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1925 Nova Scotia general election

{{Short description|Canadian provincial election}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2023}}

{{Infobox election

| election_name = 1925 Nova Scotia general election

| country = Nova Scotia

| type = parliamentary

| party_colour = no

| party_name = no

| previous_election = 1920 Nova Scotia general election

| previous_year = 1920

| previous_mps = 37th General Assembly of Nova Scotia

| election_date = June 25, 1925

| elected_mps = members

| next_election = 1928 Nova Scotia general election

| next_year = 1928

| next_mps = 39th General Assembly of Nova Scotia

| seats_for_election = 43 seats of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly

| majority_seats = 22

| turnout =

| image1 = Edgar Nelson Rhodes (cropped).jpg

| image1_size = 150x150px

| colour1 = {{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|nohash}}

| leader1 = Edgar Nelson Rhodes

| leader_since1 = May 21, 1925

| party1 = Liberal-Conservative

| leaders_seat1 = Ran in
Hants (Won)

| last_election1 = 3

| seats1 = 39

| seat_change1 = {{increase}}36

| popular_vote1 = 262,277

| percentage1 = 60.9%

| swing1 = {{increase}}36.24pp

| image2 = Hon EH Armstrong (HS85-10-41071) (cropped, B&W).jpg

| image2_size = 150x150px

| colour2 = {{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|nohash}}

| leader2 = Ernest Howard Armstrong

| leader_since2 = 1923

| party2 = {{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|name}}

| leaders_seat2 = Shelburne
(Lost re-election)

| last_election2 = 29

| seats2 = 3

| seat_change2 = {{decrease}}26

| popular_vote2 = 161,158

| percentage2 = 36.3%

| swing2 = {{decrease}}8.14pp

| image3 =

Lab

| image3_size =

| colour3 = {{Canadian party colour|NS|Labour|nohash}}

| leader3 = No leader

| leader_since3 =

| party3 = {{Canadian party colour|NS|Labour|name}}

| leaders_seat3 =

| last_election3 = 5

| seats3 = 1

| seat_change3 = {{decrease}}4

| popular_vote3 = 20,527

| percentage3 = 2.8%

| swing3 = {{decrease}}11.27pp

| map_image =

| map_size =

| map_caption =

| title = Premier

| posttitle = Premier after election

| before_election = Ernest Howard Armstrong

| before_party = {{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|name}}

| after_election = Edgar Nelson Rhodes

| after_party = Liberal-Conservative

}}

The 1925 Nova Scotia general election was held on 25 June 1925 to elect members of the 38th House of Assembly of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Liberal-Conservative party.

Results

=Results by party=

style="width:60%; text-align:center;"

|+ ↓

style="color:white;"

| style="background:#9999FF; width:90.69%;" | 39

| style="background:#F08080; width:6.98%;" | 3

| style="background:#EEBBBB; width:2.33%;" | 1

Liberal-Conservative

| Liberal

| Labour

class="wikitable"

|+Official results {{cite web |title=Nova Scotia Provincial Elections 1867-2016 |url=https://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/Elections1867to2017.pdf|publisher=Elections Nova Scotia |access-date=December 22, 2021}}{{cite web |title=Electoral Districts- History |url=https://nslegislature.ca/about/architecture-and-heritage/constituency-histories|publisher=Nova Scotia Legislature |access-date=December 22, 2021}}

!rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Party

!rowspan="2"|Party leader

!rowspan="2"|# of
candidates

!colspan="4"|Seats

!colspan="3"|Popular vote

1920

!Dissolution

!Elected

!Change

!#

!%

!Change (pp)

{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|row}}

|Liberal-Conservative

|Edgar Nelson Rhodes

|align="right"|42

|align="right"|3

|align="right"|

|align="right"|39

|align="right"|+36

|align="right"|262,277

|align="right"|59.07%

|align="right"|+36.24%

{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|row}}

|Liberal

|Ernest Howard Armstrong

|align="right"|43

|align="right"|29

|align="right"|

|align="right"|3

|align="right"

26

|align="right"|161,158

|align="right"|36.30%

|align="right"

8.14%

{{Canadian party colour|NS|Labour|row}}

|Labour

|None

|align="right"|11

|align="right"|0

|align="right"|

|align="right"|1

|align="right"

4

|align="right"|20,527

|align="right"|4.62%

|align="right"

11.27%
 

|colspan=4|Vacant

|align="right"|

|colspan=5| 

colspan="8"|Total valid votes

|align="right"|443,962

|align="right"|100.00%

|align="right"|–

colspan="11"|
colspan="8"|Blank and invalid ballots

|align="right"|0

|align="right"|0.00%

|align="right"|–

colspan=3|Total

|align="right"|96

|align="right"|43

|align="right"|43

|align="right"|43

|align="right"|–

|align="right"|443,962

|align="right"|100.00%

|align="right"|–

{{Bar box|title=Popular vote|titlebar=#ddd|width=600px|barwidth=410px|bars={{Bar percent|Liberal-Conservative|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC}}|59.08}}

{{Bar percent|Liberal|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal}}|36.30}}

{{Bar percent|Labour|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Labour}}|4.62}}}}{{Bar box|title=Seats summary|titlebar=#ddd|width=600px|barwidth=410px|bars={{Bar percent|Liberal-Conservative|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC}}|90.69}}

{{Bar percent|Liberal|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal}}|6.98}}

{{Bar percent|Labour|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Labour}}|2.33}}}}

Retiring incumbents

Labour

Liberal

United Farmers

Nominated candidates

Legend

bold denotes party leader

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

The band that is coloured shows which candidates were successful in 1925.

=Valley=

{{Canadian politics/candlist header|province=NS|Liberal|Labour|Liberal-Conservative}}

|-

|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Annapolis

|

|Frank R. Elliott
3,165
21.53%

|

|

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|Obediah Parker Goucher
4,331
29.46%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|background}}|

|Frank R. Elliott

|-

|

|Kenneth L. Crowell
3,071
20.89%

|

|

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|Harry Thompson MacKenzie
4,133
28.12%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|background}}|

|Orlando Daniels†

|-

|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Digby

|

|Henry W.B. Warner
2,545
19.95%

|

|

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|Jean-Louis Philippe Robicheau
3,827
30.00%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|background}}|

|Henry W.B. Warner

|-

|

|Gilbert J. Belliveau
2,524
19.78%

|

|

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|William Hudson Farnham
3,862
30.27%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|background}}|

|Joseph William Comeau†

|-

|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Hants

|

|James William Reid
3,075
20.08%

|

|

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|Albert Parsons
4,806
31.38%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|background}}|

|James William Reid

|-

|

|Lionel A. Forsyth
2,860
18.68%

|

|

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|Edgar Nelson Rhodes
4,573
29.86%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|United Farmers|background}}|

|John Alexander MacDonald†

|-

|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kings

|

|John A. McDonald
4,963
24.23%

|

|

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|George Nowlan
5,520
26.95%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|background}}|

|John A. McDonald

|-

|

|Allison H. Borden
4,543
22.18%

|

|

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|Reginald Tucker Caldwell
5,455
26.63%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|background}}|

|James Sealy†

|}

=South Shore=

{{Canadian politics/candlist header|province=NS|Liberal|Labour|Liberal-Conservative}}

|-

|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Lunenburg

|

|John James Kinley
4,528
19.82%

|

|

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|Wallace Norman Rehfuss
7,159
31.34%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|background}}|

|John James Kinley

|-

|

|Aubrey Sperry
4,254
18.62%

|

|

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|William Haslam Smith
6,902
30.21%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|background}}|

|Aubrey Sperry

|-

|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Queens

|

|George S. McClearn
1,735
23.06%

|

|

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|William Lorimer Hall
1,934
25.70%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|background}}|

|George S. McClearn

|-

|

|Jordan W. Smith
1,874
24.90%

|

|

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|Frank J.D. Barnjum
1,982
26.34%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|background}}|

|Jordan W. Smith

|-

|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Shelburne

|

|Robert Irwin
2,001
21.90%

|

|

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|Ernest Reginald Nickerson
2,596
28.42%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|background}}|

|Robert Irwin

|-

|

|Ernest Howard Armstrong
2,087
22.84%

|

|

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|Norman Emmons Smith
2,452
26.84%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|background}}|

|Ernest Howard Armstrong

|-

|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Yarmouth

|

|Lindsay C. Gardner
3,032
22.66%

|

|

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|John Flint Cahan
3,852
28.79%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Vacant|background}}|

|Vacant

|-

|

|René W.E. Landry
3,079
23.02%

|

|

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|Raymond Neri d'Entremont
3,415
25.53%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|background}}|

|Amédée Melanson†

|}

=Fundy-Northeast=

{{Canadian politics/candlist header|province=NS|Liberal|Labour|Liberal-Conservative}}

|-

|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Colchester

|

|Maynard B. Archibald
2,634
14.42%

|

|

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|William Boardman Armstrong
6,733
36.86%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|United Farmers|background}}|

|Harry L. Taggart†

|-

|

|Frank A. Reynolds
2,461
13.47%

|

|

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|Frank Stanfield
6,439
35.25%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|United Farmers|background}}|

|Robert Hunter Smith†

|-

|rowspan=3 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cumberland

|

|James Ralston
5,508
13.45%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Labour|background}}|

|Archibald Terris
8,267
20.18%

|

|

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Labour|background}}|

|Archibald Terris

|-

|

|Charles H. Read
4,797
11.71%

|

|

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|Percy Chapman Black
9,057
22.11%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|United Farmers|background}}|

|Gilbert Nelson Allen†

|-

|

|James M. Wardrope
4,754
11.61%

|

|

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|Daniel George McKenzie
8,580
20.95%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|United Farmers|background}}|

|Daniel George McKenzie

|}

=Halifax=

{{Canadian politics/candlist header|province=NS|Liberal|Labour|Liberal-Conservative}}

|-

|rowspan=5 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halifax

|

|John Murphy
8,291
6.86%

|

|Walter Mosher
571
0.47%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|John Archibald Walker
15,679
12.97%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|background}}|

|Adam Dunlap Burris†

|-

|

|John G. MacDougall
8,256
6.83%

|

|Robert Daw
480
0.40%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|William Drysdale Piercey
15,672
12.97%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|background}}|

|John L. Connolly†

|-

|

|John Brown Douglas
7,905
6.54%

|

|Alban L. Breen
392
0.32%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|Josiah Frederick Fraser
15,985
13.23%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|background}}|

|John Brown Douglas

|-

|

|Henry Bauld
7,900
6.54%

|

|

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|John Francis Mahoney
15,899
13.16%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|background}}|

|Henry Bauld

|-

|

|Walter J.A. O'Hearn
7,872
6.51%

|

|

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|Alexander Montgomerie
15,952
13.20%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|background}}|

|Walter J.A. O'Hearn

|}

=Central Nova=

{{Canadian politics/candlist header|province=NS|Liberal|Labour|Liberal-Conservative}}

|-

|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Antigonish

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|background}}|

|John L. MacIsaac
2,393
27.74%

|

|

|

|Duncan S. Chisholm
2,095
24.29%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|United Farmers|background}}|

|Angus J. MacGillivray†

|-

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|background}}|

|William Chisholm
2,267
26.28%

|

|

|

|Fred R. Irish
1,871
21.69%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|background}}|

|William Chisholm

|-

|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Guysborough

|

|Clarence W. Anderson
2,668
23.70%

|

|

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|Simon Osborn Giffin
2,995
26.61%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|background}}|

|Clarence W. Anderson

|-

|

|James Cranswick Tory
2,763
24.55%

|

|

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|Howard Amos Rice
2,830
25.14%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|background}}|

|James Cranswick Tory

|-

|rowspan=3 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Pictou

|

|Archibald McColl
5,591
12.18%

|

|William Murray
695
1.51%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|John Doull
9,432
20.55%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Vacant|background}}|

|Vacant

|-

|

|John Welsford MacDonald
5,464
11.91%

|

|J. Gordon Calkin
668
1.46%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|Hugh Allan MacQuarrie
9,043
19.71%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|background}}|

|John Welsford MacDonald

|-

|

|George W. Whitman
5,332
11.62%

|

|Joseph White
610
1.33%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|Robert Albert Douglas
9,053
19.73%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|background}}|

|Robert Henry Graham†

|}

=Cape Breton=

{{Canadian politics/candlist header|province=NS|Liberal|Labour|Liberal-Conservative}}

|-

|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton Centre

|

|Daniel McDonald
3,277
14.68%

|

|Joseph Steele
313
1.40%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|Gordon Sidney Harrington
7,621
34.13%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Labour|background}}|

|Joseph Steele
Cape Breton

|-

|

|James McConnell
3,210
14.38%

|

|Emerson Campbell
295
1.32%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|Joseph Macdonald
7,611
34.09%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Labour|background}}|

|Arthur R. Richardson†
Cape Breton

|-

|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape Breton East

|

|Dan C. McDonald
933
3.82%

|

|Forman Waye
4,051
16.57%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|John Carey Douglas
7,276
29.77%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Labour|background}}|

|Forman Waye
Cape Breton

|-

|

|James L. McKinnon
928
3.80%

|

|D. W. Morrison
4,185
17.12%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|Alexander O'Handley
7,071
28.93%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Labour|background}}|

|D. W. Morrison
Cape Breton

|-

|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Inverness

|

|Moses Elijah McGarry
3,906
24.46%

|

|

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|Hubert Meen Aucoin
4,019
25.17%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|background}}|

|Donald MacLennan†

|-

|

|John C. Bourinot
3,862
24.19%

|

|

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|Malcolm McKay
4,180
26.18%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|background}}|

|John C. Bourinot

|-

|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Richmond-West Cape Breton

|

|Donald D. Boyd
2,667
21.67%

|

|

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|Benjamin Amedeé LeBlanc
3,500
28.44%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|Benjamin Amedeé LeBlanc
Richmond

|-

|

|George R. Deveau
2,637
21.43%

|

|

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|John Alexander MacDonald
8,466
52.70%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|John Alexander MacDonald
Richmond

|-

|rowspan=2 bgcolor=whitesmoke|Victoria

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|background}}|

|Donald Buchanan McLeod
1,874
27.05%

|

|

|

|Hector A. McLeod
1,622
23.41%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|background}}|

|Angus Gladstone Buchanan†

|-

|

|Alexander K. McKenzie
1,672
24.13%

|

|

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|PC|background}}|

|Phillip McLeod
1,760
25.40%

|{{Canadian party colour|NS|Liberal|background}}|

|Daniel Alexander Cameron†

|}

References

{{Reflist}}

Further reading

  • {{cite book |editor1-last=Hopkins |editor1-first=J. Castell |title=The Canadian Annual Review of Public Affairs, 1924–25 |date=1925 |publisher=The Annual Review Company |location=Toronto |url=https://archive.org/details/canadianannualre0000unse_p5b4}}
  • {{cite book |editor1-last=Hopkins |editor1-first=J. Castell |title=The Canadian Annual Review of Public Affairs, 1925–26 |date=1926 |publisher=The Annual Review Company |location=Toronto |url=https://archive.org/details/canadianannualre0000unse_t3l1}}

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