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♂ Donald Chard
aliasDonald Chard
Record
10426 · 4230

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 33%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Nova Scotia 1 2 3
Birth c. 1942
Age ± 82 years
First mandate 24 March 1998 → 26 years + 1 month ago
↳ at age ± 56 years
 
Mandate ended 24 years + 9 months ago (26 July 1999)
Special notes
None
 

Donald Chard (c.1942– )
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 1 4 2 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 3  
2 documented challengers
⊕ Timothy A. Olive  m 
 		 ⊖ John P. Savage  m 
 
Eligible: 14,758 Votes: 9,935 Participation: 67.32% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
56		 Nova Scotia
25 May 1993
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 1440(F) — 5 Apr 2024 00:34 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
±51
NDP
 3/4 2,221 22.61% -2,125 Winner:
LIB
 4,346 44.25% John P. Savage
Eligible: 13,512 Votes: 8,939 Participation: 66.54% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
57		 Nova Scotia
24 March 1998
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 1335(F) — 5 Apr 2024 00:34 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
±56
NDP
 1/3 3,676 41.12% +512 Loser:
LIB
 3,164 35.40% Bruce Hetherington

Service: 1 year 4 months 2 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 14,393 Votes: 9,057 Participation: 62.93% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
58		 Nova Scotia
27 July 1999
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 1388(F) — 5 Apr 2024 00:34 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
±57
NDP
 2/3 3,011 33.50% -645 Winner:
PC
 3,656 40.67% Timothy A. Olive

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia: a biographical directory from 1984 to the Present
Chard, Donald (p. 42)		 05 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Don Chard		 05 Apr 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  5 Apr 2024 00:34 (but data presented dynamically)

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