Dwight Ball

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Dwight Ball
MHA for Humber Valley
In office 2007 – 2007
Preceded by	Kathy Goudie
Succeeded by	Darryl Kelly
Political party	Liberal

Dwight Ball is a former Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Humber Valley in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 2003 to 2007.

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 1 March/2 March 2007 ^[2], which resulted in a reduction of Ball's lead to seven votes ^[3]

However, in the general election on October 9, 2007, Kelly defeated Ball by a 254-vote margin.

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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	Shelly Senior	122	2.8

Newfoundland and Labrador general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	+/-
	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

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