Derek Fletcher
{{short description|Canadian politician}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Derek Fletcher
| image =
| caption =
| office = Ontario MPP
| term_start = 1990
| term_end = 1995
| predecessor = Rick Ferraro
| successor = Brenda Elliott
| constituency = Guelph
| party = New Democrat
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1951}}
| birth_place =
| residence =
| occupation = Press operator
}}
Derek Fletcher (born {{circa|1951}}) 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.
Background
Fletcher was born in England and moved to Canada with has family at the age of six. He worked as a flexographic press operator for sixteen years at Macmillan Bathurst Industries in Guelph, Ontario. He served as president of the Guelph and District Labour Council from 1984 to 1988, and was a school board trustee on the Wellington County Public School Board from 1985 to 1990.{{cite news |title=Guelph MPP bent on re-election Rookie Fletcher sets his sights on long career |last=Thompson |first=Catherine |newspaper=Kitchener - Waterloo Record |date=December 19, 1990 |page=B3}}
Politics
Fletcher ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1985 provincial election, finishing a distant third in the riding of Wellington South.{{cite news |title=Results of vote in Ontario election |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=May 3, 1985 |page=13}} In the 1987 provincial election, he finished second in the redistributed riding of Guelph.{{cite news |title=Results from individual ridings |newspaper=The Windsor Star |date=September 11, 1987 |page=F2}} In both cases, the winning candidate was Liberal Rick Ferraro.
The NDP won a majority government in the 1990 provincial election, and Fletcher defeated Ferraro by 3,107 votes in his third run for office.{{cite news |title=Ontario election: Riding-by-riding voting results |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=September 7, 1990 |page=A12}} He served as a parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Consumer and Commercial Relations from 1990 to 1993.{{cite news |title=Municipal Affairs job pleases Ferguson |newspaper=Kitchener - Waterloo Record |date=October 2, 1990 |page=A5}} For the remainder of the term he was parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Citizenship.{{cite news |title=MPPs reassigned by Premier Rae |newspaper=Kitchener - Waterloo Record |date=February 25, 1993 |page=B1}}
The NDP were defeated in the 1995 provincial election, and Fletcher finished third in his bid for re-election. The winning candidate was Brenda Elliott of the Progressive Conservatives.{{cite web |url=http://results.elections.on.ca/results/1995_results/valid_votes.jsp?e_code=36&rec=0&district=guelph&flag=E&layout=G |title=Summary of Valid Ballots by Candidate |publisher=Elections Ontario |date=June 8, 1995 |accessdate=2014-03-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306230307/http://results.elections.on.ca/results/1995_results/valid_votes.jsp?e_code=36&rec=0&district=guelph&flag=E&layout=G |archivedate=March 6, 2014 }}
References
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External links
- {{OntarioMPPbio|id=derek-fletcher}}
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Category:Ontario New Democratic Party MPPs
Category:20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario