April 02 1974 (NS)

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Important Dates  
Election Date 1974-04-02
Attributes  
Federal Jurisdiction ❌
Provincial Jurisdiction ✅
Province Nova Scotia
By-Election ❌

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Summary

Statistic Value
Invalid Ballots 3,105
Invalid Votes 3,105
Total Electors 507,190
Turnout Rate 85
Valid Ballots 431,258
Valid Votes 431,258

Results

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Party Candidates Seats Contested Seats % Vote %
Independent 6 0 0.00% 0.26%
New Democratic Party 46 3 6.52% 13.76%
Nova Scotia Liberal Party 46 31 67.39% 47.40%
Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia 46 12 26.09% 38.58%

Candidates

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First Name Last Name Party District Votes Elected
Melinda MacLean Nova Scotia Liberal Party Colchester 9,514 ✅
George Doucet Nova Scotia Liberal Party Halifax Cobequid 8,691 ✅
Floyd Tucker Nova Scotia Liberal Party Colchester 8,662 ✅
J Fraser Mooney Nova Scotia Liberal Party Yarmouth (NS) 8,098 ✅
Ronald C Giffin Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Colchester 7,974 ❌
Leonard L Pace Nova Scotia Liberal Party Halifax St. Margarets 7,338 ✅
Gerald Ritcey Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Colchester 7,182 ❌
Glen M Bagnell Nova Scotia Liberal Party Dartmouth North 7,091 ✅
Hugh Tinkham Nova Scotia Liberal Party Yarmouth (NS) 7,068 ✅
Silvia Hudson Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Halifax Cobequid 6,878 ❌
Roland J Thornhill Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Dartmouth South-Portland Valley 6,491 ✅
Vincent MacLean Nova Scotia Liberal Party Cape Breton South (NS) 6,487 ✅
A G Brown Nova Scotia Liberal Party Halifax Eastern Shore 6,437 ✅
Allan E Sullivan Nova Scotia Liberal Party Cape Breton West 6,281 ✅
John Buchanan Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Halifax Atlantic 6,229 ✅
George Piercey Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Halifax St. Margarets 6,084 ❌
Jeremy Akerman New Democratic Party Cape Breton East 5,929 ✅
D Scott MacNutt Nova Scotia Liberal Party Dartmouth South-Portland Valley 5,871 ❌
Walter Fitzgerald Nova Scotia Liberal Party Halifax Chebucto 5,608 ✅
Bill MacEachern Nova Scotia Liberal Party Inverness (NS) 5,606 ✅
John Archie MacKenzie Nova Scotia Liberal Party Inverness (NS) 5,403 ✅
George M Mitchell Nova Scotia Liberal Party Halifax Cornwallis 5,391 ✅
William Gillis Nova Scotia Liberal Party Antigonish (NS) 5,141 ✅
Fraser MacLean Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Pictou Centre 5,100 ✅
Frank Bezanson Nova Scotia Liberal Party Kings West (NS) 5,031 ✅
Lawrence Yud MacKinnon Nova Scotia Liberal Party Pictou Centre 4,954 ❌
Tom McKeough Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Cape Breton North 4,889 ✅
Richard L Weldon Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Dartmouth North 4,839 ❌
N James MacLean Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Inverness (NS) 4,832 ❌
Darrell E Wentzell Nova Scotia Liberal Party Halifax Atlantic 4,380 ❌
Gerald A. Regan Nova Scotia Liberal Party Halifax Needham 4,364 ✅
George A Snow Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Yarmouth (NS) 4,300 ❌
Ronald Wallace Nova Scotia Liberal Party Halifax Citadel-Sable Island 4,299 ✅
Hanson D Josey Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Halifax Eastern Shore 4,205 ❌
Barry LeBlanc Nova Scotia Liberal Party Cape Breton North 4,155 ❌
Robert Lindsay Nova Scotia Liberal Party Hants West 4,148 ✅
Roger S Bacon Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Cumberland East 4,125 ✅
Harold Huskilson Nova Scotia Liberal Party Shelburne 4,119 ✅
Joseph Shannon Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Inverness (NS) 4,088 ❌
Bruce Cochran Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Lunenburg Centre 4,086 ✅
Martin Cottreau Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Yarmouth (NS) 4,029 ❌
Ralph E Deamond New Democratic Party Lunenburg Centre 3,878 ❌
George Thomas Jendery Cooper Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Halifax Cornwallis 3,833 ❌
Paul MacEwan New Democratic Party Cape Breton Nova 3,809 ✅
Ron Hatfield Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Shelburne 3,732 ❌
John F Burke Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Cape Breton South (NS) 3,721 ❌
Ron Russell Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Hants West 3,707 ❌
Gaston T LeBlanc Nova Scotia Liberal Party Richmond (NS) 3,697 ✅
A M Cameron Nova Scotia Liberal Party Guysborough 3,688 ✅
Maurice DeLorey Nova Scotia Liberal Party Lunenburg West 3,635 ✅
Harry How Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Kings South 3,576 ✅
Glenn S Ells Nova Scotia Liberal Party Kings North 3,536 ✅
Joseph H Casey Nova Scotia Liberal Party Digby 3,525 ✅
Ron MacNeil Nova Scotia Liberal Party Cumberland East 3,490 ❌
Vince Kachafanas Nova Scotia Liberal Party Cape Breton East 3,443 ❌
James McEachern New Democratic Party Cape Breton Centre 3,380 ✅
Len J Arsenault New Democratic Party Cape Breton North 3,333 ❌
Jack Hawkins Nova Scotia Liberal Party Hants East 3,322 ✅
Dennis Ashworth Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Halifax Chebucto 3,233 ❌
Donald W Cameron Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Pictou East 3,217 ✅
Kay Howlett Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Kings West (NS) 3,206 ❌
Kenneth Andrews Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Cape Breton West 3,199 ❌
Ronnie MacDonald Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Antigonish (NS) 3,172 ❌
Gerry Sheehy Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Annapolis East 3,134 ✅
Dave Waterbury Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Kings North 3,124 ❌
Richard MacLean Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Halifax Citadel-Sable Island 3,071 ❌
Benoit Comeau Nova Scotia Liberal Party Clare 2,959 ✅
Lester MacLean Nova Scotia Liberal Party Pictou East 2,945 ❌
John Wickwire Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Queens (NS) 2,905 ✅
Michael Laffin Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Cape Breton Centre 2,743 ❌
Avard Ettinger Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Hants East 2,690 ❌
Fen MacIntosh Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Guysborough 2,652 ❌
Keith Wyer Nova Scotia Liberal Party Queens (NS) 2,649 ❌
E K Aston Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Lunenburg West 2,643 ❌
Peter Murray Nicholson Nova Scotia Liberal Party Annapolis West 2,636 ✅
Dan Reid Nova Scotia Liberal Party Pictou West 2,624 ✅
Harvey Alfred Veniot Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Pictou West 2,602 ❌
Hank DeBoer Nova Scotia Liberal Party Annapolis East 2,583 ❌
Maynard MacAskil Nova Scotia Liberal Party Victoria (NS) 2,573 ✅
Ronald T Barkhouse Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Lunenburg East 2,536 ✅
Earl Johnston New Democratic Party Cape Breton South (NS) 2,441 ❌
Percy Gaum Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Cape Breton Nova 2,334 ❌
George L Henley Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Cumberland West 2,323 ✅
Guy A Brown Nova Scotia Liberal Party Cumberland Centre 2,283 ✅
Frank Boone New Democratic Party Cape Breton West 2,269 ❌
Bill Brown Nova Scotia Liberal Party Cumberland West 2,205 ❌
J R Kerr Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Annapolis West 2,150 ❌
Joe Stewart Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Richmond (NS) 2,138 ❌
Muriel Duckworth New Democratic Party Halifax Cornwallis 2,121 ❌
E K Aston Nova Scotia Liberal Party Kings South 1,999 ❌
George Clement Cann New Democratic Party Halifax Cobequid 1,964 ❌
Joe Saunders Nova Scotia Liberal Party Lunenburg East 1,963 ❌
Joe Bouchard New Democratic Party Dartmouth North 1,863 ❌
James H Vaughan Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Halifax Needham 1,854 ❌
Richard Rogers New Democratic Party Halifax St. Margarets 1,798 ❌
Allan MacLean Marchbank New Democratic Party Colchester 1,771 ❌
Albert J Boudreau Nova Scotia Liberal Party Cape Breton Centre 1,703 ❌
Burris Devanney New Democratic Party Halifax Chebucto 1,648 ❌
Fred Adshade Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Cape Breton East 1,611 ❌
Raymond M Smith Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Cumberland Centre 1,601 ❌
Colin Campbell New Democratic Party Halifax Atlantic 1,591 ❌
Dave MacKenzie New Democratic Party Pictou Centre 1,591 ❌
Jack Nichols Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Digby 1,590 ❌
Fisher Hudson Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Victoria (NS) 1,542 ❌
John James Kinley Nova Scotia Liberal Party Lunenburg Centre 1,538 ❌
John T Kennedy New Democratic Party Halifax Eastern Shore 1,527 ❌
Eda Forsythe New Democratic Party Colchester 1,515 ❌
Michael Bradfield New Democratic Party Halifax Citadel-Sable Island 1,452 ❌
Ronald F Di Penta Nova Scotia Liberal Party Cape Breton Nova 1,275 ❌
Vincent L Doucet Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Clare 1,218 ❌
A J D'Entremont New Democratic Party Queens (NS) 974 ❌
David W D'Aubin New Democratic Party Cumberland East 934 ❌
Norman Harris Dares New Democratic Party Dartmouth South-Portland Valley 908 ❌
Marty Dolin New Democratic Party Halifax Needham 879 ❌
Joanne Kohout New Democratic Party Pictou East 835 ❌
Dewey Waybret New Democratic Party Shelburne 806 ❌
Gary E Tonks New Democratic Party Hants West 774 ❌
Charles Parker New Democratic Party Pictou West 739 ❌
Patrick D Gough New Democratic Party Antigonish (NS) 726 ❌
Jean L Belliveau New Democratic Party Clare 668 ❌
Lawrence Dukeshire New Democratic Party Yarmouth (NS) 637 ❌
Donald MacKay New Democratic Party Inverness (NS) 621 ❌
Stanley Pashkoski New Democratic Party Richmond (NS) 581 ❌
Clair White New Democratic Party Hants East 549 ❌
Leslie Babin New Democratic Party Yarmouth (NS) 504 ❌
George W Graves New Democratic Party Kings North 500 ❌
Elroy Tabor New Democratic Party Cumberland Centre 493 ❌
Winston Bennett New Democratic Party Inverness (NS) 466 ❌
John Patrick O'Meara New Democratic Party Kings South 463 ❌
Walton Cook Independent Lunenburg Centre 421 ❌
Donald Wolsey New Democratic Party Kings West (NS) 374 ❌
William Roger Griswold New Democratic Party Lunenburg West 341 ❌
Bill Sugg New Democratic Party Guysborough 286 ❌
A W E Zinck New Democratic Party Lunenburg East 282 ❌
Brad Colpitts New Democratic Party Cumberland West 280 ❌
Caleb Barry Haight New Democratic Party Digby 234 ❌
Murray Alton Bent New Democratic Party Annapolis East 223 ❌
Colin A Gillis New Democratic Party Victoria (NS) 214 ❌
David N Lowe New Democratic Party Annapolis West 188 ❌
Archie MacDonald Independent Cape Breton East 183 ❌
Bob Kirk Independent Colchester 159 ❌
Cathie Haig Independent Inverness (NS) 139 ❌
Angus Currie Independent Cape Breton South (NS) 102 ❌
John G Stanhope Independent Hants East 99 ❌

Districts

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

Gerry Sheehy · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

3,134 votes
Annapolis West
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 10 elections (1956–1988)

Peter Murray Nicholson · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

2,636 votes
Antigonish (NS)
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 42 elections (1867–2024)

William Gillis · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

5,141 votes
Cape Breton Centre
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 24 elections (1925–2009)

James McEachern · New Democratic Party

3,380 votes
Cape Breton East
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 23 elections (1925–2024)

Jeremy Akerman · New Democratic Party

5,929 votes
Cape Breton North
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 22 elections (1933–2009)

Tom McKeough · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

4,889 votes
Cape Breton Nova
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 16 elections (1956–2009)

Paul MacEwan · New Democratic Party

3,809 votes
Cape Breton South (NS)
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 22 elections (1933–2009)

Vincent MacLean · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

6,487 votes
Cape Breton West
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 22 elections (1933–2009)

Allan E Sullivan · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

6,281 votes
Clare
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 20 elections (1949–2024)

Benoit Comeau · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

2,959 votes
Colchester
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 28 elections (1867–1974)

Floyd Tucker · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

8,662 votes
Cumberland Centre
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 12 elections (1949–1988)

Guy A Brown · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

2,283 votes
Cumberland East
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 12 elections (1949–1988)

Roger S Bacon · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

4,125 votes
Cumberland West
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 12 elections (1949–1988)

George L Henley · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

2,323 votes
Dartmouth North
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 17 elections (1967–2024)

Glen M Bagnell · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

7,091 votes
Dartmouth South-Portland Valley
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 13 elections (1967–2009)

Roland J Thornhill · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

6,491 votes
Digby
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 32 elections (1867–1988)

Joseph H Casey · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

3,525 votes
Guysborough
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 32 elections (1871–1988)

A M Cameron · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

3,688 votes
Halifax Atlantic
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 17 elections (1967–2024)

John Buchanan · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

6,229 votes
Halifax Chebucto
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 17 elections (1967–2024)

Walter Fitzgerald · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

5,608 votes
Halifax Citadel-Sable Island
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 17 elections (1967–2024)

Ronald Wallace · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

4,299 votes
Halifax Cobequid
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 3 elections (1967–1974)

George Doucet · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

8,691 votes
Halifax Cornwallis
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 7 elections (1967–1988)

George M Mitchell · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

5,391 votes
Halifax Eastern Shore
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 7 elections (1967–1988)

A G Brown · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

6,437 votes
Halifax Needham
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 17 elections (1967–2024)

Gerald A. Regan · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

4,364 votes
Halifax St. Margarets
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 7 elections (1967–1988)

Leonard L Pace · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

7,338 votes
Hants East
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 22 elections (1949–2024)

Jack Hawkins · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

3,322 votes
Hants West
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 22 elections (1949–2024)

Robert Lindsay · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

4,148 votes
Inverness (NS)
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 39 elections (1867–2024)

John Archie MacKenzie · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

5,403 votes
Kings North
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 20 elections (1956–2024)

Glenn S Ells · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

3,536 votes
Kings South
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 20 elections (1956–2024)

Harry How · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

3,576 votes
Kings West (NS)
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 20 elections (1956–2024)

Frank Bezanson · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

5,031 votes
Lunenburg Centre
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 10 elections (1956–1988)

Bruce Cochran · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

4,086 votes
Lunenburg East
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 10 elections (1956–1988)

Ronald T Barkhouse · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

2,536 votes
Lunenburg West
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 20 elections (1956–2024)

Maurice DeLorey · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

3,635 votes
Pictou Centre
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 22 elections (1949–2024)

Fraser MacLean · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

5,100 votes
Pictou East
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 22 elections (1949–2024)

Donald W Cameron · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

3,217 votes
Pictou West
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 22 elections (1949–2024)

Dan Reid · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

2,624 votes
Queens (NS)
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 40 elections (1867–2024)

John Wickwire · Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

2,905 votes
Richmond (NS)
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 39 elections (1867–2021)

Gaston T LeBlanc · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

3,697 votes
Shelburne
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 40 elections (1867–2024)

Harold Huskilson · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

4,119 votes
Victoria (NS)
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 39 elections (1867–2017)

Maynard MacAskil · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

2,573 votes
Yarmouth (NS)
Nova Scotia (NS) Provincial 42 elections (1867–2024)

Hugh Tinkham · Nova Scotia Liberal Party

7,068 votes

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