| Election Name: | 1960 Nova Scotia general election |
| Country: | Nova Scotia |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Party Colour: | no |
| Party Name: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1956 Nova Scotia general election |
| Previous Year: | 1956 |
| Previous Mps: | 46th General Assembly of Nova Scotia |
| Election Date: | June 7, 1960 |
| Elected Mps: | members |
| Next Election: | 1963 Nova Scotia general election |
| Next Year: | 1963 |
| Next Mps: | 48th General Assembly of Nova Scotia |
| Majority Seats: | 22 |
| Turnout: | 82.02% 2.19pp |
| Image1: | Premier Bob Stanfield.jpg |
| Image1 Size: | 150x150px |
| Leader1: | Robert Stanfield |
| Leader Since1: | November 10, 1948 |
| Leaders Seat1: | Colchester |
| Last Election1: | 24 |
| Seats1: | 27 |
| Seat Change1: | 3 |
| Popular Vote1: | 168,023 |
| Percentage1: | 48.11% |
| Swing1: | 0.44pp |
| Leader2: | Henry Hicks |
| Leader Since2: | September 9, 1954 |
| Leaders Seat2: | Annapolis East (Lost re-election) |
| Last Election2: | 18 |
| Seats2: | 15 |
| Seat Change2: | 3 |
| Popular Vote2: | 147,951 |
| Percentage2: | 42.36% |
| Swing2: | 5.29pp |
| Image3: | CCF |
| Leader3: | Michael James MacDonald |
| Leader Since3: | 1953 |
| Leaders Seat3: | Cape Breton Centre |
| Last Election3: | 1 |
| Seats3: | 1 |
| Popular Vote3: | 31,036 |
| Percentage3: | 8.89% |
| Swing3: | 5.94pp |
| Premier | |
| Posttitle: | Premier after election |
| Before Election: | Robert Stanfield |
| After Election: | Robert Stanfield |
The 1960 Nova Scotia general election was held on 7 June 1960 to elect members of the 47th House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Progressive Conservatives.
| 27 | 15 | 1 | |
| Progressive Conservative | Liberal | CCF |
| Party leader |
| Seats | Popular vote | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | Dissolution | Elected | Change | % | Change (pp) | Progressive Conservative | Robert Stanfield | 43 | 24 | 24 | 27 | +3 | 168,023 | 48.11% | align="right" | -0.44% | Liberal | Henry Hicks | 43 | 18 | 17 | 15 | align="right" | -3 | 147,951 | 42.36% | align="right" | -5.29% | Co-operative Commonwealth | Michael James MacDonald | 34 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 31,036 | 8.89% | +5.94% | Independent | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 650 | 0.19% | align="right" | -0.05% | ||
| Vacant | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total valid votes | 347,660 | 99.54% | +0.15% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Blank and invalid ballots | 1,596 | 0.46% | align="right" | -0.15% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 121 | 43 | 43 | 43 | – | 349,256 | 100.00% | – | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Registered voters / turnout | 388,805 | 82.02%[1] | +2.19% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Legend
bold denotes party leader
† denotes an incumbent who is not running for re-election or was defeated in nomination contest
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Annapolis East|||Hanson Dowell
2,666
48.69%||Henry Hicks
2,658
48.55%||Murray Alton Bent
151
2.76%|||||Henry Hicks|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Annapolis West||Charles T. LeBrun
2,068
42.74%|||Peter M. Nicholson
2,571
53.14%||Louis A. Beeler
199
4.11%|||||Peter M. Nicholson|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Clare||Kenneth Weaver
2,034
47.87%|||Pierre E. Belliveau
2,215
52.13%|||||||Pierre E. Belliveau|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Digby||E. Keith Potter
2,593
48.15%|||Victor Cardoza
2,651
49.23%||Foster Journeay
141
2.62%|||||Malcolm Stewart Leonard†|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Hants West|||George Henry Wilson
3,623
49.27%||Gerald Regan
3,412
46.40%||Howard B. Wile
319
4.34%|||||George Henry Wilson|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kings North|||Gladys Porter
3,060
51.19%||Eric Balcom
2,782
46.54%||Levitte Joseph Melanson
136
2.28%|||||Eric Balcom|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kings South|||Edward Haliburton
2,388
57.29%||Bruce Trenholm
1,581
37.93%||George R. Goucher
199
4.77%|||||Edward Haliburton|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kings West||R.F. Hazel
3,425
45.18%|||Edward D. MacArthur
3,937
51.93%||George Turner
219
2.89%|||||Hiram Thomas†|}
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Lunenburg Centre|||George O. Lohnes
4,384
52.25%||Nathan Simeon Joudrey
3,832
45.67%||Arthur William Benedict
175
2.09%|||||George O. Lohnes|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Lunenburg East|||Maurice L. Zinck
2,140
58.37%||Kirk S. Hennigar
1,405
38.33%||Albro Boehner
121
3.30%|||||Maurice L. Zinck|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Lunenburg West|||Harley J. Spence
2,858
52.94%||Frederick E.L. Fowke
2,541
47.06%|||||||Harley J. Spence|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Queens|||W. S. Kennedy Jones
3,770
59.04%||Della P. Richardson
2,616
40.96%|||||||W. S. Kennedy Jones|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Shelburne|||James McKay Harding
3,539
52.94%||William Russell MacKay
3,146
47.06%|||||||James McKay Harding|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Yarmouth |||George A. Burridge
4,811
24.82%||Eric Spinney
4,309
22.23%||||Willard Franklyn Allen
650
3.35%|||Eric Spinney|-||George A. Snow
4,578
23.62%|||Willard O'Brien
5,037
25.98%|||||||Willard O'Brien|}
|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Colchester|||Robert Stanfield
8,574
28.82%||Hugh Charles MacKinnon
5,439
18.28%||Harvey T. Curtis
704
2.37%|||||Robert Stanfield|-|||George Isaac Smith
8,219
27.62%||Gordon Purdy
6,127
20.59%||Helen K. Wright
692
2.33%|||||George Isaac Smith|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cumberland Centre|||Stephen T. Pyke
2,308
52.91%||Ralph F. Gilroy
1,753
40.19%||John R. Tabor
301
6.90%|||||Stephen T. Pyke|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cumberland East|||James A. Langille
5,081
57.08%||Walter T. Purdy
3,471
39.00%||Lloyd L. Ayer
349
3.92%|||||James A. Langille|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cumberland West||George Percy Graham
2,219
45.79%|||Allison T. Smith
2,418
49.90%||Thomas Alton Johnstone
209
4.31%|||||Allison T. Smith|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Hants East|||Ernest M. Ettinger
2,426
49.50%||Carl Spencer Grant
2,207
45.03%||Alfred James Scothorn
268
5.47%|||||Ernest M. Ettinger|}
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax Centre|||Donald MacKeen Smith
4,921
48.01%||Gordon S. Cowan
4,651
45.38%||James M. Murray
678
6.61%|||||Gordon S. Cowan|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax County-Dartmouth||Murray Ritcey
7,653
43.05%|||Gordon L. S. Hart
8,258
46.46%||Percy W. Dares
1,864
10.49%|||||Geoffrey W. Stevens†|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax East||Nelson Gaetz
2,432
44.06%|||Duncan MacMillan
2,787
50.49%||Wallace H. Mason
301
5.45%|||||Duncan MacMillan|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax North||Robert Mullane
7,444
44.09%|||John E. Ahern
7,974
47.23%||Charles A. Moulton
1,466
8.68%|||||John E. Ahern|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax Northwest|||Gordon H. Fitzgerald
4,209
46.55%||Ronald Manning Fielding
4,182
46.26%||L.C. Wilson
650
7.19%|||||Ronald Manning Fielding|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax South|||Richard Donahoe
5,861
54.65%||Robert James Butler
4,302
40.12%||Ralph Loomer
561
5.23%|||||Richard Donahoe|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax West||D. C. McNeil
6,684
45.06%|||Charles H. Reardon
6,925
46.68%||Harold J. Martell
1,225
8.26%|||||Charles H. Reardon|}
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Antigonish |||William F. MacKinnon
3,177
54.77%||Vincent J. MacDonald
2,495
43.01%||Alex MacPherson
129
2.22%|||||William F. MacKinnon|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Guysborough|||Alexander MacIsaac
3,123
49.98%||Norman Robert Anderson
2,934
46.95%||Leslie Wilfred Myers
192
3.07%|||||Vacant|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Pictou Centre|||Donald R. MacLeod
4,755
43.92%||James H. Power
3,615
33.39%||Doris Nicholson
2,456
22.69%|||||Donald R. MacLeod|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Pictou East||William A. MacLeod
2,424
44.55%|||John W. MacDonald
2,568
47.20%||Barrie M. Hould
449
8.25%|||||William A. MacLeod|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Pictou West|||Harvey Veniot
2,744
52.28%||W.A. Broidy
2,353
44.83%||W.E. Salsman
152
2.90%|||||Harvey Veniot|}
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton Centre||Lowell Murray
1,964
27.19%||James P. McNeil
1,887
26.13%|||Michael James MacDonald
3,371
46.68%|||||Michael James MacDonald|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton East|||Layton Fergusson
4,862
45.56%||Joe A. Wadden
1,567
14.68%||John L. MacKinnon
4,243
39.76%|||||Layton Fergusson|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton North|||Tom MacKeough
5,257
46.83%||Ted Sullivan
3,094
27.56%||Thomas R. MacDonald
2,875
25.61%|||||John Michael Macdonald†|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton Nova|||Percy Gaum
2,525
36.93%||Wilfred Gillis
2,094
30.63%||Albert Ollie Wilson
2,218
32.44%|||||Percy Gaum|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton South|||Donald C. MacNeil
5,153
46.23%||Ritchie MacCoy
3,718
33.36%||Bernard O'Neil
2,275
20.41%|||||Donald C. MacNeil|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton West|||Edward Manson
4,192
45.37%||Herbert Shannon
3,652
39.53%||John R. Lynk
1,395
15.10%|||||Edward Manson|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Inverness||Archie Neil Chisholm
3,923
24.43%|||Joseph Clyde Nunn
4,113
25.62%||Stephen James MacLellan
353
2.20%|||||Joseph Clyde Nunn|-||Ralph Mauger MacKichan
3,648
22.72%|||Roderick MacLean
4,018
25.03%|||||||Roderick MacLean|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Richmond||Byron Seymour Langley
2,491
48.89%|||Earl Wallace Urquhart
2,604
51.11%|||||||Earl Wallace Urquhart|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Victoria||Leonard Walter Jones
1,817
46.96%|||Carleton L. MacMillan
2,052
53.04%|||||||Carleton L. MacMillan|}