{{short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Coline M. Campbell | honorific_suffix = | image = | office = MP for South Western Nova | term_start = 8 July 1974 | term_end = 22 May 1979 | predecessor = Charles Haliburton | successor = Charles Haliburton | office2 = MP for South West Nova | term_start2 = 18 February 1980 | term_end2 = 4 September 1984 | predecessor2 = Charles Haliburton | successor2 = Gerald Comeau | office3 = MP for South West Nova | term_start3 = 21 November 1988 | term_end3 = 25 October 1993 | predecessor3 = Gerald Comeau | successor3 = Harry Verran | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1940|9|26}} | birth_place = Digby County, Nova Scotia | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = | party = Liberal | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = Lawyer, teacher, politician | profession = | cabinet = | committees = | portfolio = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Coline M. Campbell''' (born 26 September 1940) is a former member of the House of Commons of Canada in the 30th (1974–1979), 32nd (1980–1984) and 34th (1988–1993) Canadian Parliaments. Campbell was the first woman from Nova Scotia elected to the House of Commons.<ref>[https://lop.parl.ca/parlinfo/Files/Parliamentarian.aspx?Item=1B2D233E-DFB8-493E-AD47-1CCE8FFC73B3&Section=ALL&Language=E PARLINFO - Parliamentary File - Complete File - CAMPBELL, Coline M., B.A., B.Ed., LL.B.] Library of Parliament</ref>
==Before politics== Prior to entering politics, Campbell was a teacher and lawyer.
==Political career== Campbell was first elected in the 1974 federal election at the South Western Nova electoral district for the Liberal Party. She served as a backbench supporter of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's government. After her first term in Parliament, she was defeated by Charles E. Haliburton of the Progressive Conservative (PC) Party in the 1979 federal election; following electoral redistribution in 1976, her riding had been renamed South West Nova.
Following the short-lived Progressive Conservative minority government of Joe Clark, she was re-elected at South West Nova in 1980.<ref name=riding>{{cite book |title= Canadian politics, riding by riding: an in-depth analysis of Canada's 301 federal electoral districts |last= Hill |first= Tony L. |year= 2002 |publisher= Prospect Park Press |isbn= 0-9723436-0-1 |page= 45 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=opvmE2AExc8C}}</ref> She served as a government-side backbencher under Pierre Trudeau and John Turner until the 1984 Canadian federal election, when she lost the seat again to PC challenger Gerald Comeau.<ref name=riding/>
Her last term in Parliament began with her second comeback in the 1988 federal election.<ref name=riding/> She served in opposition under John Turner and Jean Chrétien. She did not seek another term in Parliament after this and left federal politics as of the 1993 federal election.<ref name=riding/>
=== Electoral record === {{1974 Canadian federal election/West Nova}} {{1979 Canadian federal election/West Nova}} {{1980 Canadian federal election/West Nova}} {{1984 Canadian federal election/West Nova}} {{1988 Canadian federal election/West Nova}}
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