Joyce Savoline (born ) is a former politician in

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, Canada. She was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario representing the riding of Burlington from 2007 to 2011.

Background

Savoline was born in

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and moved to Canada with her parents and sister in 1953. She and her husband moved to Burlington, Ontario in 1973. Savoline Boulevard in Milton, Ontario is named after the former Chair of Halton Region.

Politics

Savoline served as

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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

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, she 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, Savoline sought the Progressive Conservative nomination to replace Cam Jackson as

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from Burlington, after Jackson resigned to run for mayor. At the local party's nomination meeting on December 14, 2006, she narrowly defeated former

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

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defeating Liberal candidate Marianne Meed Ward by a narrower margin of 21,517 votes (41.3%) to 19,693 votes (37.8%). She did not contest the riding in 2011.

Electoral record

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Savoline, Joyce 1946 births Women municipal councillors in Canada Living people Burlington, Ontario city councillors Politicians from Shanghai Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs Women MPPs in Ontario 21st-century Canadian politicians 21st-century Canadian women politicians