Murray Cardiff
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Murray Cardiff | |
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Member of Parliament for Huron—Bruce |
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In office 1980–1993 |
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Preceded by | Robert McKinley |
Succeeded by | Paul Steckle |
Personal details | |
Born | Grey Township, Ontario |
10 June 1934
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Listowel, Ontario |
Political party | Progressive Conservative |
Profession | farmer |
Murray Cardiff (10 June 1934 – 31 October 2013) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Grey Township, Ontario and was a farmer by career.
He represented the Ontario riding of Huron—Bruce where he was first elected in the 1980 federal election. He won re-election in the 1984 and 1988 federal elections, therefore becoming a member in the 32nd, 33rd and 34th Canadian Parliaments.
Cardiff left federal politics after his defeat in the 1993 federal election to Paul Steckle of the Liberal party. He died in hospital at Listowel, Ontario on 31 October 2013.[1]
Electoral record (partial)
Canadian federal election, 1993: Huron—Bruce | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | Expenditures | |||
Liberal | Paul Steckle | 21,845 | 44.11 | – | $38,357 | |||
Progressive Conservative | Murray Cardiff | 13,852 | 27.97 | $43,681a | ||||
Reform | Len Lobb | 10,464 | 21.13 | $35,469 | ||||
New Democratic | Tony McQuail | 2,064 | 4.17 | $16,652 | ||||
Christian Heritage | Henry Zekveld | 782 | 1.58 | $2,364 | ||||
Libertarian | Allan Dettweiler | 272 | 0.55 | $0 | ||||
Natural Law | Rick Alexander | 243 | 0.49 | $0 | ||||
Total valid votes/Expense Limit | 49,522 | 100.00 | – | $57,202 | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 307 | |||||||
Turnout | 49,829 | 72.52 | ||||||
Electors on the lists | 68,712 | |||||||
a Does not include unpaid claims. | ||||||||
Source: Thirty-fifth General Election, 1993: Official Voting Results, Published by the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada. Financial figures taken from official contributions and expenses provided by Elections Canada. |
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