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♂ John Edgar Holm
aliasJohn Holm
Record
27977 · 4191

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 83%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Nova Scotia 5 1 6
Birth 18 April 1947
Age 77 years
First mandate 6 November 1984 → 39 years + 5 months ago
↳ at age 37 years + 6 months
 
Mandate ended 20 years + 8 months ago (4 August 2003)
Special notes
None
 

John Edgar Holm
No photo available
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 18 8 23 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. NS 56
NDP
 1 ✓ Party leader 47–48 20 Nov 1994 — 31 Jan 1996 1 2 11

Electoral history

Races 6  
Path points 7  
1 documented challenger
⊕ Malcolm A. MacKay  m  (2 runoffs)
 
 
Eligible: 15,232 Votes: 11,059 Participation: 72.60% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
53		 Nova Scotia
6 October 1981
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 1623(F) — 18 Apr 2023 08:00 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
34
NDP
 3/3 2,849 25.87% -1,838 Winner:
PC
 4,687 42.55% Malcolm A. MacKay
Eligible: 17,862 Votes: 11,387 Participation: 63.75% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
54		 Nova Scotia
6 November 1984
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 1571(F) — 18 Apr 2023 08:00 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
37
NDP
 1/3 4,555 40.26% +792 Loser:
LIB
 3,763 33.26% Bill McDonald

Service: 3 years 9 months 30 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 20,086 Votes: 15,077 Participation: 75.06% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
55		 Nova Scotia
6 September 1988
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 1517(F) — 18 Apr 2023 08:00 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
41
NDP
 1/3 5,430 36.15% +614 Loser:
LIB
 4,816 32.06% Bruce Stephen

Service: 4 years 8 months 18 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 14,301 Votes: 10,566 Participation: 73.88% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
56		 Nova Scotia
25 May 1993
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 1466(F) — 18 Apr 2023 08:00 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
46
NDP
 1/3 5,044 47.97% +1,885 Loser:
LIB
 3,159 30.04% Don Boutilier

Service: 4 years 9 months 26 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 14,050 Votes: 9,450 Participation: 67.26% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
57		 Nova Scotia
24 March 1998
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 1361(F) — 18 Apr 2023 08:00 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
50
NDP
 1/3 5,909 62.71% +3,778 Loser:
LIB
 2,131 22.61% Jack Brill

Service: 1 year 4 months 2 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 13,329 Votes: 8,521 Participation: 63.93% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
58		 Nova Scotia
27 July 1999
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 1414(F) — 18 Apr 2023 08:00 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
52
NDP
 1/3 4,787 56.57% +2,347 Loser:
PC
 2,440 28.83% Wade Marshall

Service: 4 years 8 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 14,504 Votes: 8,573 Participation: 59.11% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
59		 Nova Scotia
5 August 2003
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 1309(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:13 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
56		 Successor:
NDP
 3,881 45.39% David A. Wilson

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia: a biographical directory from 1984 to the Present
Holm, John Edgar (p. 122)		 18 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
John Holm		 18 Apr 2024

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