Pat Sobeski

{{Short description|Canadian politician (1951–2016)}}

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| name=Pat Sobeski

| birthname=Patrick Anthony Sobeski

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| imagesize=150px

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| birth_date={{birth date|df=yes|1951|7|25}}

| birth_place=Woodstock, Ontario, Canada

| death_date={{death date and age|df=yes|2016|3|17|1951|7|25}}

| death_place=Woodstock, Ontario, Canada

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| riding1=Cambridge

| predecessor1=Chris Speyer

| successor1=Janko Peric

| term_start1=1988

| term_end1=1993

| office2=City councillor of Woodstock, Ontario

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| successor2=

| term_start2=2003

| term_end2=2010

| office3=Mayor of Woodstock, Ontario

| predecessor3=Michael Harding

| successor3=Trevor T. Birtch

| term_start3= 2010

| term_end3=2014

| profession=architect

| party=Progressive Conservative

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Patrick Anthony "Pat" Sobeski (25 July 1951 – 17 March 2016) was a Canadian politician, who has served as a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1993, and as mayor of Woodstock from 2010 to 2014.

He was elected in the 1988 federal election at the Cambridge electoral district for the Progressive Conservative party. He served in the 34th Canadian Parliament but lost to Janko Peric of the Liberal Party in the 1993 federal election, finishing with less than half of Peric's votes, and even behind the Reform party's Reg Petersen.{{cite web | url=http://www.city.cambridge.on.ca/relatedDocs/1993%20Peric%20wins%20local%20seat.pdf | publisher=City of Cambridge, Ontario | accessdate=15 March 2009 | first=Jim | last=Quantrell | work=Cambridge Times | date=4 November 2008 | title=1993: Peric wins local seat }}

Sobeski served as a municipal councillor in Woodstock, Ontario beginning in 2003. He was elected as the mayor of Woodstock in the 2010 municipal election, defeating incumbent Michael Harding.{{cite news |title=Sobeski wins in landslide |date=25 October 2010| url=http://www.woodstocksentinelreview.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2815744&auth= | newspaper=Woodstock Sentinel-Review | accessdate=25 October 2010 }}{{cite news | url=https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/waterloo-region-mayors-re-elected-upset-in-woodstock-1.567157 | title=Waterloo Region mayors re-elected, upset in Woodstock | publisher=CKCO-DT | date=25 October 2010 | accessdate=25 October 2010}}

Sobeski was defeated by Birtch in a faceoff along with former Mayor Harding in 2014.{{cite news | url=https://lfpress.com/2014/10/28/incumbent-mayors-fell-in-woodstock-goderich-and-other-municipalities | title= Incumbent mayors fell in Woodstock, Goderich and other municipalities | first=Jane | last=Sims | date=27 October 2014 | newspaper=London Free Press | accessdate=6 February 2022}} He died on 17 March 2016.{{cite news | url=http://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/former-woodstock-mayor-cambridge-mp-pat-sobeski-dies-at-64-1.2823569 | title=Former Woodstock mayor, Cambridge MP Pat Sobeski dies at 64 | publisher=CTV Kitchener | date=18 March 2016 | accessdate=19 March 2016 }}