Maria Van Bommel is a former Canadian politician in

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, Canada. From 2003 to 2011, she was a member of the

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, representing the

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area riding of

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for the

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Politics

In the 2003 provincial election, she defeated incumbent Progressive Conservative Marcel Beaubien by about 3,500 votes in

, a predominantly rural riding in the southwest region of the province. She was defeated by

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in the 2011 provincial election by nearly 7,000 votes.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Van Bommel, Maria 21st-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario 21st-century Canadian women politicians Living people Ontario Liberal Party MPPs People from Middlesex County, Ontario Politicians from London, Ontario Women MPPs in Ontario Year of birth missing (living people)