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♀ Helen MacDonald
aliasHelen MacDonald
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 33%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Nova Scotia 2 4 6
Birth c. 11 January 1943
Age ± 81 years
First mandate 4 November 1997 → 26 years + 5 months ago
↳ at age ± 54 years
 
Mandate ended 24 years + 9 months ago (26 July 1999)
Special notes
None
 
Helen MacDonald (c.1943– )
© Photo 2018–22 via SaltWire — 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 1 8 19 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. NS 58
NDP
 1 Party leader 57–58 17 Jul 2000 — 24 Apr 2001 0 9 7

Electoral history

Races 6  
Path points 6  
4 documented challengers
⊖ Brian V. Boudreau  m 
⊕ Cecil P. Clarke  m 
 		 ⊕ J. Bernard Boudreau  m  (2 runoffs)
⊕ John A. Newell  m 
 
Eligible: 11,571 Votes: 9,287 Participation: 80.26% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
55		 Nova Scotia
6 September 1988
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 1481(F) — 24 Feb 2024 16:44 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
±45
NDP
 3/3 1,766 19.11% -2,426 Winner:
LIB
 4,192 45.37% J. Bernard Boudreau
Eligible: 11,905 Votes: 9,225 Participation: 77.49% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
56		 Nova Scotia
25 May 1993
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 1429(F) — 24 Feb 2024 16:44 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
±50
NDP
 2/3 1,312 14.31% -5,279 Winner:
LIB
 6,591 71.90% J. Bernard Boudreau
Eligible: 11,577 Votes: 7,611 Participation: 65.74% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
56		 Nova Scotia
4 November 1997
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 14221(F) — 24 Feb 2024 16:44 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
±54
NDP
 1/3 3,727 49.19% +672 Loser:
LIB
 3,055 40.32% Allan Henderson

Service: 4 months 19 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 11,953 Votes: 8,802 Participation: 73.64% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
57		 Nova Scotia
24 March 1998
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 1360(F) — 24 Feb 2024 16:44 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
±55
NDP
 1/3 4,573 52.17% +866 Loser:
LIB
 3,707 42.29% Allan Henderson

Service: 1 year 4 months 2 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 12,088 Votes: 8,574 Participation: 70.93% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
58		 Nova Scotia
27 July 1999
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 1377(F) — 24 Feb 2024 16:44 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
±56
NDP
 2/3 3,614 42.51% -101 Winner:
LIB
 3,715 43.70% Brian V. Boudreau
Eligible: 11,708 Votes: 7,954 Participation: 67.94% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
58		 Nova Scotia
6 March 2001
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 14204(F) — 24 Feb 2024 16:44 ET
✗
 Failed comeback to this legislature (Party leader)
Age
±58
NDP
 3/3 2,319 29.31% -705 Winner:
PC
 3,024 38.22% Cecil P. Clarke

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia: a biographical directory from 1984 to the Present
MacDonald, Helen (p. 168)		 24 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Helen MacDonald (Nova Scotia politician)		 24 Feb 2024

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