Bart Maves (born October 30, 1964) is a

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in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003. In 2010, he was elected as a Regional Councillor representing Niagara Falls for the

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Background

Maves worked as a legislative assistant to federal MP Ken Atkinson, who represented St. Catharines from 1988 to 1993. He also worked as a planning secretariat for Alberta's Education ministry. Maves is a nephew of W. Bart Maves who was elected to as a Niagara Falls City Councillor in 2006 and re-elected in 2010.

Politics

Provincial

Maves was elected to the Ontario legislature in the provincial election of 1995, defeating

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Marg Germano and incumbent

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Margaret Harrington in the riding of

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. In 1997, he was appointed as the

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to the

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. In the provincial election of 1999, Maves was re-elected by about 1,500 votes over Liberal candidate Selina Volpatti. He held other parliamentary assistant positions in the parliament which followed, but was not appointed to cabinet. In 2002, he supported

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's unsuccessful bid to replace

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as party leader. In the 2003 provincial election, Maves lost to Liberal

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by over 3,000 votes. He was the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario's candidate for the Niagara Falls riding again in the 2007 provincial election but lost again to Craitor. He tried to regain the seat in a February 2014

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after Craitor retired but lost to NDP candidate

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by 1,025 votes. He was defeated once again by Gates in the 2014 provincial election, this time by 7,429 votes.

Regional

In the 2010 municipal election, Maves ran for and was elected as one of the three regional councillors representing Niagara Falls on the

. Maves topped the polls, winning 13,695 votes, more than any other candidate for any municipal office in Niagara Falls. Elected alongside Maves as a regional councillor was Selina Volpatti, who had been his Liberal opponent during the 1999 provincial general election. Maves attempted to become the chair of the Regional Council. The position is not directly elected but is selected by a runoff ballot process amongst the members of the council. Maves lost to Gary Burroughs by a vote of 19 to 11 on the 4th ballot.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Maves, Bart 1964 births Living people People from Niagara Falls, Ontario Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs 21st-century Canadian politicians