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13 Facts About Don Massey

1.

Donald Lee Massey is a former municipal and provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada.

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Don Massey served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1993 until 2004.

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Don Massey ran for the office of Public School Trustee finishing an eighth place with 23,471 votes.

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Don Massey was just 100 votes short from earning the seventh place seat that went to Mel Binder.

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Don Massey ran again for School Trustee in the 1977 Edmonton municipal election, this time there were two seats added.

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Don Massey would run as an incumbent in the 1980 Edmonton municipal election.

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Don Massey won his fifth and final term in the 1986 Edmonton municipal election.

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Don Massey won the electoral district of Edmonton Mill Woods picking it up for the Liberals.

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Don Massey defeated five other candidates with a comfortable plurality to win his first term in office.

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Don Massey was re-elected to his second term in the 1997 Alberta general election.

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Don Massey was reelected with a reduced but comfortable margin of victory and popular vote share defeating four other candidates.

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Don Massey stood for a third term in the 2001 Alberta general election defeating Progressive Conservative candidate Carl Benito in a hotly contested election.

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Don Massey would become the interim Liberal leader and Official Opposition Leader after Ken Nicol resigned to run for a seat in the House of Commons of Canada in 2004.