1967 Nova Scotia general election explained

Election Name:	1967 Nova Scotia general election
Country:	Nova Scotia
Type:	parliamentary
Party Colour:	no
Party Name:	no
Previous Election:	1963 Nova Scotia general election
Previous Year:	1963
Previous Mps:	48th General Assembly of Nova Scotia
Election Date:	May 30, 1967
Elected Mps:	members
Next Election:	1970 Nova Scotia general election
Next Year:	1970
Next Mps:	50th General Assembly of Nova Scotia
Majority Seats:	24
Turnout:	77.00% 0.87pp
Image1:	Premier Bob Stanfield.jpg
Image1 Size:	150x150px
Leader1:	Robert Stanfield
Leader Since1:	November 10, 1948
Leaders Seat1:	Colchester
Last Election1:	39
Seats1:	40
Seat Change1:	1
Popular Vote1:	180,498
Percentage1:	52.39%
Swing1:	3.48pp
Leader2:	Gerald Regan
Leader Since2:	July 24, 1965
Leaders Seat2:	Ran in Halifax Needham (won)
Last Election2:	4
Seats2:	6
Seat Change2:	2
Popular Vote2:	142,945
Percentage2:	41.49%
Swing2:	2.06pp
Image3:	NDP
Leader3:	James H. Aitchison
Leader Since3:	1963
Leaders Seat3:	Ran in Cape Breton East (lost)
Last Election3:	0
Seats3:	0
Popular Vote3:	17,873
Percentage3:	5.19%
Swing3:	1.08pp
Premier
Posttitle:	Premier after election
Before Election:	Robert Stanfield
After Election:	Robert Stanfield

The 1967 Nova Scotia general election was held on 30 May 1967 to elect members of the 49th House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Progressive Conservative Party.

Results

Results by party

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40	6
Progressive Conservative	Liberal

Party!rowspan="2"

Party leader	of candidates	Seats				Popular vote
1963		Dissolution	Elected	Change		%	Change (pp)	Progressive Conservative	Robert Stanfield	46	39	39	40	+1	180,498	52.39%	align="right"	-3.48%	Liberal	Gerald Regan	46	4	4	6	+2	142,945	41.49%	+2.06%	New Democratic	James H. Aitchison	24	0	0	0	0	17,873	5.19%	+1.08%	Independent		2	0	0	0	0	498	0.14%	+0.14%
	Vacant				0
Total valid votes								341,814	99.22%	align="right"	-0.20%
Blank and invalid ballots								2,703	0.78%	+0.20%
Total			118	43	43	46	+3	344,517	100.00%	–
Registered voters / turnout								405,714	77.00%^[1]	align="right"	-0.87%

Results by region

Party name			HRM	Cape Breton	Annapolis Valley	South Shore	Fundy-Northeast	Central Nova	Total
Parties winning seats in the legislature										Progressive Conservative	Seats:	7	9	6	7	6	5	40	Popular vote:	50.77%	51.07%	51.92%	53.02%	58.77%	54.15%	52.39%	Liberal	Seats:	3	1	2	0	0	0	6	Popular vote:	44.82%	35.54%	47.51%	44.18%	37.58%	43.46%	41.49%
Parties not winning seats in the legislature											Popular vote:	4.42%	13.17%	0.57%	2.13%	3.66%	2.39%	5.19%
Popular vote:	–	0.22%	–	0.68%	–	–	0.14%
Total seats:			10	10	8	7	6	5	46

Retiring incumbents

Liberal

• Carleton L. MacMillan, Victoria

Progressive Conservative

• George A. Burridge, Yarmouth
• Paul Kinsman, Kings West
• Gladys Porter, Kings North

Nominated candidates

Legend
bold denotes party leader
† denotes an incumbent who is not running for re-election or was defeated in nomination contest

Valley

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Annapolis East|||John I. Marshall
2,866
56.13%||Malcolm Balcom
2,240
43.87%|||| |||John I. Marshall|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Annapolis West||Kenneth Green
1,981
45.87%|||Peter M. Nicholson
2,338
54.13%|||||||Peter M. Nicholson|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Clare||Hector J. Pothier
1,841
43.57%|||Benoit Comeau
2,384
56.43%|||||||Hector J. Pothier|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Digby|||Robert Baden Powell
2,524
51.31%||Phillip R. Woolaver
2,395
48.69%|||||||Robert Baden Powell|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Hants West|||Norman T. Spence
3,765
51.96%||Robert D. Lindsay
3,481
48.04%|||||||Norman T. Spence|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kings North|||Victor Thorpe
3,407
55.25%||Victor Cleyle
2,759
44.75%|||||||Gladys Porter†|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kings South|||Edward Haliburton
2,515
62.89%||Bruce Trenholm
1,484
37.11%|||||||Edward Haliburton|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kings West|||Gordon Tidman
3,619
48.98%||Frank Bezanson
3,522
47.67%||Ralph Loomer
247
3.34%|||||Paul Kinsman†|}

South Shore

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Lunenburg Centre|||George O. Lohnes
4,229
51.46%||Walton Cook
3,760
45.75%||Earl Croft
229
2.79%|||||George O. Lohnes|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Lunenburg East|||Maurice L. Zinck
2,100
55.87%||Fred Porter Jr.
1,659
44.13%|||||||Maurice L. Zinck|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Lunenburg West|||Harley J. Spence
2,564
50.00%||Carroll Young
2,396
46.72%||Wilson Touchie
168
3.28%|||||Harley J. Spence|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Queens|||W. S. Kennedy Jones
3,290
57.69%||G. Cecil Day
2,413
42.31%|||||||W. S. Kennedy Jones|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Shelburne|||James McKay Harding
3,271
46.60%||Harold Huskilson
3,111
44.32%||Aubrey Harding
638
9.09%|||||James McKay Harding|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Yarmouth |||Benoit Robichaud
5,003
26.56%||Fraser Mooney
4,463
23.69%||||Willard F. Allen
329
1.75%|||George A. Burridge†|-|||George A. Snow
5,345
28.37%||Earle Maberley
3,699
19.63%|||||||George A. Snow|}

Fundy-Northeast

|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Colchester|||Robert Stanfield
9,091
31.04%||George Pulsifer
5,344
18.25%||Arthur Benedict
507
1.73%|||||Robert Stanfield|-|||George Isaac Smith
8,485
28.97%||Charles Sutherland
5,348
18.26%||Cecil Delaney
509
1.74%|||||George Isaac Smith |-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cumberland Centre|||Stephen T. Pyke
2,437
67.34%||Charles H. Sarson
1,022
28.24%||J. Reginald Daborn
160
4.42%|||||Stephen T. Pyke|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cumberland East|||James A. Langille
4,415
55.16%||Howard R. Furlong
3,053
38.14%||John Burbine
536
6.70%|||||James A. Langille|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cumberland West|||D. L. George Henley
2,506
57.81%||Ruth Fullerton
1,698
39.17%||Shirley Spicer
131
3.02%|||||D. L. George Henley|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Hants East|||Albert J. Ettinger
2,697
52.08%||Norman E. Casey
2,482
47.92%|||||||Albert J. Ettinger|}

Halifax/Dartmouth/Eastern Shore

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax Atlantic|||John Buchanan
4,507
53.74%||Percy Baker
3,556
42.40%||Charles Grineault
324
3.86%|||||New riding|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax Chebucto|||James H. Vaughan
5,154
52.01%||K. Peter Richard
4,253
42.92%||Keith Jobson
503
5.08%|||||James H. Vaughan

Halifax North|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax Citadel|||Donald MacKeen Smith
4,771
55.41%||Robert Matheson
3,522
40.91%||M. Rae Gillman
317
3.68%|||||Donald MacKeen Smith
Halifax Centre|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax Cobequid|||Gordon H. Fitzgerald
5,463
51.51%||John F. Cruickshank
5,143
48.49%|||||||Gordon H. Fitzgerald
Halifax Northwest|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax Cornwallis|||Richard Donahoe
5,458
56.39%||Clarence L. Gosse
4,221
43.61%|||||||Richard Donahoe
Halifax South|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax Eastern Shore||Nelson Gaetz
3,682
43.36%|||Duncan MacMillan
4,201
49.48%||James Yetman
608
7.16%|||||Nelson Gaetz
Halifax East|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax Needham||Cecil Moore
3,252
46.72%|||Gerald Regan
3,354
48.18%||Buddy Daye
355
5.10%|||||New riding|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax-St. Margaret's|||D. C. McNeil
5,030
53.48%||Alex McNeil
3,910
41.57%||Peggy Prowse
466
4.95%|||||D. C. McNeil
Halifax West|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Dartmouth North||Charles Clarke
4,301
43.62%|||Gordon L. S. Hart
4,906
49.75%||Perry Ronayne
654
6.63%|||||New Riding|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Dartmouth South|||Irvin William Akerley
4,552
50.37%||Eileen Stubbs
3,694
40.88%||Bruce Wallace
791
8.75%|||||Irvin William Akerley
Halifax County-Dartmouth|}

Central Nova

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Antigonish |||William F. MacKinnon
3,222
50.20%||Bill Gillis
3,196
49.80%|||||||William F. MacKinnon|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Guysborough|||Alexander MacIsaac
3,154
52.75%||Donald J. Gillis
2,825
47.25%|||||||Alexander MacIsaac|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Pictou Centre|||Donald R. MacLeod
5,416
53.90%||John Brother MacDonald
3,846
38.28%||John Markie
786
7.82%|||||Donald R. MacLeod|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Pictou East|||Thomas MacQueen
2,876
51.14%||A. Lloyd MacDonald
2,748
48.86%|||||||A. Lloyd MacDonald|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Pictou West|||Harvey Veniot
3,137
65.20%||Edward Snow
1,674
34.80%|||||||Harvey Veniot|}

Cape Breton

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton Centre|||Mike Laffin
3,565
55.85%||William J. Boudreau
1,313
20.57%||Tom O'Leary
1,505
23.58%|||||Mike Laffin|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton East|||Layton Fergusson
5,094
53.29%||William O'Leary
1,417
14.82%||James H. Aitchison
3,048
31.89%|||||Layton Fergusson|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton North|||Tom MacKeough
5,574
53.39%||Alexander O'Handley
3,318
31.90%||Gerald Yetman
1,510
14.52%|||||Tom MacKeough|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton Nova|||Percy Gaum
2,873
47.13%||Tom Miller
1,829
30.00%||Paul MacEwan
1,394
22.87%|||||Percy Gaum|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton South|||Donald C. MacNeil
4,843
47.18%||Charles O'Connell
3,944
38.42%||Charles Palmer
1,309
12.75%||Angus Currie
169
1.65%|||Donald C. MacNeil|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton West|||Edward Manson
3,862
43.95%||Allan Sullivan
3,748
42.65%||Jeremy Akerman
1,178
13.40%|||||Edward Manson|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Inverness|||Norman J. MacLean
3,994
26.27%||William MacIsaac
3,571
23.49%|||||||Norman J. MacLean|-||Alfred Davis
3,680
24.21%|||William N. MacLean
3,956
26.02%|||||||William N. MacLean|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Richmond|||Gerald Doucet
3,054
59.42%||Rudolph J. Boudreau
2,086
40.58%|||||||Gerald Doucet|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Victoria|||Fisher Hudson
2,033
55.01%||Duncan F. Buchanan
1,663
44.99%|||||||Carleton L. MacMillan†|}

Further reading

• Book: Saywell . John . John Saywell . Canadian Annual Review for 1967 . 1968 . 978-0-8020-1549-5 . University of Toronto Press . Toronto . registration.

Notes and References

1. While 344,517 votes were cast, only 312,647 electors voted as Colchester, Inverness and Yarmouth electors voted for two candidates.