Paul Zed

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2008 Canadian federal election: Saint John—Rothesay

Paul Zed
Member of Parliament for Fundy—Royal (1993-1997), Saint John (2004-2008)
In office 2004–2008
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Rodney Weston	13,782	39.55	+0.25	$73,497.84
	Liberal	Paul Zed	13,285	38.13	-4.79	$69,234.99
	New Democratic	Tony Mowery	5,560	15.96	+0.32	$2,720.91
	Green	Mike Richardson	1,888	5.42	+3.28	$1,008.49
	Marijuana	Michael Moffat	330	0.95	–	none listed
Total valid votes/expense limit			34,845	100.0		$79,702
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			187	0.53	±0
Turnout			35,032	54.01	-7.38
Eligible voters			64,868
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+2.52

v t e 2006 Canadian federal election : Saint John—Rothesay
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Paul Zed	17,202	42.92	-0.36	$55,428.82
	Conservative	John Wallace	15,753	39.30	+5.68	$65,915.16
	New Democratic	Terry Albright	6,267	15.64	-3.42	$6,294.91
	Green	Vern Garnett	858	2.14	-0.08	none listed
Total valid votes/expense limit			40,080	100.0		$74,214
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			214	0.53
Turnout			40,294	61.39	+6.36
Eligible voters			65,639
	Liberal hold		Swing		-3.02

v t e 2004 Canadian federal election : Saint John—Rothesay
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Paul Zed	15,725	43.28	+13.12	$60,257.89
	Conservative	Bob McVicar	12,212	33.62	-25.88	$59,750.72
	New Democratic	Terry Albright	6,926	19.06	+10.34	$13,450.03
	Green	Jonathan Cormier	807	2.22	+1.92	$1,401.24
	Marijuana	Jim Wood	369	1.02	-0.38	none listed
	Independent	Tom Oland	290	0.80	–	$235.21
Total valid votes/expense limit			36,329	100.0		$73,296
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			224	0.61
Turnout			36,553	55.03	-5.46
Eligible voters			66,423
	Liberal notional gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+19.50
Changes from 2000 are based on redistributed results. Change for the Conservative Party is based on the combined total of the Progressive Conservative Party and the Canadian Alliance.

v t e 2000 Canadian federal election : Saint John—Rothesay
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Elsie Wayne	16,751	50.9	-12.2
	Liberal	Paul Zed	9,535	29.0	+13.1
	New Democratic	Rod Hill	2,989	9.1	-1.3
	Alliance	Peter Touchbourne	2,980	9.1	-0.7
	Marijuana	Jim Wood	461	1.4	+1.4
	Green	Vern Garnett	131	0.3	+0.3
	Natural Law	Miville Couture	52	0.2	-0.5
Total valid votes			32,899	100.0

v t e 1997 Canadian federal election : Fundy Royal
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	John Herron	16,715	41.52	+13.11
	Liberal	Paul Zed	10,192	25.32	−21.05
	Reform	Roger Brown	9,229	22.93	+5.20
	New Democratic	Larry Washburn	3,790	9.41	+4.61
	Natural Law	Janice Sharon MacMillan	329	0.82
Total valid votes			40,255	100.00

v t e 1993 Canadian federal election : Fundy Royal
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Paul Zed	21,677	46.37	+10.10
	Progressive Conservative	Robert Corbett	13,282	28.41	−18.29
	Reform	Dan McKiel	8,288	17.73
	New Democratic	Mark Connell	2,244	4.80	−6.17
	Independent	Colby Fraser	1,258	2.69	−3.37
Total valid votes			46,749	100.00

Independent candidate Colby Fraser's change is based on his 1988 result running as a Confederation of Regions candidate.

Personal life

He is married to P. Wende Cartwright, formerly from Vancouver, and between them they have five children. He plays the piano and is an avid snow and water skier.

References

1. "Mr. Paul Zed, MP". Parliament of Canada (in Canadian French). Retrieved August 6, 2024.
2. MacKinnon, Bobbi-Jean (July 12, 2004). "Paul Zed proud to be himself". Telegraph-Journal . Retrieved August 6, 2024.
3. Kerr, Grant (November 24, 2004). "Family reunited after nearly seven years apart". Telegraph-Journal . Retrieved August 6, 2024.
4. "Alumni of University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management: class of 2012". alumnius.net. Retrieved 2025-01-11.

External links

• Paul Zed – Parliament of Canada biography