Keith Ostrander MacDonald (July 18, 1927 – March 27, 2021) was a politician in

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, Canada. MacDonald was educated at Albert College in

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, and worked as a businessman, farmer and tourist operator. He was a member of the

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, World

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Champions in 1959. He served in the

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as a

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from 1987 to 1990. He first ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1975 provincial election, but lost to Progressive Conservative

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by 732 votes in the riding of

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. He ran again in the 1987 election, and defeated Progressive Conservative candidate Dennis Tompkins by 2,079 votes. For the next three years, MacDonald served as a backbench supporter of

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's government. The Liberals were defeated by the

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in the 1990 provincial election. MacDonald finished third in his bid for re-election, finishing 1,016 votes behind Paul Johnson of the NDP. MacDonald was involved with the Prince Edward Federation of Agriculture. He died on March 27, 2021 at the Hospice Prince Edward in Picton, Ontario.

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