This is a list of members of the Ontario Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and its successor, the
Ontario New Democratic PartyThe Ontario New Democratic Party or , formally known as New Democratic Party of Ontario, is a social democratic political party in Ontario, Canada. It is a provincial section of the federal New Democratic Party. It was formed in October 1961, a few months after the federal party. The ONDP had its...
(NDP),
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political parties in
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First elected in 1934
The CCF won one of the 90 seats available in the
Legislative Assembly of OntarioThe Legislative Assembly of Ontario , is the legislature of the Canadian province of Ontario, and is the second largest provincial legislature of Canada...
in the
1934 provincial electionThe Ontario general election, 1934 was the 19th general election held in the Province of Ontario, Canada. It was held on June 19, 1934, to elect the 90 Members of the 19th Legislative Assembly of Ontario ....
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- Samuel Lawrence
Samuel Lawrence was a Canadian politician and trade unionist.Lawrence was born in Somerset, England and went to work in a quarry at the age of 12 and became a shop steward in the mason's union at the age of 17. He entered politics running for election in Battersea in London. Known as "Mr...
; Hamilton East elected 1934, def. 1937, Mayor of Hamilton 1944-1949
In the
1937 electionThe Ontario general election, 1937 was held on October 6, 1937, to elect the 90 Members of the 20th Legislative Assembly of Ontario . It was the 20th general election held in the Province of Ontario, Canada....
no CCFers were elected.
First elected in 1943
The CCF won 34 of the 90 seats available in the
1943 electionThe Ontario general election of 1943 was held on August 4, 1943, to elect the 90 Members of the 21st Legislative Assembly of Ontario of the Province of Ontario, Canada....
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- Rae Luckock
Margaret Rae Morrison Luckock known as Rae Luckock was a feminist, social justice activist, peace activist and, with Agnes Macphail, one of the two first women elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario....
; Bracondale (Oakwood, Toronto) 1943-1945; 1st (tied with Macphail) woman elected to Ontario Legislature
- Charles Strange; Brantford 1943-1945
- John Kehoe
John Joseph Kehoe was an accountant and political figure in Ontario. He represented Cochrane North in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1943 to 1945 as a Co-operative Commonwealth member....
; Cochrane North 1943-1945
- Bill Grummett
William John Grummett was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Cochrane South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1943 to 1955 as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ....
; Cochrane South 1943-1945-1948-1951-1955
- Arthur Alles; Essex North 1943-1945
- Robert Thornberry; Hamilton Centre 1943-1945, 1948–1951
- Frederick Warren; Hamilton-Wentworth 1943-1945
- Garfield Anderson
Garfield Anderson was an Ontario political figure. He represented Fort William in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1943 to 1948 as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation member....
; Fort William 1943—1945-1948
- William Herbert Connor
William Herbert Connor was a salesman and political figure in Ontario. He represented Hamilton East in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1943 to 1945 as a Co-operative Commonwealth member....
; Hamilton East 1943-1945
- William Docker; Kenora 1943-1945-1948
- Harry Steel
Harry Steel was a machinist and political figure in Ontario. He represented Lambton West in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1943 to 1945 as a Co-operative Commonwealth member....
; Lambton West 1943-1945
- Cyril Overall; Niagara Falls 1943-1945
- Arthur Casselman; Nipissing 1943-1945
- Arthur Henry Williams
Arthur Henry Williams was a Canadian trade union organizer and politician who served in both the Ontario legislature and the Canadian House of Commons on behalf of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation...
; Ontario (Durham) 1943-1945
- Elmer Smith; Parry Sound 1943-1945
- Frederick Oliver Robinson
Frederick Oliver Robinson was an Ontario machinist and political figure. He represented Port Arthur in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from August 1943 to November 1951 as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation member....
; Port Arthur 1943-1945-1948-1951
- George Edward Lockhart; Rainy River 1943-1945
- Leslie Wismer
Leslie E. Wismer was a trade union official and a member of the Ontario legislature representing Riverdale, Toronto for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation from 1943 to 1945 and again from 1948 until 1951....
; Riverdale 1943-1945, 1948–1951
- William Dennison; St. David 1943-1945, 1948–1951
- George Isaac Harvey
George Isaac Harvey was a politician in the Canadian province of Ontario, who served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1943 to 1951. He represented the electoral district of Sault Ste. Marie as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation .-External links:...
; Sault Ste Marie 1943-1945-1948-1951
- Robert Carlin
Robert Carlin was a Canadian labour union organizer and politician, who represented the electoral district of Sudbury in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1943 to 1948. He was a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation .Born in Buckingham, Quebec, Carlin moved to Cobalt in 1916...
; Sudbury 1943-1945-1948
- Calvin Taylor; Timiskaming 1943-1945-1948-1951
- John Henry Cook; Waterloo North 1943-1945
- Grieve Robinson; Waterloo South 1943-1945
- Howard Elis Brown; Welland 1943-1945
- Leslie Hancock; Wellington South 1943-1945
- William Robertson
William Robertson was an Ontario labourer and political figure. He represented Wentworth in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1943 to 1948 as a Co-operative Commonwealth member....
; Wentworth 1943-1945-1948
- George Bennett
George Bennett was the 19th Mayor of the City of Windsor and a Member of Provincial Parliament in Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1943 to 1945. He represented the riding of Windsor—Sandwich for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ....
; Windsor Sandwich 1943-1945
- William Riggs
William Charles "Bill" Riggs was a Member of Provincial Parliament in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1943 to 1945...
; Windsor Walkerville 1943-1945
- Bertram Leavens; Woodbine 1943-1945, 1948–1951
- Agnes Campbell Macphail; York East (East York) 1943-1945 (defeated), 1948–1951 (defeated) first female MPP sworn in, tied with Luckock as first woman elected to legislature
- George Herbert Mitchell; York North 1943-1945
- Ted Jolliffe
Edward Bigelow "Ted" Jolliffe, QC was a Canadian social democratic politician and lawyer from Ontario. He was the first leader of the Ontario section of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and leader of the Official Opposition in the Ontario Legislature during the 1940s and 1950s...
; York South 1943-1945, 1948–1951
- Charles Millard
Charles Hibbert Millard was a Canadian trade union activist and politician.-Early life:He was born in St...
; York West 1943-1945, 1948–1951
First elected in 1945
The CCF won 8 of the 90 seats available in the
1945 electionThe Ontario general election of 1945 was held on June 4, 1945, to elect the 90 members of the 22nd Legislative Assembly of Ontario of the Province of Ontario, Canada....
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First elected in 1948
The CCF won 21 of the 90 seats available in the
1948 electionThe Ontario general election of 1948 was held on June 7, 1948, to elect the 90 members of the 23rd Legislative Assembly of Ontario of the Province of Ontario, Canada....
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- Reid Scott
Reid Scott is a retired lawyer and provincial judge in Canada, and a former New Democratic Party of Member of Parliament for the Danforth electoral district, in Toronto, from 1962 to 1968, leaving federal politics when his riding disappeared due to redistribution...
; Beaches 1948-1951, later NDP MP
- Harry Walters; Bracondale (Oakwood) 1948-1951
- George Eamon Park
George Eamon Park was born in Monkstown, County Cork, Ireland. His father, Robert Park Sr., was in the Royal Navy and on manoeuvers at the time of his son's birth. Kathleen Park left Portsmouth, England to be with her family in Ireland to have the baby.George was the eldest of four children;...
; Dovercourt 1948-1951
- Gordon Ellis; Essex North 1948-1951
- John Dowling; Hamilton East 1948-1951
- William Temple
William Horace Temple , nicknamed "Temperance Bill" or "Temperance Willie", was a Canadian democratic socialist politician, trade union activist, businessman and temperance crusader. As a youth he worked for the railway. During World War I, and World War II he was a soldier in the Royal Naval...
; High Park 1948-1951
- Thomas Thomas; Ontario (Durham) 1948-1951-1955, Oshawa 1955-1959-1963
- Lloyd Fell; Parkdale 1948-1951
- Theodore Isley
Theodore Henry Isley was an Ontario farmer and politician. He served as on the Waterloo Township council, and then as deputy reeve before being elected to a term in the Ontario legislature as an Ontario Co-operative Commonwealth Federation MPP by winning the Waterloo South seat in the 1948...
; Waterloo South 1948-1951
- Joseph Easton; Wentworth 1948-1951
First elected in 1951
The CCF won two of the 90 seats available in the
1951 electionThe Ontario general election of 1951 was held on November 22, 1951, to elect the 90 members of the 24th Legislative Assembly of Ontario of the Province of Ontario, Canada....
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First elected in 1955
The CCF won 3 of the 90 seats available in the
1955 electionThe Ontario general election of 1955 was held on June 9, 1955, to elect the 98 members of the 25th Legislative Assembly of Ontario of the Province of Ontario, Canada....
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- Reginald Victor Gisborn
Reginald Victor Gisborn was a member of the Ontario legislature for two decades.He represented the Hamilton, Ontario riding of Wentworth East from 1955 to 1967 and Hamilton East from 1967 to 1975. He was first elected as an Ontario CCF MPP and joined the Ontario New Democratic Party when it was...
; Wentworth East 1955-1959-1963-1967, Hamilton East 1967-1971-1975 (retired, NDP won)
- Donald Cameron MacDonald; York South 1955-1959-1963-1967-1971-1975-1977-1981-1982by (gave up seat for Bob Rae, NDP won)
First elected in 1959
The CCF won five of the 98 seats available in the
1959 electionThe Ontario general election of 1959 was held on June 11, 1959, to elect the 98 members of the 26th Legislative Assembly of Ontario of the Province of Ontario, Canada....
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- Norman Andrew Davison; Hamilton East 1959-1963-1967, Hamilton Centre 1967-1971-1975
- Kenneth Bryden
Walter Kenneth Bryden was a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation/NDP member of the Ontario legislature from 1959 to 1967, an economist, academic, civil servant and author.-Background:...
; Woodbine 1959-1963-1967 (retired, NDP won)
First elected in 1963
The NDP won 7 of the 108 seats available in the
1963 electionThe Ontario general election of 1963 was held on September 25, 1963, to elect the 108 members of the 27th Legislative Assembly of Ontario of the Province of Ontario, Canada....
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- Stephen Lewis
Stephen Henry Lewis, is a Canadian politician, broadcaster and diplomat. He was the leader of the social democratic Ontario New Democratic Party for most of the 1970s. During many of the those years as leader, his father David Lewis was simultaneously the leader of the Federal New Democratic Party...
; Scarborough West 1963-1967-1971-1975-1977-1978by (retired, NDP won)
- Fred Young; Yorkview (North York) 1963-1967-1971-1975-1977-1981, United Church Minister, former North York Alderman
First elected in 1964
The NDP won a seat available in a 1964 by-election:
- Jim Renwick; lawyer; Riverdale 1964by-1967-1971-1975-1977-1981-1984 (died in 1984, NDP won)
First elected in 1967
The NDP won 20 of the 117 seats available in the
1967 electionThe Ontario general election of 1967 was held on October 17, 1967, to elect the 117 members of the 28th Legislative Assembly of Ontario of the Province of Ontario, Canada....
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- John L. Brown; Beaches-Woodbine 1967-1971
- Mitro Makarchuk
Mitro Makarchuk was an Ontario politician. He served for three terms as the Ontario New Democratic Party Member of Provincial Parliament for Brantford.-Early life:Makarchuk was born in Saskatchewan...
- Brantford 1967-1971, 1975-1977-1981
- Bill Ferrier
William Herman Ferrier was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Cochrane South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1967 to 1977 as a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party.-Background:...
; Cochrane South 1967-1971-1975-1977
- Morton Shulman
Morton Shulman, OC was a Canadian politician, businessman, broadcaster, columnist, coroner, and physician.-Biography:...
; High Park 1967-1971-1975 (retired, NDP won)
- Patrick Lawlor
Patrick Daniel Lawlor was a Canadian politician who served as the Ontario NDP Member of the Ontario legislature for the Toronto riding of Lakeshore from 1967 to 1981.-Background:...
; Lakeshore 1967-1971-1975-1977-1981
- Clifford George Pilkey; Oshawa 1967-1971
- Walter Pitman
Walter George Pitman, OC, O.Ont is an educator and former politician in Ontario, Canada.Born in Toronto, Ontario, he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1952 and a Master of Arts in 1954 from the University of Toronto....
; former MP ; Peterborough 1967-1971, NDP MP for Peterborough 60-62, & former Ontario NDP leadership candidate
- Margaret Renwick
Margaret Renwick was a Canadian politician, who represented the riding of Scarborough Centre in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1967 to 1971. She was a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party....
; Scarborough Centre 1967-1971
- Elie Martel
Elie Walter Martel is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1967 to 1987, as a member of the New Democratic Party .-Personal life:...
; Sudbury East 1967-1971-1975-1977-1981-1985-1987 (retired, NDP won)
- John Edward Stokes; Thunder Bay 1967-1971-1975, Lake Nipigon 1975-1977-1981-1985 (retired, NDP won)
- Ian Deans
Ian Deans is a Canadian politician.Born in Kilmarnock, Scotland, Deans moved to Canada as a youth and found work as a firefighter...
; Wentworth 1967-1971-1975-1977-1979by, NDP MP for Hamilton Mountain 1984-1986
- Frederick Burr
Frederick Bonham Burr was an English cricketer who played a single first-class game, for Worcestershire against Oxford University in 1911. He made 39 and 7 not out, and caught Ronald Lagden in the first innings....
; Sandwich-Riverside 1967-1975, Windsor Riverside 1975-1977 (retired, NDP won)
- Hugh Peacock
Dr. Hugh Peacock was the Member of Provincial Parliament for the district of Windsor West from 1967 to 1971. He was a member of the New Democratic Party....
; Windsor West 1967-1971 (retired, NDP won)
First elected in 1969
The NDP won a seat available in a 1969 by-election:
- Archdeacon Kenneth Bolton
Kenneth Bolton was an Anglican priest, archdeacon and Ontario New Democratic Party member of the Ontario legislature from 1969 to 1971 representing the riding of Middlesex South....
; Middlesex South 1969by-1971
First elected in 1971
The NDP won 19 of the 117 seats available in the
1971 electionThe Ontario general election of 1971 was held on October 21, 1971, to elect the 117 members of the 29th Legislative Assembly of Ontario of the Province of Ontario, Canada....
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- Floyd Laughren
Floyd Laughren is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He sat in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1971 to 1998 as a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party, and served as Finance Minister and Deputy Premier in the government of Bob Rae.-Background:Laughren's childhood was far...
; Nickel Belt 1971-1975-1977-1981-1985-1987-1990-1995-1998by (retired, NDP won)
- Michael Cassidy
Michael Morris Cassidy is a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1971 to 1984, and in the Canadian House of Commons from 1984 to 1988...
; Ottawa Centre 1971-1975-1977-1981-1984by (ran federally, NDP won),
- Jan Dukszta
Janusz Romwald Dukszta is a Polish-born Toronto psychiatrist and former Ontario New Democratic Party MPP in the Ontario legislature. He and his brother, Andrzej, escaped with their mother from Poland near the end of World War II and settled in London where they were educated at Christ College,...
; Parkdale 1971-1975-1977-1981 (ran, NDP defeated)
- James Francis Foulds; Port Arthur 1971-1975-1977-1981-1985-1987
- Bud Germa
Melville Carlyle Germa was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Sudbury from 1967 to 1968 in the Canadian House of Commons, and from 1971 to 1981 in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario...
; former MP; Sudbury 1971-1975-1977-1981, former NDP MP 1967-1968 for Sudbury
- Ted Bounsall
Dr. Edwin "Ted" Bounsall is a former Canadian politician and a retired chemistry professor from the University of Windsor. He graduated from Imperial College in 1964...
; Windsor West 1971-1975, Windsor Sandwich 1975-1977-1981
First elected in 1974
The NDP won a seat available in a 1974 by-election:
- George Samis
George Roy Samis is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1974 to 1985 as a member of the New Democratic Party ....
; Stormont 1974by-1975, Cornwall 1975-1977-1981-1985
First elected in 1975
The NDP won 38 of the 125 seats available in the
1975 electionThe Ontario general election of 1975 was held on September 18, 1975, to elect the 125 members of the 30th Legislative Assembly of Ontario of the Province of Ontario, Canada....
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- Bud Wildman
Charles Jackson "Bud" Wildman is a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a New Democratic Party Member of Provincial Parliament from 1975 to 1999, representing the riding of Algoma, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Bob Rae.-Background:He was...
; Algoma 1975-1977-1981-1985-1987-1990-1995-1999 (retired, NDP lost)
- Marion Bryden
Marion Helen Bryden is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 1990.-Background:...
; Beaches-Woodbine 1975-1977-1981-1985-1987-1990 (retired, NDP won)
- Ross McClellan
Ross A. McClellan is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 1987 as a member of the New Democratic Party ....
; Bellwoods 1975-1977-1981-1985-1987
- Monty Davidson
Monty Davidson was a union official and politician. He served as the New Democratic Member of Provincial Parliament for Cambridge from 1975 until 1981....
; Cambridge 1975-1977-1981
- Evelyn Gigantes
Evelyn Adelaide Gigantes is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She served as a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on three occasions between 1975 and 1995, and was a prominent cabinet minister in the government of Bob Rae.The daughter of Earle Sanford Peach...
; Carleton East 1975-1977-1981, Ottawa Centre 1984by-1985-1987, 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Antonio Lupusella; Dovercourt 1975-1977-1981-1985-1986 (lost NDP Nomination, became a Liberal, MPP till 1990)
- Odoardo Di Santo
Odoardo Di Santo is a politician and administrator in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 1985, as a member of the New Democratic Party ....
; Downsview 1975-1977-1981-1985 (ran, NDP lost),
- Douglas Moffatt; Durham East 1975-1977
- Charles Godfrey; Durham West 1975-1977
- Edward Philip; Etobicoke 1975-1977-1981-1985-1987, Etobicoke-Rexdale 1987-1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Iain Angus
Iain Francis Angus is a Canadian politician, who has served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and the Canadian House of Commons, as well as on Thunder Bay City Council....
; Fort William 1975-1977
- Michael Norman Davison; Hamilton Centre 1975-1977-1981 (ran, NDP lost), 1984by-1985 (ran, NDP lost)
- Bob Warren Mackenzie; Hamilton East 1975-1977-1981-1985-1987-1990-1995 (retired, NDP lost)
- Ed Ziemba
Ed Ziemba was an New Democratic Party MPP in the Ontario legislature representing the provincial electoral district of High Park—Swansea.He was first elected in the 1975 provincial election succeeding retired NDP MPP Morton Shulman and was re-elected in 1977 by fewer than 800 votes before being...
; High Park-Swansea 1975-1977-1981 (ran, NDP lost)
- Anthony Grande; Oakwood 1975-1977-1981-1985-1987 (ran, NDP lost)
- Michael Breaugh
Michael James Breaugh is a former Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 1990, and in the Canadian House of Commons from 1990 to 1993....
; Oshawa 1975-1977-1981-1985-1987-1990 (ran Federally, NDP won), former NDP MP for Oshawa 1990-1993
- Gillian Sandeman
Gillian Ann Sandeman is a former Canadian politician, who represented the riding of Peterborough in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 1977...
; Peterborough 1975-1977
- David Warner; Scarborough Ellesmere 1975-1977-1981, 1985–1987, 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Robert Bain
Robert Bain was an Ontario politician. Bain served as the Member of Provincial Parliament for Timiskaming for two years. He was a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party caucus in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario....
; Timiskaming 1975-1977
- Melvin Swart; Welland-Thorold 1975-1977-1981-1985-1987-1988by (?, NDP won)
First elected in 1977
The NDP won 33 of the 125 seats available in the
1977 electionThe Ontario general election of 1977 was held on June 9, 1977, to elect the 125 members of the 31st Legislative Assembly of Ontario of the Province of Ontario, Canada....
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- Brian Charlton
Brian Albert Charlton is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1977 to 1995, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Bob Rae....
; Hamilton Mountain 1977-1981-1985-1987-1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Dave Cooke
Dave Cooke is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was an NDP member of the provincial legislature from 1977 to 1997, and was a senior cabinet minister in the government of Bob Rae.-Early career:...
; Windsor Riverside 1977-1981-1985-1987-1990-1995-1998by (retired, NDP won)
First elected in 1979
The NDP won two seat in a 1979 by-elections:
- Colin Isaacs
Colin Francis Weeber Isaacs is an Ontario environmental consultant, journalist and former political figure. He represented Wentworth in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1979 to 1981 as a New Democratic Party member....
- Wentworth 1979by-1981 (ran, NDP lost)
- Richard Johnston
Richard Frank Johnston is a retired Canadian politician, educator and administrator.-Background:Johnston was educated at Trent University and worked there as an administrator and counsellor...
; Scarborough West 1979by-1981-1985-1987-1990 (retired, NDP won)
First elected in 1981
The NDP won 21 of the 125 seats available in the
1981 electionThe Ontario general election of 1981 was held on March 19, 1981, to elect members of the 32nd Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, Canada....
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First elected in 1982
The NDP won two seats in 1982 by-elections:
- Richard Alexander Allen; Hamilton West 1982by-1985-1987-1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Bob Rae
Robert Keith "Bob" Rae, PC, OC, OOnt, QC, MP is a Canadian politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Toronto Centre and interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada....
; York South 1982by-1985-1987-1990-1995-1996by (retired, NDP lost)
First elected in 1985
The NDP won 25 of the 125 seats available in the
1985 electionThe Ontario general election of 1985 was held on May 2, 1985, to elect members of the 33rd Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, Canada...
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- Patrick Michael Hayes
Patrick Michael Hayes is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1985 to 1987, and again from 1990 to 1995.-Background:...
- Essex North 1985-1987, Essex-Kent 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- David Reville
David Reville is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1985 to 1990, and was later an advisor to the government of Bob Rae. Reville is a member of the New Democratic Party....
; Riverdale 1985-1987-1990 (retired, NDP won)
- Ruth Grier
Ruth Anna Grier is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1985 to 1995, and served as a high-profile cabinet minister in the government of Bob Rae....
; Lakeshore 1985-1987, Etobicoke Lakeshore 1987-1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Gilles Pouliot
Gilles Pouliot is a retired politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as a member of the Ontario legislature from 1985 to 1999, representing the Northern Ontario riding of Lake Nipigon for the New Democratic Party....
; Lake Nipigon 1985-1987-1990-1995-1999 (retired, NDP lost)
- Karl Morin-Strom
Karl Arvid Morin-Strom is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1985 to 1990 as a member of the New Democratic Party....
; Sault Ste Marie 1985-1987-1990 (retired, NDP won)
- David Ramsay; Timiskaming 1985-1986* (switched to Liberal Party in 1986, retired 2011)
First elected in 1987
The NDP won 19 of the 130 seats available in the
1987 electionThe Ontario general election of 1987 was held on September 10, 1987, to elect members of the 34th Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, Canada.The governing Ontario Liberal Party, led by David Peterson, was returned to power with a large majority...
:
- Mike Farnan
Michael Liam Farnan is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1987 to 1995, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Bob Rae....
- Cambridge 1987-1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Howard Hampton
Howard George Hampton, MPP is a Canadian lawyer and politician. He has served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada, since 1987 as the Member of Provincial Parliament from the northern riding of Kenora—Rainy River. A member of the Ontario New Democratic Party, he was also the party's...
; Rainy River 1987-1990-1995-1999, Kenora Rainy River 1999-2003–2007-2011 (retired, NDP won)
- Shelley Martel
Shelley Dawn Marie Martel is a Canadian politician. A former member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, she represented the riding of Sudbury East from 1987 to 1999, and Nickel Belt from 1999 until 2007, as a New Democrat....
; Sudbury East 1987-1990-1995-1999, Nickle Belt 1999-2003-2007 (retired, NDP won France GélinasFrance Gélinas is a Canadian politician, who was elected to represent the riding of Nickel Belt in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2007 Ontario election. She is a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party....
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First elected in 1988
The NDP won a seat in a 1988 by-election:
- Peter Kormos
Peter Kormos is a politician in Ontario, Canada. A former lawyer, he was first elected as an Ontario New Democratic Party Member of Provincial Parliament to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the Welland constituency in a 1988 provincial by-election. He replaced veteran NDP legislator Mel...
; Welland Thorold 1988by-1990-1995-1999, Niagara Centre 1999-2003–2007-2011 (retired, NDP won)
First elected in 1990
The NDP won 74 of the 130 seats available in the
1990 electionThe Ontario general election of 1990 was held on September 6, 1990, to elect members of the 35th Legislative Assembly of the province of Ontario, Canada....
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- Frances Lankin
Frances Lankin, PC is a former president and CEO of United Way Toronto, and a former Ontario MPP and cabinet minister. On November 30, 2010, Frances Lankin was appointed by the province to co-chair, along with Dr. Munir Sheikh, a comprehensive review of social assistance in Ontario...
- Beaches-Woodbine 1990-1995-1999, Beaches-East York 1999-2001by (retired, NDP won)
- Bradley Ward - Brantford 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Randy Hope
Randy R. Hope is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is the mayor of the Municipality of Chatham-Kent, Ontario. He also served as a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995.-Background:...
- Chatham-Kent 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Len Wood
Len Wood is a former Canadian politician. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1999, sitting for the New Democratic Party of Ontario.-Background:...
- Cochrane North 1990-1995-1999 (ridings merged, ran in Timiskaming, NDP lost)
- Gilles Bisson
Gilles Bisson is a Franco-Ontarian Canadian politician who has represented the northern riding of Timmins—James Bay in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1990...
- Cochrane South 1990-1995-1999, Timmins-James Bay 1999-2003–present
- Margery Ward
Margery Ward was a politician in Ontario, Canada. Born in Bass River, near Bathurst, New Brunswick, she served as a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 until her death in 1993....
- Don Mills 1990-1993by (died of cancer, NDP lost)
- Tony Silipo
Tony Silipo is a former Canadian politician.Silipo was educated at the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall at York University, and began practising law in 1984...
; Dovercourt 1990-1995-1999 (ran, NDP lost)
- Anthony Perruzza
Anthony Perruzza is a politician in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was a city councillor in North York from 1988 to 1990, and served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995 as a member of the New Democratic Party...
; Downsview 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost),
- Drummond White
Drummond White is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995.-Background:...
; Durham Centre 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Gord Mills
Gordon L. Mills was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995.-Background:...
; Durham East 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- James Wiseman ; Durham West 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Larry O'Connor
Larry O'Connor is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is the former mayor of the township of Brock, Ontario, and previously served as a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995.Before entering political life, O'Connor was a member of the political...
; Durham-York 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost),
- Peter John North
Peter John North is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was elected to two terms in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, where he served from 1990 to 1999....
; Elgin 1990-1993 (quit NDP, sat as independent till 1999)
- Rosario Marchese
Rosario Marchese is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the downtown Toronto riding of Trinity-Spadina for the New Democratic Party of Ontario.-Background:...
; Fort York 1990-1995-1999, Trinity Spadina 1999-2003–present
- Fred Wilson ; Frontenac-Addington 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Derek Fletcher
Derek Fletcher is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995, representing Guelph–Wellington.-Background:...
; Guelph 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Noel Duignan
Noel Duignan is former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995.-Background:...
; Halton North 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- David Christopherson
David Christopherson is a Canadian politician. Since 2004, he has represented the riding of Hamilton Centre in the Canadian House of Commons. He previously served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 2003, and was a cabinet minister in the provincial government of Bob Rae...
; Hamilton Centre 1990-1995-1999, Hamilton West 1999-2003 (retired, NDP lost)
- Elmer Buchanan
Elmer Buchanan is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Bob Rae...
; Hastings Peterborough 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Elaine Ziemba
Elaine Ziemba is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995, and served as a cabinet minister in the government of Bob Rae.-Background:...
; High Park-Swansea 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Paul Klopp ; Huron 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Gary Wilson
Gary Wilson is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995.-Background:Wilson received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Laurentian University in 1969...
; Kingston and the Islands 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- William A. Ferguson
William A. "Will" Ferguson was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1994, and served as Minister of Energy in the government of Bob Rae....
; Kitchener 1990-1995 (did not run, NDP lost)
- Mike Cooper ; Kitchener Wilmot 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Ron Hansen
Ron Hansen may refer to:*Ron Hansen , American novelist*Ron Hansen , Canadian politician*Ron Hansen , baseball player*Ron Hansen...
; Lincoln 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Marion Boyd
Marion Boyd is a former Canadian politician, who represented the riding of London Centre in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1999 as a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party.-Background:...
; London Centre 1990-1995-1999 (ran, NDP lost)
- David Winninger
David Winninger , is a politician in Ontario. He was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995.-Background:...
; London South 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Irene Mathyssen
Irene R. Mathyssen is a Canadian politician and a Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons...
; Middlesex 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Ellen MacKinnon
Ellen MacKinnon was a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995.-Background:...
; Lambton 1990-1995 (did not run, NDP lost)
- Dan Waters
Daniel Waters is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995.-Background:...
; Muskoka-Georgian Bay 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost),
- Margaret Harrington
Margaret Helen Harrington is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995.-Background:...
; Niagara Falls 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Shirley Coppen
Shirley Coppen is former politician in Ontario, Canada. She served as a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Bob Rae.-Background:...
; Niagara South 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Norman Jamison ; Norfolk 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Tony Rizzo
Tony Rizzo is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995....
; Oakwood 1990
- Allan Pilkey
Allan Pilkey is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as mayor of Oshawa, and was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995.-Background:...
; Oshawa 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Kimble Sutherland
Kimble Sutherland is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995.-Ontario Legislator:...
; Oxford 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Karen Haslam
Karen Haslam is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995, and served as a Minister in the government of Bob Rae. Later, she became the Mayor of Stratford, Ontario.-Background:Haslam was a teacher and librarian...
; Perth 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Jenny Carter
Jenny Carter is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995, and served as a cabinet minister in the government of Bob Rae.-Background:...
; Peterborough 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Paul R. Johnson ; Prince Edward-Lennox 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Shelley Wark-Martyn
Shelley Wark-Martyn is a former politician from Ontario, Canada. She was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995, and served as a cabinet minister in the government of Bob Rae....
; Port Arthur 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Marilyn Churley ; Riverdale 1990-1995-1999, Broadview Greenwood 1999-2003, Toronto Danforth 2003-2005 (retired, NDP won)
- Zanana Akande
Zanana L. Akande is a former Canadian politician. She was the first black woman elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and the first black woman to serve as a cabinet minister in Canada....
; St. Andrew's-St. Patrick 1990-1994
- Christel Haeck
Christel HaeckFirst name spelled as Christel, Cristel or Crystal in media sources. was a politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995.-Background:...
; St. Catharines-Brock 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Bob Huget
Bob Huget is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995, and served as a cabinet minister in the government of Bob Rae.-Background:...
; Sarnia 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Tony Martin
Anthony A. "Tony" Martin is a Canadian politician. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 2003, representing the riding of Sault Ste. Marie for the Ontario New Democratic Party . He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons for the federal NDP in 2004, again...
; Sault Ste Marie 1990-1995-1999-2003 (ran, NDP lost), NDP MP Sault Ste Marie 2004–present
- Stephen Owens ; Scarborough Centre 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Bob Frankford ; doctor ; Scarborough East 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Anne Swarbrick
Anne Swarbrick is a former Canadian politician, public employee, labour representative and senior administrator of nonprofit organizations. She was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995, and served as a cabinet minister in the government of Bob Rae...
; Scarborough West 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost),
- Paul Wessenger
Paul Wessenger is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995.-Background:...
; Simcoe Centre 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Sharon Murdock
Sharon Margaret Murdock is a politician and administrator in Ontario, Canada. She was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995.-Background:...
; Sudbury 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Mark Morrow
Mark Morrow is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995.-Background:...
; Wentworth East 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Donald Abel
Donald Clarke Abel is a former Canadian politician and community activist. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 1990 provincial election as an Ontario New Democratic Party MPP, representing the riding of Wentworth North.-Background:Prior to entering politics, Abel studied...
; Wentworth North 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost)
- Dennis Drainville
Dennis Paul Drainville is a Canadian bishop an educator and politician. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1993; later taught Humanities and History for 12 years at the Cegep College de la Gaspésie et des Îles, and is now Anglican Bishop of Quebec.-Ontario...
; Victoria-Haliburton 1990-1993by (quit, NDP lost), Anglican priest
- George Dadamo
George Dadamo is a Canadian politician. He served as a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995.-Early life:...
; Windsor Sandwich 1990-1995 (did not run, NDP lost)
- Wayne Lessard
Wayne Lessard is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as a New Democratic Party Member of Provincial Parliament from 1990 to 1995, and again from 1997 to 1999....
; Windsor Walkerville 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost), Windsor-Riverside 1998by-1999
- Gary Malkowski
Gary Malkowski is a former Canadian provincial politician. He represented the riding of York East in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995, as a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party...
; York East (East York) 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost),
- Giorgio Mammoliti
Giorgio Mammoliti is a city councillor in Toronto, Canada for Ward 7 York West, representing one of the two York West wards. He is Chair of the Affordable Housing Committee and a member of the mayor's executive committee. Previously, he served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario...
; Yorkview 1990-1995 (ran, NDP lost), Toronto City Councillor
First elected in 1995
The NDP won 17 of the 130 seats available in the
1995 electionThe Ontario general election of 1995 was held on June 8, 1995, to elect members of the 36th Legislative Assembly of the province of Ontario, Canada...
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First elected in 1998
The NDP won two seats in 1998 by-elections:
- Blain Morin
Blain Kevin Morin is a Canadian politician and labour union organizer, who represented the Sudbury, Ontario riding of Nickel Belt from 1998 to 1999 in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. He was a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party....
; Nickle Belt 1998by-1999 (Ridings Merged, Did not seek nomination)
- Alex Cullen
Alexander Shaun Cullen is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a former Member of Provincial Parliament in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and a former member of Ottawa City Council, representing the Bay Ward in Ottawa's west end.-Early life and city politics:Cullen was born February 18,...
; Ottawa West 1997by-1998*-1999 (ran NDP lost)
(elected as a Liberal in 1997, he switched to the NDP in 1998 after losing nomination), Ottawa City Councillor
First elected in 1999
The NDP won 9 of the 103 seats available in the
1999 electionAn Ontario general election was held on June 3, 1999, to elect members of the 37th Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, Canada....
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First elected in 2001
The NDP won a seat in a 2001 by-election:
- Michael Prue
Michael D. Prue is a Canadian politician, who represents the riding of Beaches—East York in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. He is the New Democratic Party critic for Finance, Public Infrastructure Renewal, Community and Social Services and the Management Board of Cabinet, and for issues...
; Beaches-East York 2001by-2003–present, former mayor of East York
First elected in 2003
The NDP won 7 of the 103 seats available in the
2003 electionThe Ontario general election of 2003 was held on October 2, 2003, to elect the 103 members of the 38th Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, Canada....
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First elected in 2004
The NDP won a seat in a 2004 by-election:
- Andrea Horwath
Andrea Horwath , is a Canadian activist and politician. She is the Leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party in Canada. She is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Hamilton Centre, and was chosen as the party's leader at its 2009 leadership convention.She is...
; Hamilton East 2004by-present, former Hamilton City Councillor
First elected in 2006
The NDP won a seat, and retained one that they already held, in 2006 by-elections:
- Peter Tabuns
Peter Charles Tabuns is a Canadian politician. He is serving as a member of the Ontario Legislative Assembly where he represents the riding of Toronto-Danforth as a member of the New Democratic Party. He launched a bid to lead the party after the previous leader, Howard Hampton, resigned. A...
; Toronto-Danforth 2006by-present, former Toronto City Councillor/frm Head of Greenpeace
- Cheri DiNovo
Cheri DiNovo, MPP, is a Canadian social democratic politician. She is an United Church of Canada minister and previously headed the Emmanuel-Howard Park congregation in Toronto, Ontario. As the New Democratic Party of Ontario candidate in Parkdale–High Park, she was elected to the Legislative...
; Parkdale-High Park 2006by-present, United Church Minister
First elected in 2007
The NDP picked up one seat in a by-election, but lost it in the general election. Two MPPs resigned and their seats were retained in the general election in which the NDP won 10 seats, the same number as in the 2003 election. However the size of the legislature increased in this election from 103 to 107 seats.
- Paul Ferreira
Paul Ferreira is a Canadian social democratic politician and one of the first openly gay politicians elected to provincial office in Canada. He also has the distinction of being the very first Azorean-Canadian MPP...
, York South—WestonYork South—Weston is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999.Its Member of Provincial Parliament is Liberal Laura Albanese.-Geography:...
, Februaryby-October 2007 (def.)
- France Gélinas
France Gélinas is a Canadian politician, who was elected to represent the riding of Nickel Belt in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2007 Ontario election. She is a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party....
, Nickel BeltNickel Belt is a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of Ontario. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. The district is located in Northern Ontario and includes much of the eastern and southern parts of the District of Sudbury, as well as most of Greater...
, 2007-2011-present
- Paul Miller
Paul Miller is a politician in Hamilton, Ontario, and Member of Provincial Parliament representing the provincial constituency of Hamilton East—Stoney Creek in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Miller belongs to the Ontario New Democratic Party...
, Hamilton East—Stoney CreekHamilton East—Stoney Creek is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since the 2007 provincial election....
, 2007-2011-present
First elected in 2011
The NDP won 17 seats (out of 107) for a net gain of 7.
- Teresa Armstrong
Teresa Armstrong, 45, is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2011 election. She represents the electoral district of London—Fanshawe as a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party caucus....
, London—Fanshawe, 2011-
- Sarah Campbell
Sarah Campbell is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2011 election. She represents the electoral district of Kenora—Rainy River as a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party caucus....
, Kenora—Rainy River, 2011-
- Cindy Forster
Cindy Forster is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2011 election. She represents the electoral district of Welland as a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party caucus....
, Welland, 2011-
- Michael Mantha
Michael Mantha is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2011 election. He represents the electoral district of Algoma—Manitoulin as a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party caucus....
, Algoma—Manitoulin, 2011-
- Taras Natyshak
Taras Natyshak is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2011 election. He represents the electoral district of Essex as a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party caucus...
, Essex, 2011-
- Jonah Schein
Jonah Schein is a Canadian politian. He is a Member of Provincial Parliament in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for the Davenport riding in Toronto....
, Davenport, 2011-
- Jagmeet Singh
Jagmeet Singh Dhaliwal an Ontario MPP elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2011 provincial election. He represents the electoral district of Bramalea—Gore—Malton for the Ontario New Democratic Party....
, Bramalea—Gore—Malton, 2011-
- Monique Taylor
Monique Taylor is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2011 election. Aged 39, she represents the electoral district of Hamilton Mountain as a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party caucus. Previously, Taylor was administrative assistant to...
, Hamilton Mountain, 2011-
- John Vanthof
John Vanthof is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2011 election. Aged 48, he represents the electoral district of Timiskaming—Cochrane as a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party caucus....
, Timiskaming—Cochrane, 2011-
Prominent Ontario CCF/NDP members and organizers
1930/1940s
- Elmore Philpott
Elmore Philpott was a Canadian politician and journalist. Philpott joined the Canadian military during World War I and was badly wounded - he needed two canes to help him walk for the rest of his life....
- Ontario CCF organizer, 1933–1935
- Graham Spry
- Further reading :*Babe, Robert. "Graham Spry" in Canadian Communications Thought: Ten Foundational Writers. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-7949-0.*McChesney, Robert W. , Canadian Journal of Communication 24....
- League for Social ReconstructionThe League for Social Reconstruction was a circle of Canadian socialist intellectuals officially formed in 1932, though it had its beginnings during a camping retreat in 1931. These academics were advocating radical social and economic reforms and political education. Industrialization,...
/CCF organizer
- Frank Underhill
Frank Hawkins Underhill, was a Canadian historian, social critic and political thinker.Frank Underhill, born in Stouffville, Ontario, was educated at the University of Toronto and the University of Oxford where he was a member of the Fabian Society...
- League for Social Reconstruction/CCF organizer
- F.R. Scott - League for Social Reconstruction/CCF organizer
- Murray Cotterill
Murray Cotterill was a Canadian trade union activist and organizer for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ....
- prominent organizer and Ontario CCF leadership candidate in 1942
- Lister Sinclair - CCF speechwriter
- Lewis Duncan
James Lewis Duncan was a Canadian politician and lawyer.Duncan was the son of a physician and grandson of a Presbyterian minister. He studied at the University of Toronto and in Paris and won a silver medal as a student at Osgoode Hall Law School.He fought in World War I at the Somme, Vimy Ridge...
- Former Toronto City councillor & Ontario CCF leadership challenger in 1946
- Bill White
William Andrew White, III, OC was a Canadian composer and social justice activist, who was the first Black Canadian to run for federal office in Canada.-1949 federal election:...
- First African-Canadian to run for provincial or federal office in Canada.
1960s
- Douglas Campbell (Toronto politician) - candidate for party positions
1970s
- Michael Lewis - organizer and provincial secretary
- Gerald Caplan
Gerald Lewis Caplan, PhD is a Canadian academic, public policy analyst, commentator and political activist. He has had a varied career in academia, as a political organizer for the New Democratic Party, in advocacy around education, broadcasting and African affairs and as a commentator in various...
- advisor to Stephen Lewis, director of research in the late 1990s
1980s
- Ian Orenstein
Ian Julius Orenstein is a political activist. Orenstein is the younger son of Oscar Orenstein and Jean Orenstein. He first lived in Toronto until 1967. Orenstein has also lived from 1967 to 1972 in Schumacher and Timmins and Ottawa...
- former Ontario NDP leadership challenger, comic book artist
1990s
- Alex Munter
Alexander Mathias Munter is a former politician and journalist in Ottawa, Canada's capital city. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario....
- long-time NDP member, former candidate, Head of Canadians for Equal Marriage,
- Sheila White
Sheila White is a Canadian political activist and a member of the New Democratic Party. She has run for office unsuccessfully five times, to date, in Toronto, Canada....
- NDP strategist & candidate
- Tarek Fatah
Tarek Fatah Urdu: طارق فتح is a Canadian political activist, writer, and broadcaster. He is the author of Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State published by John Wiley & Sons. In the book Fatah challenges the notion that the establishment of an Islamic state is a necessary...
- long-time NDP member, former candidate, Host of TV show Muslim Chronicle
- Jamey Heath
Jamey Heath is a political activist in Ontario, Canada. He was the research and communications director for the New Democratic Party under Jack Layton until shortly after the 2006 federal election...
- organizer and candidate
Articles on prominent NDP candidates & past candidates
2003 election
- Earl Manners - Head of Ontario Secondary School Teachers Union
1995 election
- Brent Hawkes
Brent Hawkes, is a Canadian clergyman. Since 1977, he has served as senior pastor of Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto for LGBT parishioners, and is one of Canada's leading gay rights activists....
- Revenend Metropolitan Community Church, gay activist
1987 election
- Judy Rebick
Judy Rebick , arrived in Toronto at age 9, and is a Canadian journalist, political activist, and feminist.-Career:...
- Founder of Rabble.ca, feminist
Toronto
- David Miller - Mayor of Toronto 2003–2010
- Gus Harris
Augustus John Harris was a Canadian politician. He was born in Liverpool, United Kingdom. He was the mayor of Scarborough, Ontario from 1978 to 1988....
- Mayor of Scarborough 1978-1988
- William Dennison
William Dennison or Denison may refer to:*William Dennison , 18th-century Master of University College, Oxford*William Dennison, Jr. , American politician, Governor of Ohio and U.S...
- Mayor of Toronto 1966-1972
- James Simpson
James "Jimmy" Simpson was a Canadian trade unionist, printer, journalist and left wing politician in Toronto, Ontario...
- Mayor of Toronto 1935
- True Davidson
Jean Gertrude Davidson, CM , the first mayor of the Borough of East York, Ontario, was one of Toronto’s most colourful politicians in a career spanning nearly 25 years...
- Reeve and later Mayor of East YorkEast York can refer to:*East York, Pennsylvania, United States*East York, Ontario, Canada...
1960-1971. Originally a CCFer, later a Liberal.
- Maria Augimeri
Maria Augimeri is a city councillor in Toronto, Ward 9 representing one of the two York Centre wards.-Background:Augimeri moved to Canada with her family at age two. Before entering politics, she was a Social Anthropologist at York University...
- long-time NDP City Councillor for North York & Toronto
- Howard Moscoe
Howard Moscoe was a city councillor in Toronto, Canada, representing Ward 15 in the western part of Eglinton-Lawrence. Among the most prominent and longest-serving councillors in the city, he is also known for an outspokenness which has landed him in controversy at times. Moscoe is a member of...
- long-time NDP City Councillor for North York & Toronto
- Joe Pantalone
Joe Pantalone is a former Canadian politician, city councillor for Ward 19, one of two wards in Trinity—Spadina. He served as deputy mayor under David Miller from 2003 to 2010...
- long-time NDP City Councillor in Toronto
- Pam McConnell
Pam McConnell is a city councillor in Toronto, Canada for Ward 28 which is one of the two Toronto Centre wards.She was a teacher before entering politics by being elected as a school board trustee in 1982. She held that position until 1994. She played a prominent role in advocating for adult...
- long-time NDP City Councillor in Toronto
- Sandra Bussin
Sandra Bussin was a politician in Toronto, Canada. She was a municipal councillor for Toronto City Council representing Ward 32, an area called the Beaches. From 2006 to 2010 she was Speaker of Toronto City Council.-Background:...
- long-time NDP City Councillor in Toronto
- Joe Mihevc
Joe Mihevc is a city councillor in Toronto, Canada. He represents one of the two St. Paul's wards, Ward 21 St. Paul's.-Background:...
- long-time NDP City Councillor in Toronto
- Reid Scott
Reid Scott is a retired lawyer and provincial judge in Canada, and a former New Democratic Party of Member of Parliament for the Danforth electoral district, in Toronto, from 1962 to 1968, leaving federal politics when his riding disappeared due to redistribution...
- Toronto alderman from 1969 to 1976, former CCF MPP and NDP Member of Parliament
- Janet Davis
Janet Davis is a city councillor in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She represents Ward 31 Beaches-East York, the northern portion of Beaches—East York...
- NDP City Councillor in Toronto
- Anthony Perruzza
Anthony Perruzza is a politician in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was a city councillor in North York from 1988 to 1990, and served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995 as a member of the New Democratic Party...
- NDP City Councillor in Toronto
- Gord Perks
Gord Perks is a Canadian environmentalist, political activist, writer and is the city councillor for the Toronto municipal electoral district of Parkdale—High Park, Ward 14.-Environmentalist:...
- NDP City Councillor in Toronto
- Paula Fletcher
Paula Fletcher is a Canadian politician. In 2003, she was elected to the Toronto City Council for Ward 30 Toronto-Danforth.-Background:...
- NDP City Councillor in Toronto, Former leader of Manitoba Communist Party
- Adam Giambrone
Adam Giambrone is a Canadian politician who was a Toronto City Councillor, representing the southern of two Davenport wards. Elected at 26, he remained the youngest member of Toronto council after re-election. He is also a former president of the federal New Democratic Party...
- NDP City Councillor and federal party president
- Jack Layton
John Gilbert "Jack" Layton, PC was a Canadian social democratic politician and the Leader of the Official Opposition. He was the leader of the New Democratic Party from 2003 to 2011, and previously sat on Toronto City Council, serving at times during that period as acting mayor and deputy mayor of...
- Former NDP Toronto City Councillor (now MP and party leader)
- Olivia Chow
Olivia Chow is a Canadian New Democratic Party Member of Parliament and former city councillor in Toronto. She won the Trinity—Spadina riding for the New Democratic Party on January 23, 2006, becoming a member of the Canadian House of Commons. Most recently, she was re-elected in her riding for...
- Former NDP Toronto City Councillor (current MP)
- Barbara Hall
Barbara Hall is a Canadian lawyer, public servant and former politician. She was the 61st mayor of Toronto, the last to run before amalgamation. She was elected mayor of the pre-amalgamation City of Toronto in 1994, and held office until December 31, 1997...
- former NDP Toronto City Councillor, later 'Liberal' Mayor of Toronto
- Dan Heap
Daniel James Macdonnell "Dan" Heap is a former Canadian politician with the New Democratic Party, a political activist and an Anglican priest. He represented the Toronto, Ontario, Canada riding of Spadina, which, in 1988, was renamed Trinity—Spadina, from 1981 until 1993...
- Former NDP Toronto City Councillor (also frm NDP MP)
- Irene Jones
Irene Jones is a former municipal councillor in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A member of the social democratic New Democratic Party, she served on the Etobicoke and Toronto councils from 1988 until 2003, when she stood down to seek election to the provincial legislature.-Background:Jones was the...
- Former NDP Toronto City Councillor
- Dan Leckie - Former long-time NDP Toronto City Councillor
- David Robertson
David Robertson was an Ontario physician and political figure. He represented Halton in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1879 to 1883 as a Liberal member....
- Ontario MPP
- Martin Silva
Martin Silva is a politician and radio personality in Toronto, Ontario.- Biography :Born in Sever do Vouga, Aveiro, Portugal, he emigrated to Canada in August 1968, where he gained popularity in the Portuguese community as a radio announcer on CHIN Radio...
- Former long-time NDP Toronto City Councillor
- Fred Young Former NDP North York City Councillor (also frm NDP MPP)
- Irene Atkinson - Toronto School Board Trustee (Parkdale-High Park)
- Sheila Cary-Meagher - Toronto School Board Trustee (Beaches-East York)
- Stephnie Payne - longtime Toronto School Board Trustee (York West)
- Maria Rodriques - Toronto School Board Trustee Davenport 2003–present
- Cathy Dandy - Toronto School Board Trustee Toronto Danforth 2006–present
- Rick Telfer - former School Board Trustee (Toronto-Danforth, Ward 15) 2003-2006
- John Campey - frm longtime School Board Trustee & NDP Organizer
- John Doherty
John Doherty may refer to:*John Doherty , senior executive in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation*John Doherty , first baseman for the Angels, 1974–1975...
- frm Toronto School Board Trustee
- Bob Spencer
Bob Spencer was a guitarist in two significant Australian rock bands in the 1970s and 1980s, Skyhooks and The Angels.Spencer grew up in Sydney's south-eastern suburbs and attended Our Lady of Annunciation Primary School, Pagewood, Maroubra, from 1963 to 1965 and Marist Brothers, Daceyville from...
- frm Toronto School Board Trustee
- Sheila Lambrinos - frm North York School Board Trustee
- Errol Young - frm North York School Board Trustee
- Pat Collie - frm Scarborough School Board Trustee
- Catherine Leblanc-Miller - Toronto Catholic School Trustee
- Maria Rizzo
Maria Rizzo is a politician in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was a member of the Toronto Public School Board from 1982 to 1985, and was a North York city councillor from 1991 to 1997. She is currently a member of the Toronto Catholic School Board...
- Toronto Catholic School Trustee
Suburban Toronto
- Larry O'Connor
Larry O'Connor is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is the former mayor of the township of Brock, Ontario, and previously served as a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995.Before entering political life, O'Connor was a member of the political...
- Mayor of Brock 2006–present, frm Durham Regional Councillor (Brock Ward) (frm NDP MPP)
- Brian Nicholson - long-time Oshawa City Councillor
- former NDP City Councillor in Oshawa Bruce McArthur, 1973–1985
- Oshawa Regional councillor Mike Breaugh
- Oshawa Regional councillor Nester Pidwerbecki
- Ajax-area Regional councillor Colleen Jordan
- Local Ajax Councillor Joanne Dies
- Evelyn Buck - Aurora City Councillor, and federal NDP candidate for York North in 1988
- frm long-time Brampton City Councillor Eric Carter
Eastern Ontario
- Mary Smith - Councillor (Lakefield Ward, Smith-Ennismore-Lakefield Twp., ON)
- Clive Doucet
Clive Doucet is a Canadian writer and politician.Doucet was born in 1946 in London, England to an Acadian serviceman and an English war bride. Doucet grew up in the city of Ottawa, Ontario. He also spent some of his youth in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Doucet was raised as a Catholic,...
- Ottawa City Councillor 2000–present, Capital Ward
- Ottawa city councillor Alex Cullen
Alexander Shaun Cullen is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a former Member of Provincial Parliament in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and a former member of Ottawa City Council, representing the Bay Ward in Ottawa's west end.-Early life and city politics:Cullen was born February 18,...
(frm NDP MPP)
- Former Councillor/Conseiller Alex Munter
Alexander Mathias Munter is a former politician and journalist in Ottawa, Canada's capital city. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario....
, Kanata
- Rick Downes
Rick Downes is current city councillor in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. In 2006 he ran for the office of mayor of Kingston where he was backed by the Kingston & District Labour Council. He came second in the 2006 election losing by a margin of 730 votes to Harvey Rosen...
- former Kingston City Councillor and mayoral candidate
- Marion Dewar
Marion Dewar, CM was a prominent member of the New Democratic Party , mayor of Ottawa from 1978 to 1985 and a member of the Parliament of Canada from 1986 to 1988.-Early life:...
- former mayor of Ottawa
Niagara/Hamilton
- frm Hamilton City Alderman Don Gray
- frm Hamilton City Councillor Andrea Horwath
Andrea Horwath , is a Canadian activist and politician. She is the Leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party in Canada. She is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Hamilton Centre, and was chosen as the party's leader at its 2009 leadership convention.She is...
(now NDP MPP)
- Hamilton School Board trustee Bob Barlow
Robert George Barlow is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player.-Playing career:He was the captain of the Vancouver Canucks of the Western Hockey League during the 1968-69 season. He played in 77 NHL games with the Minnesota North Stars over parts of two seasons and 51 WHA games with the...
- Hamilton School Board trustee Jessica Brennan
- frm NDP Mayor of Welland and recently elected Regional councillor Cindy Forrester
- Recently elected St.Catharines city councillor Jeff Burch
- Port Colborne ward 4 councillor Barbara Butters
- Recently elected Thorold city councillor Shawn Wilson
South-Western Ontario
- Ron Jones
Rev. Capt. Ronald Clyde "Ron" Jones is a former Methodist minister, Windsor District Fire Chief, Trustee for the Greater Essex County District School Board, and is currently a city councillor in Ward 2 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada's west end....
- City Councillor Windsor Ward 2 2002by-present, Windsor School Trustee 1980-1992
- Gina Barber - London Board of Control member
- Rev.Susan Eagle - London City Councillor
- Megan Walker
Megan Walker is the executive director of the London Abused Women's Centre in London, Ontario, Canada, a community activist, a former AM radio co-host and also a former member of London City Council from 1994-2000, representing Ward 6....
- former London City Councillor Ward 6, 1994–2000
- David Winninger
David Winninger , is a politician in Ontario. He was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995.-Background:...
- frm NDP MPP, London City Councillor Ward 6 2000-2006, Ward 11 2006 – present
- Donna Reid - Cambridge City Councillor, Ward 1
- Pam Wolf - Cambridge City Councillor, Ward 5
Northern Ontario
- John Rodriguez
John R. Rodriguez is a Canadian politician. He served as the mayor of Greater Sudbury, Ontario from 2006 to 2010, and previously represented the electoral district of Nickel Belt in the Canadian House of Commons from 1972 to 1980 and from 1984 to 1993 as a member of the New Democratic...
- Mayor of Greater Sudbury 2006-2010 (frm NDP MP)
- Steve Butland
Steve Butland is a Canadian politician. He represented the Sault Ste. Marie electoral district in the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 to 1993 as a member of the New Democratic Party. Before entering politics, Butland served as principal at St...
- Sault Ste. Marie City Councillor (frm NDP MP)
- Thunder Bay city councillor Andrew Foulds
- Thunder Bay city councillor Iain Angus
Iain Francis Angus is a Canadian politician, who has served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and the Canadian House of Commons, as well as on Thunder Bay City Council....
- Kenora city councillor Charito Drinkwater
- Sioux Lookout councillor Susan Williams
Susan Rene Bartholomew-Williams is a triathlete from the United States.She competed at the second Olympic triathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She was the first U.S. triathlete to win an Olympic medal by taking the bronze in 2004 in Athens. She placed third with a total time of 2:05:08.92...
- Sioux Lookout councillor James Brohm
- John Edmund Parry
John Edmund Parry is a Canadian politician. He served in the Canadian House of Commons from 1984 to 1988, as a member of the New Democratic Party....
- former Mayor of Sioux Lookout and former NDP MP
See also