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1897 Nova Scotia general election

Canadian provincial election

Field	Value
election_name	1897 Nova Scotia general election
country	Nova Scotia
type	parliamentary
party_colour	no
party_name	no
previous_election	1894 Nova Scotia general election
previous_year	1894
outgoing_members	31st General Assembly of Nova Scotia
election_date	April 13–20, 1897
elected_mps	members
next_election	1901 Nova Scotia general election
next_year	1901
elected_members	33rd General Assembly of Nova Scotia
seats_for_election	38 seats of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly
majority_seats	20
image1	George Henry Murray (cropped).jpg
image1_size	150x150px
colour1
leader1	George Henry Murray
leader_since1	1896
party1
leaders_seat1	Victoria
last_election1	26
seats1	35
seat_change1	9
popular_vote1	84,888
percentage1	55.57%
swing1	3.52pp
image2	Con
colour2
leader2	William MacKay
leader_since2	1894
party2	Liberal-Conservative
leaders_seat2	Cape Breton
(Lost re-election)
last_election2	12
seats2	3
seat_change2	9
popular_vote2	67,254
percentage2	44.03%
swing2	3.30pp
title	Premier
posttitle	Premier after election
before_election	George Henry Murray
before_party
after_election	George Henry Murray
after_party

(Lost re-election) The 1897 Nova Scotia general election was held from 13 April to 20 April 1897 to elect members of the 32nd 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	1894	Dissolution]]	Elected	Change	#	%	Change (pp)
Liberal	George Henry Murray	40	26	28	35	+9	84,888	55.57%	+3.52%	Liberal-Conservative	William MacKay
	Vacant	0
Total valid votes	152,747	100.00%	–
Blank and invalid ballots	0	0.00%	–
Total	77	38	38	38	–	152,747	100.00%	–

Retiring incumbents

Liberal

Richard Hunt, Queens
Daniel H. MacKinnon, Guysborough
Joseph Matheson, Richmond
Firman McClure, Colchester
Allan Moreash, Lunenburg
William Roche, Halifax

Liberal-Conservative

William Anderson Black, Halifax
Alexander Grant, Pictou

Nominated candidates

1897 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 1,871 26.38% | |Thomas R. Jones 1,680 23.69% | | ||

James Wilberforce Longley

Joseph A. Bancroft
1,878
26.48%

| |C. S. Harrington 1,664 23.46% | | ||

Joseph A. Bancroft

Angus Morrison Gidney
1,498
31.14%

| |Frank E. Comeau 940 19.54% | | ||

Angus Morrison Gidney

Ambroise-Hilaire Comeau
1,512
31.43%

| |M.R. Timpany 860 17.88% | | ||

Ambroise-Hilaire Comeau

| |William McDonald Douglas 1,707 24.35% || |Charles Smith Wilcox 1,746 24.91% | | ||

Charles Smith Wilcox

Arthur Drysdale
1,839
26.24%

| |James A. Thompson 1,717 24.50% | | ||

Arthur Drysdale

Brenton Dodge
2,354
33.08%

| |Peter Innis 1,460 20.52% | | ||

Brenton Dodge

Harry H. Wickwire
2,195
30.85%

| |Leander Rand 1,107 15.56% | | ||

Harry H. Wickwire
}

South Shore

|- || |John Drew Sperry 2,581 25.52% | |A.J. Wolff 2,512 24.84% | | ||

Allan Moreash†

Charles Edward Church
2,514
24.86%

| |Emanuel Hebb 2,507 24.78% | | ||

Charles Edward Church

Edward Matthew Farrell
876
26.38%
666
20.05%
-

| |R. R. McLeod 184 5.54% |- || |Thomas Keillor 712 21.44% 179 5.39% |- | |John Millard 704 21.20% |- || |Thomas Johnston Acclaimed

| | | | ||

Thomas Robertson

Thomas Robertson
Acclaimed

| | | | ||

Thomas Johnston

William Law
1,501
29.14%

| |Joseph R. Wyman 958 18.60% | |E. C. Simonson (Prohibitionist-Temperance) 605 11.74% ||

William Law

Henry S. LeBlanc
1,473
28.60%

| |Albert A. Pothier 614 11.92% | | ||

Albert A. Pothier
}

Fundy-Northeast

|- | |Alfred Dickie 2,240 24.22% || |Thomas McMullen 2,363 25.55% | | ||

Firman McClure†

Frederick Andrew Laurence
2,358
25.50%

| |Wilbert David Dimock 2,286 24.72% | | ||

Frederick Andrew Laurence

Thomas Reuben Black
3,487
29.14%

| |A.A. McKinnon 2,689 22.47% | | ||

Thomas Reuben Black

Alexander E. Fraser
3,251
27.16%

| |J. C. McDougall 2,541 21.23% | | ||

Alexander E. Fraser
}

Halifax

|- || |William Bernard Wallace 5,101 17.36% | |Miner T. Foster 4,754 16.18% | | ||

William Bernard Wallace

David McPherson
5,307
18.06%

| |John Fitzwilliam Stairs 4,563 15.53% | | ||

William Roche†

George Mitchell
5,312
18.07%

| |T. W. Walsh 4,350 14.80% | | ||

William Anderson Black†
}

Central Nova

|- || |Angus McGillivray 1,263 27.77% | |Charles B. Whidden 1,123 24.69% | | ||

Angus McGillivray

Christopher P. Chisholm
1,176
25.86%

| |Hugh MacDonald 986 21.68% | | ||

Christopher P. Chisholm

William Akins Fergusson
1,525
29.90%

| |C. Ernest Gregory 1,065 20.88% | | ||

Daniel H. MacKinnon†

John Howard Sinclair
1,523
29.86%

| |Charles S. Elliott 987 19.35% | | ||

John Howard Sinclair

James Drummond McGregor
3,456
17.24%

| |William Cameron 3,262 16.28% | | ||

William Cameron

Edward Mortimer Macdonald
3,422
17.07%

| |Charles Elliott Tanner 3,289 16.41% | | ||

Charles Elliott Tanner

| |John McIntosh 3,299 16.46% || |Matthew Henry Fitzpatrick 3,314 16.54% | | ||

Alexander Grant†
}

Cape Breton

|- || |Arthur Samuel Kendall 3,705 29.35% | |William MacKay 2,669 21.14% | | ||

William MacKay

Alexander Johnston
3,559
28.19%

| |John McCormick 2,691 21.32% | | ||

John McCormick

James MacDonald
2,646
32.94%

| |John H. Jameison 1,537 19.13% | | ||

John H. Jameison

Moses J. Doucet
2,501
31.13%

| |Alexander Campbell 1,350 16.80% | | ||

Alexander Campbell

Simon Joyce
958
25.86%

| |John Morrison 910 24.57% | | ||

Simon Joyce

Duncan Finlayson
1,034
27.92%

| |Remi Benoit 802 21.65% | | ||

Joseph Matheson†

George Henry Murray
1,273
36.59%

| |John A. McDonald 651 18.71% | | ||

George Henry Murray

John Gillis Morrison
1,093
31.42%

| |A. G. McLeod 462 13.28% | | ||

John Gillis Morrison
}

References

"Nova Scotia Provincial Elections 1867-2016". Elections Nova Scotia.
(July 5, 2011). "Electoral Districts- History". Nova Scotia Legislature.
(July 5, 2011). "Electoral Districts- History". Nova Scotia Legislature.

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