New Democratic Party candidates in the 1979 Canadian federal election

Last updated March 12, 2025

This is a list of New Democratic Party candidates in the 1979 Canadian federal election . The NDP nominated candidates in all of Canada's 282 ridings; 26 of whom were elected. Following the election, the NDP remained the third-largest party in the House of Commons.

Alberta

Calgary

Riding	Candidate's Name	Notes	Occupation	Votes	%	Rank
Calgary Centre	Bohdan Harasymiw			4,095	10.94	3rd
Calgary East	Barry Pashak	ANDP candidate for Calgary-North Hill in the 1971 Alberta provincial election	Professor at Mount Royal University ^[1]	5,172	11.12	3rd
Calgary North	Norm Herman			4,227		3rd
Calgary South	Cathie McCreary			3,584		3rd
Calgary West	Jack Peters			3,694	8.48	3rd

Edmonton

Riding	Candidate's Name	Votes	%	Rank
Edmonton East	Lynn Fogwill	5,154	15.45	3rd
Edmonton North	John Miller	5,673		3rd
Edmonton South	Gordon Fearn	5,401		3rd
Edmonton—Strathcona	Robert Davidson	5,352	12.04	3rd
Edmonton West	Ken Nixon	4,624		3rd

Rural Alberta

Riding	Candidate's Name	Votes	%	Rank
Athabasca	Robert Godbout	2,770	10.17	3rd
Bow River	Gale Burke	2,200	5.34	4th
Crowfoot	Roger Milbrandt	1,529	4.68	3rd
Lethbridge–Foothills	Roger Rickwood	3,720	8.94	3rd
Medicine Hat	Lorne L. Burk	3,053	7.63	3rd
Peace River	Earle Joseph Guertin	5,801	17.65	3rd
Pembina	Norman Flach	4,953		3rd
Red Deer	John Younie	2,856	6.4	3rd
Vegreville	James Kenney	3,191		3rd
Wetaskiwin	Alfred O. Arnston	3,587	9.9	3rd
Yellowhead	Bob Ritchie	3,600	8.7	3rd

British Columbia

British Columbia Interior

Riding	Candidate's Name	Occupation	Votes	%	Rank
Cariboo—Chilcotin	Harry Olaussen		8,273	27.69	2nd
Kamloops—Shuswap	Ron H. Anderson		12,193	27.53	3rd
Kootenay East—Revelstoke	Sid Parker		11,107	35.07	2nd
Kootenay West	Lyle Kristiansen		11,503	39.83	2nd
Okanagan North	John Powell		11,951	23.16	3rd
Okanagan—Similkameen	Darwin Sigurgeirson		11,715	27.63	2nd
Prince George—Bulkley Valley	Archie Patrick		8,521	27.30	2nd
Prince George—Peace River	Bob Simpson		5,478	20.50	2nd
Skeena	Jim Fulton	Probation officer^[2]	10,996	41.82	1st

Fraser Valley/Lower Mainland

Riding	Candidate's Name	Occupation	Votes	%	Rank
Burnaby	Svend Robinson	Lawyer	20,604	39.76	1st
Capilano	Michael Karton		6,639	14.56	3rd
Fraser Valley East	Harry W. Fontaine		9,126	21.38	2nd
Fraser Valley West	Cyril Barkved		15,322	30.89	2nd
Mission—Port Moody	Mark Rose		20,847	43.83	1st
New Westminster—Coquitlam	Pauline Jewett	President of Simon Fraser University (1974–1978)	19,301	44.43	1st
North Vancouver—Burnaby	Russ Hicks		12,084	27.89	3rd
Richmond—South Delta	Mercia Stickney		13,524	24.15	2nd
Surrey—White Rock—North Delta	Carol Langford		17,992		2nd
Vancouver Centre	Ron Johnson		13,350	29.97	3rd
Vancouver East	Margaret Anne Mitchell		13,697	42.71	1st
Vancouver Kingsway	Ian Waddell		15,928	44.76	1st
Vancouver Quadra	Alan Bush		10,665	24.46	3rd
Vancouver South	Judy McManus		8,806	20.91	3rd

Vancouver Island

Riding	Candidate's Name	Occupation	Votes	%	Rank
Comox—Powell River	Raymond Skelly	Teacher	22,075	44.28	1st
Cowichan—Malahat—The Islands	Jim Manly		17,471	39.98	2nd
Esquimalt—Saanich	Bob Cameron		15,862	29.03	2nd
Nanaimo—Alberni	Ted Miller	Teacher	21,304	43.98	1st
Victoria	Gretchen Brewin		15,344	29.93	2nd

Manitoba

Rural Manitoba

Riding	Candidate's Name	Occupation	Votes	%	Rank
Brandon-Souris	David Serle		8,949	24.67	2nd
Churchill	Rod Murphy	Teacher	12,544	51.7	1st
Dauphin—Swan River	Laverne Lewycky		11,770	41.6	2nd
Lisgar	Keith W.D. Poulson		2,920		3rd
Portage—Marquette	Maude Lelonde		6,612		2nd
Provencher	Richard C. Greenway		8,473	25.7	2nd
Selkirk—Interlake	Terry Sargeant		14,225	42.7	1st

Winnipeg

Riding	Candidate's Name	Notes	Occupation	Votes	%	Rank
Saint Boniface	Grant Wichenko			11,455	23.7	3rd
Winnipeg—Assiniboine	Robert Johannson			7,067		3rd
Winnipeg—Birds Hill	Bill Blaikie		United Church minister	25,492	50.16	1st
Winnipeg—Fort Garry	Vivian Rachlis			8,176	17.87	3rd
Winnipeg North	David Orlikow	Member of Parliament for Winnipeg—Birds Hill (1962–1988) Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for St. Johns (1958–1962) Member of Winnipeg City Council (1951–1958)		22,417	52.7	1st
Winnipeg North Centre	Stanley Knowles			15,121		1st
Winnipeg—St. James	J. Frank Syms			11,747		2nd

New Brunswick

Riding	Candidate's Name	Votes	%	Rank
Carleton—Charlotte	Ed Gaunce	3,971	13.3	3rd
Fundy—Royal	Bruce E. Halpin	7,746	19.14	3rd
Gloucester	Kevin O'Connell	3,366	9.45	3rd
Madawaska—Victoria	James Aucoin	1,620	6.3	3rd
Moncton	Gregory Murphy	8,936	18.49	3rd
Northumberland—Miramichi	Jerry Dunnett	4,653	17.23	3rd
Restigouche	Gail Walsh	4,718	17.8	3rd
Saint John	Eldon Richardson	6,358	18.9	3rd
Westmorland—Kent	René Vannieuwenhuizen	4,609	14.92	3rd
York—Sunbury	Phillip Booker	5,665	14.36	3rd

Newfoundland and Labrador

Riding	Candidate's Name	Votes	%	Rank
Bonavista-Trinity-Conception	W.A. Bill Parsons	7,448	30.15	2nd
Burin-St. George's	Ross Senior	3,943		2nd
Gander—Twillingate	Wallace Bown	4,460		3rd
Grand Falls—White Bay—Labrador	Bryan Blackmore	12,538	42.37	2nd
Humber—Port au Port—St. Barbe	Fonse Faour	15,872		1st
St. John's East	Stratford G. Canning	6,684	19.27	3rd
St. John's West	Tom Mayo	9,033		3rd

Nova Scotia

Riding	Candidate's Name	Votes	%	Rank
Annapolis Valley—Hants	Bob Levy	8,008	19.96	3rd
Cape Breton—East Richmond	Andrew Hogan	15,269		1st
Cape Breton Highlands—Canso	William J. Woodfine	4,657		3rd
Cape Breton—The Sydneys	Ed Murphy	10,310		3rd
Central Nova	Gary A. Chambers	4,521	13.53	3rd
Cumberland—Colchester	Hayden Trenholm	5,662	13.83	3rd
Dartmouth—Halifax East	Frederick Turley	7,116	16.17	3rd
Halifax	Alexa McDonough	7,590	18.53	3rd
Halifax West	Dennis Theman	8,265	17.18	3rd
South Shore	John Yates	3,988	10.92	3rd
South West Nova	Ian MacPherson	4,217	11.36	3rd

Ontario

Central Ontario

Riding	Candidate's Name	Votes	%	Rank
Durham—Northumberland	Fred McLaughlin	8,393	20.45	3rd
Grey—Simcoe	Bill Proud	5,576		3rd
Northumberland	Hugh Jenney	5,150		3rd
Peterborough	Cyril Carter	8,451	16.9	3rd
Simcoe North	Fayne Bullen	11,284	27.0	2nd
Simcoe South	Gaye Lamb	8,307		3rd
Victoria–Haliburton	Patrick Daniel	6,872	15.1	3rd

Eastern Ontario/Ottawa

Riding	Candidate's Name	Votes	%	Rank
Glengarry—Prescott—Russell	Paul De Broeck	4,164	10.0	3rd
Hastings—Frontenac	Kevin Arseneault	5,691		3rd
Kingston and the Islands	Stephen Foster	8,472	19.0	3rd
Lanark—Renfrew—Carleton	Gord Gilhuly	5,749		3rd
Leeds—Grenville	Mildred Smith	6,551	15.42	3rd
Nepean—Carleton	Marnie Girvan	7,810	12.7	3rd
Ottawa—Carleton	Jill Vickers	8,234		3rd
Ottawa Centre	John Smart	10,213	20.69	3rd
Ottawa—Vanier	Paul H. Michaud	7,023	15.85	3rd
Ottawa West	Abby Pollonetsky	7,051		3rd
Prince Edward—Hastings	Donald Wilson	5,833	14.7	3rd
Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke	Don Breault	7,133	17.3	3rd

Greater Toronto Area

Riding	Candidate's Name	Votes	%	Rank
Beaches	Neil Young	12,322	33.1	2nd
Brampton—Georgetown	David Moulton	11,584		3rd
Broadview–Greenwood	Bob Rae	13,187	39.72	1st
Burlington	Danny Dunleavy	8,421	14.7	2nd
Davenport	Ed Brown	5,579	24.4	2nd
Don Valley East	Saul Paton	6,595	12.3	3rd
Don Valley West	Jean Smith	5,572	10.6	3rd
Eglinton—Lawrence	Leo Heaps	7,368	16.40	3rd
Etobicoke Centre	Dan Shipley	6,237	10.2	3rd
Etobicoke—Lakeshore	Terry Meagher	14,044	30.9	3rd
Etobicoke North	Adrian Dorn	12,017	23.2	3rd
Halton	Doug Black	7,838	14.5	3rd
Mississauga North	John McGuigan	11,002		3rd
Mississauga South	Colin Baynes	8,869	16.2	3rd
Ontario	Geoff Rison	11,510		3rd
Oshawa	Ed Broadbent	29,090	51.3	1st
Parkdale—High Park	Doug Little	9,539	23.5	3rd
Rosedale	Ron B. Thomson	6,902	17.54	3rd
St. Paul's	James Lockyer	5,779	13.30	3rd
Scarborough Centre	Tom Lyons	9,533	22.2	3rd
Scarborough East	Sid Dunkley	8,190		3rd
Scarborough West	John Paul Harney	13,437	31.2	3rd
Spadina	John Foster	8,765		2nd
Trinity	Manuel Azevedo	5,504		2nd
Willowdale	Chris Thurrott	7,128	14.3	3rd
York Centre	Vince Del Buono	10,464	25.7	2nd
York East	Kay MacPherson	8,651		3rd
York North	Bruce Searle	7,591		3rd
York—Peel	Wally Gustar	7,725		3rd
York—Scarborough	Frank Lowery	10,978		3rd
York South—Weston	Vito Cautillo	10,451	28.2	2nd
York West	Elio Costa	9,712	24.8	3rd

Hamilton/Niagara

Riding	Candidate's Name	Notes	Votes	%	Rank
Erie	Clarence Gibson		6,985		3rd
Hamilton East	Don Gray	Member of Hamilton City Council (1972–1985)	11,783		2nd
Hamilton Mountain	Andy Asselin		12,273	24.0	3rd
Hamilton–Wentworth	David Hitchcock		8,550	20.20	3rd
Hamilton West	Miriam Simpson		8,512		3rd
Lincoln	Kenneth I. Lee		13,400		3rd
Niagara Falls	John A. Dawson		7,757	19.2	3rd
St. Catharines	Peter Elliott		11,897	23.5	3rd
Welland	Robert Wright		11,151	25.9	3rd

Northern Ontario

Riding	Candidate's Name	Votes	%	Rank
Algoma	Jim Dinner	10,989	32.40	2nd
Cochrane North	Robert Fortin	11,080		2nd
Kenora—Rainy River	John Edmund Parry	10,844		2nd
Nickel Belt	John Rodriguez	17,772	43.37	1st
Nipissing	Patricia Hughes	5,681		3rd
Parry Sound—Muskoka	Dennis Hay	6,270	17.1	3rd
Sault Ste. Marie	Cyril Symes	12,089	37.26	1st
Thunder Bay—Atikokan	Iain Angus	11,667	34.1	2nd
Thunder Bay—Nipigon	Bruce McKay	11,288	32.3	2nd
Timiskaming	Arnold Peters	11,595		1st
Timmins—Chapleau	Dennis Welin	10,160		2nd

Southwestern Ontario

Riding	Candidate's Name	Votes	%	Rank
Brant	Derek Blackburn	20,908	42.2	1st
Bruce—Grey	John Giese	4,723	11.7	3rd
Cambridge	Marc Sommerville	11,085	29.5	2nd
Elgin	Mary Lou Weitzel	4,293		3rd
Essex—Kent	Ralph Wensley	4,759		3rd
Essex—Windsor	Steven W. Langdon	18,603	40.4	2nd
Guelph	Jim Finamore	8,535	19.73	3rd
Haldimand—Norfolk	Joe Clark	6,762	14.8	3rd
Huron—Bruce	Moira Couper	2,729	7.7	3rd
Kent	Marie-France Wilkinson	5,047		3rd
Kitchener	James Herman	11,345		3rd
Lambton—Middlesex	Grant Reynolds	4,585		3rd
London East	Rob Martin	8,531	22.2	3rd
London—Middlesex	Bill Lloyd	8,855	23.8	3rd
London West	Paddy Musson	9,378	15.7	3rd
Oxford	Marjorie Lanaway	5,980	14.0	3rd
Perth	John Davies	4,255		3rd
Sarnia—Lambton	Wally Krawczyk	10,148	25.4	3rd
Waterloo	Mike Makarchuk	9,375	18.12	3rd
Wellington—Dufferin—Simcoe	Jeff Koechlin	4,744		3rd
Windsor—Walkerville	David Burr	15,744		2nd
Windsor West	Maxine Jones	11,906	34.12	2nd

Prince Edward Island

Riding	Candidate's Name	Votes	%	Rank
Cardigan	George MacFarlane	892	5.22	3rd
Egmont	Vincent Gallant	710	4.49	3rd
Hillsborough	Bob Crockett	1,453	9.58	3rd
Malpeque	Charlie Sark	1,126	6.80	3rd

Quebec

Central Quebec

Riding	Candidate's Name	Votes	%	Rank
Berthier—Maskinongé—Lanaudière	Richard Leclercq	841	2.2	4th
Champlain	Denis Tousignant	1,328		5th
Joliette	Jacques Trudeau	1,324	2.80	3rd
Richelieu	Madeleine Martel	1,500	3.32	4th
Saint-Maurice	Robert Deschamps	952	2.48	4th
Trois-Rivières	Roland Auger	1,682	4.4	4th

Eastern Townships/Southern Quebec

Riding	Candidate's Name	Votes	%	Rank
Beauce	Raymond Philippe Roy	215	0.5	5th
Beauharnois—Salaberry	Gilles Gagne	1,866	4.6	4th
Brome—Missisquoi	Gertrude Lefebvre-Brown	991	2.62	4th
Châteauguay	Ginette Bourdon	2,404		4th
Drummond	Patricia Lamarre	639	1.6	5th
Frontenac	Martin Vaillancourt	492		4th
Lotbinière	Jean-Denis Lavigne	1,159		4th
Mégantic—Compton—Stanstead	Murray Dale Powell	1,316		4th
Richmond	Lisa Bourgeois	551		4th
Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot	Richard Sylvestre	802	1.8	4th
Saint-Jean	Todd Sloan	2,204	5.0	4th
Shefford	Denis Boisse	1,008	2.05	5th
Sherbrooke	Roger Muller	1,180	2.8	4th
Verchères	Micheline Ruelland	3,652	6.3	4th

Greater Montreal

Riding	Candidate's Name	Votes	%	Rank
Blainville—Deux-Montagnes	Normand J. Labrie	3,472		4th
Bourassa	Daniel Piotrowski	1,804	3.8	5th
Chambly	Dominique Vaillancourt	3,324	6.43	4th
Dollard	Pierre Bourgeois	3,949		3rd
Duvernay	John Shatilla	2,839	5.48	4th
Gamelin	Danielle Dubois	2,753		4th
Hochelaga—Maisonneuve	Marie-Ange Gagnon-Sirois	1,746		5th
Lachine	Buff Norman	2,450		3rd
Lasalle	Gaston Coté	3,249		3rd
Laurier	Jean-Pierre Bourdouxhe	1,934		5th
Laval	Lauraine Vaillancourt	3,521		4th
Laval-des-Rapides	Pierre Ivan Laroche	3,702		4th
Laprairie	Jean-Claude Bohrer	4,188		4th
Longueuil	Jean-Pierre Vaillancourt	3,995	7.2	4th
Montreal–Mercier	Elizabeth Chase-Chapdelaine	1,816		4th
Mount Royal	David C. Winch	2,023	4.0	3rd
Notre-Dame-de-Grâce	Gus Callaghan	3,683	8.08	3rd
Outremont	Claire A. Brisson	4,112	10.33	2nd
Papineau	Jean A. Richard	1,913	5.55	4th
Rosemont	Marcel Julien	2,238	5.25	4th
Saint-Henri—Westmount	Claude de Mestral	3,297		3rd
Saint-Michel—Ahuntsic	Filippo Salvatore	2,616		3rd
Saint-Léonard—Anjou	Colette Lalancette-Deschamps	3,105		4th
Sainte-Marie	Jean-Pierre Juneau	1,575	4.77	4th
Terrebonne	Roland Francis	3,114	5.6	4th
Vaudreuil	Lorne Brown	4,512		3rd

Northern Quebec

Riding	Candidate's Name	Votes	%	Rank
Abitibi	Maurice Vaney	1,420	3.0	5th
Charlevoix	Normand Laforce	613		4th
Chicoutimi	Marc St-Hilaire	1,435	4.3	4th
Jonquière	Jacques Hubert	2,724		3rd
Lac-Saint-Jean	Jean-Denis Bérubé	1,589		4th
Manicouagan	Carole Noel	2,105	6.7	4th
Roberval	Jacques Ouellet	385	1.1	5th
Témiscamingue	Germain Boudreau	1,473	3.77	4th

Western Quebec/Laurentides/Outaouais

Riding	Candidate's Name	Occupation	Votes	%	Rank
Argenteuil	Thérèse Gardner Pelletier		1,576	4.60	4th
Gatineau	André Beaudry		3,292	6.91	3rd
Hull	Michel Légère	Lawyer	7,175	16.56	2nd
Labelle	Willie Kofman		2,134		4th
Pontiac—Gatineau—Labelle	Ida Brown		1,682	5.30	4th

Saskatchewan

Riding	Candidate's Name	Notes	Occupation	Votes	%	Rank
Assiniboia	Bill Knight			11,183		2nd
Humboldt—Lake Centre	Vic Althouse		Farmer	12,681		2nd
Kindersley—Lloydminster	Alf Gleave			10,254		2nd
Mackenzie	Dale R. Schmeichel			10,370		2nd
Moose Jaw	David H. Henley			11,122		2nd
Prince Albert	Stan Hovdebo			11,979	35.7	2nd
Qu'Appelle—Moose Mountain	George A. Hubbard			7,008		2nd
Regina East	Simon De Jong			15,022		1st
Regina West	Les Benjamin	Member of Parliament for Regina West (1979–1988) Member of Parliament for Regina—Lake Centre (1968–1979)		19,340		1st
Saskatoon East	Bob Ogle		Roman Catholic priest	15,234		1st
Saskatoon West	Reg Parker			15,094		2nd
Swift Current—Maple Creek	Ron Gates			8,720		2nd
The Battlefords—Meadow Lake	Eli Nesdoly			10,327		2nd
Yorkton—Melville	Lorne Nystrom	Member of Parliament for Yorkton—Melville (1968–1993)		16,677	47.5	1st

The Territories

Riding	Candidate's Name	Votes	%	Rank
Nunatsiaq	Peter Ittinuar	1,963	37.74	1st
Western Arctic	Georges Erasmus	3,385	29.33	3rd
Yukon	Joe Jack	2,578	23.06	3rd

References

↑ "Leonard 'Barry' Pashak – Obituary". Edmonton Journal. 2021-02-06. Retrieved 2025-03-10.
↑ Ebner, David (2008-12-22). "Jim Fulton, 57 Passionate former MP dies of cancer". Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 2008-12-25. Retrieved 2025-03-10.

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[1] "Leonard 'Barry' Pashak – Obituary". Edmonton Journal. 2021-02-06. Retrieved 2025-03-10.

[2] Ebner, David (2008-12-22). "Jim Fulton, 57 Passionate former MP dies of cancer". Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 2008-12-25. Retrieved 2025-03-10.

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