Don Chard (born February 29, 1924) is a Canadian former politician. He represented the

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of Dartmouth South in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1998 to 1999. He was a member of the

Nova Scotia New Democratic Party The Nova Scotia New Democratic Party is a social-democratic, progressive provincial party in Nova Scotia, Canada. It is the provincial entity of the federal New Democratic Party (NDP). It was founded as the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (C ...

. Chard was member of the former Dartmouth district school board, and a planner with Parks Canada who first ran for provincial politics in the 1993 election. He was defeated, but ran again in the 1998 election, winning the Dartmouth South seat for the NDP. In May 1998, he was elected Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly. He was defeated by Progressive Conservative Tim Olive when he ran for re-election in the 1999 election. Chard made another attempt at the NDP nomination in

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, but lost a coin toss to

Marilyn More Marilyn More is a Canadian retired educator and politician from Nova Scotia. A resident of Dartmouth, More worked as a teacher. Political career More was first elected to political office in 1978, when she became the first woman to be elected ...

after the vote count ended in a tie.

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1924 births Possibly living people Nova Scotia New Democratic Party MLAs People from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia Academic staff of the Saint Mary's University (Halifax) {{NovaScotia-MLA-stub