Joyce Savoline

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name = Joyce Savoline
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residence = Burlington, Ontario
office = MPP for Burlington
term_start = 2007
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predecessor = Cam Jackson
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party = Progressive Conservative
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occupation = Provincial Politician

Joyce Savoline is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the electoral district of Burlington for the Progressive Conservatives. She won the seat in a by-election on February 8, 2007.

Savoline previously served as chair of the Regional Municipality of Halton from her original appointment in 1994 until her retirement in 2006. In 2000, as a result of changes to the Ontario Municipal Act, Savoline became the first person to be directly elected to that position by the voters of Halton. She was reelected in 2003.

Following her departure from municipal office, Joyce sought the Progressive Conservative nomination to replace to replace Cam Jackson as Member of Provincial Parliament from Burlington, after Jackson resigned to successfully run for mayor. At the local party's nomination meeting on December 14, 2006, she narrowly defeated former Miss Canada Blair Lancaster, 251 votes to 205. Brad Reaume, a former journalist and assistant to Halton MPP Ted Chudleigh, was also a candidate.

In the ensuing byelection, Savoline faced several opponents, but her closest competition was Ontario Liberal Party candidate Joan Lougheed, a former long-time Burlington city councillor who had narrowly lost to Jackson in the Burlington mayoral race the previous fall. Ultimately Savoline defeated Lougheed with 11,143 votes (49%) to her 9,365 (41.2%) according to unofficial election night tallies.

Savoline was born in Shanghai, China and moved to Canada with her parents and sister in 1953. She and her husband moved to Burlington in 1973.

Electoral Record

{| class="wikitable"
- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"! colspan="6"|By-election, February 8, 2007
- 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"| Progressive Conservative
Joyce Savoline
align=right|11,143
align=right|49.0%
align=right|+2.8%
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style="width: 185px"| Liberal
Joan Lougheed
align=right|9,365
align=right|41.2%
align=right|-1.0%
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style="width: 185px"|New Democrat
Cory Judson
align=right|1,310
align=right|5.8%
align=right|-1.4%
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style="width: 185px"|Green
Frank de Jong
align=right|734
align=right|3.2%
align=right|+0.9%
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style="width: 185px"|Freedom
Barry Spruce
align=right|106
align=right|0.5%
align=right|*
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style="width: 185px"| Independent
John C. Turmel
align=right|90
align=right|0.4%
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References

* [http://www.joycesavoline.ca/ Official website]
* Jason Misner, [http://www.haltonsearch.com/hr/bp/story/3875007p-4482419c.html "Savoline preserves Tory rule"] , "Burlington Post", February 9, 2007.
* Jason Misner, [http://www.haltonsearch.com/hr/bp/story/3862147p-4469053c.html "Seasoned politician eyes MPP's chair,"] "Burlington Post", January 31, 2007.
* Jason Misner, [http://www.haltonsearch.com/hr/bp/story/3816352p-4414218c.html "Savoline gets nod to represent Conservatives in 2007 byelection,"] "Burlington Post", December 17, 2006.

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