Ontario New Democratic Party leadership election, 2009
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The 2009 Ontario New Democratic Party leadership election was held in Hamilton
Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...

, from March 6 to 8, 2009 to elect a successor to Howard Hampton
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...

 as leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party
Ontario New Democratic Party
The 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). On June 15, 2008, Hampton informed the party's provincial council that he would not stand for re-election as leader at the next party convention in a year's time. While a leadership vote was held at each biennial convention of the Ontario NDP until and including the last regular convention in 2007, there is normally not a contested vote unless there is a vacancy, therefore, the 2009 vote was the party's first leadership convention
Leadership convention
In Canadian politics, a leadership convention is held by a political party when the party needs to choose a leader due to a vacancy or a challenge to the incumbent leader.- Overview :...

 since Hampton was elected in 1996 to succeed Bob Rae
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....

.

Gilles Bisson

Gilles Bisson
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...

, 52, is the Member of Provincial Parliament
Member of Provincial Parliament
A Member of Provincial Parliament is an elected member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, Canada.The titular designation "Member of Provincial Parliament" and the initialism "MPP" were formally adopted by the Legislature on April 7, 1938...

 (MPP) for Timmins—James Bay
Timmins—James Bay (provincial electoral district)
Timmins—James Bay is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999...

. He was first elected in the 1990 provincial election
Ontario general election, 1990
The 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....

 in the riding of Cochrane South
Cochrane South
Cochrane South was a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1926 to 1999...

. He served as parliamentary assistant to the Ministers of Northern Development and Mines and Francophone Affairs from 1990 until 1995. He was re-elected by a greater margin in Cochrane South in the 1995 election
Ontario general election, 1995
The 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...

. He was subsequently re-elected in Timmins—James Bay in the 1999
Ontario general election, 1999
An Ontario general election was held on June 3, 1999, to elect members of the 37th Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, Canada....

, 2003
Ontario general election, 2003
The 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....

 and 2007
Ontario general election, 2007
The Ontario general election of 2007 was held on October 10, 2007 to elect members of the 39th Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, Canada. The Liberals under Dalton McGuinty won the election with a majority government, winning 71 out of a possible 107 seats with 42.2% of the popular...

 elections. Before entering politics, he was a labour union organizer.
  • High profile supporters: Charlie Angus
    Charlie Angus
    Charles Joseph Angus MP is a Canadian writer, broadcaster, musician, and politician. Angus entered electoral politics in 2004 as the successful New Democratic Party candidate in the Ontario riding of Timmins—James Bay. He was the NDP parliamentary critic for Canadian Heritage from 2004 to 2007,...

    , MP - Timmins James Bay; Tony Martin
    Tony Martin (politician)
    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...

    , MP - Sault Ste. Marie; Carol Hughes
    Carol Hughes
    Carol Hughes is a Canadian politician, who has represented the electoral district of Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing in the Canadian House of Commons since 2008. She is a member of the New Democratic Party....

    , MP - Algoma; John Rafferty, MP - Thunder Bay-Rainy River; Claude Gravelle
    Claude Gravelle
    Claude Gravelle is a Canadian politician, who was elected to represent the electoral district of Nickel Belt in the 2008 Canadian federal election. He is a member of the New Democratic Party....

    , MP - Nickel Belt; Bruce Hyer
    Bruce Hyer
    Bruce Tolhurst Hyer is an American-born Canadian politician, who was first elected to represent the electoral district of Thunder Bay—Superior North in the 2008 Canadian federal election, and re-elected with a wider margin in the 2011 federal election...

    , MP - Thunder Bay - Superior North; Glenn Thibeault
    Glenn Thibeault
    Glenn Thibeault is a Canadian politician. Since 2008, he has represented the Ontario electoral district of Sudbury in the Canadian House of Commons...

    , MP - Sudbury; France Gélinas
    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....

    , MPP - Nickel Belt; Tania Cameron, former NDP Candidate - Kenora and Band Manager - Dalles First Nation; Dianna Allen, former NDP Candidate - Nipissing-Timiskaming; Ric Dagenais, former NDP Candidate - Ottawa-Vanier; Wayne Lessard
    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....

    , former MPP - Windsor—St. Clair; Gord Wilson
    Gord Wilson
    Gordon Allan Wilson was a professional ice hockey player who played two games in the National Hockey League. He played with the Boston Bruins.- References :...

    , Former President - Ontario Federation of Labour; Fred Upshaw, Former President - OPSEU; United Food and Commercial Workers Union; Dave Killham, Executive Director, Workers Health and Safety Centre
  • Date campaign announced: July 14, 2008
  • Date campaign officially launched: August 28, 2008
  • Date officially registered: August 27, 2008
  • Website: gillesbisson.com

Andrea Horwath

Andrea Horwath
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...

, 46, is the MPP for Hamilton Centre
Hamilton Centre
Hamilton Centre is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004.It was created in 2003 from parts of Hamilton East, Hamilton West and Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Aldershot ridings....

. She was defeated in the 1997 federal election
Canadian federal election, 1997
The Canadian federal election of 1997 was held on June 2, 1997, to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 36th Parliament of Canada. Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's Liberal Party of Canada won a second majority government...

 in Hamilton West, where she finished a distant second place. She was first elected to Hamilton City Council
Hamilton City Council
The Hamilton City Council is the governing body of the City of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.The current council consists of the mayor plus fifteen councillors, one elected from each of the city's wards. The incumbent council was elected in a municipal election on November 13, 2006...

 in 1997, representing Ward 2. She was re-elected in 2000 and again in 2003
Hamilton municipal election, 2003
The 2003 Hamilton municipal election was held on November 10, 2003 to elect municipal officials in Hamilton, Ontario. The most high-profile contest was for the mayoral office...

. She was first elected to the Ontario legislature in a by-election in 2004 in the riding of Hamilton East
Hamilton East (provincial electoral district)
Hamilton East is a former provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada. It was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1894 to 2007, when it was redistributed between the new ridings of Hamilton Centre and Hamilton East—Stoney Creek...

 with 63.6% of the vote. She was subsequently re-elected in the riding of Hamilton Centre in the 2007 election. Before entering politics, she was a community development worker.
  • High profile supporters: Peter Kormos
    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...

    , MPP, Niagara Centre
    Niagara Centre
    Niagara Centre was a federal and provincial electoral district that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2003, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2007.-Federal riding:...

    ; Rosario Marchese
    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:...

    , MPP, Trinity-Spadina; David Christopherson
    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...

    , MP, Hamilton Centre; Chris Charlton
    Chris Charlton
    Chris Charlton, MP, MA is a German-born, Canadian politician from the City of Hamilton, Ontario. As a New Democrat, she has served as the Member of Parliament for Hamilton Mountain since 2006...

    , MP Hamilton Mountain; Malcolm Allen
    Malcolm Allen (politician)
    Malcolm Allen is a Canadian politician. He has represented the riding of Welland in the Canadian House of Commons since 2008 as a member of the New Democratic Party...

    , MP, Welland; Wayne Samuelson, President, Ontario Federation of Labour
    Ontario Federation of Labour
    The Ontario Federation of Labour is a prominent federation of labour unions in the Canadian province of Ontario. The original OFL was established by the Canadian Congress of Labour in 1944...

    ; Leah Casselman; Past President, OPSEU; Irene Harris, Secretary/Treasurer OFL; Wayne Fraser, Director of District 6 (Ontario and Atlantic Region), United Steel Workers of America; Elaine MacDonald, Cornwall City Councillor and former NDP candidate; Leo Gerard
    Leo Gerard
    Leo W. Gerard is a steelworker and a Canadian and American labor leader. He was elected president of the United Steelworkers in 2001, and is the second Canadian to head the union. He is also a vice president of the AFL-CIO....

    , President, United Steel Workers of America; SEIU Local One
    SEIU Local 1 Canada
    Services Employees International Union Local 1 Canada is the largest SEIU local trade union in Canada, representing more than 50,000 health care and community services workers in Ontario. Its members work in hospitals, home care, nursing & retirement homes and community services throughout the...

    ; Sid Ryan
    Sid Ryan
    Patrick Cyril "Sid" Ryan is president of the Ontario Federation of Labour and a longtime Canadian labour union leader and politician.-Biography:...

    , President, CUPE Ontario
  • Date campaign announced: July 15, 2008
  • Date campaign officially launched: November 7, 2008
  • Date officially registered: September 19, 2008
  • Website: andreahorwath.com

Michael Prue

Michael Prue
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...

, 60, is the MPP for Beaches—East York
Beaches—East York (provincial electoral district)
Beaches—East York is a provincial electoral district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.It was created in 1999 from parts of Beaches—Woodbine , Don Mills , and York East ....

. He has been an MPP since 2001 when he defeated Liberal Bob Hunter
Robert Hunter (journalist)
Robert Lorne Hunter was a Canadian environmentalist, journalist, author and politician. A member of the Don't Make a Wave Committee in 1969 with Dorothy and Irving Stowe, Marie and Jim Bohlen, and Ben and Dorothy Metcalfe...

 in a hotly contested by-election
By-election
A by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections....

. Prue was first elected to public office as a city councillor in 1988, and then became Mayor
Mayor
In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....

 in 1993 of the former Borough of East York
East York
East York can refer to:*East York, Pennsylvania, United States*East York, Ontario, Canada...

. In 1997, East York was amalgamated into the City of Toronto and Prue was elected to Toronto City Council
Toronto City Council
The Toronto City Council is the governing body of the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.Members represent wards throughout the city, and are known as councillors....

, where he served until his election to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
Legislative Assembly of Ontario
The Legislative Assembly of Ontario , is the legislature of the Canadian province of Ontario, and is the second largest provincial legislature of Canada...

. Prue was re-elected as MPP of Beaches-East York in 2003, and again in 2007. Prior to entering politics, Prue worked as counsel for the Minister of Employment and Immigration.
  • High profile supporters: Howard Pawley
    Howard Pawley
    Howard Russell Pawley, PC, OC, OM is a Canadian politician and professor who was the 18th Premier of Manitoba from 1981 to 1988.-Personal life:...

    , former NDP premier of Manitoba; Paul Miller
    Paul Miller (Canadian politician)
    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...

    , MPP for Hamilton East—Stoney Creek
    Hamilton East—Stoney Creek
    Hamilton East—Stoney Creek is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004.The riding was formed in 2003 from parts of the former ridings of Hamilton East and Stoney Creek....

    ; Marilyn Churley, former NDP MPP and Ontario Cabinet Minister; David Warner
    David William Warner
    David William Warner is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on three separate occasions between 1975 and 1995, and served as Speaker of the Assembly during Bob Rae's administration.-Background:Warner worked as a...

    , former NDP MPP and Speaker of the Ontario legislature; Gary Malkowski
    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...

    , former NDP MPP, York East; Maria Augimeri
    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...

    , Toronto City Councillor for Ward 9; Howard Moscoe
    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...

    , Toronto City Councillor for Ward 15 & former TTC
    Toronto Transit Commission
    -Island Ferry:The ferry service to the Toronto Islands was operated by the TTC from 1927 until 1962, when it was transferred to the Metro Parks and Culture department. Since 1998, the ferry service is run by Toronto Parks and Recreation.-Gray Coach:...

     Chair; Joe Mihevc
    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:...

    , Toronto City Councillor for Ward 21; Janet Davis
    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...

    , Toronto City Councillor for Ward 31; Sandra Bussin
    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:...

    , Toronto City Councillor for Ward 32 & Speaker of the Toronto City Council; Shelley Carroll
    Shelley Carroll
    Shelley Carroll is a city councillor in Toronto, Canada. She represents Ward 33 Don Valley East, one of the two Don Valley East municipal wards. She was formerly the Chair of the City's Budget Committee.-Background:...

    , Toronto City Councillor for Ward 33 and Toronto Budget Chief; Alex Cullen
    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 City Councillor for Ward 7; Darlene Jalbert, former NDP candidate; Richard Johnston
    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...

    , former NDP MPP Scarborough West; Jenny Carter
    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:...

    , former MPP, Peterborough; Alan Redway
    Alan Redway
    Alan Redway, PC, QC is a lawyer and former Canadian politician.After a career in municipal politics culminating in the role of mayor of East York, a borough of Metropolitan Toronto, Redway entered federal politics...

    , former East York Mayor and MP and Mulroney
    Brian Mulroney
    Martin Brian Mulroney, was the 18th Prime Minister of Canada from September 17, 1984, to June 25, 1993 and was leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1983 to 1993. His tenure as Prime Minister was marked by the introduction of major economic reforms, such as the Canada-U.S...

    -era cabinet minister; Floyd Laughren
    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...

    , former Ontario NDP Finance Minister; Chris Watson, former NDP federal secretary; NDP Socialist Caucus
  • Date campaign announced: July 18, 2008
  • Date campaign officially launched: July 18, 2008
  • Date officially registered: August 27, 2008
  • Website: prueforleader.ca

Peter Tabuns

Peter Tabuns
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...

, 57, is the MPP for Toronto—Danforth
Toronto—Danforth
Toronto—Danforth is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1979. It lies to the east of Downtown Toronto....

. Tabuns served on Toronto City Council
Toronto City Council
The Toronto City Council is the governing body of the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.Members represent wards throughout the city, and are known as councillors....

 from 1990 to 1997 representing Ward 8. He was defeated in 1997 ironically by two NDP affiliated candidates (one of whom being NDP leader Jack Layton
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...

 who now represents Tabuns' riding in the House of Commons) when Toronto City Council was amalgamated with the Metro Council. From 1999 to 2004 he served as the executive director of Greenpeace Canada. In the Canadian federal election, 2004
Canadian federal election, 2004
The Canadian federal election, 2004 , was held on June 28, 2004 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 38th Parliament of Canada. The Liberal government of Prime Minister Paul Martin lost its majority, but was able to form a minority government after the elections...

 he ran in the riding of Beaches—East York
Beaches—East York
Beaches—East York is a federal electoral district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1988....

 where he lost to Liberal MP Maria Minna
Maria Minna
Maria Minna, PC, MP is a Canadian politician who represented the Toronto riding of Beaches—East York in the House of Commons as a member of the Liberal Party from 1993 to 2011.-Background:...

. He received 32% of the vote. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in a by-election in 2006 in which he received 48% of the vote. He was re-elected in the 2007 election with 46% of the vote, Before entering politics, he was an insurance clerk.
  • High profile supporters: Ed Broadbent
    Ed Broadbent
    John Edward "Ed" Broadbent, is a Canadian social democratic politician and political scientist. He was leader of the federal New Democratic Party from 1975 to 1989. In the 2004 federal election, he returned to Parliament for one additional term as the Member of Parliament for Ottawa Centre.-Life...

    , former leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada; Cheri DiNovo
    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...

    , MPP for Parkdale—High Park
    Parkdale—High Park
    Parkdale—High Park is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1979.Peggy Nash of the New Democratic Party was elected the Member of Parliament for the riding on May 2, 2011....

    ; Irene Mathyssen
    Irene Mathyssen
    Irene R. Mathyssen is a Canadian politician and a Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons...

    , MP for London—Fanshawe
    London—Fanshawe
    London—Fanshawe is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997.-Geography:The district consists of the southeast part of the City of London....

    ; Paul Dewar
    Paul Dewar
    Paul W. Dewar is a Canadian politician currently serving as the Member of Parliament for the riding of Ottawa Centre.Dewar is a member of the New Democratic Party and was first elected to the House of Commons in the 2006 federal election...

    , MP for Ottawa Centre
    Ottawa Centre
    Ottawa Centre is an urban federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968...

    , Paula Fletcher
    Paula Fletcher
    Paula Fletcher is a Canadian politician. In 2003, she was elected to the Toronto City Council for Ward 30 Toronto-Danforth.-Background:...

    , Toronto City Council
    Toronto City Council
    The Toronto City Council is the governing body of the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.Members represent wards throughout the city, and are known as councillors....

    lor for Ward 30; Jill Marzetti, former ONDP provincial secretary; Janet Solberg, former ONDP president, daughter of David Lewis
    David Lewis (politician)
    David Lewis, CC was a Russian-born Canadian labour lawyer and social democratic politician. He was national secretary of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation from 1936 to 1950, and one of the key architects of the New Democratic Party in 1961...

    ; Michael Lewis, long-time NDP campaign organizer and former federal and provincial secretary; Toronto Steel Workers Council; Peggy Nash
    Peggy Nash
    Peggy A. Nash is a Canadian labour official and politician from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is the New Democratic Party Member of Parliament for the Parkdale—High Park electoral district in Toronto, and was the Official Opposition's Finance Critic, in Canada's 41st parliament...

    , former NDP MP for Parkdale-High Park; Michele Landsberg
    Michele Landsberg
    Michele Landsberg, OC is an award-winning Canadian writer, social activist and feminist who wrote a column for the Toronto Star newspaper.-Life and career:...

    , journalist, activist and hospital board chair.
  • Date campaign announced: NA
  • Date campaign officially launched: October 26, 2008
  • Date officially registered: August 15, 2008
  • Website: tabuns09.ca

Potential candidates who declined to run

  • Peter Kormos
    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...

    , MPP for Niagara Centre
    Niagara Centre
    Niagara Centre was a federal and provincial electoral district that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2003, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2007.-Federal riding:...

    , third place finisher at the 1996 leadership convention.
  • Rosario Marchese
    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:...

    , MPP for Trinity-Spadina, former Minister of Culture and Communications.
  • Olivia Chow
    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...

    , MP for Trinity—Spadina
    Trinity—Spadina
    Trinity—Spadina is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1988.It generally encompasses the western portion of Downtown Toronto. In the 2001 Canadian census, the riding had 106,094 people, of whom 74,409 were eligible to...

    .
  • Brian Masse
    Brian Masse
    Brian S. Masse is a Canadian politician. He has served in the Canadian House of Commons since 2002, representing the riding of Windsor West as a member of the New Democratic Party....

    , MP for Windsor West
    Windsor West
    Windsor West is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968.The district consists of the part of the city of Windsor lying west and south of a line drawn from the U.S...

    .
  • Leah Casselman, former president of OPSEU.
  • Jodie Jenkins, a 2003 and 2007 provincial candidate from Belleville
    Belleville, Ontario
    Belleville is a city located at the mouth of the Moira River on the Bay of Quinte in Southern Ontario, Canada, in the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor. It is the seat of Hastings County, but is politically independent of it. and the centre of the Bay of Quinte Region...

     had announced his intention to run.
  • Sid Ryan
    Sid Ryan
    Patrick Cyril "Sid" Ryan is president of the Ontario Federation of Labour and a longtime Canadian labour union leader and politician.-Biography:...

    , president of CUPE Ontario
    Canadian Union of Public Employees
    The Canadian Union of Public Employees is a Canadian trade union serving the public sector - although it has in recent years organized workplaces in the non-profit and para-public sector as well...

    , former NDP candidate.
  • Charlie Angus
    Charlie Angus
    Charles Joseph Angus MP is a Canadian writer, broadcaster, musician, and politician. Angus entered electoral politics in 2004 as the successful New Democratic Party candidate in the Ontario riding of Timmins—James Bay. He was the NDP parliamentary critic for Canadian Heritage from 2004 to 2007,...

    , MP for Timmins—James Bay
    Timmins—James Bay
    Timmins—James Bay is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997. Its population in 2001 was 84,001....

    .
  • David Christopherson
    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...

    , MP for Hamilton Centre
    Hamilton Centre
    Hamilton Centre is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004.It was created in 2003 from parts of Hamilton East, Hamilton West and Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Aldershot ridings....

    .
  • Marilyn Churley, former MPP and cabinet minister.
  • Cheri DiNovo
    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...

    , MPP for Parkdale—High Park
    Parkdale—High Park
    Parkdale—High Park is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1979.Peggy Nash of the New Democratic Party was elected the Member of Parliament for the riding on May 2, 2011....

    . DiNovo is quoted saying as saying running for the leadership is "not me, babe" when asked about her intentions.
  • France Gélinas
    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....

    , MPP for Nickel Belt
    Nickel Belt
    Nickel Belt is one of two federal electoral districts serving the Greater City of Sudbury.Nickel Belt has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1953.It consists of:...

    . She told Northern Life that she is not running for the position saying, “Though I am flattered by the calls I have received since Howard's announcement, I am a new politician. There is lots to learn as the member for Nickel Belt.”
  • Frances Lankin
    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...

    , former MPP and cabinet minister, runner-up at the 1996 leadership convention and, since 2001, president of the United Way
    United Way of Canada
    United Way of Canada is the national organization for the 117 autonomous, volunteer-based United Ways across Canada. United Way campaigns raise money for local groups that address community issues and problems, and the national organization provides leadership, services and coordination to the...

     for Greater Toronto. She is "not interested" according to the Star.
  • Andre Marin
    André Marin
    André Marin is the Ombudsman of Ontario. He was appointed in April 2005 and reappointed in June 2010 to a second five-year term...

    , Ombudsman for Ontario. His spokesperson dismissed rumours of his candidacy as wild speculation, adding that he has never been a member of the NDP or had any association with it or any other provincial party, and he intends to serve out his term as ombudsman.
  • Tony Martin
    Tony Martin (politician)
    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...

    , MP for Sault Ste. Marie
    Sault Ste. Marie (electoral district)
    Sault Ste. Marie is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968.In 2004, due to population changes in boundary distribution, the riding expanded significantly to include a significant portion of the Algoma District, from...

    .
  • David Miller
    David Miller (Canadian politician)
    David Raymond Miller is a Canadian politician. He was the 63rd Mayor of Toronto and the second since the 1998 amalgamation. He was elected to the position in 2003 for a three-year term and re-elected in 2006 for a four-year term...

    , Mayor of Toronto and former NDP federal and provincial candidate, has also been mentioned as a possible candidate, although he has not been an NDP member since 2007. The Toronto Star states that Miller is "not interested."
  • Peggy Nash
    Peggy Nash
    Peggy A. Nash is a Canadian labour official and politician from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is the New Democratic Party Member of Parliament for the Parkdale—High Park electoral district in Toronto, and was the Official Opposition's Finance Critic, in Canada's 41st parliament...

    , Former MP for Parkdale—High Park
    Parkdale—High Park
    Parkdale—High Park is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1979.Peggy Nash of the New Democratic Party was elected the Member of Parliament for the riding on May 2, 2011....

    . Nash has returned to her former job at the Canadian Auto Workers
    Canadian Auto Workers
    The Canadian Auto Workers is one of Canada's largest and highest profile social unions. While rooted in Ontario's large auto plants of Windsor, Brampton, Oakville, St...

     after deciding against seeking the Ontario NDP leadership, telling the Toronto Star "Many people have approached me about it. It certainly was something I considered, but the timing was never good. Other candidates had been at this for some time." She has also since accepted the NDP nomination in her former riding of Parkdale-High Park for the next federal election to be held May 2, 2011.

Issues

Peter Tabuns drew on his environmentalist roots and made his proposal for a "New Energy Economy" based on green principles the centrepiece of his campaign.

Michael Prue raised the idea of reviewing the Separate School System and possibly amalgamating it with the public school system. He also advocated a cities-centered economic picy and giving more power to municipalities. On party issues he advocated giving each riding association $10,000 during elections.

Gilles Bisson emphasized reforms to party fund raising in order to allow riding associations to keep more of the money they raised. In public policy he advocated targeted corporate tax cuts and an anti-crime platform.

Andrea Horwath advocated heavy investment in light rail. In party matters she emphasised a closer relationship to unions and the hiring of regional organisers.

Procedure

In the past, the Ontario NDP has used a traditional delegated leadership convention
Leadership convention
In Canadian politics, a leadership convention is held by a political party when the party needs to choose a leader due to a vacancy or a challenge to the incumbent leader.- Overview :...

 to select its leaders in which delegates elected by local riding associations, campus clubs, labour union locals affiliated with the party choose the leader. However, at its January 2007 provincial convention, the Ontario NDP amended its constitution bringing in a One Member One Vote procedure modelled on that used by the 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...

 of Canada in its 2003 federal leadership election
New Democratic Party leadership election, 2003
The New Democratic Party leadership election of 2003 was held to replace New Democratic Party of Canada leader Alexa McDonough, after her retirement...

 in which the votes of all party members is weighted to 75% of the total with the remaining 25% being allocated to the party's affiliates (mostly labour unions).

The ONDP constitution (article 9, paragraph 4) stipulates that:
  • (a) Every member is entitled to cast a ballot for the election of the Leader.

  • (b) The ballots cast by Party members shall be weighted to a total of 75% of the votes counted in a Leadership election, and the balance, 25% of the votes counted in a Leadership election, shall be allocated among the affiliated members.

  • (c) At every regular convention that is not a leadership convention, a secret ballot vote will be held to determine whether or not a leadership election should be called. If a majority of the voting delegates supports the calling of a leadership election, such an election will be held within one year of the convention vote.

  • (d) The Leader will be chosen by secret ballot. Candidates for the leadership with the fewest number of weighted votes will drop off the ballot in subsequent rounds until one candidate receives a majority of the total weighted votes cast in that round. Other leadership selection procedures will be determined by Provincial Council.


The party’s Executive Committee finalized the deadlines, spending limits and other rules for the March 2009 election. The spending limit was $500,000 and the cut-off for new members was January 5, 2009. Membership fees were $25 with a reduced rate of $5 for students and the unemployed. The entrance fee for candidates was $15,000 ($5,000 of which was refundable after the election) and the party and candidates were required to and provide the signatures of 100 party members, at least half of them women, from all four regions of the province. Candidates were allowed to spend up to $500,000 and 40% of the money candidates raise was to be remitted to the party. Two-time NDP candidate Michael Laxer has criticized the entrance fee as being too high saying, "What you get by doing that is you manifestly limit the number of people who are outside the party establishment, and who have available big backers of one kind or another."

Advance voting was be available via mail or internet by preferential ballot. "Real time" voting will occur on March 7, 2009 and can be done by phone or internet. Those voting on March 7 will vote for one candidate only per balloting round. The voting periods will be announced at the convention, on the voting website, the voting phone number and on the NDP convention website. On each individual ballot separately with the lowest ranking candidate being dropped off of each successive ballot until one candidate receives a majority of the vote.

Voting results

First Ballot>
Candidate Weighted Votes Percentage
Andrea Horwath 4,625.29 37.1
Peter Tabuns 3,437.93 27.6
Gilles Bisson 2,954.23 23.7
Michael Prue 1,438.44 11.5
Total 12,455.89 100


Movement: Prue eliminated, endorses Bisson
Second Ballot>
Candidate Weighted Votes Percentage +/-
Andrea Horwath 5,259.06 43.6 +6.5
Peter Tabuns 3,819.82 31.7 +4.1
Gilles Bisson 2,988.12 24.8 +1.1
Total 12,067 100.0


Movement: Bisson eliminated, endorses Horwath
Third Ballot>
Candidate Weighted Votes Percentage +/-
Andrea Horwath 6732.34 60.4 +16.8
Peter Tabuns 4420.66 39.6 +7.9
Total 11,152.9 100.0

Timeline

  • October 10, 2007 - The 2007 Ontario provincial election
    Ontario general election, 2007
    The Ontario general election of 2007 was held on October 10, 2007 to elect members of the 39th Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, Canada. The Liberals under Dalton McGuinty won the election with a majority government, winning 71 out of a possible 107 seats with 42.2% of the popular...

     is held. The Ontario Liberal Party is re-elected to a second majority government. The NDP, led by Howard Hampton, finishes in third place winning 10 seats and 16.76% of the vote, a 3 seat and 2% popular vote increase over the 2004 election (but no net change on the 10 seats held when the legislature was dissolved; the party gained 3 seats through by-elections between the two elections).
  • June 14, 2008 - Ontario NDP leader Howard Hampton informs the party's provincial council that he will not stand for re-election as leader at the next party convention in March 2009.
  • July 14, 2008 - MPP Gilles Bisson
    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...

     declares his intention to become a candidate.
  • July 15, 2008 - First date that candidates can officially register; campaign officially begins.
  • July 15, 2008 - MPP Andrea Horwath
    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...

     declares her intention to become a candidate.
  • July 18, 2008 - MPP Michael Prue
    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...

     officially announces his candidacy.
  • September 30, 2008 - Deadline for registration for candidates to ensure inclusion in all the party leadership forums and in the information package mailing.
  • October 26, 2008 - MPP Peter Tabuns
    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...

     officially launches his campaign.
  • November 1, 2008 - Bisson, Horwath, Prue and Tabuns participate in an NDP Socialist Caucus sponsored all-candidates meeting in Toronto; their first debate.
  • November 8–9, 2008 - NDP Provincial Council meeting at the Toronto Ramada Inn will decide the specific method of casting ballots for the leadership election; the first official party sponsored leadership debate.
  • November 15, 2008 - Second official leadership debate is held in Sudbury.
  • November 23, 2008 - Leaders debate at the Ontario New Democratic Youth convention at Ryerson University
    Ryerson University
    Ryerson University is a public research university located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its urban campus is adjacent to Yonge-Dundas Square located at the busiest intersection in Downtown Toronto. The majority of its buildings are in the blocks northeast of the square in Toronto's Garden...

     in Toronto.
  • December 6, 2008 - Debate at Ontario NDP Women's Committee Conference, Toronto, 1pm.
  • December 13, 2008 - Fourth official debate, Kingston
    Kingston, Ontario
    Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post...

    , 10am.
  • December 31, 2008 - Deadline for leadership candidates to register.
  • January 5, 2009 - Deadline for new and renewed memberships to be received by the provincial office and be eligible to vote in the leadership election.
  • January 10, 2009 - Fifth official debate - Timmins
    Timmins
    Timmins is a city in northeastern Ontario, Canada on the Mattagami River. At the time of the Canada 2006 Census, Timmins' population was 42,997...

     - cancelled
  • January 17, 2009 - Sixth official debate - Hamilton
    Hamilton, Ontario
    Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...

     • 2-4pm, Hamilton Convention Centre, Albion Room
  • January 24, 2009 - Seventh official debate - London
    London, Ontario
    London is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada, situated along the Quebec City – Windsor Corridor. The city has a population of 352,395, and the metropolitan area has a population of 457,720, according to the 2006 Canadian census; the metro population in 2009 was estimated at 489,274. The city...

     • 2-4pm, Hilton London, Queen Victoria Room
  • January 25, 2009 - Eighth official debate - Windsor
    Windsor, Ontario
    Windsor is the southernmost city in Canada and is located in Southwestern Ontario at the western end of the heavily populated Quebec City – Windsor Corridor. It is within Essex County, Ontario, although administratively separated from the county government. Separated by the Detroit River, Windsor...

     - postponed due to recall of the legislature.
  • January 28, 2009 - Scarborough, Ontario
    Scarborough, Ontario
    Scarborough is a dissolved municipality within the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it comprises the eastern part of Toronto. It is bordered on the south by Lake Ontario, on the west by Victoria Park Avenue, on the north by Steeles Avenue East, and on the east by the Rouge River...

     debate • 7:30 pm, Scarborough Civic Centre
    Scarborough Civic Centre
    The Scarborough Civic Centre, located in Toronto, Ontario, was designed by architect Raymond Moriyama for the then Borough of Scarborough. It was officially opened by then mayor Albert Campbell and Queen Elizabeth II in 1973...

     council chamber
  • January 31, 2009 - Ninth official debate - Ottawa
    Ottawa
    Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...

     • 2-4pm, Lord Elgin Hotel, Pearson Room
  • February 8, 2009 - Tenth official debate - Toronto
    Toronto
    Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

     • 2-4 pm, The Great Hall, 1087 Queen Street West
  • February 9, 2009 - Rescheduled eighth official debate • Windsor
    Windsor, Ontario
    Windsor is the southernmost city in Canada and is located in Southwestern Ontario at the western end of the heavily populated Quebec City – Windsor Corridor. It is within Essex County, Ontario, although administratively separated from the county government. Separated by the Detroit River, Windsor...

     • 7-9pm Place Concorde - Salon Richelieu • Reception at 6:30pm (rescheduled from January 25)
  • February 14, 2009 - Eleventh official debate - Thunder Bay
    Thunder Bay
    -In Canada:Thunder Bay is the name of three places in the province of Ontario, Canada along Lake Superior:*Thunder Bay District, Ontario, a district in Northwestern Ontario*Thunder Bay, a city in Thunder Bay District*Thunder Bay, Unorganized, Ontario...

    • 1-3 pm, Lakehead Labour Centre, 929 Fort William Road, reception at 12:30pm
  • February 23, 2009 - Advance online voting by preferential ballot begins.
  • March 3, 2009 - Deadline for mail-in preferential ballots to be returned.
  • March 6, 2009 - Leadership convention begins at the Hamilton Convention Centre
    • 7 - 9 pm Final leadership debate
    • 8 pm Advance online voting by preferential ballot ends.
  • March 7, 2009
    • 11 am - Tribute to Howard Hampton
    • 1 - 3 pm - Leadership candidate speeches
    • 3:30- 4:15 pm - First ballot "real time" voting online, by phone and in person
    • 4:45 pm - First ballot results announced, Horwath leads followed by Tabuns and Bisson. Prue eliminated, goes to Bisson.
    • 5 - 5:30 pm -Second ballot voting
    • 6 pm - Second ballot results announced. Horwath leads Tabuns. Bisson is eliminated and goes to Horwath.
    • 6:30 - 7 pm - Third ballot voting
    • 7:30 pm - Third ballot results announced - Horwath elected leader of the Ontario NDP; new leader addresses convention
  • March 8, 2009 - convention concludes

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