Donald Lee Massey is a former municipal and provincial level politician from

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, Canada. He served as a Member of the

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from 1993 until 2004. In that period he also served as Leader of the Official Opposition and Leader of the

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in 2004. From 1977 until 1989 he was a Public School Trustee in

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Municipal politics

Massey first ran for public office in the 1974 Edmonton municipal election. He ran for the office of Public School Trustee finishing an eighth place with 23,471 votes. He was just 100 votes short from earning the seventh place seat that went to Mel Binder. He ran again for School Trustee in the 1977 Edmonton municipal election, this time there were two seats added. Massey won the fifth place seat with 33,444 votes. Massey would run as an incumbent in the

1980 Edmonton municipal election The 1980 municipal election was held October 15, 1980 to elect a mayor and twelve aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council, nine trustees to sit on the public school board, and seven trustees to sit on the separate school board. This was the first ...

. He would see a significant drop in his popular vote, but would finish fourth place out of the top nine with 19,060 votes. Massey would significantly increase his popular vote winning 50,007 votes and second place out of nine in the

1983 Edmonton municipal election The 1983 municipal election was held October 17, 1983 to elect a mayor and twelve aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council in Alberta, Canada, nine trustees to sit on the public school board, and seven trustees to sit on the separate school board. ...

. He won his fifth and final term in the

1986 Edmonton municipal election The 1986 municipal election was held October 20, 1986 to elect a mayor and twelve aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council, nine trustees to sit on the public school board, and seven trustees to sit on the separate school board. Party labels were d ...

. Once again he took second place and won with 29,323. He did not run again in 1989.

Provincial politics

After serving for eleven years as a Public School Trustee, Massey decided to run for provincial office in the

1993 Alberta general election The 1993 Alberta general election was held on June 15, 1993, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. The Conservative government was re-elected, taking 51 seats out of 83 (61 percent of the seats) but only having support of 45 per ...

. He won the electoral district of

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picking it up for the Liberals. He defeated five other candidates with a comfortable plurality to win his first term in office. He was re-elected to his second term in the

1997 Alberta general election The 1997 Alberta general election was held on March 11, 1997, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Ralph Klein's Conservatives were re-elected, with increased number of seats in the Legislature. Liberal Official Opposition los ...

. He was reelected with a reduced but comfortable margin of victory and popular vote share defeating four other candidates. Massey stood for a third term in the

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defeating Progressive Conservative candidate

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in a hotly contested election. He would become the interim

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leader and Official Opposition Leader after Ken Nicol resigned to run for a seat in the

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in 2004.

References

External links

Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing
{{DEFAULTSORT:Massey, Don 1936 births Alberta Liberal Party MLAs Leaders of the Alberta Liberal Party Living people Politicians from Edmonton 21st-century Canadian politicians Alberta school board trustees