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♂ Douglas MacDonald
aliasDouglas MacDonald
Record
37514 · 10524

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Nova Scotia 2 0 2
Birth c. 1900 → 124 years ago
Lived ± 96 years
First mandate 5 December 1939 → 84 years + 4 months ago
↳ at age ± 39 years
Death c. 1996 → 28 years ago
Exit → Death ± 50 years + 2 months after 22 October 1945
Special notes
None
 

Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Nova Scotia 5 10 17 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 3  
Documented challenger
None
 
 
Eligible: 9,109 Votes: 6,622 Participation: 72.70% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
41		 Nova Scotia
5 December 1939
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 18174(F) — 6 Oct 2022 15:04 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
±39
CCF
 1/3 2,981 45.02% +589 Loser:
LIB
 2,392 36.12% James L. MacKinnon

Service: 1 year 10 months 23 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 10,117 Votes: 7,355 Participation: 72.70% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
42		 Nova Scotia
28 October 1941
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 18183(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:13 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
±41
CCF
 1/3 3,918 53.32% +1,643 Loser:
LIB
 2,275 30.96% Gus Brown

Service: 3 years 11 months 24 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 10,997 Votes: 7,118 Participation: 64.73% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
43		 Nova Scotia
23 October 1945
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 18211(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:13 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
±45		 Successor:
CCF
 3,860 54.34% Michael J. MacDonald

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia 1758-1983: a biographical directory
MacDonald, Douglas (p. 125)		 26 Aug 2023
EN Wikipedia
Douglas MacDonald		 26 Aug 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 26 Aug 2023 13:57 (but data presented dynamically)

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