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♂ Gordon Douglas Balser
aliasGordon Balser
Record
2505 · 4231

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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Nova Scotia 2 1 3
Birth 24 February 1954 → 70 years + 2 months ago
Lived 70 years + 1 month
First mandate 24 March 1998 → 26 years + 1 month ago
↳ at age 44 years + 1 month
Death 10 April 2024
Exit → Death 20 years + 8 months after 4 August 2003
Special notes
None
 
Gordon Douglas Balser (1954–2024)
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Family tie with other documented individual
⊕ Jill S. Balser (1986–) Daughter  
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Nova Scotia 5 4 10 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 3  
1 documented challenger
⊕ Harold E. Theriault  m 
 
 
Eligible: 10,281 Votes: 6,673 Participation: 64.91% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
57		 Nova Scotia
24 March 1998
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 1336(F) — 21 May 2022 14:07 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
44
PC
 1/3 2,465 37.22% +233 Loser:
LIB
 2,232 33.71% John Drish

Service: 1 year 4 months 2 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 10,191 Votes: 6,478 Participation: 63.57% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
58		 Nova Scotia
27 July 1999
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 1390(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:13 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
45
PC
 1/3 3,780 58.74% +2,230 Loser:
LIB
 1,550 24.09% Vivian O'Neil

Service: 4 years 8 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 9,065 Votes: 5,885 Participation: 64.92% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
59		 Nova Scotia
5 August 2003
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 1284(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:13 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
49
PC
 2/4 2,339 39.98% -327 Winner:
LIB
 2,666 45.56% Harold E. Theriault

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia: a biographical directory from 1984 to the Present
Balser, Gordon Douglas (p. 15)		 21 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Gordon Balser		 21 Apr 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
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