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♂ Peter John M. Nicholson
aliasPeter John Nicholson
Record
46172 · 4013

United Church   ∞1
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Nova Scotia 1 0 1
Birth 3 May 1942
Age 81 years + 11 months
First mandate 19 September 1978 → 45 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 36 years + 4 months
 
Mandate ended 44 years + 1 month ago (8 March 1980)
Special notes
None
 

Family tie with other documented individual
⊖ Peter M. Nicholson (1919–1986) Father  
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Nova Scotia 1 5 18 Z

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
Documented challenger
None
 
 
Eligible: 5,730 Votes: 4,591 Participation: 80.12% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
52		 Nova Scotia
19 September 1978
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 4837(F) — 8 Feb 2022 20:52 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
36
LIB
 1/3 2,199 48.29% +207 Loser:
PC
 1,992 43.74% Catherine MacNeil Jankowski
After his election:
8 Mar 1980 37
LIB
 →
Vac.
 Left provincial politics
Service: 1 year 5 months 18 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 5,800 Votes: 4,482 Participation: 77.28% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
52		 Nova Scotia
6 May 1980
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 14209(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:13 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
38		 Successor:
PC
 2,201 49.29% R. Fisher Hudson

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia: a biographical directory from 1984 to the Present
Nicholson, Peter John (p. 167)		 23 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Peter John Nicholson		 23 Apr 2024

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