1970 Nova Scotia general election

The 1970 Nova Scotia general election was held on 13 October 1970 to elect members of the 50th House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Liberal Party. It is the only election in Nova Scotia's history in which the party who won the popular vote did not win the most seats.

	Party	Leader	1967	Seats won	% change	Popular vote	(%)
	Liberal	Gerald Regan	6	23	+283%	174,943	46.1%
	Progressive Conservative	George Isaac Smith	40	21	-48%	177,986	46.9%
	New Democratic	Jeremy Akerman	0	2	N/A	25,259	6.7%
	Other		0	0	0%	1,464	0.2%
Total Seats			46	46		379,652	100%

Popular vote PC   46.88% Liberal   46.08% New Democratic   6.65% Others   0.39%

Seats summary Liberal   50.00% PC   45.65% New Democratic   4.35%

References

• Government of Nova Scotia. "Summary Results from 1867 to 2011" (PDF). Elections Statistics. Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved 2013-10-02.