Halifax Centre

Provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada

Halifax Centre was a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elected one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. It existed from 1933 to 1967.

Election results

1933

1933 Nova Scotia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Guy Murray Logan	4,915	54.44%
	Liberal–Conservative	Russell McInnes	3,967	43.94%
	United Front	Joseph S. Wallace	146	1.62%
Total			9,028	–
Source(s) Source: Nova Scotia Legislature (2021). "Electoral History for Halifax Centre" (PDF). nslegislature.ca. Nova Scotia Legislature (1933). Legislature of Nova Scotia Election Returns (PDF). Queen's Printer.

1937

1937 Nova Scotia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Duff Forrest	5,186	54.61%	0.17%
	Liberal–Conservative	Arthur Wilfred Morton	4,310	45.39%	1.45%
Total			9,496	–
Source(s) Source: Nova Scotia Legislature (2021). "Electoral History for Halifax Centre" (PDF). nslegislature.ca. Nova Scotia Legislature (1937). Legislature of Nova Scotia Election Returns (PDF). Queen's Printer.

1941

1941 Nova Scotia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Edward Rutledge	4,226	59.49%	4.88%
	Liberal–Conservative	Arthur Wilfred Morton	2,878	40.51%	-4.88%
Total			7,104	–
Source(s) Source: Nova Scotia Legislature (2021). "Electoral History for Halifax Centre" (PDF). nslegislature.ca. Nova Scotia Legislature (1941). Legislature of Nova Scotia Election Returns (PDF). Queen's Printer.

1945

1945 Nova Scotia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Edward Rutledge	4,737	55.22%	-4.26%
	Liberal–Conservative	Carl Palm Bethune	2,279	26.57%	-13.94%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	R. B. Mitchell	1,562	18.21%	–
Total			8,578	–
Source(s) Source: Nova Scotia Legislature (2021). "Electoral History for Halifax Centre" (PDF). nslegislature.ca. Nova Scotia Legislature (1945). Legislature of Nova Scotia Election Returns (PDF). Queen's Printer.

1949

1949 Nova Scotia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Edward Rutledge	5,725	54.71%	-0.52%
	Liberal–Conservative	Jack L. Dowell	3,573	34.14%	7.57%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Elmore Webber	1,167	11.15%	-7.06%
Total			10,465	–
Source(s) Source: Nova Scotia Legislature (2021). "Electoral History for Halifax Centre" (PDF). nslegislature.ca. Nova Scotia Legislature (1949). Legislature of Nova Scotia Election Returns (PDF). Queen's Printer.

1953

1953 Nova Scotia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Edward Rutledge	5,603	57.69%	2.99%
	Progressive Conservative	R. Leo Simmonds	4,109	42.31%	6.17%
Total			9,712	–
Source(s) Source: Nova Scotia Legislature (2021). "Electoral History for Halifax Centre" (PDF). nslegislature.ca. Nova Scotia Legislature (1953). Legislature of Nova Scotia Election Returns (PDF). Queen's Printer.

1956

1956 Nova Scotia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gordon S. Cowan	5,642	52.91%	-4.78%
	Progressive Conservative	David Milsom	5,022	47.09%	4.78%
Total			10,664	–
Source(s) Source: Nova Scotia Legislature (2021). "Electoral History for Halifax Centre" (PDF). nslegislature.ca. Nova Scotia Legislature (1956). Legislature of Nova Scotia Election Returns (PDF). Queen's Printer.

1960

1960 Nova Scotia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Donald MacKeen Smith	4,921	48.01%	0.92%
	Liberal	Gordon S. Cowan	4,651	45.38%	-7.53%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	James M. Murray	678	6.61%	–
Total			10,250	–
Source(s) Source: Nova Scotia Legislature (2021). "Electoral History for Halifax Centre" (PDF). nslegislature.ca. Nova Scotia Legislature (1960). Legislature of Nova Scotia Election Returns (PDF). Queen's Printer.

1963

1963 Nova Scotia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Donald MacKeen Smith	5,478	58.57%	10.56%
	Liberal	Gordon S. Cowan	3,875	41.43%	-3.95%
Total			9,353	–
Source(s) Source: Nova Scotia Legislature (2021). "Electoral History for Halifax Centre" (PDF). nslegislature.ca. Nova Scotia Legislature (1963). Legislature of Nova Scotia Election Returns (PDF). Queen's Printer.

References

Elections Nova Scotia - Summary Results from 1867 to 2011 (PDF) Archived 2017-01-11 at the Wayback Machine

Nova Scotia provincial electoral districts

Current

Historic

to 2021:	Argyle-Barrington Bedford Clare-Digby Preston-Dartmouth Queens-Shelburne
to 2013:	Argyle Cape Breton North Cape Breton Nova Cape Breton South Cape Breton West Clare Cole Harbour Dartmouth South-Portland Valley Digby-Annapolis Guysborough-Sheet Harbour Halifax Clayton Park Halifax Fairview Hammonds Plains-Upper Sackville Preston Queens Richmond Shelburne Truro-Bible Hill
to 2003:	Bedford-Fall River Cape Breton East Cape Breton The Lakes Dartmouth South Dartmouth-Cole Harbour Guysborough–Port Hawkesbury Halifax Bedford Basin Sackville-Beaver Bank Victoria
to 1993:	Annapolis East Annapolis West Colchester South Cumberland Centre Cumberland East Cumberland West Digby Guysborough Halifax Cornwallis Halifax Eastern Shore Halifax St. Margarets Inverness North Inverness South Lunenburg Centre Lunenburg East Sackville
to 1978:	Colchester Halifax Cobequid
to 1967:	Halifax Centre Halifax County Dartmouth Halifax East Halifax North Halifax Northwest Halifax South Halifax West
to 1956:	Kings
to 1949:	Cumberland Hants Pictou
to 1933:	Halifax Richmond and Cape Breton West
to 1925:	Cape Breton