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1960 Nova Scotia general election

Canadian provincial election

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ3586358 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1960 Nova Scotia general election was held on 7 June 1960 to elect members of the 47th House of Assembly of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Progressive Conservatives.

Results

Results by party

Retiring incumbents

Liberal

Geoffrey W. Stevens, Halifax County Dartmouth

Progressive Conservative

Malcolm Stewart Leonard, Digby

John Michael Macdonald, Cape Breton North

Hiram Thomas, Kings West

Nominated candidates

Legend

bold denotes party leader

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

Valley

South Shore

Fundy-Northeast

Halifax/Dartmouth/Eastern Shore

Central Nova

Cape Breton

References

Election related reports

Further reading

Saywell, John T., ed. (1961). Canadian Annual Review for 1960. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

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The public source identifies “1960 Nova Scotia general election” as canadian provincial election. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Nova, Scotia and general.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1960, 1961—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Nova, Scotia and general providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “1960 Nova Scotia general election” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.