcolm A. Patterson|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Inverness|||Alexander H. McKinnon
5,302
63.54%||Alexander Daniel McInnis
3,043
36.46%|||||Alexander H. McKinnon|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Richmond|||Donald David Boyd
2,176
50.59%||Benjamin Amedeé LeBlanc
2,125
49.41%|||||Donald David Boyd|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Victoria|||John Malcolm Campbell
2,176
63.05%||John Roderick Fraser
1,275
36.95%|||||John Malcolm Campbell|}