Arch C. Pafford is a Canadian former

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. In the 1988 federal election, he ran for office as a candidate of the

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(CoR). He placed third with 10.7% of the vote in the riding of Miramichi. CoR did surprisingly well in New Brunswick, with 4.3% of the popular vote, considering it was a

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-based party whose national results were less than one half of one percent. Due to this success, Pafford and other CoR supporters founded the

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, a party to contest provincial elections. The party attracted a lot of support in

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areas of the province because of the collapse of the

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in the 1987 election, and resentment against PC

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's support of

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. The CoR party won eight seats in the 1991 New Brunswick election, and formed the official opposition. Pafford did not win a seat, finishing in third place in his

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riding. As a result, Pafford resigned the leadership. In 1995, Pafford ran for

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of the new city of

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, but was defeated. He largely withdrew from the political scene, but participated with other former CoR members in founding the

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in 2001. He re-entered politics in 2004, when he again ran for mayor of Miramichi. He finished in a distant fourth of four candidates with 9.6% of the vote, while the other three candidates were virtually tied with approximately 30% of the vote each. Pafford is retired from the

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, and is president of the

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in Miramichi.

References

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