predecessor successor birth_place party office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
'' new riding '' malcolm a. mackay dave wilson '' riding dissolved '' halifax , nova scotia new democratic party mla for sackville-cobequid mla for sackville 19 april 1947 1993 1984 john holm
 2003 1993 john holm
john holm

john edgar holm -lrb- born april 19 , 1947 -rrb- is a canadian politician from lower sackville , nova scotia in the halifax regional municipality .
he represented the electoral districts of sackville , and sackville-cobequid in the nova scotia house of assembly from 1984 to 2003 as a member of the new democratic party .
holm entered provincial politics in the 1984 election , defeating liberal bill macdonald and progressive conservative incumbent malcolm a. mackay in the sackville riding .
he was re-elected in the 1988 election .
in the 1993 election , holm ran in the new riding of sackville-cobequid , and was re-elected by almost 1,900 votes .
holm took over as interim leader of the ndp when alexa mcdonough resigned as leader in november 1994 , and held the position until the election of robert chisholm as leader in march 1996 .
holm was re-elected in the 1998 and 1999 elections .
on january 15 , 2003 , holm announced that he was not re-offering in the next election .
