William Hawryluk

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Not to be confused with William Hawrelak, former mayor of Edmonton, Alberta.

William Hawryluk was a perennial candidate for political office in Manitoba, Canada during the 1970s and 1980s. He campaigned for federal, provincial and municipal office several times, without ever coming close to being elected.

Hawryluk was an accountant in private life. He ran for the Social Credit Party of Canada in the Canadian federal elections of 1972 and 1974, and for the short-lived Western Democracy Party in a provincial by-election in 1979 (Hawryluk may have been the WDP's leader). On all other occasions, he campaigned as an independent. Hawryluk claimed to be a "Social Credit" candidate during a separate provincial by-election in 1972, but Manitoba Social Credit Party leader Jacob Froese denied that he was a member of the party.

Hawryluk was a fiscal conservative. During a 1986 campaign for Mayor of Winnipeg, he promised to cut property taxes in half by eliminating "useless" government grants. (During the same campaign, he threatened to sue a radio announcer who described him as a "perennial candidate", fearing that voters would misunderstand the term and associate it with illegal activities.)

Hawryluk's electoral record is as follows (this list may be incomplete):