Ted Chudleigh (born ) is a former

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, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2014, representing the ridings of Halton North and later Halton. Chudleigh is the grandson of

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, who served as Premier of Ontario in 1949.

Background

Chudleigh was born in

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in 1943. He received a

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degree from Michigan State University in 1965. He later worked for the Ministry of Agriculture, and owned an IGA store in the Niagara Region. From 1980 to 1995, he was the Executive Vice-President of the ''Ontario Food Processors Association''. His brother Tom Chudleigh is the owner of Chudleigh's Limited, a commercial bakery and farm based in the Milton area whose frozen desserts are sold by grocery retailers throughout North America.

Politics

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

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and incumbent

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in the riding of Halton North. He was re-elected in the redistributed riding of Halton in the 1999 provincial election, by a margin of over 20,000 votes over his closest opponent. Chudleigh served as a

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supporter for Premiers

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and

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. The Tories lost the provincial election of 2003, and Chudleigh was returned with a greatly reduced margin of victory. He endorsed

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's unsuccessful bid to lead the Progressive Conservative Party in 2004. Ted Chudleigh was re-elected as the MPP for Halton in the 2007 provincial election by 176 votes over the

candidate Gary Zemlak, and was re-elected for a fifth time in 2011 by more than 3,000 votes over Liberal candidate Indira Naidoo-Harris. In 2014, Chudleigh faced Naidoo-Harris again, this time losing to her by about 4,000 votes. During his time in government he served as

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to several ministers. During his time in opposition he was his party's critic for various roles and between 2004 and 2011 he served as Deputy Opposition Whip.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chudleigh, Ted 1943 births Living people Michigan State University alumni People from the Regional Municipality of Halton Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs 21st-century Canadian politicians