| Joyce Savoline | |
|---|---|
| MPP for Burlington | |
| In office 2007–2011 |
|
| Preceded by | Cam Jackson |
| Succeeded by | Jane McKenna |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Progressive Conservative |
| Residence | Burlington, Ontario |
| Occupation | Provincial Politician |
Joyce Savoline is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the electoral district of Burlington for the Progressive Conservatives. She first won the seat in a by-election on February 8, 2007.
Savoline previously served as chair of the Regional Municipality of Halton from her original appointment in 1994 until her retirement in 2006. In 2000, as a result of changes to the Ontario Municipal Act, Savoline became the first person to be directly elected to that position by the voters of Halton. She was reelected in 2003.
Following her departure from municipal office, Joyce sought the Progressive Conservative nomination to replace to replace Cam Jackson as Member of Provincial Parliament from Burlington, after Jackson resigned to successfully run for mayor. At the local party's nomination meeting on December 14, 2006, she narrowly defeated former Miss Canada Blair Lancaster, 251 votes to 205. Brad Reaume, a former journalist and assistant to Halton MPP Ted Chudleigh, was also a candidate.
In the ensuing byelection, Savoline faced several opponents, but her closest competition was Ontario Liberal Party candidate Joan Lougheed, a former long-time Burlington city councillor who had narrowly lost to Jackson in the Burlington mayoral race the previous fall. Ultimately Savoline defeated Lougheed with 11,143 votes (49%) to her 9,365 (41.2%) according to unofficial election night tallies.
Savoline was reelected in the 2007 Ontario provincial election defeating Liberal candidate Marianne Meed Ward by a narrower margin of 21,517 votes (41.3%) to 19,693 votes (37.8%).
Savoline was born in Shanghai, China and moved to Canada with her parents and sister in 1953. She and her husband moved to Burlington in 1973.
| Ontario general election, 2007 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Progressive Conservative | Joyce Savoline | 21,517 | 41.3 | ||
| Liberal | Marianne Meed Ward | 19,693 | 37.8 | ||
| New Democrat | Cory Judson | 5,731 | 11.0 | ||
| Green | Tim Wilson | 4,750 | 9.1 | ||
| Family Coalition | Mark Gamez | 395 | 0.8 | ||
| By-election, February 8, 2007 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | +/- | |
| Progressive Conservative | Joyce Savoline | 11,143 | 49.0% | +2.8% | |
| Liberal | Joan Lougheed | 9,365 | 41.2% | -1.0% | |
| New Democrat | Cory Judson | 1,310 | 5.8% | -1.4% | |
| Green | Frank de Jong | 734 | 3.2% | +0.9% | |
| Freedom | Barry Spruce | 106 | 0.5% | * | |
| Independent | John C. Turmel | 90 | 0.4% | * | |