Ted White
Member of Parliament
for North Vancouver
In office
25 October 1993  28 June 2004
Preceded byChuck Cook
Succeeded byDon Bell
Personal details
Born1949 (age 7475)
Southampton, England
Political partyConservative
Other political
affiliations
Reform Party, Canadian Alliance

Edward Alexander White (born 18 April 1949) is a Canadian former politician who served in the House of Commons of Canada from 1993 to 2004.

Born in Southampton, England, White was first elected in the British Columbia riding of North Vancouver in 1993 as a Reform Party of Canada candidate. He was re-elected in 1997 and 2000. While he was a member of parliament, Reform became known as the Canadian Alliance, then merged with the Progressive-Conservatives into the Conservative Party of Canada. White was defeated in the 2004 federal election by Liberal candidate Don Bell, therefore serving in the 35th through 37th Canadian Parliaments.

In the 1983 British Columbia general election, he was a candidate for the separatist Western Canada Concept party in the North Vancouver-Seymour riding.[1][2]

Achievements

In June 1994, White became the first MP in Canada to use electronic voting to sample the opinions of constituents. He was criticized by opponents at the time because there was a charge to place the call to vote, but White defended the charge as the only way to pay for the services being provided by Maritime Tel.

White was the Official Opposition Critic for a major overhaul of the Elections Act in late 1999. The only Official Opposition amendment to the Bill, C-2, permitted by the Minister at the time, the Hon. Don Boudria, was the insertion of Clause 18.1, which permitted Elections Canada to experiment with electronic voting methods. Throughout the Committee hearings, White had ardently pushed for the provision, but Minister Boudria opposed it. Agreement for the insertion of the clause was reached on the evening of 1 December 1999, during a telephone discussion between White and Boudria. The clause remains intact with a minor wording change in Bill C-23, which was introduced during the 41st Parliament to amend the Elections Act.[3]

Electoral history

2004 Canadian federal election: North Vancouver
Party Candidate Votes%±%Expenditures
LiberalDon Bell22,61940.02+7.26$72,712
ConservativeTed White20,54836.36-20.61$60,651
New DemocraticJohn Nelson8,96715.86+10.93$21,278
GreenPeggy Stortz4,1147.28$3,241
Canadian ActionAndres Esteban Barker1810.32-1.24$400
Marxist–LeninistMichael Hill770.13-0.01
Total valid votes 56,506100.0  
Total rejected ballots 1580.28-0.01
Turnout 56,66468.16-0.64
Liberal gain from Alliance Swing +13.94
Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.
2000 Canadian federal election: North Vancouver
Party Candidate Votes%±%Expenditures
AllianceTed White27,92049.87+1.01$60,178
LiberalBill Bell18,34332.76-1.18$50,482
Progressive ConservativeLaurence Putnam3,9757.10+2.16$1,278
New DemocraticSam Schechter2,7604.93-4.22$2,769
MarijuanaTunya Audain1,0081.80$23
Canadian ActionDiana Jewell8771.56+1.20$547
IndependentDallas Collis7601.35+0.70$1,134
IndependentRusty Corben2530.45
Marxist–LeninistMichael Hill800.14$33
Total valid votes 55,976100.0  
Total rejected ballots 1640.29-0.01
Turnout 56,14068.80-3.03
Alliance hold Swing +1.10
Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997 election.
1997 Canadian federal election: North Vancouver
Party Candidate Votes%±%Expenditures
ReformTed White27,07548.86+8.85$63,443
LiberalWarren Kinsella18,80633.94+2.87$62,704
New DemocraticMartin Stuible5,0759.15+2.77$11,938
Progressive ConservativeDennis Prouse2,7404.94-11.00$14,159
GreenPeggy Stortz9821.77$173
IndependentDallas Lindley Collins3650.65
Canadian ActionWayne Mulherin2030.36$1,359
Natural LawKen Chawkin1620.29-0.59
Total valid votes 55,408100.0  
Total rejected ballots 1670.30
Turnout 55,57571.83
Reform hold Swing +2.99
1993 Canadian federal election: North Vancouver
Party Candidate Votes%±%
ReformTed White20,40740.01+31.09
LiberalMobina Jaffer15,95131.27+4.06
Progressive ConservativeWill McMartin7,90015.49-22.16
New DemocraticGraeme Bowbrick3,2546.38-17.48
NationalDallas Collis2,2344.38
GreenArne B. Hansen5341.05+0.11
Natural LawBradford Cooke4470.88
IndependentClarke L. Ashley1440.28
LibertarianAnthony Jasich1160.23
Commonwealth of CanadaPaul Fraleigh220.04
Total valid votes 51,009100.0  
Reform gain from Progressive Conservative Swing +13.52

References

  1. The Tyee: "Martin's Strange 'Dream'" 14 June 2004
  2. 1983 BC provincial election results
  3. "Bill C-23". Parliament of Canada. Archived from the original on 2 November 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
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