Progressive Conservative Party of Canada candidates in the 1980 Canadian federal election

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The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada fielded a full slate of candidates in the 1980 federal election, and won 103 seats to form the Official Opposition in the House of Commons of Canada. The party had previously formed a minority government after winning a plurality of seats in the 1979 election.

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Quebec

Bellechasse: Jean Deschênes

Jean Deschênes was the Progressive Conservative Party's candidate for Bellechasse in the 1979 and 1980 federal elections. He identified as a civil servant. [1] He is not to be confused with another person of the same name who was a municipal politician in Gatineau.

Electoral record
ElectionDivisionPartyVotes %PlaceWinner
1979 federal Bellechasse Progressive Conservative 2,9247.263/6 Adrien Lambert, Social Credit
1980 federal Bellechasse Progressive Conservative 2,9127.223/6 Alain Garant, Liberal

Saint-Léonard—Anjou: Pierre Gauthier

Pierre Gauthier identified as a lawyer. He received 2,972 votes (5.71%), finishing third against Liberal incumbent Monique Bégin. [2]

Ontario

Broadview—Greenwood: Michael Clarke

Clarke has a degree in Economics and Political Science from the University of Guelph. He was a real estate agent, and was president of the York East Progressive Conservative Riding Association in the 1970s. He sought the Progressive Conservative nomination for Broadview in a 1978 by-election, but lost to Tom Clifford. [3] He first ran for the Progressive Conservatives in 1979 for Broadview—Greenwood, after losing the Scarborough Centre nomination to Diane Stratas. [4] He was thirty-three years old in 1980. [5]

Clarke later managed Michael Hordo's campaign for the Broadview—Greenwood Progressive Conservative nomination in a 1982 by-election. [6]

Electoral record
ElectionDivisionPartyVotes %PlaceWinner
1979 federal Broadview—Greenwood Progressive Conservative 9,98730.082/7 Bob Rae, New Democratic Party
1980 federal Broadview—Greenwood Progressive Conservative 7,67723.923/9 Bob Rae, New Democratic Party

Nickel Belt: Dennis Tappenden

Dennis Tappenden was an Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) corporal. In 1980, he was the force's community relations officer for the Sudbury district. He was the first provincial policeman to seek election to public office in Ontario, after changes to the Public Service Act. [7] He received 4,250 votes (10.20%), finishing third against Liberal candidate Judy Erola.

Some local Progressive Conservatives later indicated that they deliberately ran a weak campaign in order to give Erola a victory over New Democratic Party incumbent John Rodriguez. In return, they said, the Liberals agreed to field weak candidates against Sudbury-area Progressive Conservatives in the 1981 provincial election. [8]

Tappenden was subsequently charged with discreditable conduct under the Ontario Police Act, which prohibits police officers from becoming involved in politics. An OPP spokesman said that Tappenden had been denied a leave of absence to run for office (using his vacation days instead), and that the Police Act took precedence over the Public Service Act in police matters. [9] The leaders of Ontario's Liberal and New Democratic parties defended Tappenden, and a The Globe and Mail editorial opined that he should be given the right to seek public office. [10] A board dealing with civil service complaints later decided, by a vote of 2 to 1, that Tappenden had been within his rights to run for office and that the Police Act should be changed. [11]

Manitoba

Winnipeg—Birds Hill: John Froese

Froese was a real estate broker at the time of the election. [12] He received 13,385 votes (29.44%), finishing second against New Democratic Party incumbent Bill Blaikie.

A Winnipeg realtor named John Froese later became president of the Manitoba Real Estate Association, [13] was appointed as a Manitoba representative on the Canadian Real Estate Association in November 2000, [14] and became chair of the Manitoba Securities Commission's Real Estate Advisory Committee. [15] It is assumed that this is the same person.

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References

  1. ↑ History of Federal Ridings since 1867: BELLECHASSE (1979/05/22), Parliament of Canada, accessed 15 April 2011. In 1992, an individual named Jean Deschênes was appointed to the Canadian consulate in Seoul, South Korea. This might have been the same person. See Frank Howard, "Economic Council refugees finding asylum," Ottawa Citizen, 24 July 1992, A4.
  2. ↑ History of Federal Ridings since 1867: SAINT-LÉONARD--ANJOU (1980/02/18), Parliament of Canada, accessed 23 April 2011.
  3. ↑ "Candidates for Tories lining up to run in Broadview-Greenwood", The Globe and Mail, 29 December 1978, P5; "Clarke named again ...", The Globe and Mail, 18 December 1979, P10.
  4. ↑ "Broadview-Greenwood", Toronto Star, 19 May 1979, A12.
  5. ↑ Bill Dampier, "Broadview-Greenwood: Inflation, jobs major worries for residents", Toronto Star, 25 January 1980, A13.
  6. ↑ Joe O'Donnell, "Folly of Greenwood's Tories", Toronto Star, 21 August 1982, B5.
  7. ↑ "OPP corporal first to run for election under new law", The Globe and Mail, 8 January 1980, 9.
  8. ↑ Arthur Moses, "Sudbury profile", The Globe and Mail, 17 March 1981, 70.
  9. ↑ Yves Lavigne, "Tory in OPP faces firing because he ran, and lost", The Globe and Mail, 21 February 1980, 8.
  10. ↑ Stan Oziewicz, "Let OPP run in elections, opposition leaders urge McMurtry", The Globe and Mail, 22 February 1980, 4; "No reason to make him ineligible" [editorial], The Globe and Mail, 25 February 1980, 6.
  11. ↑ "Police allowed to run for office, ruling says", The Globe and Mail, 20 January 1981, 8.
  12. ↑ History of Federal Ridings since 1867: Winnipeg—Birds Hill, Parliament of Canada, accessed 30 March 2007.
  13. ↑ Martin Cash, "Rates, sales look rosy", Winnipeg Free Press, 21 January 1994.
  14. ↑ "Manitoba movers", Winnipeg Free Press, 6 November 2000, B8.
  15. ↑ Real Estate Advisory Committee, Manitoba Security Commission, accessed 30 March 2007.
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