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1894 Nova Scotia general election

Canadian provincial election

Field	Value
election_name	1894 Nova Scotia general election
country	Nova Scotia
type	parliamentary
party_colour	no
party_name	no
previous_election	1890 Nova Scotia general election
previous_year	1890
outgoing_members	30th General Assembly of Nova Scotia
election_date	March 8–15, 1894
elected_mps	members
next_election	1897 Nova Scotia general election
next_year	1897
elected_members	32nd General Assembly of Nova Scotia
seats_for_election	38 seats of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly
majority_seats	20
image1	William Stevens Fielding, premier of Nova Scotia.jpg
image1_size	150x150px
colour1
leader1	William Stevens Fielding
leader_since1	1884
party1
leaders_seat1	Halifax
last_election1	28
seats1	26
seat_change1	2
popular_vote1	75,295
percentage1	52.05%
swing1	1.21pp
image2	Con
colour2
leader2	William MacKay
leader_since2	1894
party2	Liberal-Conservative
leaders_seat2	Ran in
Cape Breton (Won)
last_election2	10
seats2	12
seat_change2	2
popular_vote2	68,455
percentage2	47.33%
swing2	0.59pp
title	Premier
posttitle	Premier after election
before_election	William Stevens Fielding
before_party
after_election	William Stevens Fielding
after_party

Cape Breton (Won) The 1894 Nova Scotia general election was held from 8 March to 15 March 1894 to elect members of the 31st House of Assembly of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Liberal party.

Results

Results by party

Liberal	Liberal-Conservative

Party	Party leader	# of
candidates	Seats	Popular vote	1890	Dissolution]]	Elected	Change	#	%	Change (pp)
Liberal	William Stevens Fielding	39	28	27	26	-2	75,295	52.05%	+1.21%	Liberal-Conservative	William MacKay
	Vacant	1
Total valid votes	144,649	100.00%	–
Blank and invalid ballots	0	0.00%	–
Total	77	38	38	38	–	144,649	100.00%	–

Retiring incumbents

Liberal

George Clarke, Colchester
Daniel McNeil, Inverness
Henry M. Munro, Annapolis

Liberal-Conservative

Alexander F. Cameron, Guysborough
Thomas Barlow Smith, Hants

Nominated candidates

1894 Nova Scotia Provincial Election

Legend

bold denotes party leader

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

Valley

|- || |James Wilberforce Longley 1,808 27.18% | |Thomas R. Jones 1,555 23.38% | | ||

James Wilberforce Longley

Joseph A. Bancroft
1,793
26.95%

| |Hugh E. Gillis 1,496 22.49% | | ||

Henry M. Munro†

Ambroise-Hilaire Comeau
1,228
27.54%

| |Louis Dugan 1,018 22.83% | | ||

Ambroise-Hilaire Comeau

Eliakim Tupper
1,245
27.92%

| |M. R. Timpany 968 21.71% | | ||

Eliakim Tupper

Arthur Drysdale
1,706
25.19%

| |James A. Thompson 1,689 24.94% | | ||

Arthur Drysdale

| |W. H. Guild 1,644 24.28% || |Charles Smith Wilcox 1,733 25.59% | | ||

Thomas Barlow Smith†

Brenton Dodge
2,227
31.%

| |Barclay Webster 1,580 21.99% | | ||

Barclay Webster

Harry H. Wickwire
2,081
28.97%

| |R. M. Rand 1,296 18.04% | | ||

Vacant
}

South Shore

|- || |John Drew Sperry 2,648 27.92% | |James A. McLean 2,133 22.49% | | ||

John Drew Sperry

Charles Edward Church
2,602
27.44%

| |J. A. Hirtle 2,101 22.15% | | ||

Charles Edward Church

Albert M. Hemeon
913
28.83%

| |John Hutt 703 22.20% | | ||

Albert M. Hemeon

Richard Hunt
912
28.79%

| |O.L. Patch 639 20.18% | | ||

Richard Hunt

Thomas Johnston
1,282
26.31%

| |R. W. Freeman 1,059 21.74% | | ||

Thomas Johnston

Thomas Robertson
1,319
27.07%

| |Charles Cahan 1,212 24.88% | | ||

Charles Cahan

William Law
1,464
31.78%

| | | |E.C. Simonson (Prohibitionist-Temperance) 899 19.51% ||

William Law

| |Cornelius Forman Hatfield 1,097 23.81% || |Albert A. Pothier 1,147 24.90% | | ||

Cornelius Forman Hatfield
}

Fundy-Northeast

|- || |Frederick Andrew Laurence 1,896 25.09% | |Israel Longworth 1,890 25.02% | | ||

Frederick Andrew Laurence

| |Alfred Dickie 1,814 24.01% || |Wilbert David Dimock 1,955 25.88% | | ||

George Clarke†

Thomas Reuben Black
3,109
28.47%

| |George W. Forrest 2,498 22.87% | | ||

George W. Forrest

Alexander E. Fraser
2,902
26.58%

| |William Oxley 2,411 22.08% | | ||

William Oxley
}

Halifax

|- || |William Stevens Fielding 4,795 17.88% | |T. W. Walsh 4,019 14.99% | | ||

William Stevens Fielding

William Roche
4,651
17.35%

| |James Morrow 4,406 16.43% | | ||

William Roche

| |Michael Joseph Power 4,373 16.31% || |William Anderson Black 4,570 17.04% | | ||

Michael Joseph Power
}

Central Nova

|- || |Colin Francis McIsaac 1,333 27.99% | |J.J. Cameron 1,141 23.95% | | ||

Colin Francis McIsaac

Christopher P. Chisholm
1,225
25.72%

| |C. Ernest Gregory 1,064 22.34% | | ||

Christopher P. Chisholm

Daniel H. McKinnon
1,240
28.70%

| |Hamilton Morrow 979 22.66% | | ||

Hamilton Morrow

John Howard Sinclair
1,216
28.15%

| |A. Whitman 885 20.49% | | ||

Alexander F. Cameron†

| |Edward Mortimer Macdonald 2,797 15.41% || |William Cameron 3,254 17.93% | | ||

William Cameron

| |James Drummond McGregor 2,992 16.49% || |Charles Elliott Tanner 3,236 17.83% | | ||

James Drummond McGregor

| |J. F. Oliver 2,759 15.20% || |Alexander Grant 3,109 17.13% | | ||

Alexander Grant
}

Cape Breton

|- | |Joseph McPherson 2,592 23.89% || |William MacKay 2,885 26.59% | | ||

Joseph McPherson

| |Angus J. MacDonald 2,552 23.52% || |John McCormick 2,822 26.01% | | ||

Angus J. MacDonald

| |John McKinnon 1,746 24.87% || |John H. Jameison 1,857 26.45% | | ||

John McKinnon

| |Samuel McDonnell 1,658 23.61% || |Alexander Campbell 1,760 25.07% | | ||

Daniel McNeil†

Simon Joyce
996
25.89%

| |Abraham LeBlanc 883 22.95% | | ||

Abraham LeBlanc

| |Joseph Matheson 974 25.32% | |John Morrison 994 25.84% | | ||

Joseph Matheson

John Gillis Morrison
784
24.39%

| |John J. McCabe 597 18.57% | | ||

John A. Fraser

| |John A. Fraser 748 23.27% 911 28.34% |- | |M. H. MacKenzie 174 5.41% |- |}

References

4 December 1894 deferred by-election for Richmond seat, won by Liberal candidate
"Nova Scotia Provincial Elections 1867-2016". Elections Nova Scotia.
"Electoral Districts- History". Nova Scotia Legislature.
"Electoral Districts- History". Nova Scotia Legislature.
In the riding of Richmond, Liberal-Conservative John Morrison's election was voided by courts upon protest and petition by Liberal [[Joseph Matheson]] on March 19 and April 19, 1894. A by-election was held on December 4, 1894 to fill the seat and was won by Matheson.

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