Trevor Pettit (born March 14, 1951) is a former

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in Ontario,

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. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the

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from 1995 to 1999 who represented the riding of

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Background

Pettit was born in Hamilton. He worked as a sales director for a manufacturing company in neighbouring Dundas which is now part of Hamilton. He is married with two children.

Politics

He was elected to the provincial legislature in the 1995 provincial election, defeating Liberal

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and incumbent

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finished third. He sat in the backbenches of

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's government during his time in the legislature. He advocated the amalgamation of Hamilton with neighbouring municipalities, a policy initiative which was passed during the Harris government's second term. Pettit lost to Bountrigianni by about 2,500 votes in the 1999 provincial election. In 2010, he attempted to unseat incumbent Scott Duvall for the position of Hamilton city councillor in Ward Seven, but was unsuccessful.

Electoral record

, - style="background-color:#fcfcfc;" !rowspan="2" colspan="2" , Candidate !colspan="3" , Popular vote , - style="background-color:#fcfcfc;" ! Votes ! % ! ±% , - , style="background-color:#FF7F00;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Scott Duvall (incumbent) , style="text-align:right;" , 9,027 , style="text-align:right;" , 57.61% , style="text-align:right;" , +28.05% , - , style="background-color:#0047AB;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Trevor Pettit , style="text-align:right;" , 3,938 , style="text-align:right;" , 25.13% , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="background-color:#FF003F;" , , style="text-align:left;" , John Gallagher , style="text-align:right;" , 1,899 , style="text-align:right;" , 12.12% , style="text-align:right;" , +2.91% , - , style="background-color:#aaf442;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Keith Beck , style="text-align:right;" , 805 , style="text-align:right;" , 5.14% , style="text-align:right;" , ''n/a'' , - , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" , Total votes , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , 16,173 , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , 100% , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , , - , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" , Registered voters , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , 40,571 , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , 39.9 % , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , +2.97% , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" , Note: All Hamilton Municipal Elections are officially non-partisan.
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and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates. , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan="13" , Sources:''
Hamilton, Ontario, City Clerk's Office

Later life

As of 2010, Pettit works as a government relations-energy consultant. He also an occasional guest columnist for local Hamilton newspapers. In 2014, he retired to Costa Rica.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pettit, Trevor 1951 births Living people Politicians from Hamilton, Ontario Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs 20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario