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♂ Cecil E. O'Donnell
aliasCecil E. O'Donnell
Record
46761 · 4087

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Nova Scotia 2 1 3
Birth 10 June 1944
Age 79 years + 11 months
First mandate 27 July 1999 → 24 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 55 years + 1 month
 
Mandate ended 17 years + 11 months ago (12 June 2006)
Special notes
None
 

Cecil E. O'Donnell (1944– )
No image available
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Nova Scotia 6 10 15 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
1 documented challenger
⊕ Clifford B. Huskilson  m  (3 runoffs)
 
 
Eligible: 12,381 Votes: 8,194 Participation: 66.18% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
57		 Nova Scotia
24 March 1998
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 1362(F) — 21 May 2022 14:30 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
53
PC
 2/3 2,835 34.78% -309 Winner:
LIB
 3,144 38.57% Clifford B. Huskilson
Eligible: 12,112 Votes: 7,752 Participation: 64.00% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
58		 Nova Scotia
27 July 1999
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 1415(F) — 9 Feb 2022 08:10 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
55
PC
 1/3 3,207 41.55% +1 Loser:
LIB
 3,206 41.53% Clifford B. Huskilson

Service: 4 years 8 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 10,724 Votes: 7,649 Participation: 71.33% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
59		 Nova Scotia
5 August 2003
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 1310(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:13 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
59
PC
 1/3 3,702 48.59% +595 Loser:
LIB
 3,107 40.78% Clifford B. Huskilson

Service: 2 years 10 months 7 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 11,688 Votes: 6,751 Participation: 57.76% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
60		 Nova Scotia
13 June 2006
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 529(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:13 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
62		 Successor:
NDP
 2,438 36.27% Sterling W.W. Belliveau

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia: a biographical directory from 1984 to the Present
O'Donnell, Cecil Edward (p. 239)		 11 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Cecil O'Donnell		 11 Feb 2024

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