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Balarama Holness[1] (born July 20, 1983), also known as Steven Holness, is a politician and former Canadian football safety. He was originally signed by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers as an undrafted free agent in 2008. He won a Grey Cup Championship with the Montreal Alouettes in 2010. He played CIS Football at Ottawa.

Balarama Holness

No. 36
Position:	Cornerback
Personal information
Born:	(1983-07-20) July 20, 1983 (age 39) Montreal, Quebec
Height:	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight:	194 lb (88 kg)
Career information
University:	Ottawa
Undrafted:	2008
Career history
Winnipeg Blue Bombers (2008–2009) Montreal Alouettes (2010–2011)
CFL status:	Non-Import
Player stats at CFL.ca (archive)

While studying law at McGill University,[2] he ran for borough mayor of Montréal-Nord for Projet Montréal in the 2017 Montreal municipal election but lost to Christine Black.[3] After the 2017 election, Holness launched a petition calling for the city to hold a public consultation on systemic racism and discrimination.[4] Founder of a social justice lobby group "Montreal in Action," Holness was profiled on November 21, 2020, by the CTV Television Network as "an inspirational view of a man confronting systemic racism."[5]

On May 20, 2021, he announced his candidacy for mayor of Montreal in the 2021 Montreal municipal election[6] as a candidate of the Mouvement Montréal party. Holness finished in third place with 7.23% of votes and Mouvement Montréal failed to elect any of its candidates.

On June 7, 2022, Holness announced the creation of party Bloc Montreal, being a part of the 2022 Quebec general election. Bloc Montreal finished with only 0.2% of votes and it failed to elect any of its candidates, including Holness himself.

Andrew Michael Holness, the current Prime Minister of Jamaica is his first cousin. Balarama's mother is a French-speaking Quebecer from Montreal. His daughter is named after Marie-Joseph Angélique, a Portuguese-born black slave in New France.[7]

Election Results

2017 Montreal municipal election results: Borough Mayor, Montreal-North
Party	Candidate	Total Votes	% of total votes
Équipe Denis Coderre	Christine Black	11,864	66%
Projet Montréal	Balarama Holness	6,038	34%
Total		17902	100%
Source: CBC News, Quebec votes, Municipal 2017

2021 Montreal municipal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Projet Montréal	Valérie Plante	217,986	52.14	+0.72
	Ensemble Montréal	Denis Coderre	158,751	37.97	-7.69
	Mouvement Montréal	Balarama Holness[8]	30,235	7.23
	Action Montréal	Gilbert Thibodeau	4,327	1.03	+0.68
	Independent	Beverly Bernardo	1,760	0.42
	Montréal 2021	Luc Ménard	1,666	0.40
	Independent	Jean Duval	1,129	0.27
	Independent	Fang Hu	1,035	0.25
	Independent	Dimitri Mourkes	841	0.20
	Independent	Widler Jules	349	0.08
Total valid votes			418,079	98.19
Total rejected ballots			7,687	1.81	-0.59
Turnout			425,766	38.32	-4.15
Eligible voters			1,111,100
	Projet Montréal hold		Swing		+4.21
Source: Elections Montreal[9]

2022 Quebec general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Roy Eappen	2,086	8.2
	Canadian	Constantine Eliadis	724	2.9	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Rachel Hoffman	71	0.3
	Bloc Montreal	Balarama Holness	1,691	6.7	–
	Parti Québécois	Cloé Rose Jenneau	1,264	5
	Québec solidaire	Élisabeth Labelle	3,893	15.4
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Geneviève Lemay	1,842	7.3
	Liberal	Désirée McGraw	12,780	50.5
	Green	Alex Tyrrell	949	3.8
Total valid votes				–
Total rejected ballots				–
Turnout
Electors on the lists				–	–

Source: Global News[10]

References

External links

• Montreal Alouettes bio
• Official website

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