Patrick Anthony "Pat" Sobeski (25 July 1951 – 17 March 2016) was a Canadian politician, who has served as a member of the

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from 1988 to 1993, and as mayor of Woodstock from 2010 to 2014. He was elected in the 1988 federal election at the Cambridge electoral district for the Progressive Conservative party. He served in the

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but lost to

Janko Peric Janko Perić (born February 24, 1949), is a former Canadian politician. Perić was the Liberal Party MP for the riding of Cambridge from 1993 to 2004. He was born in Orehovica near Bedekovčina, Croatia and was a welder. Perić was defeated in ...

of the

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in the 1993 federal election, finishing with less than half of Peric's votes, and even behind the Reform party's Reg Petersen. Sobeski served as a municipal councillor in

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beginning in 2003. He was elected as the mayor of Woodstock in the 2010 municipal election, defeating incumbent Michael Harding. Sobeski was defeated by Birtch in a faceoff along with former Mayor Harding in 2014. He died on 17 March 2016.

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* 1951 births 2016 deaths Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario Politicians from Cambridge, Ontario Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs People from Woodstock, Ontario 21st-century mayors of places in Ontario 20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada {{ProgressiveConservative-Ontario-MP-stub