Wayne L. Marston (born February 27, 1947, in

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) was the

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(NDP)

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(MP) representing the

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riding of

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from 2006 to 2015.

Electoral history

Marston was first elected as MP in the 2006 federal election, defeating incumbent

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Tony Valeri Tony Valeri (born August 11, 1957) is a former Canadian politician. Valeri was the Government House Leader in Paul Martin's government from 2004 until 2006. He was narrowly defeated by New Democratic (NDP) candidate Wayne Marston in the 2006 ...

by a 466-vote margin. He was subsequently reelected in

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and

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. He lost his seat in the 2015 election to the Liberal candidate, and former Mayor of

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. Prior to his election to the

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, Marston served as President of the Hamilton and District Labour Council for 11 years. He co-chaired the organizing committee of the Hamilton Action Days, February 23–24, 1996 in which 100,000 marched on the Ontario Progressive Conservative convention in Hamilton, February 24, 1996. Marston was also a School Board Trustee for Ward 5 of the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board from 2000 until his resignation, after his federal election victory, on January 24, 2006. Marston had previously run for the NDP in the former federal riding of Hamilton East in the 1993 and 1997 Canadian federal elections. He was defeated both times by Liberal cabinet minister

Sheila Copps Sheila Maureen Copps (born November 27, 1952) is a former Canadian politician who also served as the sixth deputy prime minister of Canada from November 4, 1993, to April 30, 1996, and June 19, 1996, to June 11, 1997. Her father, Victor Copps, ...

. He was also the NDP candidate in the 1996 Hamilton East

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, triggered by Copps' resignation over her government's failure to repeal the unpopular Goods and Services Tax as promised by her and her party in 1993. Although Copps ran in and won the 1996 by-election, Marston finished a strong second to her, reducing Copps' margin of victory significantly. Copps' riding was once the strongest Liberal riding in the Hamilton area (holding even during the 1984 Mulroney sweep) but after the by-election, Hamilton East emerged as the weakest Liberal riding in the Hamilton area (Hamilton West, Hamilton Mountain and Stoney Creek all subsequently gave the Liberals larger margins of victory). Copps also lost personal standing within the Liberal Party after the by-election, and she was eventually defeated by fellow Liberal MP Tony Valeri in a pitched battle for the Liberal nomination in the new

riding when it was created out of her former Hamilton East riding and Valeri's former Stoney Creek riding in 2004.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Marston, Wayne 1947 births Living people Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario New Democratic Party MPs People from Victoria County, New Brunswick Politicians from Hamilton, Ontario 21st-century Canadian politicians