October 30 1956 (NS)

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Important Dates  
Election Date 1956-10-30
Attributes  
Federal Jurisdiction ❌
Provincial Jurisdiction ✅
Province Nova Scotia
By-Election ❌

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Summary

Statistic Value
Invalid Ballots 1,975
Invalid Votes 1,922
Total Electors 371,363
Turnout Rate 89
Valid Ballots 331,396
Valid Votes 331,396

Results

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Party Candidates Seats Contested Seats % Vote %
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation 11 1 2.33% 3.00%
Independent 1 0 0.00% 0.25%
Nova Scotia Liberal Party 43 18 41.86% 48.18%
Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia 43 24 55.81% 48.58%

Candidates

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First Name Last Name Party District Votes Elected
John E Ahern Nova Scotia Liberal Party Halifax North 8,773 ✅
Robert Lorne Stanfield Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Colchester 8,476 ✅
G I Smith Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Colchester 8,057 ✅
John A O'Malley Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Halifax North 7,748 ❌
Geoffrey Stevens Nova Scotia Liberal Party Halifax County Dartmouth 7,276 ✅
C J Creighton Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Halifax County Dartmouth 6,811 ❌
Hector Hill Nova Scotia Liberal Party Colchester 6,733 ❌
Margaret Norrie Nova Scotia Liberal Party Colchester 6,664 ❌
Charles H Reardon Nova Scotia Liberal Party Halifax West 6,119 ✅
John M MacDonald Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Cape Breton North 6,088 ✅
Richard A Donahoe Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Halifax South 6,051 ✅
William J Dalton Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Halifax West 5,875 ❌
Gordon S Cowan Nova Scotia Liberal Party Halifax Centre 5,642 ✅
Donald R MacLeod Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Pictou Centre 5,639 ✅
William C O'Brien Nova Scotia Liberal Party Yarmouth (NS) 5,438 ✅
A T Logan Nova Scotia Liberal Party Pictou Centre 5,303 ❌
Edward F Cragg Nova Scotia Liberal Party Halifax South 5,171 ❌
Donald C MacNeil Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Cape Breton South (NS) 5,101 ✅
David Milsom Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Halifax Centre 5,022 ❌
Eric H Spinney Nova Scotia Liberal Party Yarmouth (NS) 4,876 ✅
Alexander O'Handley Nova Scotia Liberal Party Cape Breton North 4,465 ❌
John Smith MacIvor Nova Scotia Liberal Party Cape Breton South (NS) 4,450 ❌
Edward A Manson Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Cape Breton West 4,440 ✅
J Clyde Nunn Nova Scotia Liberal Party Inverness (NS) 4,415 ✅
James Arnold Langille Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Cumberland East 4,406 ✅
Neil L Ferguson Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Cape Breton East 4,324 ✅
Walter Tremaine Purdy Nova Scotia Liberal Party Cumberland East 4,303 ❌
Roderick Maclean Nova Scotia Liberal Party Inverness (NS) 4,252 ✅
Malcolm A. Patterson Nova Scotia Liberal Party Cape Breton West 4,104 ❌
William H Brown Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Yarmouth (NS) 4,007 ❌
Harold Uhlman Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Lunenburg Centre 3,995 ✅
Ray Z Bourque Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Yarmouth (NS) 3,953 ❌
George O Lohnes Nova Scotia Liberal Party Lunenburg Centre 3,843 ❌
Ronald Manning Fielding Nova Scotia Liberal Party Halifax Northwest 3,763 ✅
A N Chisholm Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Inverness (NS) 3,673 ❌
S E Haverstock Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Halifax Northwest 3,573 ❌
A L Davis Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Inverness (NS) 3,539 ❌
George H Wilson Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Hants West 3,405 ✅
James McKay Harding Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Shelburne 3,337 ✅
Gerald A. Regan Nova Scotia Liberal Party Hants West 3,300 ❌
A W Cameron Nova Scotia Liberal Party Guysborough 3,177 ✅
Wilfred Tennyson Dauphinee Nova Scotia Liberal Party Shelburne 3,086 ❌
Ken Jones Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Queens (NS) 3,067 ✅
Charles Roy MacDonald Nova Scotia Liberal Party Cape Breton East 3,058 ❌
Eric Wilfred Balcolm Nova Scotia Liberal Party Kings North 3,054 ✅
Duncan MacMillan Nova Scotia Liberal Party Halifax East 3,015 ✅
R S Kaiser Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Guysborough 3,011 ❌
George Arthur Boggs Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Kings North 3,009 ❌
Hiram Thomas Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Kings West (NS) 2,988 ✅
C D McLean Nova Scotia Liberal Party Kings West (NS) 2,985 ❌
Merrill D Rawding Nova Scotia Liberal Party Queens (NS) 2,974 ❌
Michael James MacDonald Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Cape Breton Centre 2,948 ✅
W F MacKinnon Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Antigonish (NS) 2,884 ✅
Russell Cunningham Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Cape Breton East 2,864 ❌
Henry Davis Hicks Nova Scotia Liberal Party Annapolis East 2,830 ✅
William A MacLeod Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Pictou East 2,754 ✅
John W MacDonald Nova Scotia Liberal Party Pictou East 2,749 ❌
Stephen T Pyke Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Cumberland Centre 2,738 ✅
Malcolm Stewart Leonard Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Digby 2,701 ✅
Colin H Chisholm Nova Scotia Liberal Party Antigonish (NS) 2,669 ❌
Harvey Alfred Veniot Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Pictou West 2,644 ✅
Earl Wallace Urquhart Nova Scotia Liberal Party Richmond (NS) 2,636 ✅
Allison Thompson Smith Nova Scotia Liberal Party Cumberland West 2,618 ✅
Percy Gaum Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Cape Breton Nova 2,582 ✅
James P McNeil Nova Scotia Liberal Party Cape Breton Centre 2,569 ❌
Harley J Spence Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Lunenburg West 2,567 ✅
Victor George Cardoza Nova Scotia Liberal Party Digby 2,559 ❌
Stewart W Proudfoot Nova Scotia Liberal Party Pictou West 2,556 ❌
Peter Murray Nicholson Nova Scotia Liberal Party Annapolis West 2,523 ✅
Frederick E L Fowke Nova Scotia Liberal Party Lunenburg West 2,500 ❌
Ernest M Ettinger Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Hants East 2,392 ✅
Edward Douglas Haliburton Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Kings South 2,368 ✅
Arthur Whittier MacKenzie Nova Scotia Liberal Party Hants East 2,342 ❌
Harry L Ritcey Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Annapolis East 2,277 ❌
William Charles Boudreau Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Richmond (NS) 2,262 ❌
Reid Denton Sangster Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Halifax East 2,198 ❌
Leigh Minard Marshall Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Annapolis West 2,163 ❌
Carleton L MacMillan Nova Scotia Liberal Party Victoria (NS) 2,162 ✅
William Harmon Wasson Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Cumberland West 2,158 ❌
P E Belliveau Nova Scotia Liberal Party Clare 2,046 ✅
Robert Clifford Levy Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Lunenburg East 1,887 ✅
J Fred Gaudet Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Clare 1,844 ❌
Ralph F Gilroy Nova Scotia Liberal Party Cumberland Centre 1,803 ❌
Leonard W Jones Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Victoria (NS) 1,693 ❌
Gus Brown Nova Scotia Liberal Party Cape Breton Nova 1,682 ❌
Macintosh MacLeod Nova Scotia Liberal Party Kings South 1,594 ❌
Kirk S Hennigar Nova Scotia Liberal Party Lunenburg East 1,579 ❌
John A Chisholm Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Cape Breton Nova 1,475 ❌
Charles P Miller Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Cape Breton Centre 1,289 ❌
Albert Martin Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Cape Breton South (NS) 1,130 ❌
Charles O'Connell Independent Cape Breton Nova 812 ❌
Gerald A. Yetman Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Halifax County Dartmouth 557 ❌
A L Lynds Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Colchester 251 ❌
William Wright Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Colchester 240 ❌
Ralph Loomer Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Hants West 214 ❌
Lloyd Carman Wilson Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Halifax Northwest 130 ❌
Murray Alton Bent Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Annapolis East 69 ❌
Malcolm E Wheadon Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Hants East 54 ❌

Districts

Annapolis East
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 10 elections (1956–1988)

Henry Davis Hicks · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

2,830 votes
Annapolis West
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 10 elections (1956–1988)

Peter Murray Nicholson · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

2,523 votes
Antigonish (NS)
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 42 elections (1867–2024)

W F MacKinnon · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

2,884 votes
Cape Breton Centre
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 24 elections (1925–2009)

Michael James MacDonald · Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

2,948 votes
Cape Breton East
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 23 elections (1925–2024)

Neil L Ferguson · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

4,324 votes
Cape Breton North
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 22 elections (1933–2009)

John M MacDonald · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

6,088 votes
Cape Breton Nova
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 16 elections (1956–2009)

Percy Gaum · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

2,582 votes
Cape Breton South (NS)
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 22 elections (1933–2009)

Donald C MacNeil · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

5,101 votes
Cape Breton West
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 22 elections (1933–2009)

Edward A Manson · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

4,440 votes
Clare
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 20 elections (1949–2024)

P E Belliveau · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

2,046 votes
Colchester
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 28 elections (1867–1974)

Robert Lorne Stanfield · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

8,476 votes
Cumberland Centre
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 12 elections (1949–1988)

Stephen T Pyke · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

2,738 votes
Cumberland East
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 12 elections (1949–1988)

James Arnold Langille · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

4,406 votes
Cumberland West
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 12 elections (1949–1988)

Allison Thompson Smith · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

2,618 votes
Digby
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 32 elections (1867–1988)

Malcolm Stewart Leonard · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

2,701 votes
Guysborough
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 32 elections (1871–1988)

A W Cameron · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

3,177 votes
Halifax Centre
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 9 elections (1933–1963)

Gordon S Cowan · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

5,642 votes
Halifax County Dartmouth
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 3 elections (1956–1963)

Geoffrey Stevens · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

7,276 votes
Halifax East
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 9 elections (1933–1963)

Duncan MacMillan · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

3,015 votes
Halifax North
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 9 elections (1933–1963)

John E Ahern · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

8,773 votes
Halifax Northwest
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 3 elections (1956–1963)

Ronald Manning Fielding · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

3,763 votes
Halifax South
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 9 elections (1933–1963)

Richard A Donahoe · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

6,051 votes
Halifax West
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 9 elections (1933–1963)

Charles H Reardon · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

6,119 votes
Hants East
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 22 elections (1949–2024)

Ernest M Ettinger · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

2,392 votes
Hants West
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 22 elections (1949–2024)

George H Wilson · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

3,405 votes
Inverness (NS)
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 39 elections (1867–2024)

J Clyde Nunn · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

4,415 votes
Kings North
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 20 elections (1956–2024)

Eric Wilfred Balcolm · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

3,054 votes
Kings South
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 20 elections (1956–2024)

Edward Douglas Haliburton · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

2,368 votes
Kings West (NS)
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 20 elections (1956–2024)

Hiram Thomas · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

2,988 votes
Lunenburg East
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 10 elections (1956–1988)

Robert Clifford Levy · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

1,887 votes
Lunenburg West
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 20 elections (1956–2024)

Harley J Spence · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

2,567 votes
Lunenburg Centre
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 10 elections (1956–1988)

Harold Uhlman · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

3,995 votes
Pictou Centre
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 22 elections (1949–2024)

Donald R MacLeod · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

5,639 votes
Pictou East
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 22 elections (1949–2024)

William A MacLeod · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

2,754 votes
Pictou West
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 22 elections (1949–2024)

Harvey Alfred Veniot · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

2,644 votes
Queens (NS)
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 40 elections (1867–2024)

Ken Jones · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

3,067 votes
Richmond (NS)
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 39 elections (1867–2021)

Earl Wallace Urquhart · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

2,636 votes
Shelburne
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 40 elections (1867–2024)

James McKay Harding · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

3,337 votes
Victoria (NS)
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 39 elections (1867–2017)

Carleton L MacMillan · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

2,162 votes
Yarmouth (NS)
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 42 elections (1867–2024)

William C O'Brien · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

5,438 votes

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