Liz White (politician)

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Liz White is the current leader of the Animal Alliance Environment Voters Party of Canada, a federal political party in Canada. She won 72 votes (0.12% of the total) in the 2006 federal election in Toronto Centre riding. She ran for the party again in the Toronto Centre by-election held on March 17, 2008. A long-time animal rights activist, she has also been the director of the Animal Alliance of Canada, an animal rights group, since the 1980s and was the director of the Toronto Humane Society.

[edit] Electoral record

By-election on March 17, 2008: Toronto Centre
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Bob Rae	14,187	59.2	+7.0%
	New Democrat	El-Farouk Khaki	3,299	13.8	-9.9%
	Green	Chris Tindal	3,263	13.6	+8.4%
	Conservative	Donald Meredith	2,982	12.5	-5.7%
	Animal Alliance	Liz White	123	0.5	+0.4%
	Canadian Action	Doug Plumb	97	0.4	-
	Liberal hold		Swing	+8.5

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Bill Graham	30,874	52.2%	-4.30%
	New Democrat	Michael Shapcott	14,036	23.74%	-0.01%
	Conservative	Lewis Reford	10,763	18.21%	+3.42%
	Green	Chris Tindal	3,080	5.21%	+1.30%
	Communist	Johan Boyden	120	0.20%	+0.01%
	Not affiliated	Michel Prairie	101	0.17%	-0.02%
	Animal Alliance	Liz White	72	0.12%	-
	Marxist-Leninist	Philip Fernandez	66	0.11%	-0.01%
	Liberal hold		Swing	-2.1