New Democratic Party candidates in the 1988 Canadian federal election explained

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.

Newfoundland and Labrador

Larry Welsh

L. Joseph Edwards

Bryan Blackmore

Marie Newhook

Evelyn Riggs

Jack Harris

Alfred J. Sullivan

Nova Scotia

Keith Collins

Wilf Cude

John Stevens

Ed MacLeod

Gloria Murphy

Barbara Jack

Marty Zelenietz

Ray Larkin

Lois Wiseman

Bill Zimmerman

Peter Zavitz

Prince Edward Island

Gertrude Partridge

Irene N. Dyment

Dolores Crane

Judy Whitaker

New Brunswick

Lyman Dean

Ben Kilfoil

Allan Sharp

Rosemarie M. McNairn

Serge Robichaud

Réal Couturier

Frank Clancy

Terry Boudreau

Nancy Quigley

Judith Meinert

Quebec

Gerry Lemoyne

Vincent Guadagnano

Vincent Marchione

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]

André Marc Paré

Danielle Wolfe

Daniel Payette

Gilles Papillon

Pierre Arès

Louisette Tremblay-Hinton

Germaine Poirier

Kéder Hyppolite

Paul Vachon

Phil Edmonston

Jocelyn Crête

Denis Courteau

Kenneth Choquette

Pierre Hétu

Mustapha Elayoubi

Ferdinand Berner

Michel Agnaieff

Claude L'Heureux

Bertrand Réhel

Marius Tremblay

Gaétan Nadeau

Danielle Lapointe-Vienneau

Claude Hétu

Françoise Gauthier

Maurice Tremblay

Bruce Katz

Val Udvarhely

Jean Paradis

Pauline Gingras

Jean-Claude Bohrer

Bill Clay

François Beaulne

Paul Cappon

John Shatilla

Jean-Paul Harney

Daniel Senez

Richard Lacoursière

Pierre Lavigne

Carol Guay

Yves Coté

Jean-Pierre Walsh

André Cordeau

Éric Gourdeau

Tariq Alvi

Maria Peluso

Louise O'Neill

Giovanni Adamo

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]

Pierre Razik

John Trent

Jean-Marie Fiset

Jeanne Lalanne

Gaston Dupuis

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]

Marc-André Péloquin

Pierre Boisjoli

Réjean Lalancette

Giuseppe Sciortino

Jaime Llambias-Wolff

Ruth Rose

Nicole Desranleau

Hélène Lortie-Narayana

Rezeq Faraj

Sid Ingerman

Michel Roche

Claude Rompré

Paul Pearson

Alain Poirier

Rémy Trudel

Lauraine Vaillancourt

Josée Trudel

Suzanne Aubertin

Maria Jean

Alain Tassé

Ontario

Lloyd Greenspoon

Neil Young

John Morris

Paul Ledgister

Derek Blackburn

Lynn McDonald

Cathy Hird

Jane Mulkewich

Bruce Davidson

Robert Cottingham

Len Wood

Anna Menozzi

Brant Loper

Anton Kuerti

Ian Cameron

Margaret Wilbur

Vittoria Levi

Levi was born in Italy. She was a vocational rehabilitation counseller 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.

Bob Habkirk

Sean O'Flynn

John Coggans

Steven W. Langdon

Phil Jones

Ted Humphreys

Judy Brandow

Helena McCuaig

Alex Michalos

Eric Butt

Fern Wolf

Dave Wilson

Marion Dewar

Lesley Russell

Julia McCrea

Bud Acton

Tony McQuail

John Edmund Parry

Leo Rustin

Len Johnson

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).

Sue Coulter

Larry Ross Green

Bill Cox

Barry Grills

John Mayer

Marion Boyd

Bruce Lundgren

Michael Wyatt

Susan Krone

Walter Grozdanovski

Sue Craig

Paul Simon

Bea Murray

Dick Harrington

John Rodriguez

Dawson Pratt

Gord Barnes

Richard J. Banigan

Jim Wiseman

Ed Broadbent

Mike Cassidy

John Fryer

Theresa Kavanagh

Kathryn Barnard

Brian Donlevy

Abby Pollonetsky

Joanne Malchuk

Linda Ham

Gillian Sandeman

Don Wilson

Elizabeth Ives-Ruyter

Doug Wilson

Julie Foley

Steve Butland

Garth C. Dee

Mary Cook

Dave Gracey

Susie Vallance

Raymond Cho

Judy Watson

Mike McMurter

Rob West

Diane Bull

Steve J. Corrie

Bill Major

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]

Iain Angus

Ernie Epp

Earl Evans

Cid Samson

Dan Heap

Cathy Vainio

Scott Piatkowski

Ken Lee

Shirley Farlinger

Abbe Adelson

Paul Forder

Howard McCurdy

Cathy Mele

Evelyn Buck

Steve Krashinsky

Alice Lambrinos

Judy Darcy

Manitoba

Dave Serle

Rod Murphy

Eric Irwin

Fred Tait

Gerry Follows

Mary Sabovitch

Howard Pawley

Alan Turner

David Orlikow

Cyril Keeper

Len Van Roon

Les Campbell

Bill Blaikie

Len Sawatsky

Saskatchewan

Grant Whitmore

Vic Althouse

Rod Laporte

Ray Funk

Les Benjamin

Simon de Jong

Dickson Bailey

Chris Axworthy

Ron Fisher

Stan Hovdebo

Jeff Sample

Laura Balas

Len Taylor

Lorne Nystrom

Notes and 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. http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Sites/LOP/HFER/hfer.asp?Language=E&Search=Cresdetail&Election=9447 History of Federal Ridings since 1867: RICHELIEU (1988/11/21)
  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.