| Election Name: | 1974 Nova Scotia general election |
| Country: | Nova Scotia |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Party Colour: | no |
| Party Name: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1970 Nova Scotia general election |
| Previous Year: | 1970 |
| Previous Mps: | 50th General Assembly of Nova Scotia |
| Election Date: | April 2, 1974 |
| Elected Mps: | members |
| Next Election: | 1978 Nova Scotia general election |
| Next Year: | 1978 |
| Next Mps: | 52nd General Assembly of Nova Scotia |
| Majority Seats: | 24 |
| Turnout: | 77.89% 0.57pp |
| Image1: | Lib |
| Leader1: | Gerald Regan |
| Leader Since1: | July 24, 1965 |
| Leaders Seat1: | Halifax Needham |
| Last Election1: | 23 |
| Seats1: | 31 |
| Seat Change1: | 8 |
| Popular Vote1: | 206,648 |
| Percentage1: | 47.57% |
| Swing1: | 1.94pp |
| Leader2: | John Buchanan |
| Leader Since2: | March 6, 1971 |
| Leaders Seat2: | Halifax Atlantic |
| Last Election2: | 21 |
| Seats2: | 12 |
| Seat Change2: | 9 |
| Popular Vote2: | 166,388 |
| Percentage2: | 38.31% |
| Swing2: | 8.12pp |
| Image3: | NDP |
| Leader3: | Jeremy Akerman |
| Leader Since3: | November 9, 1968 |
| Leaders Seat3: | Cape Breton East |
| Last Election3: | 2 |
| Seats3: | 3 |
| Seat Change3: | 1 |
| Popular Vote3: | 55,902 |
| Percentage3: | 12.87% |
| Swing3: | 6.28pp |
| Premier | |
| Posttitle: | Premier after election |
| Before Election: | Gerald Regan |
| After Election: | Gerald Regan |
The 1974 Nova Scotia general election was held on 2 April 1974 to elect members of the 51st House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Liberal Party.
| 31 | 12 | 3 | |
| Liberal | Progressive Conservative | New Democratic |
| Party leader |
| Seats | Popular vote | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Dissolution | Elected | Change | % | Change (pp) | Liberal | Gerald Regan | 46 | 23 | 24 | 31 | +8 | 206,648 | 47.57% | +1.94% | Progressive Conservative | John Buchanan | 46 | 21 | 19 | 12 | align="right" | -9 | 166,388 | 38.31% | align="right" | -8.12% | New Democratic | Jeremy Akerman | 46 | 2 | 2 | 3 | +1 | 55,902 | 12.87% | +6.28% | Independent | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2,220 | 0.51% | +0.13% | ||
| Vacant | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total valid votes | 431,158 | 99.26% | +0.23% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Blank and invalid ballots | 3,205 | 0.74% | align="right" | -0.23% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 144 | 46 | 46 | 46 | – | 434,363 | 100.00% | – | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Registered voters / turnout | 507,190 | 77.89%[1] | +0.57% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Party name | HRM | Cape Breton | Annapolis Valley | South Shore | Fundy-Northeast | Central Nova | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Parties winning seats in the legislature | Liberal | Seats: | 8 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 31 | Popular vote: | 48.73% | 42.68% | 51.25% | 51.37% | 48.19% | 48.05% | 47.57% | Progressive Conservative | Seats: | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | Popular vote: | 38.34% | 32.67% | 42.11% | 39.63% | 42.33% | 41.57% | 38.31% | New Democratic Party | Seats: | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | Popular vote: | 12.93% | 24.21% | 6.64% | 6.48% | 9.06% | 10.37% | 12.87% | |||||||||
| Parties not winning seats in the legislature | Popular vote: | – | 0.45% | – | 2.52% | 0.42% | – | 0.51% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total seats: | 10 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 46 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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||Hank De Boer
2,583
43.48%|||Gerry Sheehy
3,134
52.76%||Murray A. Bent
223
3.75%|| |||Gerry Sheehy|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Annapolis West|||Peter M. Nicholson
2,636
53.00%||J.R. Kerr
2,150
43.22%||David N. Lowe
188
3.78%|||||Peter M. Nicholson|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Clare|||Benoit Comeau
2,959
61.07%||Vincent L. Doucet
1,218
25.14%||Jean L. Belliveau
668
13.79%|||||Benoit Comeau|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Digby|||Joseph H. Casey
3,525
65.90%||John R. Nichols
1,590
29.73%||C.B. Haight
234
4.37%|||||Joseph H. Casey|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Hants West|||Robert D. Lindsay
4,148
48.07%||Ron Russell
3,707
42.96%||Gary E. Tonks
774
8.97%|||||Robert D. Lindsay|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kings North|||Glenn Ells
3,536
49.39%||David J. Waterbury
3,124
43.63%||George W. Graves
500
6.98%|||||Victor Thorpe†|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kings South||Edgar K. Aston
1,999
33.11%|||Harry How
3,576
59.22%||John P. O'Meara
463
7.67%|||||Harry How|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kings West|||Frank Bezanson
5,031
58.34%||Kathleen E. Howlett
3,206
37.23%||Donald Wolsey
374
4.34%|||||Frank Bezanson|}
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Lunenburg Centre||James Kinley
3,878
39.08%|||Bruce Cochran
4,086
41.18%||Ralph E. Deamond
421
4.24%||Walton Cook
1,538
15.50%|||Walton Cook|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Lunenburg East||Joseph Saunders
1,963
41.06%|||Ron Barkhouse
2,536
53.04%||Anthony W.E. Zinck
282
5.90%|||||Maurice L. Zinck†|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Lunenburg West|||Maurice DeLory
3,635
54.92%||Ella Spence
2,643
39.93%||William R. Griswold
341
5.15%|||||Maurice DeLory|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Queens||R. Keith Wyer
2,649
40.58%|||John Wickwire
2,905
44.50%||A.J. d'Entremont
974
14.92%|||||Floyd MacDonald†|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Shelburne|||Harold Huskilson
4,119
47.58%||Ron Hatfield
3,732
43.11%||Dewey Waybret
806
9.31%|||||Harold Huskilson |-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Yarmouth |||Fraser Mooney
8,098
32.87%||Martin Cottreau
4,029
16.35%||Lawrence Dukeshire
637
2.59%|| |||Fraser Mooney|-|||Hugh Tinkham
7,068
28.69%||George A. Snow
4,300
17.45%||Leslie Babin
504
2.05%|||||George A. Snow|}
|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Colchester|||Melinda MacLean
9,514
25.87%||Gerald Ritcey
7,182
19.53%||Eda Forsythe
1,515
4.12%||Bob Kirk
159
0.43%|||Gerald Ritcey|-|||Floyd Tucker
8,662
23.55%||Ron Giffin
7,974
21.68%||Allan Marchbank
1,771
4.82%|||||George Isaac Smith† |-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cumberland Centre|||Guy Brown
2,283
52.16%||Raymond M. Smith
1,601
36.58%||Elory Tabor
493
11.26%|||||Raymond M. Smith|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cumberland East||Ronald S. MacNeil
3,490
40.82%|||Roger Stuart Bacon
4,125
48.25%||David W. D'Aubin
934
10.93%|||||Roger Stuart Bacon|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cumberland West||W.J. Brown
2,205
45.86%|||D. L. George Henley
2,323
48.32%||A. Bradley Colpitts
280
5.82%|||||D. L. George Henley|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Hants East|||Jack Hawkins
3,322
49.88%||Avard Ettinger
2,690
40.39%||Clair White
549
8.24%||John G. Stanhope Sr.
99
1.49%|||Jack Hawkins|}
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax Atlantic||Darrell E. Wentzell
4,380
35.90%|||John Buchanan
6,229
51.06%||Colin Campbell
1,591
13.04%|||||John Buchanan|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax Chebucto|||Walter Fitzgerald
5,608
53.47%||Dennis Ashworth
3,233
30.82%||Burris Devanney
1,648
15.71%|||||James L. Connolly†|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax Citadel|||Ronald Wallace
4,299
48.73%||Richard MacLean
3,071
34.81%||Michael Bradfield
1,452
16.46%|||||Ronald Wallace |-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax Cobequid|||George Doucet
8,691
49.57%||Silvia Hudson
6,878
39.23%||George C. Cann
1,964
11.20%|||||George Riley† |-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax Cornwallis|||George M. Mitchell
5,391
47.52%||George T.H. Cooper
3,833
33.79%||Muriel Duckworth
2,121
18.70%|||||George M. Mitchell|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax Eastern Shore|||Alexander Garnet Brown
6,437
52.90%||Hanson D. Josey
4,205
34.56%||John T. Kennedy
1,527
12.55%|||||Alexander Garnet Brown|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax Needham|||Gerald Regan
4,364
61.49%||James H. Vaughan
1,854
26.12%||Martin Dolin
879
12.39%|||||Gerald Regan|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax-St. Margaret's|||Leonard L. Pace
7,238
47.87%||George C. Piercey
6,084
40.24%||Richard Rogers
1,798
11.89%|||||Leonard L. Pace|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Dartmouth North|||Glen M. Bagnell
7,091
51.41%||Richard L. Weldon
4,839
35.08%||Joseph Bouchard
1,863
13.51%|||||Glen M. Bagnell|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Dartmouth South||D. Scott MacNutt
5,871
44.24%|||Roland J. Thornhill
6,491
48.91%||Norman H. Dares
908
6.84%|||||D. Scott MacNutt |}
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Antigonish |||Bill Gillis
5,141
56.88%||Ronald A. MacDonald
3,172
35.09%||Patrick D. Gough
726
8.03%|||||Bill Gillis |-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Guysborough|||A.M. "Sandy" Cameron
3,688
55.66%||Fenwick MacIntosh
2,652
40.02%||William Sugg
286
4.32%|||||A.M. "Sandy" Cameron|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Pictou Centre||Lawrence MacKinnon
4,954
42.54%|||Fraser MacLean
5,100
43.80%||Dave MacKenzie
1,591
13.66%|||||Ralph F. Fiske†|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Pictou East||J. Lester MacLellan
2,945
42.09%|||Donald Cameron
3,217
45.98%||Joanne E. Kohout
835
11.93%|||||A. Lloyd MacDonald†|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Pictou West|||Dan Reid
2,624
43.99%||Harvey Veniot
2,602
43.62%||Charles Parker
739
12.39%|||||Harvey Veniot|}
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton Centre||Albert J. Boudreau
1,703
21.76%||Mike Laffin
2,743
35.05%|||Buddy MacEachern
3,380
43.19%|||||Mike Laffin|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton East||Vincent Kachafanas
3,443
30.83%||Frederick Adshade
1,611
14.43%|||Jeremy Akerman
5,929
53.10%||Archie MacDonald
183
1.64%|||Jeremy Akerman|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton North||Barry LeBlanc
4,155
33.57%|||Tom MacKeough
4,889
39.50%||Len J. Arsenault
3,333
26.93%|||||Tom MacKeough|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton Nova||Ronald DiPenta
1,275
17.19%||Percy Gaum
2,334
31.46%|||Paul MacEwan
3,809
51.35%|||||Paul MacEwan|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton South|||Vince MacLean
6,487
50.87%||John Francis Burke
3,721
29.18%||Earl Johnston
2,441
19.14%||Angus Currie
102
0.80%|||John Francis Burke |-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton West|||Allan Sullivan
6,281
53.46%||Kenneth Andrews
3,199
27.23%||Frank Boone
2,269
19.31%|||||Allan Sullivan|-|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Inverness|||William MacEachern
5,606
26.50%||Norman J. MacLean
4,832
22.84%||Donald MacKay
621>br>2.94%||Catherine M. Haig
139
0.66%|||Norman J. MacLean|-|||John Archie MacKenzie
5,403
25.54%||Joseph Shannon
4,088
19.32%||Winston Bennett
466
2.20%|||||John Archie MacKenzie|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Richmond|||Gaston LeBlanc
3,697
57.62%||Joseph Stewart
2,138
33.32%||Stanley Pashkoski
581
9.06%|||||Gerald Doucet†|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Victoria|||Maynard MacAskill
2,573
59.44%||Fisher Hudson
1,542
35.62%||Colin A. Gillis
214
4.94%|||||Fisher Hudson|}