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♂ Tom Taggart
aliasTom Taggart
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 In office
Nova Scotia
Government
 Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Nova Scotia 2 1 3
* Includes a post-dated race
Birth Unknown
   
First mandate 17 August 2021 → 2 years + 8 months ago
 
 
Special notes
None
 
Tom Taggart (? – )
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Nova Scotia — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Election or appointment outside the scope of PoliCan

Pre-Conf. ✗
Canadian Senate ✗
Legis. Council ✗
✗
Deputy Minister ✗
Auto. Region ✗
Mayor/Reeve ✗
Mun./Co. Council Colchester County, Nova Scotia
School Board ✗
Blank/Vide ✗

Length of service in elected office within the scope of PoliCan

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Nova Scotia 2 8 11 Z

Electoral history

Races * 3  
Path points 3  
1 documented challenger
⊖ Edward F. Lorraine  m 
 
 
Eligible: 12,359 Votes: 9,496 Participation: 76.83% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
56		 Nova Scotia
25 May 1993
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 1433(F) — 18 Aug 2021 00:28 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
?
PC
 2/3 3,306 35.02% -1,817 Winner:
LIB
 5,123 54.27% Edward F. Lorraine
Eligible: 15,085 Votes: 8,447 Participation: 56.00% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
64		 Nova Scotia
17 August 2021
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 35691(F) — 21 May 2022 14:44 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
?
PC
 1/5 4,477 53.18% +1,796 Loser:
LIB
 2,681 31.84% Merlyn Smith

Service: 2 years 8 months 11 days (Gov't)
Colchester North
Post-dated race
Provincial
65		 Nova Scotia
15 July 2025
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 39802(P) — 13 Apr 2024 14:12 ET
✓
 Incumbent will likely be re-elected (Gov't)
Age
?
PC
 1/4   63.65%   Loser:
LIB

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia: a biographical directory from 1984 to the Present
Taggart, Tom (p. 293)		 13 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Tom Taggart		 13 Apr 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 13 Apr 2024 14:11 (but data presented dynamically)

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