He represented the electoral district of Queens in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1945 to 1953.
[2] He entered provincial politics in the 1945 election, winning the Queens riding by 341 votes.
[3] In July 1947, Rawding was appointed to the Executive Council of Nova Scotia as Minister of Highways and Public Works.
[4] Rawding was defeated by Progressive Conservative W. S. Kennedy Jones when he ran for re-election in 1953.
[5][6] Rawding ran again in the 1956 election, but Jones was re-elected by 93 votes.