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{{Short description|Canadian politician (born 1946)}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=September 2021}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable]]
| name             = Lorne Nystrom
| honorific-suffix = [[Queen's Privy Council for Canada|PC]]
| image            = Lorne Nystrom (2012).jpg
| riding           = [[Regina—Qu'Appelle]]
| parliament       = Canadian
| predecessor      = [[Simon De Jong]]
| successor        = [[Andrew Scheer]]
| term_start       = June 2, 1997
| term_end         = June 27, 2004
| riding1          = [[Yorkton—Melville]]
| parliament1      = Canadian
| predecessor1     = ''District created''
| successor1       = [[Garry Breitkreuz]]
| term_start1      = June 25, 1968
| term_end1        = October 24, 1993
| birth_date       = {{birth date and age|1946|4|26}}
| birth_place      = [[Wynyard, Saskatchewan|Wynyard]], [[Saskatchewan]], Canada
| birth_name       = Lorne Edmund Nystrom
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| party            = [[New Democratic Party|New Democratic]]
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'''Lorne Edmund Nystrom''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|PC}} (born April 26, 1946) is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] politician and was a [[Member of Parliament (Canada)|member]] of the [[House of Commons of Canada]] from 1968 to 1993 and again from 1997 to 2004.<ref>{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=13681|nolist=yes}}</ref> He is a member of the [[New Democratic Party (Canada)|New Democratic Party]].

==Parliamentary career==
Nystrom was first elected for [[Yorkton—Melville]] in [[1968 Canadian federal election|1968]]. At the age of 22 years and three months, he was the youngest MP in Canadian history, a record he held until [[Claude-André Lachance]] was elected at the age of 20 in [[1974 Canadian federal election|1974]]. He was reelected without serious difficulty until losing to [[Reform Party of Canada|Reform]] challenger [[Garry Breitkreuz]] in [[1993 Canadian federal election|1993]].

In 1992, he was appointed to the [[Queen's Privy Council for Canada]].

He returned to Parliament in [[1997 Canadian federal election|1997]] in the riding of [[Regina—Qu'Appelle|Qu'Appelle]], succeeding fellow New Democrat [[Simon De Jong]]. Nystrom faced a strong challenge for re-election in the riding, renamed Regina—Qu'Appelle in [[2000 Canadian federal election|2000]], after the [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservatives]] unexpectedly failed to nominate a candidate. However, Nystrom managed to eke out a narrow victory over [[Canadian Alliance]] challenger Don Leier.

In [[2004 Canadian federal election|2004]], Nystrom lost to the [[Conservative Party of Canada|Conservative]] candidate, future [[Speaker of the House of Commons (Canada)|House Speaker]] and [[Leader of the Official Opposition (Canada)|Leader of the Official Opposition]] [[Andrew Scheer]]. Scheer won by a margin of 861 votes. The NDP renominated Nystrom to challenge Scheer at the next federal election in 2005; in the [[2006 Canadian federal election|2006 election]], he lost again, this time by a larger margin of 2,712 votes.

Nystrom ran for the leadership of the federal NDP three times, placing third in each. In [[1975 New Democratic Party leadership election|1975]], he finished behind winner [[Ed Broadbent]] and runner-up [[Rosemary Brown (Canadian politician)|Rosemary Brown]]. Twenty years later, in [[1995 New Democratic Party leadership election|1995]], Nystrom ran again but placed behind [[Svend Robinson]] and winner [[Alexa McDonough]]. His final attempt to win the party's leadership was in the [[2003 New Democratic Party leadership election|2003]] election that ultimately selected [[Jack Layton]]; Nystrom finished in third behind Layton and [[Bill Blaikie]].

==Career outside of Parliament==
Nystrom edited a book on practical [[Economic progressivism|progressive economics]], ''Just Making Change: The 100 Percent, Honest to Goodness Truth About our User Unfriendly Financial System and How to Escape It'', published in hardcover in 1999<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Nystrom |editor1-first=Lorne |title=Just making change : the 100 percent, honest to goodness truth about our user unfriendly financial system and how to escape it |date=1999 |publisher=Golden Dog Press |location=Kemptville, ON |isbn=9780919614871}}</ref> and paperback in 2000.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Nystrom |editor1-first=Lorne |title=Just making change : the 100 percent, honest to goodness truth about our user unfriendly financial system and how to escape it |date=2000 |publisher=True North Press |location=Ottawa |isbn=0968662404 |edition=[2nd]}}</ref>

Nystrom is a former board member of the [[Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs]] (CIJA).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cija.ca/our-team/board-of-directors/the-hon-lorne-nystrom/|title=Hon. Lorne Nystrom|work=Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120604051933/http://www.cija.ca/our-team/board-of-directors/the-hon-lorne-nystrom/|archivedate=2012-06-04}}</ref> Nystrom has also been involved with Brightenview Development International Inc. as the VP of Government Relations and CEO of Brightenvantage International Business Consulting Inc., a subsidiary of Brightenview.

== Electoral record ==
{{2004 Canadian federal election/Regina—Qu'Appelle}}
{{2000 Canadian federal election/Regina—Qu'Appelle}}
{{1997 Canadian federal election/Qu'Appelle}}
{{1993 Canadian federal election/Yorkton—Melville}}
{{1988 Canadian federal election/Yorkton—Melville}}
{{1984 Canadian federal election/Yorkton—Melville}}
{{1980 Canadian federal election/Yorkton—Melville}}
{{1979 Canadian federal election/Yorkton—Melville}}
{{1974 Canadian federal election/Yorkton—Melville}}
{{1972 Canadian federal election/Yorkton—Melville}}
{{1968 Canadian federal election/Yorkton—Melville}}

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/nystrom_lorne_edmund_1946-.html Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan entry]

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