It has not been able to elect anyone at the provincial level since then.
Individual members of the party have been elected to school boards in the past few decades but have done so as independents rather than as Communist Party candidates. The party is led by Liz Rowley.
Audrey McLaughlin was born in Dutton, Ontario in 1936.
She was first elected to the House of Commons for the Yukon in a by-election in 1987 and re-elected in the general elections of 1988 and 1993.
For the next six years she led the Party through a tumultuous time during which the NDP formed the provincial governments in Ontario in 1990, under the leadership of Bob Rae, and in British Columbia in 1991, under Michael Harcourt.
The CommunistParty of Ontario is the Ontario, Canada provincial wing of the CommunistParty of Canada.
In the 1940s and 1950s under the name Labour Progressive Party, the group won two seats in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario: A.A. MacLeod and J.B. Salsberg served as Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs).
Individual members of the party have been elected to school boards in the past few decades, but have done so as independents rather than as "CommunistParty" candidates.
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