The New Democratic Party ran a full slate of candidates in the 1980 Canadian federal election, and won 32 seats to remain the third-largest party in the House of Commons of Canada. Information about the party's candidates may be found here.

Alberta

Calgary

Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Calgary Centre David Jones 2,994 9.23 3rd
Calgary East Barry Pashak ANDP candidate for Calgary-North Hill in the 1971 Alberta provincial election 4,490 10.28 3rd
Calgary North Dave Hammond 3,180 3rd
Calgary South Cathie McCreary 2,812 3rd
Calgary West Bob Ritchie 3,107 7.68 3rd

Edmonton

Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Edmonton East Jo Evans 4,763 17.30 3rd
Edmonton North John Younie 5,107 3rd
Edmonton South Gordon Fearn 4,772 3rd
Edmonton—Strathcona Doug Trace 4,837 12.01 3rd
Edmonton West Jerome N. Slavik 3,886 3rd

Rural Alberta

Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Athabasca Harry W. Daniels 4,218 15.07 3rd
Bow River David Radke 2,802 7.05 3rd
Crowfoot Roger Milbrandt 1,912 6.24 3rd
Lethbridge–Foothills Dave Porteous 3,974 9.98 3rd
Medicine Hat Agnes Wiley 3,453 9.37 3rd
Peace River Earle Joseph Guertin 5,436 17.02 3rd
Pembina Martin Davis 5,260 3rd
Red Deer Ethel Taylor 3,345 7.9 3rd
Vegreville Henry Mandelbaum 3,172 3rd
Wetaskiwin Lyle B. Bleich 3,673 10.3 3rd
Yellowhead Laird Mitchell 4,562 11.3 3rd

British Columbia

British Columbia Interior

Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Cariboo—Chilcotin Harry Olaussen 10,292 33.95 2nd
Kamloops—Shuswap Nelson Riis Member of Kamloops City Council (1973–1978) Professor at Cariboo College 17,896 39.10 1st
Kootenay East—Revelstoke Sid Parker 13,299 39.87 1st
Kootenay West Lyle Kristiansen 12,232 43.04 1st
Okanagan North John Powell 14,944 29.13 2nd
Okanagan—Similkameen Darwin Sigurgeirson 19,058 39.24 2nd
Prince George—Bulkley Valley Archie Patrick 10,226 31.94 2nd
Prince George—Peace River Bob Simpson 6,835 26.20 2nd
Skeena Jim Fulton Member of Parliament for Skeena (1979–1993) Probation officer 13,280 49.52 1st

Fraser Valley/Lower Mainland

Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Burnaby Svend Robinson Member of Parliament for Burnaby (1979–1988) Lawyer 21,587 42.43 1st
Capilano Andy J. Krawczyk 6,495 14.64 3rd
Fraser Valley East Harry W. Fontaine 10,695 24.18 2nd
Fraser Valley West Joe Leclair 16,568 32.55 2nd
Mission—Port Moody Mark Rose 23,224 47.19 1st
New Westminster—Coquitlam Pauline Jewett Member of Parliament for New Westminster—Coquitlam (1979–1988) President of Simon Fraser University (1974–1978) 19,498 46.42 1st
North Vancouver—Burnaby Jack Woodward 11,820 26.85 3rd
Richmond—South Delta Mercia Stickney 13,606 24.23 2nd
Surrey—White Rock—North Delta Carol Langford 19,051 2nd
Vancouver Centre Ron Johnson 14,830 31.77 2nd
Vancouver East Margaret Anne Mitchell Member of Parliament for Vancouver East (1979–1993) 14,245 43.91 1st
Vancouver Kingsway Ian Waddell Member of Parliament for Vancouver Kingsway (1979–1988) 16,928 46.85 1st
Vancouver Quadra Alan Bush 9,907 21.75 3rd
Vancouver South Judy McManus 8,896 21.27 3rd

Vancouver Island

Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Comox—Powell River Raymond Skelly Member of Parliament for Comox—Powell River (1979–1988) Teacher 25,007 48.97 1st
Cowichan—Malahat—The Islands Jim Manly 22,154 48.16 1st
Esquimalt—Saanich Bob Cameron 19,115 34.48 2nd
Nanaimo—Alberni Ted Miller Member of Parliament for Nanaimo—Alberni (1979–1984) Teacher 24,082 49.20 1st
Victoria Robin Blencoe 17,088 34.32 2nd

Manitoba

Rural Manitoba

Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Brandon-Souris David Serle 8,509 24.8 3rd
Churchill Rod Murphy Member of Parliament for Churchill (1979–1993) Teacher 10,319 43.3 1st
Dauphin—Swan River Laverne Lewycky 12,960 44.8 1st
Lisgar Herman Rempel 3,353 3rd
Portage—Marquette Maude Lelonde 7,221 2nd
Provencher Richard Rattai 9,281 28.4 2nd
Selkirk—Interlake Terry Sargeant Member of Parliament for Selkirk—Interlake (1979–1984) 15,055 45.7 1st

Winnipeg

Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Saint Boniface Marc Boily 11,191 25.2 3rd
Winnipeg—Assiniboine Max Melnyk 7,304 3rd
Winnipeg—Birds Hill Bill Blaikie Member of Parliament for Winnipeg—Birds Hill (1979–1988) United Church minister 24,672 54.27 1st
Winnipeg—Fort Garry Brad McKenzie 7,293 18.08 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) 		18,561 50.5 1st
Winnipeg North Centre Stanley Knowles 12,637 1st
Winnipeg—St. James Cyril Keeper 11,078 1st

New Brunswick

Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Carleton—Charlotte Arthur Slipp 4,680 15.2 3rd
Fundy—Royal George Little 8,668 21.06 3rd
Gloucester Kevin O'Connell 4,484 12.84 3rd
Madawaska—Victoria James Aucoin 2,943 11.3 3rd
Moncton Gregory Murphy 7,791 16.71 3rd
Northumberland—Miramichi Jerry Dunnett 4,694 17.38 3rd
Restigouche Aurele Ferlatte 4,457 16.5 3rd
Saint John David M. Brown 5,978 18.9 3rd
Westmorland—Kent René Vannieuwenhuizen 5,255 16.31 3rd
York—Sunbury Phillip Booker 5,567 14.55 3rd

Newfoundland and Labrador

Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Bonavista-Trinity-Conception Anne Robbins 4,619 16.63 3rd
Burin-St. George's Peter Fenwick 2,929 3rd
Gander—Twillingate Clyde West 2,338 3rd
Grand Falls—White Bay—Labrador Ern Condon 6,582 22.32 3rd
Humber—Port au Port—St. Barbe Fonse Faour 9,535 2nd
St. John's East George P. Corbett 3,973 12.16 3rd
St. John's West J. Michael Maher 3,967 3rd

Nova Scotia

Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Annapolis Valley—Hants Bob Levy 10,338 25.29 3rd
Cape Breton—East Richmond Andrew Hogan 12,184 2nd
Cape Breton Highlands—Canso William J. Woodfine 4,902 3rd
Cape Breton—The Sydneys Ed Murphy 10,180 2nd
Central Nova Gary A. Chambers 5,743 17.71 3rd
Cumberland—Colchester Hayden Trenholm 7,111 17.86 3rd
Dartmouth—Halifax East Nelson Reed 8,764 20.41 3rd
Halifax Alexa McDonough 8,009 19.67 3rd
Halifax West Dennis Theman 10,043 20.91 3rd
South Shore John Yates 5,856 16.11 3rd
South West Nova John Lee 4,922 12.80 3rd

Prince Edward Island

Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Cardigan Aubrey Cantelo 1,054 5.91 3rd
Egmont Vincent Gallant 824 5.00 3rd
Hillsborough Bob Crockett 1,245 8.32 3rd
Malpeque Vic Arsenault 1,216 7.19 3rd

Ontario

Don Gray (Hamilton East)

Gray was a steelworker and an alderman in Hamilton, representing the city's fourth ward. He held several positions on city council, including chair of the Finance Committee,[1] chair of the Hamilton Harbour Committee,[2] chair the management committee responsible for the construction of Copps Coliseum, and chair of a committee that drafted a 1981 freedom-of-information by-law.[3] Gray was an early opponent of highway construction in the Red Hill Valley, and voted against the measure in September 1979.[4] He lost his council seat in the 1985 municipal election.

Federal electoral record
Election Division Party Votes % Place Winner
1974 federal Hamilton Mountain New Democratic Party 10,304 3/5 Gus MacFarlane, Progressive Conservative
1979 federal Hamilton East New Democratic Party 11,783 2/5 John Munro, Liberal
1980 federal Hamilton East New Democratic Party 12,627 2/6 John Munro, Liberal

Saskatchewan

Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Assiniboia Randy MacKenzie 9,710 3rd
Humboldt—Lake Centre Vic Althouse Farmer 13,243 1st
Kindersley—Lloydminster Wayne G. Nargang 9,589 2nd
Mackenzie Lars Elroy Bracken 10,435 2nd
Moose Jaw David H. Henley 10,641 2nd
Prince Albert Stan Hovdebo Member of Parliament for Prince Albert (1979–1988) 11,601 34.8 1st
Qu'Appelle—Moose Mountain Mel W.R. McCorriston 7,872 2nd
Regina East Simon De Jong Member of Parliament for Regina East (1979–1988) 13,630 1st
Regina West Les Benjamin Member of Parliament for Regina West (1979–1988)
Member of Parliament for Regina—Lake Centre (1968–1979) 		17,353 1st
Saskatoon East Bob Ogle Roman Catholic priest 12,985 1st
Saskatoon West Reg Parker 14,852 2nd
Swift Current—Maple Creek Ron Gates 8,338 2nd
The Battlefords—Meadow Lake Doug Anguish 9,819 1st
Yorkton—Melville Lorne Nystrom Member of Parliament for Yorkton—Melville (1968–1993) 15,240 45.7 1st

The Territories

Riding
 Candidate's Name Notes Residence Occupation Votes % Rank
Nunatsiaq Peter Ittinuar 2,688 47.27 1st
Western Arctic Wally Firth 3,537 33.63 2nd
Yukon Jim McCullough 1,918 19.84 3rd

References

  1. ^ Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Hansard, 28 April 1985, accessed 3 November 2006.
  2. ^ "Funds for new NHL arenas have priority, Munro says", Globe and Mail, 7 February 1979, P24.
  3. ^ Paul Patton, "Burst of civic pride greets sport facility", Globe and Mail, 8 November 1985, D11. "Groups see curb in bylaw on data", Globe and Mail, 15 October 1981, P11.
  4. ^ Dick Beddoes, "Come road, hawk gone", Globe and Mail, 20 September 1979, P8.
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