John Holm Explained

John Holm
Birth Date:19 April 1947
Birth Place:Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Office:MLA for Sackville-Cobequid
Sackville (1984-1993)
Term Start:1984
Term End:2003
Predecessor:Malcolm A. MacKay
Successor:Dave Wilson
Party:New Democratic Party

John Edgar Holm (born April 19, 1947) is a Canadian politician from Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia in the Halifax Regional Municipality.[1] He represented the electoral districts of Sackville, and Sackville-Cobequid in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1984 to 2003 as a member of the New Democratic Party.[2]

Holm entered provincial politics in the 1984 election, defeating Liberal Bill MacDonald and Progressive Conservative incumbent Malcolm A. MacKay in the Sackville riding.[3] [4] He was re-elected in the 1988 election.[5] [6] In the 1993 election, Holm ran in the new riding of Sackville-Cobequid, and was re-elected by almost 1,900 votes.[7] [8] Holm took over as interim leader of the NDP when Alexa McDonough resigned as leader in November 1994,[9] and held the position until the election of Robert Chisholm as leader in March 1996.[10] Holm was re-elected in the 1998[11] [12] and 1999 elections.[13] On January 15, 2003, Holm announced that he was not re-offering in the next election.[14]

Notes and References

  1. Book: The Canadian Parliamentary Guide. 1997. 9781896413433.
  2. Web site: Electoral History for Sackville-Cobequid. Nova Scotia Legislative Library. 2015-03-31.
  3. Web site: Returns of General Election for the House of Assembly 1984 . Elections Nova Scotia . 1984 . 121 . 2015-03-21 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131005021932/http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/General%20Election%201984.pdf . 2013-10-05 .
  4. News: Buchanan Tories crush opponents in N.S. election. The Globe and Mail. November 7, 1984.
  5. Web site: Returns of General Election for the House of Assembly 1988 . Elections Nova Scotia . 1988 . 125 . 2015-03-21 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140512225642/http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/General%20Election%201988.pdf . 2014-05-12 .
  6. News: Nova Scotia Tories win thin majority. The Globe and Mail. September 7, 1988.
  7. Web site: Returns of General Election for the House of Assembly 1993 . Elections Nova Scotia . 1993 . 143 . 2015-03-21 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141006070337/http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/General%20Election%201993.pdf . 2014-10-06 .
  8. Web site: McDonough vows to battle on . The Chronicle Herald . May 26, 1993 . 2015-03-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20001007084652/http://www.herald.ns.ca/cgi-bin/home/displaypackstory?1993%2F05%2F26+105.raw+PE93Elect . October 7, 2000 . dead .
  9. News: McDonough resigns, shocks Nova Scotia NDP. Toronto Star. November 20, 1994.
  10. News: N.S. New Democrats elect former unionist as leader. Toronto Star. March 31, 1996.
  11. Web site: Election Returns, 1998 (Sackville-Cobequid). Elections Nova Scotia. 2015-03-21.
  12. Web site: NDP takes metro . The Chronicle Herald . March 25, 1998 . 2015-03-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20050124004424/http://www.herald.ns.ca/cgi-bin/home/displaypackstory?1998%2F03%2F25+248.raw+PE98Mar25+2 . January 24, 2005 . dead .
  13. Web site: Election Returns, 1999 (Sackville-Cobequid). Elections Nova Scotia. 2015-03-21.
  14. Web site: LeBlanc, Holm, MacEwan leaving politics. January 16, 2003. 2015-03-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20031107014736/http://www.herald.ns.ca/stories/2003/01/16/f232.raw.html. November 7, 2003.

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