The 1963 Nova Scotia general election was held on 8 October 1963 to elect members of the 48th House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Progressive Conservatives.
Results
Results by party
| 39 | 4 |
| Progressive Conservative | Liberal |
| Party | Party leader | # of candidates |
Seats | Popular vote | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Dissolution | Elected | Change | # | % | Change (pp) | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Robert Stanfield | 43 | 27 | 26 | 39 | +12 | 191,128 | 55.87% | +7.76% | |
| Liberal | Earl Wallace Urquhart | 43 | 15 | 15 | 4 | -11 | 134,873 | 39.43% | -2.93% | |
| New Democratic | James H. Aitchison | 20 | 1 | 1 | 0 | -1 | 14,076 | 4.11% | -4.78% | |
| Vacant | 1 | |||||||||
| Total valid votes | 340,077 | 99.42% | -0.12% | |||||||
| Blank and invalid ballots | 1,997 | 0.58% | +0.12% | |||||||
| Total | 106 | 43 | 43 | 43 | – | 342,074 | 100.00% | – | ||
| Registered voters / turnout | 400,078 | 77.87%[4] | -4.15% | |||||||
Retiring incumbents
- Liberal
- Progressive Conservative
Nominated candidates
Legend
bold denotes party leader
† denotes an incumbent who is not running for re-election or was defeated in nomination contest
Valley
| Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PC | Liberal | NDP | ||||||
| Annapolis East | John I. Marshall 2,962 56.40% |
Melbourne Parker Armstrong 2,232 42.50% |
Murray Alton Bent 58 1.10% |
Vacant | ||||
| Annapolis West | Kenneth E. Green 2,075 45.81% |
Peter M. Nicholson 2,386 52.67% |
Dale A. Young 69 1.52% |
Peter M. Nicholson | ||||
| Clare | Hector J. Pothier 2,154 52.61% |
Joseph C. LeBlanc 1,940 47.39% |
Pierre E. Belliveau† | |||||
| Digby | Robert Baden Powell 2,671 52.23% |
Victor Cardoza 2,378 46.50% |
Louis A. Beeler 65 1.27% |
Victor Cardoza | ||||
| Hants West | Norman T. Spence 4,193 58.20% |
W. Whitney Spicer 2,840 39.42% |
Arthur Benedict 171 2.37% |
George Henry Wilson† | ||||
| Kings North | Gladys Porter 3,668 59.43% |
David Durell Sutton 2,405 38.97% |
George Turner 99 1.60% |
Gladys Porter | ||||
| Kings South | Edward Haliburton 2,505 65.27% |
Bruce M. Trenholm 1,333 34.73% |
Edward Haliburton | |||||
| Kings West | Paul Kinsman 3,879 55.85% |
Edward D. MacArthur 3,067 44.15% |
Edward D. MacArthur | |||||
South Shore
| Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PC | Liberal | NDP | ||||||
| Lunenburg Centre | George O. Lohnes 4,785 57.06% |
Leon J. Iverson 3,601 42.94% |
George O. Lohnes | |||||
| Lunenburg East | Maurice L. Zinck 2,267 63.17% |
Charles E. Harris 1,322 36.83% |
Maurice L. Zinck | |||||
| Lunenburg West | Harley J. Spence 2,937 58.12% |
Joye F. Davison 2,116 41.88% |
Harley J. Spence | |||||
| Queens | W. S. Kennedy Jones 3,833 65.85% |
W. Alton Snow 1,988 34.15% |
W. S. Kennedy Jones | |||||
| Shelburne | James McKay Harding 3,737 54.40% |
Robert Quinlan Hood 3,133 45.60% |
James McKay Harding | |||||
| Yarmouth | George A. Burridge 4,884 25.20% |
Irving Charles Pink 4,345 22.42% |
Angus Boyd MacGillivary 358 1.85% |
George A. Burridge | ||||
| George A. Snow 5,077 26.19% |
Willard O'Brien 4,719 24.35% |
Willard O'Brien | ||||||
Fundy-Northeast
| Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PC | Liberal | NDP | ||||||
| Colchester | Robert Stanfield 9,606 32.42% |
Gordon T. Purdy 5,515 18.61% |
Harvey T. Curtis 382 1.29% |
Robert Stanfield | ||||
| George Isaac Smith 9,147 30.87% |
Charles K. Sutherland 4,746 16.02% |
Helen K. Wright 233 0.79% |
George Isaac Smith | |||||
| Cumberland Centre | Stephen T. Pyke 2,545 66.68% |
William Thomas Noiles 1,272 33.32% |
Stephen T. Pyke | |||||
| Cumberland East | James A. Langille 5,226 63.10% |
Norman Willard Noonan 2,795 33.75% |
Lloyd L. Ayer 261 3.15% |
James A. Langille | ||||
| Cumberland West | D. L. George Henley 2,516 54.04% |
Allison T. Smith 2,140 45.96% |
Allison T. Smith | |||||
| Hants East | Albert J. Ettinger 2,739 52.86% |
George E. Fraser 2,356 45.47% |
Ralph Loomer 87 1.68% |
Albert J. Ettinger | ||||
Halifax/Dartmouth/Eastern Shore
| Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PC | Liberal | NDP | ||||||
| Halifax Centre | Donald MacKeen Smith 5,478 58.57% |
Gordon S. Cowan 3,875 41.43% |
Donald MacKeen Smith | |||||
| Halifax County-Dartmouth | Irvin William Akerley 9,884 52.88% |
Gordon L. S. Hart 8,150 43.60% |
Edward B. Doyle 657 3.52% |
Gordon L. S. Hart | ||||
| Halifax East | Nelson Gaetz 3,061 52.62% |
Duncan MacMillan 2,756 47.38% |
Duncan MacMillan | |||||
| Halifax North | James H. Vaughan 8,602 52.43% |
John E. Ahern 7,360 44.86% |
Peggy Prowse 444 2.71% |
John E. Ahern | ||||
| Halifax Northwest | Gordon H. Fitzgerald 5,559 56.07% |
George Douglas Burris 4,027 40.62% |
Gerald A. Guptill 329 3.32% |
Gordon H. Fitzgerald | ||||
| Halifax South | Richard Donahoe 5,986 63.23% |
Merlin Nunn 3,183 33.62% |
Gordon A. Smith 298 3.15% |
Richard Donahoe | ||||
| Halifax West | D. C. McNeil 8,792 57.00% |
Charles H. Reardon 6,126 39.72% |
Harold J. Martell 506 3.28% |
Charles H. Reardon | ||||
Central Nova
| Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PC | Liberal | NDP | ||||||
| Antigonish | William F. MacKinnon 3,334 54.58% |
Ronald Saint John Chisholm 2,774 45.42% |
William F. MacKinnon | |||||
| Guysborough | Alexander MacIsaac 3,229 52.86% |
Thomas Edwin Kirk 2,880 47.14% |
Alexander MacIsaac | |||||
| Pictou Centre | Donald R. MacLeod 5,752 60.21% |
Thomas H. Frazer 3,801 39.79% |
Donald R. MacLeod | |||||
| Pictou East | John Andrew McLean 2,649 49.90% |
A. Lloyd MacDonald 2,660 50.10% |
John W. MacDonald† | |||||
| Pictou West | Harvey Veniot 2,999 59.54% |
Charles Ernest MacCarthy 2,038 40.46% |
Harvey Veniot | |||||
Cape Breton
| Electoral district | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PC | Liberal | NDP | ||||||
| Cape Breton Centre | Mike Laffin 3,699 54.12% |
Joseph Flaudio Rizzetto 939 13.74% |
Michael James MacDonald 2,197 32.14% |
Michael James MacDonald | ||||
| Cape Breton East | Layton Fergusson 5,870 58.06% |
Bernard Currie 1,359 13.44% |
John L. MacKinnon 2,881 28.50% |
Layton Fergusson | ||||
| Cape Breton North | Tom MacKeough 6,200 58.71% |
Murray J. Ryan 2,961 28.04% |
John Dolhanty 1,399 13.25% |
Tom MacKeough | ||||
| Cape Breton Nova | Percy Gaum 3,344 53.37% |
Charles Richard Sigut 1,213 19.36% |
Albert Ollie Wilson 1,709 27.27% |
Percy Gaum | ||||
| Cape Breton South | Donald C. MacNeil 5,283 49.21% |
John F. MacIntosh 3,579 33.34% |
Edward Johnston 1,873 17.45% |
Donald C. MacNeil | ||||
| Cape Breton West | Edward Manson 4,941 56.30% |
Allan Sullivan 3,835 43.70% |
Edward Manson | |||||
| Inverness | Norman J. MacLean 4,474 26.78% |
Joseph Clyde Nunn 3,988 23.87% |
Joseph Clyde Nunn | |||||
| Alfred J. Davis 4,026 24.10% |
William N. MacLean 4,219 25.25% |
William N. MacLean | ||||||
| Richmond | Gerald Doucet 2,670 50.79% |
Earl Wallace Urquhart 2,587 49.21% |
Earl Wallace Urquhart | |||||
| Victoria | Fisher Hudson 1,890 49.42% |
Carleton L. MacMillan 1,934 50.58% |
Carleton L. MacMillan | |||||
References
- ^ Party was then the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
- ^ "Election Returns 1963" (PDF). Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved November 17, 2021.
- ^ "Election Returns 1963 Recapitulation" (PDF). Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved November 17, 2021.
- ^ While 342,074 votes were cast, only 311,562 electors voted as Colchester, Inverness and Yarmouth electors voted for two candidates.
Further reading
- Saywell, John T., ed. (1964). Canadian Annual Review for 1963. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
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See also: List of Nova Scotia by-elections | |
