Halifax County Dartmouth

Halifax County Dartmouth
Nova Scotia electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Nova Scotia House of Assembly
District created	1956
District abolished	1967
Last contested	1963

District created1956

District abolished1967

Last contested1963

Halifax County-Dartmouth was a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elected one member to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. It was created in 1956 and included a portion of the Halifax County and the Town of Dartmouth. It was dissolved in 1967 into Dartmouth North and Dartmouth South.^[1]

Halifax County-Dartmouth
Legislature	Years	Member		Party
46th	1956–1960		Geoffrey W. Stevens	Liberal
47th	1960–1963		Gordon L. S. Hart	Liberal
48th	1963–1967		Irvin William Akerley	Progressive Conservative
District dissolved into Dartmouth North (1967–Present) and Dartmouth South (1967–2003)

1963 Nova Scotia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Irvin William Akerley	9,884	52.88%	9.83%
	Liberal	Gordon L. S. Hart	8,150	43.60%	-2.85%
	New Democratic	Edward B. Doyle	657	3.52%	-6.97%
Total			18,691	–
Source(s) Source: Nova Scotia Legislature (2024). "Electoral History for Halifax County-Dartmouth" (PDF). nslegislature.ca. Nova Scotia Legislature (1963). Returns of the General Election for the House of Assembly (PDF) (Report). Queen's Printer. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 July 2018.

1960 Nova Scotia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gordon L. S. Hart	8,258	46.46%	-3.23%
	Progressive Conservative	Murray Ritcey	7,653	43.05%	-3.46%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Percy W. Dares	1,864	10.49%	6.68%
Total			17,775	–
Source(s) Source: Nova Scotia Legislature (2024). "Electoral History for Halifax County-Dartmouth" (PDF). nslegislature.ca. Nova Scotia Legislature (1960). Returns of the General Election for the House of Assembly (PDF) (Report). Queen's Printer. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 July 2018.

1956 Nova Scotia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Geoffrey W. Stevens	7,276	49.69%	–
	Progressive Conservative	C. J. Creighton	6,811	46.51%	–
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Gerald Yetman	557	3.80%	–
Total			14,644	–
Source(s) Source: Nova Scotia Legislature (2024). "Electoral History for Halifax County-Dartmouth" (PDF). nslegislature.ca. Nova Scotia Legislature (1956). Returns of the General Election for the House of Assembly (PDF) (Report). Queen's Printer. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 September 2018.

Election results