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♂ Jay F. Abbass
aliasJay F. Abbass
Record
12 · 4212

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Nova Scotia 1 1 2
Birth c. 1957
Age ± 67 years
First mandate 25 May 1993 → 30 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age ± 36 years
 
Mandate ended 26 years + 1 month ago (23 March 1998)
Special notes
None
 

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 4 9 28 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 3  
2 documented challengers
⊕ Arthur R. Donahoe  m 
 		 ⊖ A. Eileen O'Connell  f  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: 12,477 Votes: 9,426 Participation: 75.55% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
55		 Nova Scotia
6 September 1988
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 1500(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:13 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
±31
LIB
 3/4 2,882 30.82% -401 Winner:
PC
 3,283 35.11% Arthur R. Donahoe
Eligible: 13,989 Votes: 10,802 Participation: 77.22% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
56		 Nova Scotia
25 May 1993
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 1447(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:13 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
±36
LIB
 1/4 3,906 36.42% +106 Loser:
NDP
 3,800 35.43% A. Eileen O'Connell

Service: 4 years 9 months 26 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 13,141 Votes: 8,962 Participation: 68.20% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
57		 Nova Scotia
24 March 1998
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 1341(F) — 21 May 2022 14:20 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
±41		 Successor:
NDP
 4,158 46.65% Howard M. Epstein

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia: a biographical directory from 1984 to the Present
Abbass, Jay F. (p. 2)		 25 Jul 2023
EN Wikipedia
Jay Abbass		 25 Jul 2023

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