Template:1953 Canadian federal election/Halifax

1953 Canadian federal election: Halifax
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Elected
	Liberal	John Horace Dickey	34,587	27.82	+0.05	Y
	Liberal	Samuel Rosborough Balcom	34,222	27.53	*	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Edmund L. Morris	26,552	21.36
	Progressive Conservative	Frederick William Bissett	24,112	19.39	+3.39
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Hyacinth Lawrence MacIntosh	2,731	2.20	-3.09
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Lloyd Carman Wilson	2,120	1.71
Total valid votes			124,324	99.64
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			449	0.36	+0.07
Turnout				≥63.52	+0.64
Eligible voters			98,208
	Liberal notional hold		Swing		-5.39

^ Individual swings calculated from 1949 election. Party swing calculated from 1950 by-election.