- Bernadette Michael
Bernadette Michael is a
perennial candidate for political office in Toronto,Ontario ,Canada .In 1988, Michael listed her occupation as "real estate representative". In 2004, she described herself as a poet. She was seventy-five years old during the 1999 provincial election, and was listed in the "
Toronto Star " newspaper as having ten children. Michael is vocallypro-life , although she supports progressive social reforms on other issues.In the 2000 Toronto municipal election, "
Now Magazine " offered the following qualified endorsement of her candidacy in Seneca Heights::"Residents here may want to consider casting a protest vote for perennial candidate Bernadette Michael, eccentric perhaps, but a lone voice in this political wilderness, where she's been pumping education, housing and seniors' issues for more than two decades." [http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/17/09/News/feature2.html]
Electoral history
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Canadian federal election, 1988 ,Don Valley North , 577 votes (winner:Barbara Greene , Progressive Conservative)
*Ontario provincialby-election ,April 1 ,1993 , Don Mills, 206 votes (winner: David Johnson, Progressive Conservative)
*Ontario general election, 1995 , Oriole, 243 votes (winner:Elinor Caplan , Liberal)
*Ontario provincial by-election,September 4 ,1997 , Oriole, 132 votes (winner:David Caplan , Liberal)
*Ontario general election, 1999 , Willowdale, 323 votes (winner: David Young, Progressive Conservative)
*Toronto municipal election, 2000 , Seneca Heights, 2,481 votes (winner: David Shiner)
*Canadian federal election, 2004 , Willowdale, 253 votes (winner:Jim Peterson , Liberal)
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