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1901 Nova Scotia general election

Canadian provincial election

Field	Value
election_name	1901 Nova Scotia general election
country	Nova Scotia
type	parliamentary
party_colour	no
party_name	no
previous_election	1897 Nova Scotia general election
previous_year	1897
outgoing_members	32nd General Assembly of Nova Scotia
election_date	October 2, 1901
elected_mps	members
next_election	1906 Nova Scotia general election
next_year	1906
elected_members	34th 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	35
seats1	36
seat_change1	1
popular_vote1	80,196
percentage1	58.79%
swing1	3.22pp
image2	Con
colour2
leader2	Charles Smith Wilcox
leader_since2	1898
party2	Liberal-Conservative
leaders_seat2	Hants
(Lost re-election)
last_election2	3
seats2	2
seat_change2	1
popular_vote2	55,889
percentage2	40.97%
swing2	3.06pp
map_image	1901 Nova Scotia general election - Results by riding.svg
title	Premier
posttitle	Premier after election
before_election	George Henry Murray
before_party
after_election	George Henry Murray
after_party

(Lost re-election) The 1901 Nova Scotia general election was held on 2 October 1901 to elect members of the 33rd 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	1897	Dissolution]]	Elected	Change	#	%	Change (pp)
Liberal	George Henry Murray	40	35	34	36	+1	80,196	58.79%	+3.22%	Liberal-Conservative	Charles Smith Wilcox
	Vacant	0
Total valid votes	136,411	100.00%	–
Blank and invalid ballots	0	0.00%	–
Total	73	38	38	38	–	136,411	100.00%	–

Retiring incumbents

Liberal

Charles Edward Church, Lunenburg
William A. Ferguson, Guysborough
Alexander E. Fraser, Cumberland
Thomas Keillor, Queens
John Drew Sperry, Lunenburg

Liberal-Conservative

Matthew Henry Fitzpatrick, Pictou
Thomas McMullen, Colchester

Nominated candidates

1901 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 1,825 29.60% | |W. C. Healey 1,348 21.87% | | ||

James Wilberforce Longley

Joseph A. Bancroft
1,750
28.39%

| |Frank Andrews 1,242 20.15% | | ||

Joseph A. Bancroft

Ambroise-Hilaire Comeau
1,507
37.12%

| |J. K. Tobin 611 15.05% | | ||

Ambroise-Hilaire Comeau

Angus Morrison Gidney
1,400
34.48%

| |Louis Dugas 542 13.35% | | ||

Angus Morrison Gidney

Arthur Drysdale
2,092
29.54%

| |A. S. Sanford 1,458 20.58% | | ||

Arthur Drysdale

Francis Parker McHeffey
1,914
27.02%

| |Charles Smith Wilcox 1,619 22.86% | | ||

Charles Smith Wilcox

Brenton Dodge
2,225
33.97%

| |J. W. Ryan 1,116 17.04% | | ||

Brenton Dodge

Harry H. Wickwire
2,122
32.40%

| |Peter Innes 1,087 16.60% | | ||

Harry H. Wickwire
}

South Shore

|- || |Edward Doran Davison 2,932 28.24% | |A. J. Wolfe 2,335 22.49% | | ||

John Drew Sperry†

Alexander Kenneth Maclean
2,923
28.15%

| |J. A. Roberts 2,192 21.11% | | ||

Charles Edward Church†

Edward Matthew Farrell
925
27.95%

| |John Hutt 783 23.66% | | ||

Edward Matthew Farrell

Charles F. Cooper
843
25.48%

| |W. L. Libbey 758 22.91% | | ||

Thomas Keillor†

Thomas Johnston
817
41.98%

| | | |Arthur Hood 326 16.75% ||

Thomas Johnston

Thomas Robertson
803
41.26%

| | | | ||

Thomas Robertson

Augustus Stoneman
Acclamation

| | | | ||

Augustus Stoneman

Henry S. LeBlanc
Acclamation

| | | | ||

Henry S. LeBlanc
}

Fundy-Northeast

|- || |Benjamin Franklin Pearson 2,169 25.34% | |A. S. Black 2,151 25.13% | | ||

Thomas McMullen†

Frederick Andrew Laurence
2,185
25.53%

| |John Fitzwilliam Stairs 2,054 24.% | | ||

Frederick Andrew Laurence

Thomas Reuben Black
2,944
25.50%

| |C. R. Smith 2,720 23.56% | | ||

Thomas Reuben Black

| |M. L. Tucker 2,933 25.41% || |Daniel McLeod 2,946 25.52% | | ||

Alexander E. Fraser†
}

Halifax

|- || |George Mitchell 4,955 17.56% | |Adam Brown Crosby 4,707 16.68% | | ||

George Mitchell

David McPherson
5,049
17.89%

| |G. M. Campbell 4,487 15.90% | | ||

David McPherson

Michael Edwin Keefe
4,840
17.15%

| |J. J. Stewart 4,185 14.83% | | ||

Michael Edwin Keefe
}

Central Nova

|- || |Angus McGillivray Acclamation | | | | ||

Angus McGillivray

Christopher P. Chisholm
Acclamation

| | | | ||

Christopher P. Chisholm

William Whitman
1,498
35.79%

| |John Keating 620 14.81% | | ||

William Akins Fergusson†

John Howard Sinclair
1,511
36.11%

| |H. T. Harding 556 13.29% | | ||

John Howard Sinclair

Edward Mortimer Macdonald
3,703
20.61%

| |George E. Munro 3,011 16.76% | | ||

Edward Mortimer Macdonald

| |Robert Dewar 3,157 17.57% || |Charles Elliott Tanner 3,186 17.73% | | ||

Charles Elliott Tanner

George Patterson
3,534
19.67%

| |William Cameron 1,377 7.66% | | ||

Matthew Henry Fitzpatrick†
}

Cape Breton

|- || |Daniel Duncan McKenzie 3,840 32.29% | |Colin McKinnon 2,205 18.54% | | ||

Daniel Duncan McKenzie

Neil J. Gillis
3,691
31.04%

| |Vincent Mullins 2,157 18.14% | | ||

Neil J. Gillis

James MacDonald
2,270
27.39%
1,326
16.00%
-

| |J. L. McDougall 1,317 15.89% |- || |Moses J. Doucet 1,734 20.92% 1,137 13.72% |- | |Alexander Macdonald 504 6.08% |- || |Duncan Finlayson 1,090 34.64% | |D. G. Stewart 562 17.86% | | ||

Duncan Finlayson

Simon Joyce
994
31.59%

| |Felix Landry 501 15.92% | | ||

Simon Joyce

George Henry Murray
1,177
37.85%

| |John A. McDonald 581 18.68% | | ||

George Henry Murray

John Gillis Morrison
1,023
32.89%

| |John J. McCabe 329 10.58% | | ||

John Gillis Morrison
}

References

"Nova Scotia Provincial Elections 1867-2016". Elections Nova Scotia.
(July 5, 2011). "Electoral Districts- History". Nova Scotia Legislature.
(June 4, 2018). "Nova Scotia Provincial Elections 1867–2016". Elections Nova Scotia.
(July 5, 2011). "Electoral Districts- History". Nova Scotia Legislature.

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