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♀ M. Maureen MacDonald
aliasM. Maureen MacDonald
Record
37639 · 4234

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 75%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Nova Scotia 6 2 8
Birth c. 1954
Age ± 70 years
First mandate 24 March 1998 → 26 years + 1 month ago
↳ at age ± 44 years
 
Mandate ended 8 years + 16 days ago (12 April 2016)
Special notes
None
 
M. Maureen MacDonald (c.1954– )
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Nova Scotia — 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 18 0 14 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. NS 62
NDP
 1 ✓ Party leader 59–62 24 Nov 2013 — 26 Feb 2016 2 3 2

Electoral history

Races 8  
Path points 9  
3 documented challengers
⊖ Walter R. Fitzgerald  m 
⊖ Gerald J. O'Malley  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Edmund L. Morris  m 
 
Eligible: 12,822 Votes: 8,003 Participation: 62.42% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
54		 Nova Scotia
6 November 1984
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 1554(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:13 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
±30
NDP
 2/4 2,514 31.67% -659 Winner:
PC
 3,173 39.97% Edmund L. Morris
Eligible: 11,678 Votes: 8,348 Participation: 71.48% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
55		 Nova Scotia
6 September 1988
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 1502(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:13 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
±34
NDP
 2/3 2,693 32.53% -776 Winner:
LIB
 3,469 41.91% Gerald J. O'Malley
Eligible: 13,526 Votes: 8,339 Participation: 61.65% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
57		 Nova Scotia
24 March 1998
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 1345(F) — 21 May 2022 14:12 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
±44
NDP
 1/3 4,837 58.51% +2,331 Loser:
LIB
 2,506 30.31% Gerald J. O'Malley

Service: 1 year 4 months 2 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 12,836 Votes: 7,936 Participation: 61.83% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
58		 Nova Scotia
27 July 1999
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 1398(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:13 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
±45
NDP
 1/4 3,525 44.95% +1,340 Loser:
PC
 2,185 27.86% Linda Carvery

Service: 4 years 8 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 13,484 Votes: 7,439 Participation: 55.17% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
59		 Nova Scotia
5 August 2003
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 1293(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:13 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
±49
NDP
 1/4 3,709 50.26% +1,531 Loser:
LIB
 2,178 29.51% Mike Rogers

Service: 2 years 10 months 7 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 14,750 Votes: 7,353 Participation: 49.85% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
60		 Nova Scotia
13 June 2006
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 513(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:13 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
±52
NDP
 1/4 4,438 60.62% +3,108 Loser:
PC
 1,330 18.17% Andrew Black

Service: 2 years 11 months 26 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 16,241 Votes: 7,960 Participation: 49.01% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
61		 Nova Scotia
9 June 2009
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 6150(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:14 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
±55
NDP
 1/4 5,336 67.30% +3,646 Loser:
LIB
 1,690 21.31% Graham Estabrooks

Service: 4 years 3 months 28 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 15,119 Votes: 7,782 Participation: 51.47% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
62		 Nova Scotia
8 October 2013
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 7235(F) — 9 Feb 2022 20:36 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
±59
NDP
 1/4 3,392 43.99% +277 Loser:
LIB
 3,115 40.40% Christopher Poole
After her election:
12 Apr 2016 ±62
NDP
 →
Vac.
 Left provincial politics
Service: 2 years 6 months 4 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 15,372 Votes: 4,966 Participation: 32.31% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
62		 Nova Scotia
30 August 2016
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 14231(F) — 16 Sep 2021 23:14 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
±62		 Successor:
NDP
 2,519 50.93% Lisa Roberts

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
EN The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia: a biographical directory from 1984 to the Present
MacDonald, Mary Maureen (p. 170)		 29 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Maureen MacDonald		 29 Feb 2024
FR Wikipédia
Maureen MacDonald		 29 Feb 2024

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