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♂ Chris Matthew Palmer
aliasChris Palmer
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 In office
Nova Scotia
Government
 Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Nova Scotia 2 2 4
* Includes a post-dated race
Birth Unknown
   
First mandate 17 August 2021 → 2 years + 8 months ago
 
 
Special notes
None
 
Chris Matthew Palmer (? – )
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Nova Scotia — Fair trade
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 2 8 11 Z

Electoral history

Races * 4  
Path points 4  
1 documented challenger
⊕ Leo A. Glavine  m  (2 runoffs)
 
 
Eligible: 14,706 Votes: 8,272 Participation: 56.25% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
61		 Nova Scotia
9 June 2009
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 6157(F) — 18 Aug 2021 00:55 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
?
PC
 2/4 1,667 20.20% -3,348 Winner:
LIB
 5,015 60.77% Leo A. Glavine
Eligible: 15,312 Votes: 8,006 Participation: 52.29% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
63		 Nova Scotia
30 May 2017
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 7840(F) — 18 Aug 2021 00:55 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
?
PC
 2/4 3,015 37.74% -1,175 Winner:
LIB
 4,190 52.45% Leo A. Glavine
Eligible: 16,787 Votes: 9,312 Participation: 55.47% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
64		 Nova Scotia
17 August 2021
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 35715(F) — 21 May 2022 15:02 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
?
PC
 1/5 4,592 49.45% +736 Loser:
LIB
 3,856 41.52% Emily Lutz

Service: 2 years 8 months 11 days (Gov't)
Kings West
Post-dated race
Provincial
65		 Nova Scotia
15 July 2025
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 39828(P) — 13 Apr 2024 16:35 ET
✓
 Incumbent will likely be re-elected (Gov't)
Age
?
PC
 1/4   61.67%   Loser:
LIB

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia: a biographical directory from 1984 to the Present
Palmer, Chris Matthew (p. 243)		 04 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Chris Palmer (Nova Scotia politician)		 04 Feb 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 13 Apr 2024 16:35 (but data presented dynamically)

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