Ontario New Democratic Party candidates in the 1975 Ontario provincial election
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This is a list of candidates for the Ontario New Democratic Party in the 1975 Ontario general election.
[[Central Ontario]]
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|Riding !Candidate's Name !Notes ! Residence ! Occupation ! Votes ! % ! Rank |
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Dufferin–Simcoe
|Ian Perkins | | | |3,317 |11.61 |3rd |
Hastings—Peterborough
|Bob Thompson | | | |2,961 |13.08 |3rd |
Northumberland
|John Taylor | | | |6,259 | |3rd |
Peterborough
|NDP candidate for Peterborough in the 1974 federal election{{cite news |title=How the party candidates fared across the country |newspaper=Toronto Star |date=1974-07-09 |page=A12}} | | |16,169 | |1st |
Simcoe Centre
|Paul Wessenger | | | |11,623 | |2nd |
Simcoe East
|Roger Pretty | | | |10,396 | |2nd |
Victoria—Haliburton
|F. McLaughlin | | | |3,718 | |3rd |
[[Eastern Ontario]]/[[Ottawa]]
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|Riding !Candidate's Name !Notes ! Residence ! Occupation ! Votes ! % ! Rank |
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Carleton
|Gordon Kritsch | | | |7,769 | |3rd |
Carleton East
| | |Radio/television broadcaster |11,981 |36.02 |1st |
Carleton—Grenville
|Reg Willis | | | |5,741 |24.94 |2nd |
Cornwall
|Member of Provincial Parliament for Cornwall (1974–1985){{cite news |last=Prager |first=Bill |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aVY_AAAAIBAJ&sjid=31IMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4811,995912&dq=george+samis+guy+leger+1974&hl=en |title=Premier Davis 'in Trouble in Stormont' |work=Windsor Star |location=Windsor |date=1974-10-18 |access-date=2025-02-16}} | |Teacher |11,927 |51.11 |1st |
Frontenac—Addington
|Bill Barnes | | | |3,379 |14.57 |3rd |
Kingston and the Islands
|Lars Thompson | | | |6,134 |24.54 |3rd |
Lanark
|George Murray | | | |3,066 |15.05 |3rd |
Leeds
|John Fielding | | | |5,721 |23.95 |2nd |
Ottawa Centre
|Member of Provincial Parliament for Cornwall (1971–1984) |Journalist |10,658 |38.92 |1st |
Ottawa East
|Robert Cournoyer | | | |4,543 |18.59 |3rd |
Ottawa South
|Eileen Scotton | | | |11,099 |32.43 |2nd |
Ottawa West
|Sue Findlay | | | |8,871 | |3rd |
Prescott and Russell
|R. DesRochers | | | |5,027 | |3rd |
Prince Edward—Lennox
|Jan Nicol | | | |3,250 | |3rd |
Quinte
|C. McLaughlan | | | |4,744 | |3rd |
Renfrew North
|Robert Cox | | | |5,938 | |3rd |
Renfrew South
|Lawrence Smith | | | |3,479 | |3rd |
Stormont—Dundas—Glengarry
|Gerard Lussier | | | |2,801 | |3rd |
[[Greater Toronto Area]]
[[Hamilton, Ontario|Hamilton]]/[[Niagara Peninsula|Niagara]]
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|Riding !Candidate's Name !Notes ! Residence ! Occupation ! Votes ! % ! Rank |
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Brock
|Fred Lindal | | | |5,969 |24.40 |2nd |
Erie
|Maurice Keck | | | |6,906 |33.30 |2nd |
Hamilton Centre
| | |8,778 |38.14 |1st |
Hamilton East
|NDP candidate for Hamilton—Wentworth in the 1974 and 1972 federal elections |Union leader (United Steelworkers) |13,971 |47.83 |1st |
Hamilton Mountain
| | |11,075 |33.77 |2nd |
Hamilton West
|Ray Fazakas | | | |7,243 |25.67 |3rd |
Lincoln
|Ron Leavens | | | |4,092 |19.50 |3rd |
Niagara Falls
|Peter Sobol | | | |7,003 | |3rd |
Welland
| | | |10,209 | |1st |
St. Catharines
|Fred Dickson | | | |9,215 |31.81 |3rd |
Wentworth
|Member of Provincial Parliament for Wentworth (1967–1979) | |Firefighter |14,791 | |1st |
Wentworth North
|C. Faulknor | | | |8,180 | |3rd |
[[Northern Ontario]]
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|Riding !Candidate's Name !Notes ! Residence ! Occupation ! Votes ! % ! Rank |
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Algoma
| |Teacher |4,962 |38.54 |1st |
Algoma—Manitoulin
|Winston Baker | | | |4,352 |32.49 |2nd |
Cochrane North
|René Brixhe | | | |3,728 |23.63 |2nd |
Cochrane South
|Member of Provincial Parliament for Cochrane South (1967–1977) | |10,784 |46.62 |1st |
Fort William
| | |9,173 |36.59 |1st |
Kenora
|Bill Watkins | | | |5,165 |30.25 |2nd |
Lake Nipigon
|Member of Provincial Parliament for Thunder Bay (1967–1975) | | |6,603 |50.50 |1st |
Muskoka
|Ken Cargill | | | |5,760 | |2nd |
Nickel Belt
|Member of Provincial Parliament for Nickel Belt (1971–1998) |Economist/Professor at Cambrian College |10,481 | |1st |
Nipissing
|Mike O'Hallarn | | | |5,054 | |3rd |
Parry Sound
|Larry Labine | | | |2,973 | |3rd |
Port Arthur
|Member of Provincial Parliament for Port Arthur (1971–1987) |Teacher |12,213 |49.74 |1st |
Rainy River
|M. Lichtenstein | | | |2,259 | |3rd |
Sault Ste. Marie
|Ron Moreau | | | |13,470 |39.67 |2nd |
Sudbury
|Member of Provincial Parliament for Sudbury (1971–1981) | | |11,511 | |1st |
Sudbury East
|Member of Provincial Parliament for Sudbury East (1967–1987) |Teacher |18,650 | |1st |
Timiskaming
| | |Small business owner | | |1st |
[[Southwestern Ontario]]
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|Riding !Candidate's Name !Notes ! Residence ! Occupation ! Votes ! % ! Rank |
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Brant—Oxford—Norfolk
|Jim Schneider | | | |4,791 |18.36 |3rd |
Brantford
|Member of Provincial Parliament for Brantford (1967–1971){{cite web |url=http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5832&context=opendissertations&sei-redir=1#search=%22co-operative%20commonwealth%20federation%20jarvis%22 |title=Constituency level politics: A case study of the Co-operative Federation and New Democratic Party in Brantford, Ontario |format=PDF |author=Walter John Joseph Szmigielski |year=1977 |publisher=McMaster University |location=Hamilton, Ontario}} |12,048 |39.05 |1st |
Cambridge
| | |Union leader (Textile Workers Union of America){{cite news |title=Labouring on; Fewer industries means fewer unions, but times are changing, organizers say |newspaper=Kitchener-Waterloo Record |first=Dave |last=Pink |date=2003-08-30 |page=J1}} |11,399 |38.20 |1st |
Chatham—Kent
|Ron Franko | | | |5,728 |24.67 |3rd |
Essex North
|Lucien Lacasse | | | |7,678 |35.42 |2nd |
Essex South
|Ralph Wensley | | | |6,058 |26.36 |3rd |
Grey
|Colin L. Swan | | | |2,835 |10.98 |3rd |
Grey–Bruce
|Lorne Creighton | | | |1,235 |5.18 |3rd |
Haldimand—Norfolk
|Norm Walpole | | | |4,967 |15.82 |3rd |
Huron—Bruce
|Donald Milne | | | |2,635 |10.48 |3rd |
Huron—Middlesex
|Paul Carroll | | | |1,967 |9.02 |3rd |
Kent—Elgin
|Ray McGaffey | | | |2,242 |9.92 |3rd |
Kitchener
|Meg Young | | | |7,367 |25.14 |3rd |
Kitchener—Wilmot
|M. Rosenberg | | | |8,184 |33.42 |2nd |
Lambton
|Maurice Payne | | | |1,181 |5.52 |3rd |
London Centre
|Pat Chefurka | | | |7,896 |27.46 |3rd |
London North
|Mike Warren | | | |5,570 |18.05 |3rd |
London South
|Edith Welch | | | |7,171 |19.88 |3rd |
Middlesex
|H. Aitkenhead | | | |3,127 | |3rd |
Oxford
|Peter Klynstra | | | |4,675 | |3rd |
Perth
|Larry J. Wraith | | | |2,989 | |3rd |
Sarnia
|Ivan Hillier | | | |2,957 |10.48 |3rd |
Waterloo North
|Jack Kersell | | | |6,880 | |3rd |
Wellington South
|Carl Hamilton | | | |6,833 | |2nd |
Wellington—Dufferin—Peel
|Gerry Campbell | | | |6,169 | |3rd |
Windsor—Riverside
| | |Teacher |13,273 |47.85 |1st |
Windsor—Sandwich
|Member of Provincial Parliament for Windsor West (1971–1975) |Professor at the University of Windsor |10,543 | |1st |
Windsor—Walkerville
|David Burr | | | |6,923 | |2nd |