Larry Duchesne

Larry Duchesne
Larry Duchesne
Leader of the New Democratic Party of Prince Edward Island
	In office; 1991–1995
Preceded by	Dody Crane (interim)
Succeeded by	Herb Dickieson
Personal details
Born	March 23, 1949 (age 75)
Political party	New Democratic Party
Profession	teacher

Larry Duchesne (born 1949) is a Canadian politician, who was leader of the Prince Edward Island New Democratic Party from 1991 to 1995.

A teacher and former journalist from Kinkora, Prince Edward Island, he won the party leadership on February 3, 1991, over Mike Leclair and Judy Whittaker.^[2] He had previously been a candidate for the party in provincial elections in both Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia.

He led the party into the 1993 election,^[3] and was the party's assemblyman candidate in 4th Prince, but won no seats on election day.^[4] Following the election loss, he took a three-month unpaid leave of absence from his position as leader, so that he could collect unemployment benefits and thus save the party money through not having to pay his leader's salary.^[5]

He resigned as party leader in November 1994,^[6] and was succeeded in 1995 by Herb Dickieson.^[7]

He ran as the party's candidate in the new district of Parkdale-Belvedere in the 1996 election, but was again not elected to the legislature. In the 1997 federal election, he ran in the district of Cardigan,^[8] but did not win the seat.

Duchesne was the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party candidate in Cumberland South for the 2013 Nova Scotia provincial election,^[9] but was defeated by Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie.^[10] In February 2017, Duchesne was again nominated as Cumberland South's NDP candidate for the next Nova Scotia general election.^[11]

Electoral record

v t e 2021 Nova Scotia general election: Cumberland South
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Progressive Conservative	Tory Rushton	3,900	68.47	+9.28	$29,144.30
	Liberal	Rollie Lawless	1,092	19.17	-12.51	$22,771.07
	New Democratic	Larry Duchesne	524	9.20	+4.14	$1,495.12
	Green	Nicholas Hendren	180	3.16	-0.91	$200.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			5,696	99.46	–	$66,923.01
Total rejected ballots			31	0.54
Turnout			5,727	52.12
Eligible voters			10,989
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+10.90
Source: Elections Nova Scotia^[12]

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election: Cumberland—Colchester
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Lenore Zann	16,672	36.68	−27.05	$91,456.57
	Conservative	Scott Armstrong	16,219	35.69	+9.23	none listed
	Green	Jason Blanch	6,015	13.23	+9.67	$9,366.06
	New Democratic	Larry Duchesne	5,451	11.99	+6.28	$3,860.15
	People's	William Archer	608	1.34	New	none listed
	Independent	Matthew V. Rushton	232	0.51	New	none listed
	Veterans Coalition	Jody O'Blenis	144	0.32	New	none listed
	National Citizens Alliance	Stephen J. Garvey	109	0.24	New	none listed
Total valid votes/expense limit			45,450	99.03		$104,050.86
Total rejected ballots			447	0.97	+0.59
Turnout			45,897	68.54	−2.51
Eligible voters			66,967
	Liberal hold		Swing		−18.14
Source: Elections Canada^[13]

Nova Scotia provincial by-election, June 19, 2018: Cumberland South Resignation of Jamie Baillie
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Progressive Conservative	Tory Rushton	3,417	59.19	+7.70	$22,387
	Liberal	Scott Lockhart	1,829	31.68	-8.79	$32,332
	New Democratic	Larry Duchesne	292	5.06	-0.74	$9,239
	Green	Bruce McCulloch	235	4.07	—	$1,234
Total valid votes			5,773
Total rejected ballots			17
Turnout			5,773	53.02	-9.35
Eligible voters			10,889
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+8.24
Source: Elections Nova Scotia^[14]

v t e 2017 Nova Scotia general election: Cumberland South
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Jamie Baillie	3,536	51.49	+0.53
	Liberal	Kenny John Jackson	2,779	40.47	+0.26
	New Democratic	Larry Duchesne	398	5.80	-0.98
	Atlantica	Thor Lengies	154	2.24
Total valid votes			6,897	100.00
Total rejected ballots			35	0.51	-0.19
Turnout			6,902	62.37	-3.36
Eligible voters			11,066
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+0.14
Source: Elections Nova Scotia^[15]^[16]

2013 Nova Scotia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Jamie Baillie	3,655	51.0%	-6.2
	Liberal	Kenny Jackson	2,884	40.2%	+2.2
	New Democratic Party	Larry Duchesne	486	6.8%	+2.0
	Green	Bruce McCulloch	147	2.0%	+2.0
Total valid votes			7,172	100.00
Total rejected ballots			50	0.7
Turnout			7,222	65.73
Eligible voters			10,987

v t e 1997 Canadian federal election: Cardigan
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Lawrence MacAulay	7,555	45.05	-16.59
	Progressive Conservative	Dan Hughes	7,456	44.46	+11.79
	New Democratic	Larry Duchesne	1,761	10.50	+4.81
Total valid votes			16,772	100.00

1996 Prince Edward Island general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Chester Gillan	1,584	57.37
	Liberal	Stephen Dowling	1,008	36.51
	New Democratic	Larry Duchesne	169	6.12
Total valid votes			2,761	100.0
This district was created from parts of the dual-member riding of 5th Queens.

1993 Prince Edward Island general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Stavert Huestis	4,215	55.40	-3.57
	Progressive Conservative	Fred McCardle	2,568	33.75	+0.44
	New Democratic	Larry Duchesne	825	10.84	+2.94
Total valid votes			7,608	98.52
Total rejected ballots			114	1.48	+0.17
Turnout			7,722	74.16	+1.39
Eligible voters			10,412
	Liberal hold		Swing		-2.01
Source: Elections Prince Edward Island^[17]

1989 Prince Edward Island general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Stavert Huestis	4,343	58.98	+15.67
	Progressive Conservative	Royce Green	2,453	33.31	-9.01
	New Democratic	Larry Duchesne	582	7.90	-6.81
Total valid votes			7,378	98.69
Total rejected ballots			98	1.31	+0.37
Turnout			7,476	72.77	-7.49
Eligible voters			10,273
	Liberal hold		Swing		+12.34
Source: Elections Prince Edward Island^[18]

1984 Nova Scotia general election: Pictou East
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Donald Cameron	4,367	63.75%	2.87%
	Liberal	Scott Johnston	1,754	25.61%	-0.07%
	New Democratic	Larry Duchesne	729	10.64%	-2.80%
Total			6,850	–
Source(s) Source: Nova Scotia Legislature (2021). "Electoral History for Pictou East" (PDF). nslegislature.ca. Nova Scotia. Chief Electoral Officer (1984). Returns of the General Election for the House of Assembly, Thirty-First General Election (PDF). Queen's Printer.

1978 Nova Scotia general election: Annapolis West
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Greg Kerr	2,690	50.56%	7.34%
	Liberal	Peter M. Nicholson	2,329	43.78%	-9.22%
	New Democratic	Larry Duchesne	301	5.66%	1.88%
Total			5,320	–
Source(s) Source: Nova Scotia Legislature (2021). "Electoral History for Annapolis" (PDF). nslegislature.ca. Nova Scotia. Chief Electoral Officer (1978). Returns of the General Election for the House of Assembly, Twenty-Ninth General Election (PDF). Queen's Printer.

References

^ "Soggy election fervor fails to ignite". Vancouver Sun, March 22, 1993.
^ "Teacher elected leader of P.E.I.'s New Democrats". Toronto Star, February 4, 1991.
^ "P.E.I. voters will head to the polls on March 29". Toronto Star, March 2, 1993.
^ "Callbeck wins big in P.E.I. election". Windsor Star, March 30, 1993.
^ "NDP leader quitting post briefly to collect UI". Vancouver Sun, June 9, 1993.
^ "NDP leader quits in P.E.I." Montreal Gazette, November 7, 1994.
^ "Prince Edward Island New NDP leader selected". The Globe and Mail, March 14, 1995.
^ "Cardigan New Democrats field Larry Duchesne". The Guardian, May 8, 1997.
^ "Teacher gets NDP nod in Cumberland South". The Chronicle Herald. August 28, 2013. Archived from the original on May 9, 2017. Retrieved 2024-04-27.
^ "PC leader Jamie Baillie takes his Cumberland South riding". Global News. October 8, 2013. Retrieved 2017-03-13.
^ "Duchesne to represent NDP in Cumberland South". Cumberland News Now. February 1, 2017. Archived from the original on February 11, 2017. Retrieved 2017-03-13.
^ "Provincial General Election 2021-08-17- Official Results". Elections Nova Scotia. Archived from the original on 2021-10-07. Retrieved October 7, 2021.
^ "Official Voting Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
^ Chief Electoral Officer (January 21, 2019). "Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the Proceedings of the Cumberland South By-Election" (PDF). Elections Nova Scotia.
^ "Statement of Votes & Statistics, Volume I" (PDF). Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved July 17, 2021.
^ "May 30th, 2017 - 40th Nova Scotia Provincial General Election". Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved July 17, 2021.
^ Cite error: The named reference PEI Elections Report was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Cite error: The named reference PEI Elections Report89 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[1] "Soggy election fervor fails to ignite". Vancouver Sun, March 22, 1993.

[2] "Teacher elected leader of P.E.I.'s New Democrats". Toronto Star, February 4, 1991.

[3] "P.E.I. voters will head to the polls on March 29". Toronto Star, March 2, 1993.

[4] "Callbeck wins big in P.E.I. election". Windsor Star, March 30, 1993.

[5] "NDP leader quitting post briefly to collect UI". Vancouver Sun, June 9, 1993.

[6] "NDP leader quits in P.E.I." Montreal Gazette, November 7, 1994.

[7] "Prince Edward Island New NDP leader selected". The Globe and Mail, March 14, 1995.

[8] "Cardigan New Democrats field Larry Duchesne". The Guardian, May 8, 1997.

[9] "Teacher gets NDP nod in Cumberland South". The Chronicle Herald. August 28, 2013. Archived from the original on May 9, 2017. Retrieved 2024-04-27.

[10] "PC leader Jamie Baillie takes his Cumberland South riding". Global News. October 8, 2013. Retrieved 2017-03-13.

[11] "Duchesne to represent NDP in Cumberland South". Cumberland News Now. February 1, 2017. Archived from the original on February 11, 2017. Retrieved 2017-03-13.

[12] "Provincial General Election 2021-08-17- Official Results". Elections Nova Scotia. Archived from the original on 2021-10-07. Retrieved October 7, 2021.

[13] "Official Voting Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved 22 September 2021.

[14] Chief Electoral Officer (January 21, 2019). "Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the Proceedings of the Cumberland South By-Election" (PDF). Elections Nova Scotia.

[15] "Statement of Votes & Statistics, Volume I" (PDF). Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved July 17, 2021.

[16] "May 30th, 2017 - 40th Nova Scotia Provincial General Election". Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved July 17, 2021.

[PEI_Elections_Report-17] Cite error: The named reference PEI Elections Report was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[PEI_Elections_Report89-18] Cite error: The named reference PEI Elections Report89 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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