“Within the constituencies, too, the Conservative gains appear to have been quite uniform. Robert McCleave and Michael Forrestall improved their party’s fortunes by comparable amounts throughout the City of Halifax, the City of Dartmouth, and the municipality of the County of Halifax.”
Beck, J. Murray “The Electoral Behaviour of Nova Scotia in 1965” Dalhousie Review, Volume 46, Number 1, 1966 https://dalspace.library.dal.ca/bitstream/handle/10222/59079/dalrev_vol46_iss1_pp29_38.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
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