- Frank Goldspink
Frank Goldspink is a
Communist politician inManitoba ,Canada . He ran as a candidate for the Communist Party several times, and appears to have been the leader of theCommunist Party of Canada - Manitoba in the provincial election of 1990.An office worker, Goldspink first ran for the
Communist Party of Canada in the1984 federal election. He campaigned inWinnipeg--Fort Garry and received 115 votes, against 21286 for the winning candidate, LiberalLloyd Axworthy .In
1986 , Goldspink ran provincially for the CPC-M in the north Winnipeg riding of St. Johns. He received 65 votes, against 3753 for victorious New DemocratJudy Wasylycia-Leis .Goldspink participated in both the provincial and federal elections of
1988 , running provincially in Logan (receiving 46 votes) and federally inWinnipeg North (150 votes).It will be noted from the above vote totals that the CPC-M was a minor political force during the 1980s. It began to disintegrate even further during the 1990s, coinciding with similar troubles in the federal
Communist Party of Canada . Whereas the CPC-M had field six candidates in1988 underLorne Robson 's leadership, Goldspink was its only candidate in1990 . He was the party's provincial organizer at the time, and may have been its official political leader as well.As a candidate in the upscale riding of Kirkfield Park, Goldspink received only 25 votes. He left the Communist Party in
1991 .The CPC-M does not seem to have had an official leader again until
1996 , whenDarrell Rankin was elected to the position at a party convention.
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