Charles Joseph Clark is a Canadian businessman,writer,and politician who served as the 16th prime minister of Canada from 1979 to 1980.
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a centre to centre-right federal political party in Canada that existed from 1942 to 2003.
Peter Gordon MacKay is a Canadian lawyer and politician. He was a Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2015 and has served as Minister of Justice and Attorney General (2013–2015),Minister of National Defence (2007–2013),and Minister of Foreign Affairs (2006–2007) in the Cabinet of Canada under Prime Minister Stephen Harper. MacKay was the final leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada,and he agreed to merge the party with Stephen Harper's Canadian Alliance in 2003,forming the Conservative Party of Canada and making MacKay one of the co-founders of the current conservative wing of Canadian politics.
Scott A. Brison is a Canadian former politician from Nova Scotia. Brison served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Kings-Hants from the 1997 federal election until July 2000,then from November 2000 to February 2019. He was the first openly gay MP to sit as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. In 2003,just days after the Progressive Conservatives and the more socially conservative Canadian Alliance voted to merge into the Conservative Party of Canada,Brison crossed the floor to join the Liberal Party.
John Patrick Nowlan was a Canadian politician from Nova Scotia. Nowlan served as a Progressive Conservative backbench Member of Parliament for the riding of Annapolis Valley—Hants from 1965 to 1993.
William D. Casey is a Canadian politician from Nova Scotia who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of Canada. First elected as a Progressive Conservative in 1988,he later sat as Conservative MP following the party merger in 2003. In 2007,Casey was expelled from the party for voting against the 2007 budget,but he was reelected as an Independent in the 2008 election and sat as such until he resigned his seat in 2009 to work on behalf of the Nova Scotian government for provincial interests in Ottawa. Casey decided to return to federal politics in the 2015 federal election and running as a Liberal easily took the seat with 63.73% of the popular vote.
Kings—Hants is a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia,Canada,that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1968.
The 2003 Progressive Conservative leadership election was held on May 31,2003,to elect a leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Peter MacKay was elected as leader to replace former Prime Minister Joe Clark,who then retired as party leader. In the end,five candidates emerged as challengers for the leadership by the convention date. Two other candidates had participated in the race but both withdrew as contestants before the vote. Quebec Member of Parliament (MP) AndréBachand withdrew his candidacy from the race due to financial concerns and backed Peter MacKay. Former Cabinet Minister and Quebec MP Heward Grafftey also withdrew his candidacy from the race due to health concerns and backed David Orchard.
Gary Ralph Schellenberger is a Canadian politician. He was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 2003 to 2015,and represented the riding of Perth—Wellington for the Conservative Party. Schellenberger won five successive elections in eight years from 2003 to 2011. He did not stand for re-election in 2015.
Canadian federal elections have provided the following results in Nova Scotia.
John Herron is a Canadian former politician and Red Tory.
Roseanne Skoke was the Liberal MP for the riding of Central Nova from 1993 to 1997.
Alex Kindy,M.D. was a Canadian politician. Kindy was born in Warsaw,Poland.
David M. Morse is a Canadian politician in Nova Scotia. He represented the electoral district of Kings South in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1999 to 2009 as a member of the Progressive Conservatives.
Derek M. Wells,KC,is a Canadian former politician who served a Liberal Member of Parliament for the riding of South Shore from 1993 to 1997.
Harry James Verran was a Canadian politician and member of the House of Commons of Canada for South West Nova from 1993 to 1997. By career,he was a businessman,photographer and sailor.
Derrick John Kimball is a lawyer and former political figure in Nova Scotia,Canada. He represented Kings South in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1988 to 1993 as a Progressive Conservative member.
Angus Alexander Elderkin was a Canadian farmer and politician. Elderkin was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Wolfville,Nova Scotia and became a farmer and fruit grower by career.
By-elections to the 37th Canadian Parliament were held to fill vacancies in the House of Commons of Canada between the 2000 federal election and the 2004 federal election. The Liberal Party of Canada led a majority government for the entirety of the 37th Canadian Parliament,with little change from by-elections.
Robert Clifford Levy,Jr. is a Canadian politician and judge. He represented the electoral district of Kings South in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1984 to 1988. He was a member of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party.
