Dody Crane

{{short description|Canadian politician|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Dolores (Dody) Crane | image = | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = | office = Leader of the New Democratic Party of Prince Edward Island <br /><small>Interim</small> | term_start = 1989 | term_end = 1991 | predecessor = Jim Mayne | successor = Larry Duchesne | party = New Democratic Party | profession = lawyer | spouse = | children = }} '''Dolores (Dody) Crane''' is a Canadian politician, who was interim leader of the Prince Edward Island New Democratic Party from 1989 to 1991.<ref name=heaps>Leo Heaps, ''Our Canada: The Story of the New Democratic Party Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow''. Lorimer, 1991. {{ISBN|1550283537}}.</ref> She originally ran as the party's candidate in Hillsborough in the 1988 federal election, finishing with what was at the time the best federal result for an NDP candidate in the province's history.<ref name=heaps /> Due to organizational upheaval in the provincial party following the resignation of Jim Mayne, she subsequently served as the party's spokesperson and acting leader until Larry Duchesne was selected as the party's new permanent leader in 1991.<ref name=heaps />

She continued to be a New Democratic Party candidate in federal elections, running in Hillsborough again in the 1993, 1997 and 2000 elections, and in the successor riding of Charlottetown in the 2004 election.

She is the sister of Olive Crane, a former MLA and leader of the Prince Edward Island Progressive Conservative Party.<ref>[https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/battlegrounds-canada-liberals-seem-safe-in-p-e-i-but-momentum-could-shift "Battlegrounds Canada: Liberals seem safe in P.E.I., but momentum could shift"]. ''National Post'', August 4, 2011.</ref>

==Electoral record== {{2004 Canadian federal election/Charlottetown}} {{2000 Canadian federal election/Hillsborough}} {{1997 Canadian federal election/Charlottetown}} {{1993 Canadian federal election/Charlottetown}} {{1988 Canadian federal election/Charlottetown}}

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