Canada's electoral history from 1867 to today
Base → People → Search & Find → Full profile → John A. MacDonald

♂ John A. MacDonald
aliasJohn MacDonald
Record
37602 · 14778

☆  
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 25 January 1979
Age 45 years + 3 months
First mandate 17 August 2021 → 2 years + 8 months ago
↳ at age 42 years + 6 months
 
 
Special notes
None
 
John A. MacDonald (1979– )
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Nova Scotia — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
This is the third John A. MacDonald to be elected to the Nova Scotia legislature. The first one was a Liberal-Conservative elected in 1916 in Richmond County, and the second one represented the short-lived Farmers' Party in Hants County in 1920. None seem to be related to the first prime minister of Canada, who has never run in a Nova Scotia riding.
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Nova Scotia 2 8 10 Z

Electoral history

Races * 3  
Path points 3  
1 documented challenger
⊕ Margaret Miller  f 
 
 
Eligible: 18,782 Votes: 9,026 Participation: 48.06% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
63		 Nova Scotia
30 May 2017
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 7835(F) — 20 Aug 2022 16:56 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
38
PC
 2/4 3,104 34.55% -819 Winner:
LIB
 3,923 43.67% Margaret Miller
Eligible: 17,671 Votes: 8,940 Participation: 50.59% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
64		 Nova Scotia
17 August 2021
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 35710(F) — 20 Aug 2022 16:56 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
42
PC
 1/4 3,328 37.36% +89 Loser:
LIB
 3,239 36.36% Michael Blois

Service: 2 years 8 months 10 days (Gov't)
Hants East
Post-dated race
Provincial
65		 Nova Scotia
15 July 2025
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 39823(P) — 13 Apr 2024 16:05 ET
✓
 Incumbent will likely be re-elected (Gov't)
Age
46
PC
 1/4   46.76%   Loser:
NDP

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia: a biographical directory from 1984 to the Present
MacDonald, John A. (p. 169)		 13 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
John A. MacDonald (Nova Scotia politician)		 13 Apr 2024

© 2019, 2024 :: PoliCan.ca (Maurice Y. Michaud)
Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 13 Apr 2024 16:05 (but data presented dynamically)

© 2019-2024 :: PoliCan.ca
Given that electoral results are by their very nature public information, such data that can be found in PoliCan are considered to be in the public domain. However, unless indicated otherwise, all other elements — the concept of consolidating these data into a single format, the detailed research on each election, legislature and candidate, the organization and searchability of the data, the programming allowing the entry and maintenance of the data, as well as the analyses and explanatory articles found in this website — are the intellectual property of Maurice Y. Michaud.