In the byelection that followed in early 1999, Liberal candidate Rick Limoges narrowly defeated Joe Comartin of the NDP.

During the June 2004 federal election, he announced that he would support the Liberal candidate in Windsor St. Clair, That riding ’ s name was later changed to Windsor-Tecumseh and in the 2006 election Easton ran there as the Liberal candidate, coming second to New Democratic Party incumbent Joe Comartin.

NDP Justice Critic Joe Comartin argued that this change addressed the legitimate concerns of Canadians, while removing what he described as " the radical, extreme over-reaction " of the Conservatives.

The same year, he was elected to the executive of the New Democratic Youth of Canada as policy director, endorsing Joe Comartin for leader of the NDP and serving on the party's federal council.

On June 8, 2012, local Windsor NDP MPs Brian Masse and Joe Comartin asked CBC president Hubert Lacroix to reconsider shutting down CBEFT, recommending instead to install digital multiplexing equipment and carry CBEFT on a digital subchannel of sister station CBET-DT.

Layton won on the first ballot with 53. 5 % of the vote, defeating Bill Blaikie, Lorne Nystrom, Joe Comartin and Pierre Ducasse.

Joe Comartin was the MP for Windsor — St.

* August 13: Joe Comartin declares his candidacy.

Joseph John " Joe " Comartin ( born December 26, 1947 in Stoney Point, Ontario ) is a Canadian lawyer and politician.

Comartin joined the New Democratic Party in 1969.

A civil litigation lawyer based in Windsor, Ontario, Comartin enjoyed strong support from local union members when he ran for a seat in the House of Commons, but narrowly lost in the 1997 general election and in a 1999 by-election.

On September 17, 2012, due to the resignation of Denise Savoie, Comartin was chosen to become Deputy Speaker.

The Windsor Star reported on March 4, 2009 that Windsor City Council, local Members of Provincial Parliament Sandra Pupatello and Dwight Duncan, and federal Members of Parliament Brian Masse and Joe Comartin began lobbying the CRTC and CTVglobemedia not to shut down CHWI, as it is the only local privately-owned television station in Windsor.

Positions in the shadow cabinet were announced on November 17, 2008, and include all 37 members of the New Democratic Party caucus in the Canadian House of Commons except Joe Comartin who was running for election as Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons when the shadow cabinet was appointed.

However, in the 2000 election, Comartin won the seat.

Masse's success in 2002 was partly due to support from Joe Comartin, a fellow Windsor New Democrat who was elected to the House of Commons in the 2000 federal election.

After the election, Masse and Comartin spoke out against the provincial NDP's decision to remove Canadian Auto Workers leader Buzz Hargrove from the party.

The leading candidates for the office — all of whom were black — were Dumarsais Estimé, a former school teacher, assembly member, and cabinet minister under Vincent ; Félix d ' Orléans Juste Constant, leader of the Haitian Communist Party ( Parti Communiste d ' Haïti — PCH ); and former Garde commander Démosthènes Pétrus Calixte, who stood as the candidate of a progressive coalition that included the Worker Peasant Movement ( Mouvement Ouvrier Paysan — MOP ).

He stood as a candidate for Lambeth London Borough Council at the age of 21 in 1964, and was elected in the Conservative landslide in 1968.

Although Tim Smith stepped down from the House of Commons at the 1997 General Election, both Neil Hamilton and Jonathan Aitken sought re-election for their seats, and were both defeated, in Hamilton's case by the former BBC Reporter Martin Bell, who stood as an anti-sleaze candidate, both the Labour and LibDem candidates withdrawing in his favour, amidst further publicity unfavourable to the Conservatives.

He has stood as a Parliamentary candidate in the general elections on several of occasions, most recently in 2005 as an Alliance list-candidate.

Chernenko's illness was first acknowledged publicly on 22nd February 1985 during a televised election rally in Kuibyshev Borough of northeast Moscow, where the General Secretary stood as candidate for the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR, when Politburo member Viktor Grishin revealed that the General Secretary was absent in accordance with doctors ' advice.

In the 1992 general election, held on 9 April, 310 candidates stood for the NLP in the UK, garnering 0. 19 % of the vote, with every candidate losing their deposit for failing to receive at least 5 % of the vote.

In 1996 he stood unsuccessfully as a Greens candidate for the Australian Senate.

In his Midlothian Campaign – so called because he stood as a candidate for that county – Gladstone spoke in fields, halls and railway stations to hundreds, sometimes thousands, of students, farmers, labourers and middle class workers.

Runoff voting can be influenced by strategic nomination ; this is where candidates and political factions influence the result of an election by either nominating extra candidates or withdrawing a candidate who would otherwise have stood.

A month later, however, he stood as a candidate in South Lancashire, where he was elected third MP ( South Lancashire at this time elected three MPs ).

In 1977, Chirac stood as a candidate against Michel d ' Ornano, a close friend of the president, and he won.

Under the United States Constitution as it then stood, each elector cast two votes and the candidate with a majority of the votes was elected president, with the vice-presidency going to the runner-up.

In reaction, Livingstone stood as an independent candidate, resulting in his expulsion from the Labour Party and in March 2000, was elected as Mayor of London.

World War II stopped the plans and the Games were cancelled so London again stood as a candidate for 1948.

In his final year Heath was President of Balliol College Junior Common Room, an office held in subsequent years by his near-contemporaries Denis Healey and Roy Jenkins, and as such was invited to support the Master of Balliol Alexander Lindsay, who stood as an anti-appeasement ' Independent Progressive ' candidate against the official Conservative candidate, Quintin Hogg, in the Oxford by-election, 1938.

Thomson stood as a Stuckist candidate for the 2001 British General Election, in the constituency of Islington South & Finsbury, against Chris Smith, the then Secretary of State for Culture.

He had previously stood as a Communist candidate in school elections.

In 1952, Warren stood as a " favorite son " candidate of California for the Republican nomination for President, hoping to be a power broker in a convention that might be deadlocked.

Twenty-six year old Winston Churchill, famous for his escape from a Boer prisoner of war camp and his journalism for the Morning Post, successfully stood as a Conservative candidate in Oldham, where Chamberlain spoke on his behalf.

Radio station owner Avtar Lit stood as a parliamentary candidate ; his son Tony Lit followed in his footsteps, standing in the 2007 by-election.

On 1 November 1950, he was unexpectedly selected to succeed Sir Stafford Cripps as the Labour candidate for Bristol South East, after Cripps stood down because of ill-health.

He was instrumental in changing the name of the BUF to " British Union of Fascists and National Socialists " in 1936, and stood as a party candidate in the 1937 elections to the London County Council.

She stood for Parliament as Labour candidate for Cheltenham in the 1950 general election.

Neither Neville or Austen actually stood for Parliament as a Conservative candidate ,-their local political association in Birmingham preferred to call themselves Unionist rather than Conservative during this time and it also privately suited Neville Chamberlain as well.