| Election Name: | 1945 Nova Scotia general election |
| Country: | Nova Scotia |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Party Colour: | no |
| Party Name: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1941 Nova Scotia general election |
| Previous Year: | 1941 |
| Previous Mps: | 42nd General Assembly of Nova Scotia |
| Election Date: | October 23, 1945 |
| Elected Mps: | members |
| Next Election: | 1949 Nova Scotia general election |
| Next Year: | 1949 |
| Next Mps: | 44th General Assembly of Nova Scotia |
| Majority Seats: | 16 |
| Turnout: | 64.68% 1.63pp |
| Image1: | Angus L Macdonald portrait.jpg |
| Image1 Size: | 150x150px |
| Leader1: | Angus Lewis Macdonald |
| Leader Since1: | August 31, 1945 |
| Leaders Seat1: | Halifax South |
| Last Election1: | 23 |
| Seats1: | 28 |
| Seat Change1: | 5 |
| Popular Vote1: | 153,493 |
| Percentage1: | 53.1% |
| Swing1: | 0.5pp |
| Leader2: | Donald MacDonald |
| Leader Since2: | 1941 |
| Leaders Seat2: | Cape Breton South (Lost re-election) |
| Last Election2: | 3 |
| Seats2: | 2 |
| Seat Change2: | 1 |
| Popular Vote2: | 39,637 |
| Percentage2: | 13.6% |
| Swing2: | 6.6pp |
| Image3: | PC |
| Leader3: | Frederick Murray Blois |
| Leader Since3: | 1940 |
| Leaders Seat3: | Colchester (Lost re-election) |
| Last Election3: | 4 |
| Seats3: | 0 |
| Seat Change3: | 4 |
| Popular Vote3: | 95,573 |
| Percentage3: | 33.5% |
| Swing3: | 7.8pp |
| Premier | |
| Posttitle: | Premier after election |
| Before Election: | Angus Lewis Macdonald |
| After Election: | Angus Lewis Macdonald |
The 1945 Nova Scotia general election was held on 23 October 1945 to elect members of the 43rd House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Liberal party. The Progressive Conservatives were entirely shut out of the Assembly, making the CCF's two MLAs the only opposition members.
| 28 | 2 | |
| Liberal | CCF |
| Party leader |
| Seats | Popular vote | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | Dissolution | Elected | Change | % | Change (pp) | Liberal | Angus Lewis Macdonald | 30 | 22 | 28 | +6 | 153,493 | 53.05% | +0.14% | Co-operative Commonwealth | Donald MacDonald | 20 | 3 | 2 | align="right" | -1 | 39,637 | 13.70% | +6.57% | Progressive Conservative | Frederick Murray Blois | 29 | 5 | 0 | align="right" | -5 | 95,573 | 33.03% | align="right" | -6.93% | Independent/Other | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 634 | 0.22% | N/A | ||||||
| Vacant | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total valid votes | 289,337 | 99.37% | – | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Blank and invalid ballots | 1,697 | 0.58% | – | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 82 | 30 | 30 | 30 | – | 291,034 | 100.00% | – | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Registered voters / turnout | 370,945 | 64.68%[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Legend
bold denotes party leader
† denotes an incumbent who is not running for re-election or was defeated in nomination contest
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Annapolis|||Henry Hicks
4,880
59.06%||Horton Wheelock Phinney
3,383
40.94%|||||||John D. McKenzie†|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Digby|||Joseph William Comeau
4,714
59.13%||Kenneth Earl Smith
2,706
33.94%||Edgar Lawrence Outhouse
552
6.92%|||||Joseph William Comeau|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Hants|||Robert A. MacLellan
4,951
52.66%||Norman Dudley Murray
3,194
33.98%||Frederick Charles Gilmore Scott
1,256
13.36%|||||Alexander Stirling MacMillan†|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kings|||David Durell Sutton
7,027
59.66%||William Lawrence Chisholm
4,751
40.34%|||||||John Alexander McDonald†|}
|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Lunenburg|||Frank R. Davis
6,867
27.31%||R. Clifford Levy
5,854
23.28%|||||||Frank R. Davis|-|||Gordon E. Romkey
6,839
27.20%||James A. MacLeod
5,585
22.21%|||||||Gordon E. Romkey|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Queens|||Merrill D. Rawding
2,844
48.17%||Leonard William Fraser
2,503
42.39%||Clarence Webber
557
9.43%|||||Harry Dennis Madden†|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Shelburne|||Wilfred Dauphinee
3,214
55.85%||Frederick William Bower
2,203
38.28%||Cecil James O'Donnell
338
5.87%|||||Wilfred Dauphinee|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Yarmouth |||Henry A. Waterman
5,000
55.20%||Frank Parker Day
4,058
44.80%|||||||Henry A. Waterman|}
|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Colchester|||Gordon Purdy
7,714
29.18%||Frederick Murray Blois
5,515
20.86%||Clarence Vincent Fleury
547
2.07%|||||Frederick Murray Blois|-|||Robert F. McLellan
6,631
25.09%||William A. Flemming
5,383
20.37%||Sidney Mansfield Parker
642
2.43%|||||George Scott Dickey†|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cumberland|||Martin J. Kaufman
6,540
21.67%||Archie B. Smith
6,271
20.77%||John James Crummey
2,867
9.50%|||||Archie B. Smith|-|||Kenneth Judson Cochrane
6,995
23.17%||Norman Shaw Sanford
5,807
19.24%||Joseph Bernard Murray
1,706
5.65%|||||Kenneth Judson Cochrane|}
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax Centre|||James Edward Rutledge
4,737
55.22%||Carl Palm Bethune
2,279
26.57%||R.B. Mitchell
1,562
18.21%|||||James Edward Rutledge|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax East|||Geoffrey W. Stevens
6,206
53.48%||A.L. Mattatall
3,033
26.14%||Cecil Clyde Russell
2,366
20.39%|||||Geoffrey W. Stevens|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax North|||Harold Connolly
6,089
59.43%||Bernard Joseph Vaughan
1,777
17.34%||Thomas Burgess
2,120
20.69%||Alexander Munro
260
2.54%|||Harold Connolly|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax South|||Angus Lewis Macdonald
5,181
61.26%||Arthur John Haliburton
2,067
24.44%||Richard Leo Rooney
1,080
12.77%||Andrew Matthews
129
1.53%|||Vacant|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax West|||Ronald Manning Fielding
4,997
49.11%||Malcolm Edgbert Walker
2,786
27.38%||Fred Young
2,392
23.51%|||||Ronald Manning Fielding|}
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Antigonish |||John Patrick Gorman
2,650
61.83%||Douglas MacDonald
1,636
38.17%|||||||John Patrick Gorman|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Guysborough|||Arthur W. MacKenzie
3,456
62.07%||Harold Vans Hudson
2,112
37.93%|||||||Havelock Torrey†|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Pictou|||Alfred B. DeWolfe
9,020
24.83%||Ernest G. Irish
7,061
19.44%||G. Miller Dick
1,576
4.34%||George J. White
245
0.67%|||Ernest G. Irish|-|||Josiah H. MacQuarrie
10,031
27.61%||John A. MacGregor
6,704
18.46%||Donald L. Nicholson
1,688
4.65%|||||Josiah H. MacQuarrie|}
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton Centre||Ronald McIsaac
2,726
38.37%||Frank Doucette
518
7.29%|||Michael James MacDonald
3,860
54.34%|||||Douglas MacDonald†|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton East||Gus McGillivray
2,719
30.03%||Kenneth Daniel Beaton
1,002
11.07%|||Russell Cunningham
5,332
58.90%|||||Douglas Neil Brodie†|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton North|||Alexander O'Handley
3,328
38.48%||Malcolm McDonald
2,416
27.94%||Wendell Coldwell
2,904
33.58%|||||Alexander O'Handley|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton South|||John Smith MacIvor
4,778
43.10%||Malcolm Cameron
1,861
16.79%||Donald MacDonald
4,448
40.12%|||||Donald MacDonald|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton West|||Malcolm A. Patterson
2,826
49.82%||Horace L. Ferguson
1,002
17.67%||Robert Orr
1,844
32.51%|||||Malcolm A. Patterson|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Inverness|||Alexander H. McKinnon
5,283
70.59%||Alexander Angus MacInnes
2,201
29.41%|||||||Alexander H. McKinnon|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Richmond|||Lauchlin Daniel Currie
3,149
76.66%||Frederick Albert Thurgood
959
23.34%|||||||Lauchlin Daniel Currie|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Victoria|||John Malcolm Campbell
2,101
64.69%||William Ross MacAulay
1,147
35.31%|||||||John Malcolm Campbell|}