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New Democratic Party candidates in the 1979 Canadian federal election

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This is a list of New Democratic Party candidates in the 1979 Canadian federal election. The NDP nominated candidates in all of Canada's 282 ridings; 26 of whom were elected. Following the election, the NDP remained the third-largest party in the House of Commons.

Alberta

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Calgary

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Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Calgary Centre Bohdan Harasymiw 4,095 10.94 3rd
Calgary East Barry Pashak ANDP candidate for Calgary-North Hill in the 1971 Alberta provincial election Professor at Mount Royal University[1] 5,172 11.12 3rd
Calgary North Norm Herman 4,227 3rd
Calgary South Cathie McCreary 3,584 3rd
Calgary West Jack Peters 3,694 8.48 3rd

Edmonton

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Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Edmonton East Lynn Fogwill 5,154 15.45 3rd
Edmonton North John Miller 5,673 3rd
Edmonton South Gordon Fearn 5,401 3rd
Edmonton—Strathcona Robert Davidson 5,352 12.04 3rd
Edmonton West Ken Nixon 4,624 3rd

Rural Alberta

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Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Athabasca Robert Godbout 2,770 10.17 3rd
Bow River Gale Burke 2,200 5.34 4th
Crowfoot Roger Milbrandt 1,529 4.68 3rd
Lethbridge–Foothills Roger Rickwood 3,720 8.94 3rd
Medicine Hat Lorne L. Burk 3,053 7.63 3rd
Peace River Earle Joseph Guertin 5,801 17.65 3rd
Pembina Norman Flach 4,953 3rd
Red Deer John Younie 2,856 6.4 3rd
Vegreville James Kenney 3,191 3rd
Wetaskiwin Alfred O. Arnston 3,587 9.9 3rd
Yellowhead Bob Ritchie 3,600 8.7 3rd

British Columbia

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British Columbia Interior

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Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Cariboo—Chilcotin Harry Olaussen 8,273 27.69 2nd
Kamloops—Shuswap Ron H. Anderson 12,193 27.53 3rd
Kootenay East—Revelstoke Sid Parker 11,107 35.07 2nd
Kootenay West Lyle Kristiansen 11,503 39.83 2nd
Okanagan North John Powell 11,951 23.16 3rd
Okanagan—Similkameen Darwin Sigurgeirson 11,715 27.63 2nd
Prince George—Bulkley Valley Archie Patrick 8,521 27.30 2nd
Prince George—Peace River Bob Simpson 5,478 20.50 2nd
Skeena Jim Fulton Probation officer[2] 10,996 41.82 1st

Fraser Valley/Lower Mainland

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Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Burnaby Svend Robinson Lawyer 20,604 39.76 1st
Capilano Michael Karton 6,639 14.56 3rd
Fraser Valley East Harry W. Fontaine 9,126 21.38 2nd
Fraser Valley West Cyril Barkved 15,322 30.89 2nd
Mission—Port Moody Mark Rose 20,847 43.83 1st
New Westminster—Coquitlam Pauline Jewett President of Simon Fraser University (1974–1978) 19,301 44.43 1st
North Vancouver—Burnaby Russ Hicks 12,084 27.89 3rd
Richmond—South Delta Mercia Stickney 13,524 24.15 2nd
Surrey—White Rock—North Delta Carol Langford 17,992 2nd
Vancouver Centre Ron Johnson 13,350 29.97 3rd
Vancouver East Margaret Anne Mitchell 13,697 42.71 1st
Vancouver Kingsway Ian Waddell 15,928 44.76 1st
Vancouver Quadra Alan Bush 10,665 24.46 3rd
Vancouver South Judy McManus 8,806 20.91 3rd

Vancouver Island

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Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Comox—Powell River Raymond Skelly Teacher 22,075 44.28 1st
Cowichan—Malahat—The Islands Jim Manly 17,471 39.98 2nd
Esquimalt—Saanich Bob Cameron 15,862 29.03 2nd
Nanaimo—Alberni Ted Miller Teacher 21,304 43.98 1st
Victoria Gretchen Brewin 15,344 29.93 2nd

Manitoba

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Rural Manitoba

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Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Brandon-Souris David Serle 8,949 24.67 2nd
Churchill Rod Murphy Teacher 12,544 51.7 1st
Dauphin—Swan River Laverne Lewycky 11,770 41.6 2nd
Lisgar Keith W.D. Poulson 2,920 3rd
Portage—Marquette Maude Lelonde 6,612 2nd
Provencher Richard C. Greenway 8,473 25.7 2nd
Selkirk—Interlake Terry Sargeant 14,225 42.7 1st

Winnipeg

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Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Saint Boniface Grant Wichenko 11,455 23.7 3rd
Winnipeg—Assiniboine Robert Johannson 7,067 3rd
Winnipeg—Birds Hill Bill Blaikie United Church minister 25,492 50.16 1st
Winnipeg—Fort Garry Vivian Rachlis 8,176 17.87 3rd
Winnipeg North David Orlikow Member of Parliament for Winnipeg—Birds Hill (1962–1988)
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for St. Johns (1958–1962)
Member of Winnipeg City Council (1951–1958) 		22,417 52.7 1st
Winnipeg North Centre Stanley Knowles 15,121 1st
Winnipeg—St. James J. Frank Syms 11,747 2nd

New Brunswick

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Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Carleton—Charlotte Ed Gaunce 3,971 13.3 3rd
Fundy—Royal Bruce E. Halpin 7,746 19.14 3rd
Gloucester Kevin O'Connell 3,366 9.45 3rd
Madawaska—Victoria James Aucoin 1,620 6.3 3rd
Moncton Gregory Murphy 8,936 18.49 3rd
Northumberland—Miramichi Jerry Dunnett 4,653 17.23 3rd
Restigouche Gail Walsh 4,718 17.8 3rd
Saint John Eldon Richardson 6,358 18.9 3rd
Westmorland—Kent René Vannieuwenhuizen 4,609 14.92 3rd
York—Sunbury Phillip Booker 5,665 14.36 3rd

Newfoundland and Labrador

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Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Bonavista-Trinity-Conception W.A. Bill Parsons 7,448 30.15 2nd
Burin-St. George's Ross Senior 3,943 2nd
Gander—Twillingate Wallace Bown 4,460 3rd
Grand Falls—White Bay—Labrador Bryan Blackmore 12,538 42.37 2nd
Humber—Port au Port—St. Barbe Fonse Faour 15,872 1st
St. John's East Stratford G. Canning 6,684 19.27 3rd
St. John's West Tom Mayo 9,033 3rd

Nova Scotia

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Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Annapolis Valley—Hants Bob Levy 8,008 19.96 3rd
Cape Breton—East Richmond Andrew Hogan 15,269 1st
Cape Breton Highlands—Canso William J. Woodfine 4,657 3rd
Cape Breton—The Sydneys Ed Murphy 10,310 3rd
Central Nova Gary A. Chambers 4,521 13.53 3rd
Cumberland—Colchester Hayden Trenholm 5,662 13.83 3rd
Dartmouth—Halifax East Frederick Turley 7,116 16.17 3rd
Halifax Alexa McDonough 7,590 18.53 3rd
Halifax West Dennis Theman 8,265 17.18 3rd
South Shore John Yates 3,988 10.92 3rd
South West Nova Ian MacPherson 4,217 11.36 3rd

Ontario

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Central Ontario

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Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Durham—Northumberland Fred McLaughlin 8,393 20.45 3rd
Grey—Simcoe Bill Proud 5,576 3rd
Northumberland Hugh Jenney 5,150 3rd
Peterborough Cyril Carter 8,451 16.9 3rd
Simcoe North Fayne Bullen 11,284 27.0 2nd
Simcoe South Gaye Lamb 8,307 3rd
Victoria–Haliburton Patrick Daniel 6,872 15.1 3rd

Eastern Ontario/Ottawa

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Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Glengarry—Prescott—Russell Paul De Broeck 4,164 10.0 3rd
Hastings—Frontenac Kevin Arseneault 5,691 3rd
Kingston and the Islands Stephen Foster 8,472 19.0 3rd
Lanark—Renfrew—Carleton Gord Gilhuly 5,749 3rd
Leeds—Grenville Mildred Smith 6,551 15.42 3rd
Nepean—Carleton Marnie Girvan 7,810 12.7 3rd
Ottawa—Carleton Jill Vickers 8,234 3rd
Ottawa Centre John Smart 10,213 20.69 3rd
Ottawa—Vanier Paul H. Michaud 7,023 15.85 3rd
Ottawa West Abby Pollonetsky 7,051 3rd
Prince Edward—Hastings Donald Wilson 5,833 14.7 3rd
Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke Don Breault 7,133 17.3 3rd

Greater Toronto Area

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Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Beaches Neil Young 12,322 33.1 2nd
Brampton—Georgetown David Moulton 11,584 3rd
Broadview–Greenwood Bob Rae 13,187 39.72 1st
Burlington Danny Dunleavy 8,421 14.7 2nd
Davenport Ed Brown 5,579 24.4 2nd
Don Valley East Saul Paton 6,595 12.3 3rd
Don Valley West Jean Smith 5,572 10.6 3rd
Eglinton—Lawrence Leo Heaps 7,368 16.40 3rd
Etobicoke Centre Dan Shipley 6,237 10.2 3rd
Etobicoke—Lakeshore Terry Meagher 14,044 30.9 3rd
Etobicoke North Adrian Dorn 12,017 23.2 3rd
Halton Doug Black 7,838 14.5 3rd
Mississauga North John McGuigan 11,002 3rd
Mississauga South Colin Baynes 8,869 16.2 3rd
Ontario Geoff Rison 11,510 3rd
Oshawa Ed Broadbent 29,090 51.3 1st
Parkdale—High Park Doug Little 9,539 23.5 3rd
Rosedale Ron B. Thomson 6,902 17.54 3rd
St. Paul's James Lockyer 5,779 13.30 3rd
Scarborough Centre Tom Lyons 9,533 22.2 3rd
Scarborough East Sid Dunkley 8,190 3rd
Scarborough West John Paul Harney 13,437 31.2 3rd
Spadina John Foster 8,765 2nd
Trinity Manuel Azevedo 5,504 2nd
Willowdale Chris Thurrott 7,128 14.3 3rd
York Centre Vince Del Buono 10,464 25.7 2nd
York East Kay MacPherson 8,651 3rd
York North Bruce Searle 7,591 3rd
York—Peel Wally Gustar 7,725 3rd
York—Scarborough Frank Lowery 10,978 3rd
York South—Weston Vito Cautillo 10,451 28.2 2nd
York West Elio Costa 9,712 24.8 3rd

Hamilton/Niagara

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Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Erie Clarence Gibson 6,985 3rd
Hamilton East Don Gray Member of Hamilton City Council (1972–1985) 11,783 2nd
Hamilton Mountain Andy Asselin 12,273 24.0 3rd
Hamilton–Wentworth David Hitchcock 8,550 20.20 3rd
Hamilton West Miriam Simpson 8,512 3rd
Lincoln Kenneth I. Lee 13,400 3rd
Niagara Falls John A. Dawson 7,757 19.2 3rd
St. Catharines Peter Elliott 11,897 23.5 3rd
Welland Robert Wright 11,151 25.9 3rd

Northern Ontario

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Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Algoma Jim Dinner 10,989 32.40 2nd
Cochrane North Robert Fortin 11,080 2nd
Kenora—Rainy River John Edmund Parry 10,844 2nd
Nickel Belt John Rodriguez 17,772 43.37 1st
Nipissing Patricia Hughes 5,681 3rd
Parry Sound—Muskoka Dennis Hay 6,270 17.1 3rd
Sault Ste. Marie Cyril Symes 12,089 37.26 1st
Thunder Bay—Atikokan Iain Angus 11,667 34.1 2nd
Thunder Bay—Nipigon Bruce McKay 11,288 32.3 2nd
Timiskaming Arnold Peters 11,595 1st
Timmins—Chapleau Dennis Welin 10,160 2nd

Southwestern Ontario

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Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Brant Derek Blackburn 20,908 42.2 1st
Bruce—Grey John Giese 4,723 11.7 3rd
Cambridge Marc Sommerville 11,085 29.5 2nd
Elgin Mary Lou Weitzel 4,293 3rd
Essex—Kent Ralph Wensley 4,759 3rd
Essex—Windsor Steven W. Langdon 18,603 40.4 2nd
Guelph Jim Finamore 8,535 19.73 3rd
Haldimand—Norfolk Joe Clark 6,762 14.8 3rd
Huron—Bruce Moira Couper 2,729 7.7 3rd
Kent Marie-France Wilkinson 5,047 3rd
Kitchener James Herman 11,345 3rd
Lambton—Middlesex Grant Reynolds 4,585 3rd
London East Rob Martin 8,531 22.2 3rd
London—Middlesex Bill Lloyd 8,855 23.8 3rd
London West Paddy Musson 9,378 15.7 3rd
Oxford Marjorie Lanaway 5,980 14.0 3rd
Perth John Davies 4,255 3rd
Sarnia—Lambton Wally Krawczyk 10,148 25.4 3rd
Waterloo Mike Makarchuk 9,375 18.12 3rd
Wellington—Dufferin—Simcoe Jeff Koechlin 4,744 3rd
Windsor—Walkerville David Burr 15,744 2nd
Windsor West Maxine Jones 11,906 34.12 2nd

Prince Edward Island

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Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Cardigan George MacFarlane 892 5.22 3rd
Egmont Vincent Gallant 710 4.49 3rd
Hillsborough Bob Crockett 1,453 9.58 3rd
Malpeque Charlie Sark 1,126 6.80 3rd

Quebec

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Central Quebec

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Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Berthier—Maskinongé—Lanaudière Richard Leclercq 841 2.2 4th
Champlain Denis Tousignant 1,328 5th
Joliette Jacques Trudeau 1,324 2.80 3rd
Richelieu Madeleine Martel 1,500 3.32 4th
Saint-Maurice Robert Deschamps 952 2.48 4th
Trois-Rivières Roland Auger 1,682 4.4 4th

Eastern Townships/Southern Quebec

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Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Beauce Raymond Philippe Roy 215 0.5 5th
Beauharnois—Salaberry Gilles Gagne 1,866 4.6 4th
Brome—Missisquoi Gertrude Lefebvre-Brown 991 2.62 4th
Châteauguay Ginette Bourdon 2,404 4th
Drummond Patricia Lamarre 639 1.6 5th
Frontenac Martin Vaillancourt 492 4th
Lotbinière Jean-Denis Lavigne 1,159 4th
Mégantic—Compton—Stanstead Murray Dale Powell 1,316 4th
Richmond Lisa Bourgeois 551 4th
Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot Richard Sylvestre 802 1.8 4th
Saint-Jean Todd Sloan 2,204 5.0 4th
Shefford Denis Boisse 1,008 2.05 5th
Sherbrooke Roger Muller 1,180 2.8 4th
Verchères Micheline Ruelland 3,652 6.3 4th

Greater Montreal

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Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Blainville—Deux-Montagnes Normand J. Labrie 3,472 4th
Bourassa Daniel Piotrowski 1,804 3.8 5th
Chambly Dominique Vaillancourt 3,324 6.43 4th
Dollard Pierre Bourgeois 3,949 3rd
Duvernay John Shatilla 2,839 5.48 4th
Gamelin Danielle Dubois 2,753 4th
Hochelaga—Maisonneuve Marie-Ange Gagnon-Sirois 1,746 5th
Lachine Buff Norman 2,450 3rd
Lasalle Gaston Coté 3,249 3rd
Laurier Jean-Pierre Bourdouxhe 1,934 5th
Laval Lauraine Vaillancourt 3,521 4th
Laval-des-Rapides Pierre Ivan Laroche 3,702 4th
Laprairie Jean-Claude Bohrer 4,188 4th
Longueuil Jean-Pierre Vaillancourt 3,995 7.2 4th
Montreal–Mercier Elizabeth Chase-Chapdelaine 1,816 4th
Mount Royal David C. Winch 2,023 4.0 3rd
Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Gus Callaghan 3,683 8.08 3rd
Outremont Claire A. Brisson 4,112 10.33 2nd
Papineau Jean A. Richard 1,913 5.55 4th
Rosemont Marcel Julien 2,238 5.25 4th
Saint-Henri—Westmount Claude de Mestral 3,297 3rd
Saint-Michel—Ahuntsic Filippo Salvatore 2,616 3rd
Saint-Léonard—Anjou Colette Lalancette-Deschamps 3,105 4th
Sainte-Marie Jean-Pierre Juneau 1,575 4.77 4th
Terrebonne Roland Francis 3,114 5.6 4th
Vaudreuil Lorne Brown 4,512 3rd

Northern Quebec

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Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Abitibi Maurice Vaney 1,420 3.0 5th
Charlevoix Normand Laforce 613 4th
Chicoutimi Marc St-Hilaire 1,435 4.3 4th
Jonquière Jacques Hubert 2,724 3rd
Lac-Saint-Jean Jean-Denis Bérubé 1,589 4th
Manicouagan Carole Noel 2,105 6.7 4th
Roberval Jacques Ouellet 385 1.1 5th
Témiscamingue Germain Boudreau 1,473 3.77 4th

Western Quebec/Laurentides/Outaouais

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Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Argenteuil Thérèse Gardner Pelletier 1,576 4.60 4th
Gatineau André Beaudry 3,292 6.91 3rd
Hull Michel Légère Lawyer 7,175 16.56 2nd
Labelle Willie Kofman 2,134 4th
Pontiac—Gatineau—Labelle Ida Brown 1,682 5.30 4th

Saskatchewan

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Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Assiniboia Bill Knight 11,183 2nd
Humboldt—Lake Centre Vic Althouse Farmer 12,681 2nd
Kindersley—Lloydminster Alf Gleave 10,254 2nd
Mackenzie Dale R. Schmeichel 10,370 2nd
Moose Jaw David H. Henley 11,122 2nd
Prince Albert Stan Hovdebo 11,979 35.7 2nd
Qu'Appelle—Moose Mountain George A. Hubbard 7,008 2nd
Regina East Simon De Jong 15,022 1st
Regina West Les Benjamin Member of Parliament for Regina West (1979–1988)
Member of Parliament for Regina—Lake Centre (1968–1979) 		19,340 1st
Saskatoon East Bob Ogle Roman Catholic priest 15,234 1st
Saskatoon West Reg Parker 15,094 2nd
Swift Current—Maple Creek Ron Gates 8,720 2nd
The Battlefords—Meadow Lake Eli Nesdoly 10,327 2nd
Yorkton—Melville Lorne Nystrom Member of Parliament for Yorkton—Melville (1968–1993) 16,677 47.5 1st

The Territories

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Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Nunatsiaq Peter Ittinuar 1,963 37.74 1st
Western Arctic Georges Erasmus 3,385 29.33 3rd
Yukon Joe Jack 2,578 23.06 3rd

References

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  1. ^ "Leonard 'Barry' Pashak – Obituary". Edmonton Journal. 2021-02-06. Retrieved 2025-03-10.
  2. ^ Ebner, David (2008-12-22). "Jim Fulton, 57 Passionate former MP dies of cancer". Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 2008-12-25. Retrieved 2025-03-10.
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