Dwight Ball

Dwight Ball
MHA for Humber Valley
Incumbent
Assumed office October 27, 2011
Preceded by	Darryl Kelly
In office March 2007 – September 2007
Preceded by	Kathy Goudie
Succeeded by	Darryl Kelly
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Political party	Liberal

Dwight Ball is a Canadian politician, who represents the electoral district of Humber Valley in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly.

Ball won election to the legislature in a by-election on February 13, 2007. At first, it was announced that Darryl Kelly, the PC candidate, had won the election by a margin of twelve votes; however, it turned out that this was a mistake and that Ball had won by a margin of eighteen votes instead.^[1] Due to the close result of the by-election, which turned out to have been won by a margin of only nine votes in the official result, a judicial recount was ordered for March 1-2,^[2] which resulted in a reduction of Ball's lead to seven votes.^[3] In a rematch in the general election on October 9, 2007, Kelly defeated Ball by a 254-vote margin. Four years later Ball became the Liberal candidate once again and defeated Ball in the October 2011, election.

Electoral record

Newfoundland and Labrador general election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Dwight Ball	2,609	48.14%
	Progressive Conservative	Darryl Kelly	2,541	46.88%
	NDP	Sheldon Hynes	270	4.98%

Humber Valley - Newfoundland and Labrador general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Vote	%	+/-
	Progressive Conservative	Darryl Kelly	3,023	51.42	+2.92
	Liberal	Dwight Ball	2,769	47.09	-1.61
	New Democrat	Kris Hynes	87	1.47	-1.33

Humber Valley - By-election, February 13, 2007 Resignation of Kathy Goudie
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	+/-
	Liberal	Dwight Ball	2,153	48.7
	Progressive Conservative	Darryl Kelly	2,146	48.5
	New Democrat	Shelley Senior	122	2.8

Newfoundland and Labrador general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Kathy Goudie	2,796	52.73%
	Liberal	Dwight Ball	2,507	47.28%

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References

1. ^ [1]
2. ^ Judicial recount set for Humber Valley ballots
3. ^ Liberal declared winner in Humber Valley recount
4. ^ Newfoundland & Labrador Votes 2003. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved May 22, 2003.

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Name	Ball, Dwight
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