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.
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Vincent 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.[1] Marchione later ran for a school board seat and led an environmental group that opposed the construction of petrochemical plants in east-end Montreal.[2]
| Election | Division | Party | Votes | % | Place | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 federal | Anjou—Rivière-des-Prairies | New Democratic Party | 6,687 | 12.56 | 3/5 | Jean Corbeil, Progressive Conservative[3] |
| 1988 federal | Commission scolaire de la Pointe-de-l'Île, District Three | n/a | 104 | 11.12 | 2/2 | Henri-Paul Menard[4] |
Giovanni Adamo was an executive chef with longstanding ties to his riding's Italian community.[5] He received 5,948 votes (15.10%), finishing third against Liberal incumbent André Ouellet.[6]
'Gaston Dupuis, an office clerk, who ran as a New Democratic Party candidate in two elections.[7] He ran his 1988 campaign from his work space and acknowledged that his party did not have a strong historical support base in Richelieu.[8]
| Election | Division | Party | Votes | % | Place | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 federal | Richelieu | New Democratic Party | 2,174 | 4.48 | 3/7 | Louis Plamondon, Progressive Conservative |
| 1988 federal | Richelieu | New Democratic Party | 3,154 | 6.77 | 3/5 | Louis Plamondon, Progressive Conservative |
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.[9] She was forty-nine years old at the time of the election.[10] She received 6,241 votes (15.57%), finishing third against Liberal candidate Peter Milliken.
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).
The Rev. William Brian 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.[11] 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.[12] He ran a strong campaign, but ultimately finished second against Liberal candidate Diane Marleau with 11,811 votes (27.77%).[13]
In 1989, Major led an anti-poverty protest march from Sudbury to Toronto. The march lasted for fifteen days, and ended with a rally in support of changes to Ontario's social assistance system.[14] Major relocated to Toronto in the same year, and became executive director of the anti-poverty Downtown Churchworkers' Association.[15] He also became co-chairman of the Rupert Hotel Coalition, a series of community groups working with low-income people.[16] Major opposed the federal government's proposed changes to unemployment insurance.[17] He led a "pilgrimage of peace and prayer" to Israel in 1996, after a series of bombings in the region.[18] He became the minister of Mono Mills United Church in Orangeville in 1999.[19]
In 2006, Major was charged with three counts of historical sexual assault between 1997 and 2005.[20] He was found guilty of sexual assault in February 2009, with the presiding judge ruling that he had "intentionally abused his position" by engaging in sexual acts with a parishioner whom he was counseling for depression. Major argued that the relationship was consensual, but the judge determined that true consent could not have been given in these circumstances.[21]
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