Patricia "Pat" Perkins (born September 3, 1953) is a Scottish-

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politician. Perkins served as the

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Member of Parliament for

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from 2014 to 2015. She was elected in a by-election held on November 17, 2014 following the death of

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."Pat Perkins to be next MP for Whitby-Oshawa, CBC News projects"

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, November 17, 2014. Prior to being elected to the

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, Perkins was a

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municipal councillor from 1997 until 2006 when she challenged incumbent mayor Marcel Brunelle, defeating him by less than 200 votes in the 2006 municipal election. Perkins served as mayor of Whitby for two terms from 2006 to 2014. She did not run for reelection to the mayoralty in the 2014 municipal election, due to the pending federal byelection. Perkins was a member of the Standing Committee on Natural Resources and the Standing Committee on the Status of Women. However, her term as an MP would be short-lived, as she was defeated in the federal election the following year in the redistricted riding of

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, whom she had earlier defeated in the by-election.

Electoral record

Federal

Mayor of Whitby, Ontario

2010

2006

References

External links

Official website

Pat Perkins - Parliament of Canada biography

Pat Perkins - PARLINFO
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