Bernadette Michael
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Bernadette Michael is a perennial candidate for political office in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
In 1988, Michael listed her occupation as "real estate representative". In 2004, she described herself as a poet. She was seventy-five years old during the 1999 provincial election, and was listed in the Toronto Star newspaper as having ten children. Michael is vocally pro-life, although she supports progressive social reforms on other issues.
In the 2000 Toronto municipal election, Now Magazine offered the following qualified endorsement of her candidacy in Seneca Heights:
- "Residents here may want to consider casting a protest vote for perennial candidate Bernadette Michael, eccentric perhaps, but a lone voice in this political wilderness, where she's been pumping education, housing and seniors' issues for more than two decades."[1]
[edit] Electoral history
- Canadian federal election, 1988, Don Valley North, 577 votes (winner: Barbara Greene, Progressive Conservative)
- Ontario provincial by-election, April 1, 1993, Don Mills, 206 votes (winner: David Johnson, Progressive Conservative)
- Ontario general election, 1995, Oriole, 243 votes (winner: Elinor Caplan, Liberal)
- Ontario provincial by-election, September 4, 1997, Oriole, 132 votes (winner: David Caplan, Liberal)
- Ontario general election, 1999, Willowdale, 323 votes (winner: David Young, Progressive Conservative)
- Toronto municipal election, 2000, Seneca Heights, 2,481 votes (winner: David Shiner)
- Canadian federal election, 2004, Willowdale, 253 votes (winner: Jim Peterson, Liberal)
