Charles Haliburton
Charles E. Haliburton | |
|---|---|
| MP for South Western Nova | |
| In office October 30, 1972 – July 8, 1974 | |
| Preceded by | Louis-Roland Comeau |
| Succeeded by | Coline Campbell |
| MP for South West Nova | |
| In office May 22, 1979 – February 18, 1980 | |
| Preceded by | Coline Campbell |
| Succeeded by | Coline Campbell |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 23, 1938 Wolfville, Nova Scotia |
| Political party | Progressive Conservative |
| Occupation | Judge, politician |
Charles Edward Haliburton (born April 23, 1938) is a jurist and former politician in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
Education and legal career
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]| 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 | ||||||
| lop.parl.ca | ||||||||
References
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- ^ Justice Charles E. Haliburton Retires Courts of Nova Scotia
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