Jim Harris (politician)

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2006 Canadian federal election: Beaches—East York
Jim Harris
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Harris in 2008
Leader of the Green Party of Canada
In office
14 February 2003 –26 August 2006
PartyCandidateVotes%Expenditures
Liberal Maria Minna 20,67840.39$73,454.03
New Democratic Marilyn Churley 17,90034.96$74,996.37
Conservative Peter Conroy9,23818.04$74,667.09
Green Jim Harris 3,1066.07$9,644.25
Progressive Canadian Jim Love1830.36$244.26
Marxist–Leninist Roger Carter910.18
Total valid votes51,196100.00
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots168
Turnout51,36470.51
Electors on the lists72,844
Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada.
2004 Canadian federal election : Toronto—Danforth
PartyCandidateVotes%Expenditures
New Democratic Jack Layton 22,19846.34$72,101.01
Liberal Dennis Mills 19,80341.34$73,909.41
Conservative Loftus Cuddy2,9756.21$12,400.00
Green Jim Harris 2,5755.38$11,139.51
Marijuana Scott Yee2650.55$0.00
Marxist–Leninist Marcell Rodden840.18$0.00
Total valid votes47,900100.00
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots269
Turnout48,16964.10
Electors on the lists75,151
Percentage change figures are factored for redistribution. Conservative Party percentages are contrasted with the combined Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative percentages from 2000.
Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada.
1997 Canadian federal election : Toronto Centre—Rosedale
PartyCandidateVotes%Expenditures
Liberal Bill Graham 22,94549.19$48,649
New Democratic David MacDonald 9,59720.58$44,147
Progressive Conservative Stephen Probyn 8,99319.28$54,733
Reform John Stewart3,6467.82$21,213
Green Jim Harris 5771.24$0
Canadian Action Anthony Robert Pedrette3030.65$767
Natural Law Ron Parker2700.58$0
Marxist–Leninist Stephen Rutchinski1660.36$0
Forward Canada Ted W. Kulp1450.31$435
Total valid votes46,642100.00
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots423
Turnout47,06567.01
Electors on the lists70,234
Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada.
1993 Canadian federal election : St. Paul's (electoral district)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Barry Campbell 27,87854.4+13.6
Progressive Conservative Isabel Bassett 12,50024.4-23.1
Reform Paul Chaplin5,70711.1
New Democratic David Jacobs2,6295.1-4.9
National Mario Godlewski1,2532.4
Green Jim Harris4911.0+0.3
Natural Law Rick C. Weberg3140.6
Independent Jim Conrad2620.5
Libertarian Rick Stenhouse1070.2-0.4
Marxist–Leninist David Gershuny870.2
Abolitionist Marion Velma Joyce190.0
Commonwealth of Canada Mike Twose100.0
Total valid votes 51,257100.0
1991 Toronto municipal election : Mayor of Toronto
CandidateVotes%
June Rowlands 113,99358.53
Jack Layton 64,04432.88
Susan Fish 8,1234.17
Don Andrews 1,9681.01
Jim Harris 1,7600.90
Ken Campbell 1,7080.88
Joe Young 1,1960.61
William McKeown1,0230.53
Ben Kerr 9520.49
Total valid votes194,767100.00

The above results are taken from the Toronto Star newspaper, 14 November 1991, E8.

1990 Ontario general election : St. Andrew—St. Patrick
PartyCandidateVotes%
New Democratic Zanana Akande 10,32134.45
Progressive Conservative Nancy Jackman 9,24130.85
Liberal Ron Kanter 8,93829.84
Green Jim Harris 1,1123.71
Libertarian Douglas Quinn3441.15
Total valid votes29,956100.00
Rejected, unmarked and discarded votes377
Turnout30,33366.89
Electors on the lists45,347

The federal and provincial electoral information is taken from Elections Canada and Elections Ontario. Italicized expenditures from elections after 1997 refer to submitted totals, and are presented when the final reviewed totals are not available. Expenditures from 1997 refer to submitted totals.

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  2. ↑ Tim Naumetz, "Greens enjoy upsurge in polls", CanWest News, 13 April 2004, p. 1.
  3. ↑ "Jim Harris profile, Globe and Mail, 2004 federal election". The Globe and Mail . Archived from the original on 6 September 2008. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
  4. ↑ Bruce DeMara, "Greens joins the race – quirks and all", Toronto Star, 21 August 1990, A9.
  5. ↑ "St. Andrew-St. Patrick", Toronto Star, 3 September 1990, A7.
  6. ↑ "City of Toronto Mayor, Councillors", Toronto Star, 7 November 1991, G1.
  7. ↑ "Re-elect Frank de Jong as Leader of the Green Party of Ontario", web document, 2001. Harris's endorsement reads as follows: "I have only the greatest admiration for Frank de Jong. He is committed to Green Politics, he helps and nurtures people in the movement and has been tireless in building the party to a point where we will run candidates in all 103 ridings in Ontario. I can't think of anyone better qualified to lead the Ontario Greens into the 21st century."
  8. ↑ Alberta Green newsletter, Summer '97 Archived 8 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine . Rachelle Small finished third.
  9. ↑ Harris, Jim (3 December 2008). "A Green Sabbatical". Green Party of Canada. Archived from the original on 6 May 2012. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
  10. ↑ "Former Green Party leader available for provincial election commentary". ecostrategy.ca. 12 September 2011. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
  11. ↑ "Green leader's day job derails campaign stop", Windsor Star, 11 June 2004, A11.
  12. ↑ Michael Kane, "Embrace learning, author says", Calgary Herald, 31 October 1998, H1.
  13. ↑ Jim Harris profile, Globe and Mail.
  14. ↑ "Jim Harris – New Leader of the Green Party of Canada", Alberta Green, Spring 2003 Archived 8 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine (Volume 15 Number 1), p. 1. Harris received 437 votes, Grogan 76 and Crummey 24.
  15. ↑ "Greens not quite what the seem", Toronto Star, 14 June 2004, A18.
  16. ↑ "Green Party won't pull a Nader, says leader", Edmonton Journal, 29 May 2004, A4.
  17. ↑ Green Party of Canada, Living Platform (online document) Archived 28 August 2005 at the Wayback Machine . The "green tax shift" is explained here Archived 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine .
  18. ↑ "Green's Harris protests debate exclusion again", CTV news, 15 July 2004, 16:32 report.
  19. ↑ Jonathan Woodward, "Green Party leader hopes to score nine seats today", The Province, 28 June 2004, A6.
  20. ↑ Doug Ward, "Fiscal conservative now ecological conservative", Vancouver Sun, 11 June 2004, A5.
  21. ↑ Bill Curry, "Controversial Tory joins Greens", Vancouver Sun, 20 August 2004, A6.
  22. ↑ Curry, "Controversial Tory"
  23. ↑ Draft Minutes, Ninth General Convention of the Green Party of Canada Archived 6 February 2006 at the Wayback Machine , 29 August 2004. Harris received 524 votes, against 352 for Manley and 74 for Grogan.
  24. ↑ See for instance Hayley Easto, resignation letter, 2005, Lise Racicot resigns GPC Council, 2005-06-10, Andy Shadrack resigns GPC Committee, 2005-06-15, Kathryn Holloway resigns GPC Council, committees and nomination, 2005-06-08 Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine , Michael Oddy resigns GPC Shadow Cabinet, 2005-10-24 Archived 18 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine . Some described the resignations as provoking a "crisis" in the Green Party. See for instance this site, produced by Wiki technology, which is critical of Harris's leadership. Former leader Joan Russow accused Harris of acting like a "dictator" in his management of the party. See Mary Nersessian, "Jim Harris: Jump on the Green train", CTV news, Election 2006 report.
  25. ↑ Murray Dobbin, "Green Party Blues", The Walrus, July/August 2005 and Murray Dobbin, "Why the Greens aren't very Green", The Tyee, 16 December 2005.
  26. ↑ Bill Hulet, review of "Green Party Blues", GreenPartyReview.ca, , 18 July 2005. Archived 23 February 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  27. ↑ Mary Nersessian, "Jim Harris: Jump on the Green Train", CTV.ca, 2006; See also Kate Jaimet, "The blossoming of the Green party", Ottawa Citizen, 13 May 2006, B4.
  28. ↑ "Greens seeing red over televised election debates", Toronto Star, 4 December 2005, 04:50 report.
  29. ↑ Mike Sadava, "Greens expect a million votes", Edmonton Journal, 21 January 2006, A5.
  30. ↑ Philip Jalsevac, "Greens believe in their leader", 20 December 2005, Kitchener-Waterloo Record, A5.
  31. ↑ Dennis Bueckert, "New complaint aimed at Greens", Calgary Herald, 29 December 2005, A4.
  32. ↑ Mary Agnes Welch, "Green Party leader to sue ex-worker", Winnipeg Free Press, 20 December 2005, A6.
  33. ↑ "Harris to give up on Green leadership" [ permanent dead link ], Globe and Mail, 24 April 2006.
  34. ↑ "Green Party of Canada | Former PM Joe Clark a "political orphan"". greenparty.ca. Archived from the original on 14 February 2012. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
  35. ↑ " @JimHarris " on Twitter
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