Felix Holtmann is a former Canadian

Canada

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 politician. He served in the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

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 from 1984 to 1993, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

.

Holtmann was born in Rosser

Rosser, Manitoba

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, Manitoba

Manitoba

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, and educated at the University of Manitoba

University of Manitoba

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, Warren College and Jessups School of Advanced Dairy Science. He received a diploma of agriculture, and worked as a farmer. Before entering political life, he was a member of various hog marketing and advisory boards.

He was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1984 federal election

Canadian federal election, 1984

The Canadian federal election of 1984 was held on September 4 of that year to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 33rd Parliament of Canada...

, defeating New Democratic Party

New Democratic Party

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 incumbent Terry Sargeant by 662 votes in Selkirk—Interlake

Selkirk—Interlake

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 amid a national landslide victory for the PC Party under Brian Mulroney

Brian Mulroney

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. He was re-elected by an increased plurality in the 1988 election

Canadian federal election, 1988

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, for the redistributed riding of Portage—Interlake

Portage—Interlake

Portage—Interlake was a federal electoral district in the province of Manitoba, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 to 1997....

. During his time as a parliamentarian, Holtmann served as a backbench supporter of the Mulroney and Kim Campbell

Kim Campbell

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 governments.

He was defeated in the 1993 election

Canadian federal election, 1993

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, finishing third against Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

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 candidate Jon Gerrard

Jon Gerrard

Jon Gerrard, PC, MLA is a politician and medical doctor in Manitoba, Canada. He was a Member of Parliament from 1993 to 1997, and was a secretary of state in the government of Jean Chrétien...

. He attempted a comeback in the 1997 election

Canadian federal election, 1997

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, but lost to Liberal John Harvard in Charleswood—Assiniboine.

Holtmann was arrested on drunk driving charges in 2002. Although he admitted drinking that night, he denied being impaired. He was acquitted by the courts on April 26, 2007 with the judge saying that although there was some evidence of impairment, there was still room for reasonable doubt.

Election results

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|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

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|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...

|HARLAND, R. Harvey
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|New Democratic Party

New Democratic Party

The New Democratic Party , commonly referred to as the NDP, is a federal social-democratic political party in Canada. The interim leader of the NDP is Nycole Turmel who was appointed to the position due to the illness of Jack Layton, who died on August 22, 2011. The provincial wings of the NDP in...

|FOLLOWS, Gerry
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|Reform

Reform Party of Canada

The Reform Party of Canada was a Canadian federal political party that existed from 1987 to 2000. It was originally founded as a Western Canada-based protest party, but attempted to expand eastward in the 1990s. It viewed itself as a populist party....

| BEACHELL, Alan
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|Libertarian

Libertarian Party of Canada

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|RICE, Dennis
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