Stephen Greene (politician)

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1997 Canadian federal election: Halifax
Stephen Greene
Canadian Senator
from Halifax-The Citadel, Nova Scotia
Assumed office
January 2, 2009
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Democratic Alexa McDonough 21,83749.02+35.68
Progressive Conservative Terry Donahoe 10,36123.26+2.58
Liberal Mary Clancy 9,63821.64-24.27
Reform Steve Greene 2,4225.44-9.02
Natural Law Gilles Bigras1970.44-0.52
Marxist–Leninist Tony Seed890.20+0.02
Total valid votes44,544 100.00
1993 Canadian federal election : Halifax
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Mary Clancy 21,32645.91+2.91
Progressive Conservative Jim Vaughan9,60620.68-17.29
Reform Steve Greene 6,71714.46
New Democratic Lynn Jones6,19713.34-4.40
National Charles Phillips1,3852.98
Natural Law Gilles Bigras4480.96
Green W. Vladimir Klonowski3140.68
Independent A.R. Art Canning2770.60
Independent Steve Rimek990.21
Marxist–Leninist Tony Seed840.18
Total valid votes46,453 100.00

Changes for Marxist–Leninist candidate Tony Seed are based on his 1988 results, when he ran as an Independent.

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