Leonard Eugene Krog is a Canadian politician and lawyer in
British Columbia
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, who currently serves as Mayor of
Nanaimo. Prior to his tenure as mayor, Krog served in the
provincial legislature, and was first elected in the
1991 general election representing the
riding of
Parksville-Qualicum. In his first term, he served as a
backbencher in the
Mike Harcourt
Michael Franklin Harcourt, OC (born January 6, 1943) served as the 30th premier of British Columbia from 1991 to 1996, and before that as the 34th mayor of Vancouver, BC's largest city, from 1980 to 1986.
Early life and education
Harcourt was ...
NDP
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government. He ran for re-election in
1996 but was defeated by
Paul Reitsma
Paul Reitsma (born January 22, 1948) is a former member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada, for the electoral district of Parksville-Qualicum.
He was born in 1948 in the Netherlands. Reitsma served as the mayor of Port Alber ...
. He ran again in the
2005 election in the
Nanaimo constituency and defeated the
Liberal
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incumbent
Mike Hunter.
In 2003, he ran for the leadership of the NDP but lost to
Carole James
Carole Alison James (born December 22, 1957) is a Canadian politician and former public administrator, who represented Victoria-Beacon Hill in the MLA from 2005 to 2020. She is the former Leader of the Opposition in British Columbia and former ...
.
When the NDP formed government in 2017, Krog was appointed Government Caucus Chair in the legislature.
On October 20, 2018, he was elected Mayor of Nanaimo.
Electoral record
References
External links
Official Biography from the website of the Legislative Assembly of British ColumbiaBC NDP Web ProfileAuthorized constituency web site
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British Columbia New Democratic Party MLAs
Lawyers in British Columbia
Mayors of Nanaimo
21st-century Canadian politicians
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