Ken Stewart is a politician from

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, Canada. Stewart won the riding of

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in the

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. Stewart ran unsuccessfully as the

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candidate for MLA in the constituency of Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows in 1996, but again contested and won the seat during the BC Liberal sweep of 2001. In 2005, he was defeated by the

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's Michael Sather and in 2009, he faced Sather again in an unsuccessful bid to retake the district. Stewart served as a member of Maple Ridge municipal council from 1996 to 1999 and again from 2005 to 2008.

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