New Democratic Party candidates in the 1988 Canadian federal election

The New Democratic Party ran a full slate of 295 candidates in the 1988 federal election, and elected 43 members to become the third-largest party in parliament. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.

Newfoundland and Labrador

 * Bonavista—Trinity—Conception: Larry Welsh
 * Burin—St. George's: L. Joseph Edwards
 * Gander—Grand Falls: Bryan Blackmore
 * Humber—St. Barbe—Baie Verte: Marie Newhook
 * Labrador: Evelyn Riggs
 * St. John's East: Jack Harris
 * St. John's West: Alfred J. Sullivan

Nova Scotia

 * Annapolis Valley—Hants: Keith Collins
 * Cape Breton Highlands—Canso: Wilf Cude
 * Cape Breton—East Richmond: John Stevens
 * Cape Breton—The Sydneys: Ed MacLeod
 * Central Nova: Gloria Murphy
 * Cumberland—Colchester: Barbara Jack
 * Dartmouth: Marty Zelenietz
 * Halifax: Ray Larkin
 * Halifax West: Lois Wiseman
 * South Shore: Bill Zimmerman
 * South West Nova: Peter Zavitz

Prince Edward Island

 * Cardigan: Gertrude Partridge
 * Egmont: Irene N. Dyment
 * Hillsborough: Dolores Crane
 * Malpeque: Judy Whitaker

New Brunswick

 * Beauséjour: Lyman Dean
 * Carleton—Charlotte: Ben Kilfoil
 * Fredericton: Allan Sharp
 * Fundy—Royal: Rosemarie M. McNairn
 * Gloucester: Serge Robichaud
 * Madawaska—Victoria: Réal Couturier
 * Miramichi: Frank Clancy
 * Moncton: Terry Boudreau
 * Restigouche: Nancy Quigley
 * Saint John: Judith Meinert

Quebec

 * Abitibi: Gerry Lemoyne
 * Ahuntsic: Vincent Guadagnano
 * Anjou—Rivière-des-Prairies: Vincent Marchione
 * Marchione' was a forty-nine-year-old educator and social worker in 1988. He focused his campaign on job creation, and won support in his multicultural riding with a nomination speech delivered in French, Italian, Creole, and English. Marchione later ran for a school board seat and led an environmental group that opposed the construction of petrochemical plants in east-end Montreal.


 * Argenteuil—Papineau: André Marc Paré
 * Beauce: Danielle Wolfe
 * Beauharnois—Salaberry: Daniel Payette
 * Bellechasse: Gilles Papillon
 * Berthier—Montcalm: Pierre Arès
 * Blainville—Deux-Montagnes: Louisette Tremblay-Hinton
 * Bonaventure—Îles-de-la-Madeleine: Germaine Poirier
 * Bourassa: Kéder Hyppolite
 * Brome—Missisquoi: Paul Vachon
 * Chambly: Phil Edmonston
 * Champlain: Jocelyn Crête
 * Charlesbourg: Denis Courteau
 * Charlevoix: Kenneth Choquette
 * Châteauguay: Pierre Hétu
 * Chicoutimi: Mustapha Elayoubi
 * Drummond: Ferdinand Berner
 * Duvernay: Michel Agnaieff
 * Frontenac: Claude L'Heureux
 * Gaspé: Bertrand Réhel
 * Gatineau—La Lièvre: Marius Tremblay
 * Hochelaga—Maisonneuve: Gaétan Nadeau
 * Hull—Aylmer: Danielle Lapointe-Vienneau
 * Joliette: Claude Hétu
 * Jonquière: Françoise Gauthier
 * Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup: Maurice Tremblay
 * La Prairie: Bruce Katz
 * Lachine—Lac-Saint-Louis: Val Udvarhely
 * Lac-Saint-Jean: Jean Paradis
 * Langelier: Pauline Gingras
 * LaSalle—Émard: Jean-Claude Bohrer
 * Laurentides: Bill Clay
 * Laurier—Sainte-Marie: François Beaulne
 * Laval: Paul Cappon
 * Laval-des-Rapides: John Shatilla
 * Lévis: Jean-Paul Harney
 * Longueuil: Daniel Senez
 * Lotbinière: Richard Lacoursière
 * Louis-Hébert: Pierre Lavigne
 * Manicouagan: Carol Guay
 * Matapédia—Matane: Yves Coté
 * Mégantic—Compton—Stanstead: Jean-Pierre Walsh
 * Mercier: André Cordeau
 * Montmorency—Orléans: Éric Gourdeau
 * Mount Royal: Tariq Alvi
 * Notre-Dame-de-Grâce: Maria Peluso
 * Outremont: Louise O'Neill
 * Papineau—Saint-Michel: Giovanni Adamo
 * Adamo was an executive chef with longstanding ties to his riding's Italian community. He received 5,948 votes (15.10%), finishing third against Liberal incumbent André Ouellet.


 * Pierrefonds—Dollard: Pierre Razik
 * Pontiac—Gatineau—Labelle: John Trent
 * Portneuf: Jean-Marie Fiset
 * Québec-Est: Jeanne Lalanne
 * Richelieu: Gaston Dupuis
 * Dupuis, an office clerk, ran as a New Democratic Party candidate in two elections. He ran his 1988 campaign from his work space and acknowledged that his party did not have a strong historical support base in Richelieu.


 * Richmond—Wolfe: Marc-André Péloquin
 * Rimouski—Témiscouata: Pierre Boisjoli
 * Roberval: Réjean Lalancette
 * Rosemont: Giuseppe Sciortino
 * Saint-Denis: Jaime Llambias-Wolff
 * Saint-Henri—Westmount: Ruth Rose
 * Saint-Hubert: Nicole Desranleau
 * Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot: Hélène Lortie-Narayana
 * Saint-Jean: Rezeq Faraj
 * Saint-Laurent: Sid Ingerman
 * Saint-Léonard: Michel Roche
 * Saint-Maurice: Claude Rompré
 * Shefford: Paul Pearson
 * Sherbrooke: Alain Poirier
 * Témiscamingue: Rémy Trudel
 * Terrebonne: Lauraine Vaillancourt
 * Trois-Rivières: Josée Trudel
 * Vaudreuil: Suzanne Aubertin
 * Verchères: Maria Jean
 * Verdun—Saint-Paul: Alain Tassé

Ontario

 * Algoma: Lloyd Greenspoon
 * Beaches—Woodbine: Neil Young
 * Brampton: John Morris
 * Brampton—Malton: Paul Ledgister
 * Brant: Derek Blackburn
 * Broadview—Greenwood: Lynn McDonald
 * Bruce—Grey: Cathy Hird
 * Burlington: Jane Mulkewich
 * Cambridge: Bruce Davidson
 * Carleton—Gloucester: Robert Cottingham
 * Cochrane—Superior: Len Wood
 * Davenport: Anna Menozzi
 * Don Valley East: Brant Loper
 * Don Valley North: Anton Kuerti
 * Don Valley West: Ian Cameron
 * Durham: Margaret Wilbur
 * Eglinton—Lawrence: Vittoria Levi
 * Levi was born in Italy. She was a vocational rehabilitation counseller and served as a representative of the National Congress for Italian Canadians in the 1980s.  Early in 1988, she criticized Robert Elgie's proposals for provincial labour law reform as "a change for the worse" with respect to the rights of injured workers.  She was forty-nine years old at the time of the election.  She received 6,241 votes (15.57%), finishing third against Liberal candidate Joe Volpe.


 * Elgin: Bob Habkirk
 * Erie: Sean O'Flynn
 * Essex—Kent: John Coggans
 * Essex—Windsor: Steven W. Langdon
 * Etobicoke Centre: Phil Jones
 * Etobicoke North: Ted Humphreys
 * Etobicoke—Lakeshore: Judy Brandow
 * Glengarry—Prescott—Russell: Helena McCuaig
 * Guelph—Wellington: Alex Michalos
 * Haldimand—Norfolk: Eric Butt
 * Halton—Peel: Fern Wolf
 * Hamilton East: Dave Wilson
 * Hamilton Mountain: Marion Dewar
 * Hamilton West: Lesley Russell
 * Hamilton—Wentworth: Julia McCrea
 * Hastings—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington: Bud Acton
 * Huron—Bruce: Tony McQuail
 * Kenora—Rainy River: John Edmund Parry
 * Kent: Leo Rustin
 * Kingston and the Islands: Len Johnson
 * Major-General Leonard V. Johnson is from a military background. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1950, rose to the rank of major-general and served as Commandant of the National Defence College. He retired from the service in 1984. He represented the New Democratic Party in a national debate on defence issues in 1988 (Kingston Whig-Standard, 31 October 1988), and was the only candidate in Kingston and the Islands to argue that Canada should be made a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone (KWS, 11 November 1988).  He also called for Canadian soldiers to be returned from Europe, arguing that large expenditures on overseas troops were hindering Canada's ability to run a modern navy (KWS, 11 November 1988). Johnson was considered a star candidate, and was backed by a strong local organization that outspent all other campaigns in the city (KWS, 25 May 1989).  His support base was eroded by a strong Liberal campaign, however, and he finished third against Liberal Peter Milliken with 11,442 votes (20.10%). Following the election, Johnson was named Kingston chair of the peace group Project Plowshares (KWS, 21 December 1988).


 * Kitchener: Sue Coulter
 * Lambton—Middlesex: Larry Ross Green
 * Lanark—Carleton: Bill Cox
 * Leeds—Grenville: Barry Grills
 * Lincoln: John Mayer
 * London East: Marion Boyd
 * London West: Bruce Lundgren
 * London—Middlesex: Michael Wyatt
 * Markham: Susan Krone
 * Mississauga East: Walter Grozdanovski
 * Mississauga South: Sue Craig
 * Mississauga West: Paul Simon
 * Nepean: Bea Murray
 * Niagara Falls: Dick Harrington
 * Nickel Belt: John Rodriguez
 * Nipissing: Dawson Pratt
 * Northumberland: Gord Barnes
 * Oakville—Milton: Richard J. Banigan
 * Ontario: Jim Wiseman
 * Oshawa: Ed Broadbent
 * Ottawa Centre: Mike Cassidy
 * Ottawa South: John Fryer
 * Ottawa West: Theresa Kavanagh
 * Ottawa—Vanier: Kathryn Barnard
 * Oxford: Brian Donlevy
 * Parkdale—High Park: Abby Pollonetsky
 * Parry Sound—Muskoka: Joanne Malchuk
 * Perth—Wellington—Waterloo: Linda Ham
 * Peterborough: Gillian Sandeman
 * Prince Edward—Hastings: Don Wilson
 * Renfrew: Elizabeth Ives-Ruyter
 * Rosedale: Doug Wilson
 * Sarnia—Lambton: Julie Foley
 * Sault Ste. Marie: Steve Butland
 * Scarborough Centre: Garth C. Dee
 * Scarborough East: Mary Cook
 * Scarborough West: Dave Gracey
 * Scarborough—Agincourt: Susie Vallance
 * Scarborough—Rouge River: Raymond Cho
 * Scarborough Centre: Judy Watson
 * Simcoe North: Mike McMurter
 * St. Catharines: Rob West
 * St. Paul's: Diane Bull
 * Stormont—Dundas: Steve J. Corrie
 * Sudbury: Bill Major
 * Major is a retired United Church minister. He joined the New Democratic Party in 1962 after hearing Tommy Douglas speak in Hamilton.  He was ordained as a minister in 1969, moved to Sudbury in 1978, and served for nine years as coordinator for the Pastoral Institute of Northeastern Ontario. Major sought the provincial New Democratic Party nomination for Sudbury East in 1987, but lost to Shelley Martel.  He subsequently spoke against the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement, arguing that it allow Northern Ontario to become a source of income for giant American manufacturers.  He ran a strong campaign, but ultimately finished second against Liberal candidate Diane Marleau with 11,811 votes (27.77%).


 * Thunder Bay—Atikokan: Iain Angus
 * Thunder Bay—Nipigon: Ernie Epp
 * Timiskaming: Earl Evans
 * Timmins—Chapleau: Cid Samson
 * Trinity—Spadina: Dan Heap
 * Victoria—Haliburton: Cathy Vainio
 * Waterloo: Scott Piatkowski
 * Welland—St. Catharines—Thorold: Ken Lee
 * Wellington—Grey—Dufferin—Simcoe: Shirley Farlinger
 * Willowdale: Abbe Adelson
 * Windsor West: Paul Forder
 * Windsor—Lake St. Clair: Howard McCurdy
 * York Centre: Cathy Mele
 * York North: Evelyn Buck
 * York South—Weston: Steve Krashinsky
 * York West: Alice Lambrinos
 * York—Simcoe: Judy Darcy

Manitoba

 * Brandon—Souris: Dave Serle
 * Churchill: Rod Murphy
 * Dauphin—Swan River: Eric Irwin
 * Lisgar—Marquette: Fred Tait
 * Portage—Interlake: Gerry Follows
 * Provencher: Mary Sabovitch
 * Selkirk: Howard Pawley
 * St. Boniface: Alan Turner
 * Winnipeg North: David Orlikow
 * Winnipeg North Centre: Cyril Keeper
 * Winnipeg South: Len Van Roon
 * Winnipeg South Centre: Les Campbell
 * Winnipeg Transcona: Bill Blaikie
 * Winnipeg—St. James: Len Sawatsky

Saskatchewan

 * Kindersley—Lloydminster: Grant Whitmore
 * Mackenzie: Vic Althouse
 * Moose Jaw—Lake Centre: Rod Laporte
 * Prince Albert—Churchill River: Ray Funk
 * Regina—Lumsden: Les Benjamin
 * Regina—Qu'Appelle: Simon de Jong
 * Regina—Wascana: Dickson Bailey
 * Saskatoon—Clark's Crossing: Chris Axworthy
 * Saskatoon—Dundurn: Ron Fisher
 * Saskatoon—Humboldt: Stan Hovdebo
 * Souris—Moose Mountain: Jeff Sample
 * Swift Current—Maple Creek—Assiniboia: Laura Balas
 * The Battlefords—Meadow Lake: Len Taylor
 * Yorkton—Melville: Lorne Nystrom