New Democratic Party candidates in the 1988 Canadian federal election

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The New Democratic Party ran a full slate of 295 candidates in the 1988 federal election, and elected 43 members to become the third-largest party in parliament. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.

Alberta

Calgary

Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Calgary Centre Elaine Husband 10,731 20.02 2nd
Calgary North Tom Schepens 7,626 4th
Calgary Northeast Ken Richmond 7,319 15.47 3rd
Calgary Southeast Kathy Miller 6,837 13.19 2nd
Calgary Southwest Vera Vogel 5,024 8.10 4th
Calgary West Richard D. Vanderberg 6,355 11.61 4th

Edmonton

Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Edmonton East Ross Harvey 15,051 38.20 1st
Edmonton North Nels Rissling 15,583 2nd
Edmonton Northwest Marie Gordon 13,198 34.47 2nd
Edmonton Southeast Harbans Dhillon 9,161 3rd
Edmonton Southwest Bob Friedland 8,598 3rd
Edmonton—Strathcona Halyna Freeland 13,686 25.32 2nd

Rural Alberta

Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Athabasca Ian Thorn 8,911 27.28 2nd
Beaver River Brian Luther 6,492 20.89 3rd
Crowfoot Fred Rappel 2,725 7.67 3rd
Elk Island Rolf E. Nielsen 9,046 2nd
Lethbridge Don Ferguson 4,489 9.80 2nd
Macleod Gary Taje 2,884 8.58 4th
Medicine Hat Jim Ridley 6,453 15.14 2nd
Peace River Norman Dyck 7,389 17.17 2nd
Red Deer Gail Garbutt 5,717 12.6 3rd
St. Albert Dennis Pawlowski 8,370 19.60 2nd
Vegreville Richard Johnson 6,035 2nd
Wetaskiwin Terry Atkinson 5,741 14.3 2nd
Wild Rose Robin Slater 3,209 7.7 4th
Yellowhead Muriel Stanley Venne ANDP candidate for Edmonton-Meadowlark in the 1986 Alberta provincial election Indigenous rights activist 6,172 15.4 3rd

Newfoundland and Labrador

Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Bonavista-Trinity-Conception Larry Welsh 2,372 5.72 3rd
Burin-St. George's L. Joseph Edwards 2,299 3rd
Gander—Grand Falls Bryan Blackmore 4,618 3rd
Humber—St. Barbe—Baie Verte Marie Newhook 1,441 3.68 3rd
Labrador Evelyn Riggs 1,508 11.32 3rd
St. John's East Jack Harris Member of Parliament for St. John's East (1987–1988) 17,198 35.30 2nd
St. John's West Alfred J. Sullivan 2,333 3rd

Nova Scotia

Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Annapolis Valley—Hants Keith Collins 5,886 12.52 3rd
Cape Breton—East Richmond John Stevens 4,482 3rd
Cape Breton Highlands—Canso Wilf Cude 2,036 3rd
Cape Breton—The Sydneys Ed MacLeod 2,999 3rd
Central Nova Gloria Murphy 5,110 13.02 3rd
Cumberland—Colchester Barbara Jack 4,112 9.32 3rd
Dartmouth Marty Zelenietz 5,162 10.86 3rd
Halifax Ray Larkin 9,269 17.74 3rd
Halifax West Lois Wiseman 9,011 16.25 3rd
South Shore Bill Zimmerman 4,052 10.15 3rd
South West Nova Peter Zavitz 2,396 5.69 3rd

Prince Edward Island

Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Cardigan Gertrude Partridge 805 4.46 3rd
Egmont Irene N. Dyment 1,438 7.52 3rd
Hillsborough Dody Crane Lawyer 1,984 5.78 3rd
Malpeque Judy Whitaker 1,434 7.93 3rd

New Brunswick

Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Beauséjour Lyman Dean 3,958 10.24 3rd
Carleton—Charlotte Ben Kilfoil 2,596 7.7 3rd
Fredericton Allan Sharp 4,922 10.32 3rd
Fundy—Royal Rosemarie McNairn 4,965 10.97 3rd
Gloucester Serge Robichaud 2,163 5.53 3rd
Madawaska—Victoria Réal Couturier 2,441 8.0 3rd
Miramichi Frank Clancy 1,686 6.09 4th
Moncton Terry Boudreau 4,904 9.66 3rd
Restigouche Nancy Quigley 3,272 10.6 3rd
Saint John Judith Meinert 4,883 12.5 3rd

Quebec

Marchione' was a forty-nine-year-old educator and social worker in 1988. He focused his campaign on job creation, and won support in his multicultural riding with a nomination speech delivered in French, Italian, Creole, and English.[1] Marchione later ran for a school board seat and led an environmental group that opposed the construction of petrochemical plants in east-end Montreal.[2]
Adamo was an executive chef with longstanding ties to his riding's Italian community.[3] He received 5,948 votes (15.10%), finishing third against Liberal incumbent André Ouellet.[4]
Dupuis, an office clerk, ran as a New Democratic Party candidate in two elections.[5] He ran his 1988 campaign from his work space and acknowledged that his party did not have a strong historical support base in Richelieu.[6]

Ontario

Levi was born in Italy. She was a vocational rehabilitation counsellor and served as a representative of the National Congress for Italian Canadians in the 1980s. Early in 1988, she criticized Robert Elgie's proposals for provincial labour law reform as "a change for the worse" with respect to the rights of injured workers.[7] She was forty-nine years old at the time of the election.[8] She received 6,241 votes (15.57%), finishing third against Liberal candidate Joe Volpe.
Major-General Leonard V. Johnson is from a military background. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1950, rose to the rank of major-general and served as Commandant of the National Defence College. He retired from the service in 1984. He represented the New Democratic Party in a national debate on defence issues in 1988 (Kingston Whig-Standard, 31 October 1988), and was the only candidate in Kingston and the Islands to argue that Canada should be made a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone (KWS, 11 November 1988). He also called for Canadian soldiers to be returned from Europe, arguing that large expenditures on overseas troops were hindering Canada's ability to run a modern navy (KWS, 11 November 1988). Johnson was considered a star candidate, and was backed by a strong local organization that outspent all other campaigns in the city (KWS, 25 May 1989). His support base was eroded by a strong Liberal campaign, however, and he finished third against Liberal Peter Milliken with 11,442 votes (20.10%). Following the election, Johnson was named Kingston chair of the peace group Project Plowshares (KWS, 21 December 1988).
Major is a retired United Church minister. He joined the New Democratic Party in 1962 after hearing Tommy Douglas speak in Hamilton. He was ordained as a minister in 1969, moved to Sudbury in 1978, and served for nine years as coordinator for the Pastoral Institute of Northeastern Ontario. Major sought the provincial New Democratic Party nomination for Sudbury East in 1987, but lost to Shelley Martel.[9] He subsequently spoke against the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement, arguing that it allow Northern Ontario to become a source of income for giant American manufacturers.[10] He ran a strong campaign, but ultimately finished second against Liberal candidate Diane Marleau with 11,811 votes (27.77%).[11]

Manitoba

Saskatchewan

References

  1. ↑ Amorell Saunders, "Marchione acclaimed for NDP," Montreal Gazette, 14 April 1988, p. 7; "Italians fire up interest in new riding," Montreal Gazette, 20 August 1988, p. 6; History of Federal Ridings since 1867: ANJOU--RIVIÈRE-DES-PRAIRIES (1988/11/21), Parliament of Canada, accessed 12 October 2011.
  2. ↑ Allison Hanes, "Petrochemical-plant deal fuels residents' anger," Montreal Gazette, 2 February 2001, p. 3.
  3. ↑ "Road gets rougher for Ouellet Series: The race in Papineau-Saint-Michel," Montreal Gazette, 21 October 1988, p. 6. Adamo was fifty-two years old during the election. See "The RACE for Montreal," Montreal Gazette, 2 October 1988, p. 6.
  4. ↑ Report of the Chief Electoral Officer, Thirty-fourth General Election, 1988.
  5. ↑ History of Federal Ridings since 1867: RICHELIEU (1988/11/21), Parliament of Canada, accessed 13 August 2009.
  6. ↑ Rudy Le Cours, "Dans Richelieu, Louis Plamondon est d'un optimisme à toute épreuve", La Presse, 16 November 1988, B4.
  7. ↑ Pat McNenly, "Reforms for injured workers 'just tinkering', critics say", Toronto Star, 22 April 1988, H11.
  8. ↑ Murray Campbell, "Nomination scars Liberals in Eglinton-Lawrence", Globe and Mail, 3 November 1988, A15.
  9. ↑ "'Tired' Sudbury MPP is expected to retire", Globe and Mail, 6 April 1987, A10; Duncan McMonagle, "'Emperor of North' bows out of politics", Globe and Mail, 5 May 1987, A3.
  10. ↑ William Walker, "Free trade jeopardizes North economy hearing told", Toronto Star, 27 October 1987, A2.
  11. ↑ D. Munroe Eagles et al., The Almanac of Canadian Politics, (Peterborough: Broadview Press), 1991, p. 414.