Robert Clifford Levy, Jr. is a Canadian politician and judge. He represented the electoral district of

Kings South Kings South is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. It includes the town of Wolfville, the village of New Minas, the community of Coldbrook, and Glooscap First Na ...

in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1984 to 1988. He was a member of the

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Early life and education

Levy graduated from Acadia University in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts degree and subsequently from Dalhousie Law School in 1971 with a Bachelor of Laws.

Political career

Levy first attempted to enter politics in the 1979 federal election, finishing third as the

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candidate in

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. He ran again in the 1980 federal election, but again finished third. In the 1981 provincial election, Levy ran in the Kings North riding, placing second behind Progressive Conservative incumbent

Edward Twohig Edward Twohig is a former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, Canada for the constituency of Kings North. He sat as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia from 1978 to 1984. Twohig was first elected in 1 ...

. In January 1984, Levy was nominated as the NDP candidate for a byelection in Kings South resulting from the resignation of MLA Harry How. On February 21, 1984, Levy finished second in the byelection, losing to Progressive Conservative candidate

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by 917 votes. In the 1984 election, Levy ran again in Kings South, defeating Kinsman by 21 votes. Levy was nominated to seek re-election in

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, but resigned the day before the election was called when Nova Scotia Premier John Buchanan appointed him a family court judge.

References

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