Ross Landry
Canadian politician
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Peter Ross Landry is a retired Canadian police officer and politician.
Ross Landry | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly for Pictou Centre | |
| In office June 19, 2009 – October 8, 2013 | |
| Preceded by | Pat Dunn |
| Succeeded by | Pat Dunn |
| Attorney General and Minister of Justice and Provincial Secretary of Nova Scotia | |
| In office June 19, 2009 – October 22, 2013 | |
| Preceded by | Cecil Clarke |
| Succeeded by | Lena Diab |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Trenton, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Party | New Democratic |
| Occupation | police officer |
Early life and career
Landry was born in Trenton, Nova Scotia.[1] He served in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for 34 years.[2]
Political career
In December 2008, Landry won the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party (NDP) nomination in the provincial riding of Pictou Centre.[3] Landry was elected in the 2009 provincial election[4] and represented the riding until his defeat in the 2013 provincial election.[5]
Landry was appointed to the Executive Council of Nova Scotia on June 19, 2009 where he served as Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Nova Scotia until October 22, 2013.[6]
On July 13, 2015, Landry announced that he was seeking the New Democratic Party nomination in the Central Nova riding for the 42nd Canadian federal election.[7][8] He won the nomination on July 26; in the election on October 19, he finished in third place behind Liberal Sean Fraser and Conservative Fred DeLorey.[9]
| 2015 Canadian federal election: Central Nova | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Sean Fraser | 25,909 | 58.53 | +44.58 | $113,362.49 | |||
| Conservative | Fred DeLorey | 11,418 | 25.80 | –29.49 | $109,137.26 | |||
| New Democratic | Ross Landry | 4,532 | 10.24 | –16.57 | $63,038.54 | |||
| Green | David Hachey | 1,834 | 4.14 | +0.34 | $11,206.15 | |||
| Independent | Alexander J. MacKenzie | 570 | 1.29 | – | – | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 44,263 | 100.00 | $204,540.28 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 233 | 0.52 | ||||||
| Turnout | 44,496 | 74.68 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 59,585 | |||||||
| Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +37.04 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[10][11] | ||||||||
