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Charles Haliburton

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Charles E. Haliburton
MP for South Western Nova
In office
October 30, 1972 – July 8, 1974
Preceded byLouis-Roland Comeau
Succeeded byColine Campbell
MP for South West Nova
In office
May 22, 1979 – February 18, 1980
Preceded byColine Campbell
Succeeded byColine Campbell
Personal details
Born (1938-04-23) April 23, 1938 (age 86)
Wolfville, Nova Scotia
Political partyProgressive Conservative
OccupationJudge, politician

Charles Edward Haliburton (born April 23, 1938) is a jurist and former politician in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.

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Haliburton graduated from Acadia University in 1959 with a Bachelor of Arts and then from Dalhousie University in 1962 with a Bachelor of Laws. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1978. Haliburton served as an Adjudicator for Small Claims Court, as both a provincial and federal Crown Prosecutor, and as Solicitor for the Municipality and the Town of Digby. He also served as Councilor and then as Mayor of the Town of Digby.[1]

Haliburton returned to private practice after politics and was subsequently appointed to the bench in 1993. He retired from the Nova Scotia Supreme Court in 2013.

Political career

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Haliburton was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1972 federal election as the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for South Western Nova. He lost his seat to Liberal challenger Coline Campbell in the 1974 federal election, but ran again in the renamed riding of South West Nova in the 1979 federal election that brought the Tories to power under Joe Clark after sixteen years of Liberal governance. He sat as a backbench supporter of Clark's minority government for seven months. Following the defeat of the Clark government in the House of Commons, another federal election was called in 1980, and Haliburton lost his seat in a rematch against Campbell.

Electoral record

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1972 Canadian federal election: West Nova
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Charles Haliburton 15,039 50.18 -2.15
Liberal Fulton Logan 12,471 41.61 -2.61
New Democratic Lawrence Meuse 2,104 7.02 +4.66
Social Credit Charles Paddock 359 1.20
Total valid votes 29,973 100.00
1974 Canadian federal election: West Nova
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Coline Campbell 15,066 49.10 7.49
Progressive Conservative Charles Haliburton 13,841 45.11 -5.07
New Democratic Yvonne Coe 1,610 5.25 -1.77
Social Credit Cecilia Zwicker 164 0.53 -0.67
Total valid votes 30,681 100.00
1979 Canadian federal election: West Nova
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Charles Haliburton 16,512 44.47 -0.64
Liberal Coline Campbell 16,398 44.17 -4.93
New Democratic Ian MacPherson 4,217 11.36 +6.11
Total valid votes 37,127 100.00
1980 Canadian federal election: West Nova
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Coline Campbell 19,151 49.82 +5.65
Progressive Conservative Charles Haliburton 14,151 36.81 -7.66
New Democratic John Lee 4,922 12.80 +1.44
Independent Anne Trudell 216 0.56
Total valid votes 38,440 100.00
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