Election Name: | 1867 Nova Scotia general election |
Country: | Nova Scotia |
Type: | parliamentary |
Party Colour: | no |
Party Name: | no |
Previous Mps: | 23rd General Assembly of Nova Scotia |
Election Date: | September 18, 1867 |
Elected Mps: | members |
Next Election: | 1871 Nova Scotia general election |
Next Year: | 1871 |
Seats For Election: | 38 seats in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly |
Majority Seats: | 20 |
Image1: | William Annand by William Notman.jpg |
Image1 Size: | 150x150px |
Leader1: | William Annand |
Leader Since1: | 1867 |
Party1: | Anti-Confederation Party |
Leaders Seat1: | Member of Legislative Council |
Seats1: | 36 |
Popular Vote1: | 47,448 |
Percentage1: | 60.98% |
Image2 Size: | 150x150px |
Leader2: | Hiram Blanchard |
Leader Since2: | 1867 |
Party2: | Confederation Party |
Leaders Seat2: | Ran in Inverness (Won, later declared invalid) |
Seats2: | 2 |
Popular Vote2: | 30,362 |
Percentage2: | 39.02% |
Premier | |
Before Election: | Hiram Blanchard |
Before Party: | Liberal-Conservative |
Posttitle: | Premier after election |
After Election: | William Annand |
After Party: | Anti-Confederation Party |
The 1867 Nova Scotia general election was held on 18 September 1867 to elect members of the 24th House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was the first general election in Nova Scotia after Confederation, and was won by the Anti-Confederation Party.
36 | 2 | |
Anti-Confederation | Confederation |
Party leader |
| Seats | Popular vote | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Elected | % | Anti-Confederation | William Annand | 41 | 36 | 47,448 | 60.98% | Confederation | Hiram Blanchard | 36 | 2 | 30,362 | 39.02% | |
Total valid votes | 77,810 | 100.00% | ||||||||||||
Blank and invalid ballots | 0 | 0.00% | ||||||||||||
Total | 77 | 38 | 77,810 | 100.00% |
1867 Nova Scotia Provincial Election[1]
Legend
bold denotes party leader
|-| rowspan="2"|Annapolis|||Jared C. Troop
1,187
27.16% ||W. T. Foster
1,019
23.31% ||New riding|-|||David C. Landers
1,163
26.61% ||George Whitman
1,002
22.92% ||New riding|-| rowspan="2"|Digby|||William Berrian Vail
1,139
36.% ||Colin Campbell
612
19.34% ||New riding|-|||Urbine Doucette
1,010
31.92% ||J. Melanson
403
12.74% ||New riding|-| rowspan="2"|Hants|||William Dawson Lawrence
1,529
31.64% ||Parker
921
19.06% ||New riding|-|||Elkanah Young
1,479
30.60% ||William McDougall
904
18.70% ||New riding|-| rowspan="2"|Kings|||David M. Dickie
1,393
32.87% ||T.W. Harris
904
21.33% ||New riding|-|||Edward L. Brown
1,280
30.20% ||R. C. Foster
661
15.60% ||New riding|-|}
|-| rowspan="2"|Lunenburg|||Mather Byles DesBrisay
1,553
31.93% ||Henry S. Jost
853
17.54%||New riding|-|||James Daniel Eisenhauer
1,664
34.22% ||W. A. C. Randall
793
16.31% ||New riding|-| rowspan="2"|Queens|||William Henry Smith
792
36.65% ||Allison
310
14.35% ||New riding|-|||Samuel Freeman
785
36.33% ||A. J. Campbell
274
12.68% ||New riding|-| rowspan="2"|Shelburne|||Robert Robertson
Acclamation|| ||New riding|-|||Thomas Johnson
Acclamation||||New riding|-| rowspan="3"|Yarmouth|||John K. Ryerson
1,138
32.53% ||John Van Norden Hatfield
626
17.90% |rowspan=2||rowspan=2|New riding|-||W. G. Goucher
726
20.75%||Isaac Smith Hatfield
61
1.74%|-|||William H. Townsend
853
24.39% ||J. Smith Hatfield
94
2.69%
||New riding|}
|-| rowspan="2"|Colchester|||Thomas Fletcher Morrison
1,641
28.59% ||Samuel Rettie
1,311
22.84% ||New riding|-|||Robert Chambers
1,625
28.32% ||N. McKim
1,162
20.25% ||New riding|-| rowspan="2"|Cumberland|||Amos Purdy
1,309
25.07%||Edward Vickery
1,284
24.59%||New riding|- ||W. Fullerton
1,291
24.73% |||Henry Gesner Pineo Jr.
1,337
25.61% ||New riding|}
|-| rowspan="3"|Halifax|||Jeremiah Northup
2,386
17.64% ||Philip Carteret Hill
2,152
15.91% ||New riding|-|||James Cochran
2,366
17.49% ||S. Tobin
2,129
15.74%||New riding|-|||Henry Balcom
2,364
17.48%||G. McLeod
2,129
15.74%||New riding|}
|-| rowspan="2"|Antigonish|||Daniel MacDonald
1,424
45.95% ||R. N. Henry
410
13.23% ||New riding|-|||Joseph MacDonald
1,072
34.59% ||J. Macdonald
193
6.23% ||New riding|-| rowspan="2"|Guysborough|||John Joseph Marshall
730
32.10% ||J. A. Tory
443
19.48% ||New riding|-|||John Angus Kirk
674
29.64% ||Alexander N. McDonald
427
18.78% ||New riding|-| rowspan="3"|Pictou|||George Murray
2,019
18.45% ||Simon Hugh Holmes
1,684
15.38% ||New riding|-|||Robert S. Copeland
1,977
18.06% ||Donald Fraser
1,649
15.06%||New riding|-|||Martin Isaac Wilkins
1,968
17.98%||Alexander MacKay
1,649
15.06%||New riding|}
|-| rowspan="3"|Cape Breton|||Alonzo J. White
963
29.39% |rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Newton LeGayet Mackay
616
18.80% |rowspan=2||rowspan=2|New riding|-||S. L. Purvis
471
14.37%|-|||John Fergusson
702
21.42% ||P. Cadegan
525
16.02% ||New riding|-| rowspan="3"|Inverness[2] |||Alexander Campbell
1,058
30.51%||||New riding|-||H. McInnis
932
26.87% |rowspan=2 ||rowspan=2|Hiram Blanchard
986
28.43%|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|New riding|- ||A. Gillis
492
14.19%|-| rowspan="2"|Richmond|||Edmund Power Flynn
583
39.85% ||J. H. Hearn
362
24.74% ||New riding|-|||Josiah Hooper
518
35.41% ||||New riding|-| rowspan="3"|Victoria|||John Ross
621
37.21% ||Charles James Campbell
256
15.34% ||New riding|-|rowspan=2 ||rowspan=2|William Kidston
571
34.21% ||McLean
162
9.71% |rowspan=2||rowspan=2|New riding|-||Haliburton
59
3.53%|}