Donald Arthur Scott (born August 5, 1948) is a former

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from

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, Canada. He was the

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(NDP) member of the

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from 1981 to 1988. The son of Donald Alexander Scott and Mary Enid, he was raised in

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, and attended a number of higher-learning institutions, including

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, Nova Scotia,

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in Ottawa,

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, the

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and the

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. Scott also held membership in a number of environmentally-oriented groups, including the ''Naturalists Society'' and the ''Solar Energy Society of Canada''. Scott was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the Manitoba general election of 1981, in the riding of Inkster. This particular riding was notable for having been held by Sidney Green, a prominent cabinet minister in the government of NDP Premier

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, since 1966. Green had left the NDP in 1979, and was seeking re-election as a member of the

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. At first, the NDP wanted

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to challenge Green; Scott, a relative unknown, was drafted only after Penner declined. Nevertheless, he was elected in Inkster with a clear majority, receiving 6283 votes, as Green placed third with only 783. Following this election, the Progressive Party was no longer taken seriously as a political force. Scott was re-elected without difficulty in the provincial election of 1986, defeating his nearest competitor by almost 4000 votes. In the 1988 election, however, he was upset by

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, who outpolled him by 4466 votes to 4098. The 1988 election was called after NDP backbencher

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voted against his own party's budget, causing the government to fall two years before an election would normally have been called. Scott was one of several NDP members defeated in the following campaign; his loss in a seat previously regarded as safe for the party came as a particular surprise.Scott had previously fended off a nomination challenge from Michael Balagus, winning by 102 votes to 26. See "Ousted MLA joins leadership contest", ''Winnipeg Free Press'', 27 March 1988, A1. Scott later moved to

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. Following the Manitoba election of 2003, he wrote an op-ed piece for the

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, acknowledging the centrist approach of

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's government while also encouraging it to invest more in social programs.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, Don 1948 births Living people Canadian people of Scottish descent New Democratic Party of Manitoba MLAs Carleton University alumni People from Queens County, Nova Scotia Politicians from Winnipeg