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{{short description|Canadian politician|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{use mdy dates|date=May 2022}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|image = 
|imagesize = 150px |
| honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable]]
| name = Ron Chisholm
|honorific-suffix= [[Executive Council of Nova Scotia|ECNS]]
| caption =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1948|9|30}}
| birth_place =
| residence = [[Goshen, Nova Scotia]]
| assembly = Nova Scotia House of
| constituency_AM = [[Guysborough-Sheet Harbour]]<br /><small>Guysborough-Port Hawkesbury (1999-2003)</small>
| term_start = July 27, 1999
| term_end = June 9, 2009
| predecessor1 = [[Ray White (politician)|Ray White]]
| successor1 = [[Jim Boudreau]]
| party = [[Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia|Progressive Conservative]]
| religion =
| occupation = machinist, advertising manager}}

'''Ron Chisholm''' (born September 30, 1948) is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral districts of Guysborough-Port Hawkesbury and [[Guysborough-Sheet Harbour]] in the [[Nova Scotia House of Assembly]] from 1999 to 2009 as a member of the [[Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia|Progressive Conservatives]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nslegislature.ca/sites/default/files/constituencies/pdfs/guysborough-eastern%20shore-tracadie.pdf|title=Electoral History for Guysborough–Eastern Shore–Tracadie|publisher=Nova Scotia Legislative Library|accessdate=April 2, 2018 }}</ref>

Born in 1948 at [[Goshen, Nova Scotia]], Chisholm married Alberta McGrath. From 1969 to 1980, he was employed with [[Nova Scotia Power]], as a machine operator. In 1980, he was elected business manager for the [[International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers]], where he represented 1300 unionized workers. He was later employed with the [[Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal (Nova Scotia)|Nova Scotia Department of Transportation]], and the ''Guysborough Journal'' as advertising manager.<ref name=CabinetBio>{{cite web|url=http://www.gov.ns.ca/legislature/MEMBERS/cabinet/chisholm.html|title=Cabinet biography|publisher=Nova Scotia Legislature|accessdate=May 20, 2015 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090506094311/http://www.gov.ns.ca/legislature/MEMBERS/cabinet/chisholm.html|archivedate=May 6, 2009}}</ref>

Chisholm served as a municipal councillor in the [[St. Mary's, Nova Scotia|District of St. Mary's]] from 1988 to 1999, serving as Warden from 1994 to 1999.<ref name=CabinetBio/> Chisholm first attempted to enter provincial politics in the [[1998 Nova Scotia general election|1998 election]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.herald.ns.ca/cgi-bin/home/displaypackstory?1998/03/09+179.raw+PE98Mar09+2|title=Tories nominate municipal warden|work=The Chronicle Herald|date=March 9, 1998 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20041125095716/http://www.herald.ns.ca/cgi-bin/home/displaypackstory?1998%2F03%2F09+179.raw+PE98Mar09+2|archivedate=November 25, 2004|url-status=dead}}</ref> but was defeated by Liberal incumbent [[Ray White (politician)|Ray White]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/Dist25.pdf|title=Election Returns, 1998 (Guysborough-Port Hawkesbury)|publisher=Elections Nova Scotia|accessdate=May 20, 2015 }}</ref> Chisholm ran again in [[1999 Nova Scotia general election|1999]], and defeated White by 134 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/99GUYS.pdf|title=Election Returns, 1999 (Guysborough-Port Hawkesbury)|publisher=Elections Nova Scotia|accessdate=May 20, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Rookie unseats cabinet minister|work=Cape Breton Post|date=July 28, 1999}}</ref> He was re-elected in the newly established Guysborough-Sheet Harbour riding in the [[2003 Nova Scotia general election|2003 election]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/03dist24.pdf|title=Election Returns, 2003 (Guysborough-Sheet Harbour)|publisher=Elections Nova Scotia|accessdate=May 20, 2015}}</ref> When [[Rodney MacDonald]] took over as premier in February 2006, Chisholm was appointed to the [[Executive Council of Nova Scotia]], as Minister of Agriculture, and Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/macdonald-mixes-cabinet-with-old-and-new-1.600676|title=MacDonald mixes cabinet with old and new|publisher=CBC News|date=February 23, 2006|accessdate=May 20, 2015 }}</ref> He was re-elected in [[2006 Nova Scotia general election|2006]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/dist24_0.pdf|title=Election Returns, 2006 (Guysborough-Sheet Harbour)|publisher=Elections Nova Scotia|accessdate=May 20, 2015 }}</ref> and retained the fisheries and aquaculture portfolio in a post-election cabinet shuffle.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/macdonald-s-expanded-cabinet-has-3-rookies-1.590233|title=MacDonald's expanded cabinet has 3 rookies|publisher=CBC News|date=June 26, 2006|accessdate=May 20, 2015 }}</ref> Chisholm was defeated when he ran for re-election in [[2009 Nova Scotia general election|2009]], losing to New Democrat [[Jim Boudreau]] by more than 1800 votes.<ref>{{cite web |title=Election Returns, 2009 (Guysborough-Sheet Harbour) |url=http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/dist24.pdf|publisher=Elections Nova Scotia|accessdate=May 20, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://thechronicleherald.ca/Election/1126468.html|title=Nine Tory cabinet ministers bounced |work=The Chronicle Herald |date=June 10, 2009 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090613061400/http://thechronicleherald.ca/Election/1126468.html|archivedate=June 13, 2009 }}</ref>

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[[Category:Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia MLAs]]
[[Category:People from Guysborough County, Nova Scotia]]
[[Category:Members of the Executive Council of Nova Scotia]]
[[Category:Nova Scotia municipal councillors]]
[[Category:20th-century members of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly]]
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