Blain Morin

Infobox_Politician
name = Blain Morin
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birth_date =
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residence = Sudbury, Ontario
office = MPP for Nickel Belt
term_start = October 1, 1998
term_end = June 2, 1999
predecessor = Floyd Laughren
successor = Shelley Martel
party = New Democratic Party
religion =
occupation = trade unionist

Blain Kevin Morin is a Canadian politician and labour union organizer, who represented the Sudbury, Ontario riding of Nickel Belt from 1998 to 1999 in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. He was a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party.

Morin replaced Floyd Laughren, who retired in 1998. He was elected to the legislature in a by-election on October 1, 1998, defeating Progressive Conservative candidate Gerry Courtemanche by 1,364 votes. However, in 1999, the provincial ridings of Nickel Belt and Sudbury East were merged for the 1999 provincial election, and Morin declined to run for the NDP nomination rather than competing against Sudbury East's popular incumbent Shelley Martel. There was some consideration that he might run for the NDP nomination in the neighbouring riding of Algoma—Manitoulin, but this came to nothing.

Before entering elected politics, Morin was on the executive of the Canadian Union of Public Employees. He subsequently worked for the Ontario Federation of Labour.

Electoral record

{| class="wikitable"
- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"! colspan="6"|Nickel Belt by-election: October, 1998
- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"! colspan="2" style="width: 200px"|Party! style="width: 170px"|Candidate! style="width: 40px"|Votes! style="width: 40px"|%! style="width: 40px"|+/-
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style="width: 185px"|New Democrat
Blain Morin
align=right|5,537
align=right|40.88
align=right| -5.66
-
style="width: 185px"| Progressive Conservative
Gerry Courtemanche
align=right|4,173
align=right|30.81
align=right| +11.60
-
style="width: 185px"| Liberal
Frank Madigan
align=right|3,836
align=right|28.32
align=right| -3.93

External links

* [http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/members/members_all_detail.do?locale=en&ID=366 Profile at Legislative Assembly of Ontario]