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Rick Johnson
	Rick Johnson
	MPP for Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; March 23, 2009
Preceded by	Laurie Scott
Political party	Liberal
Residence	Pontypool, Ontario
Occupation	education chairman, musician, businessman

Rick Johnson is a Canadian politician. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in a by-election on March 5, 2009, defeating Ontario Progressive Conservative Party leader John Tory in Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock.^[1] He is a member of the Liberal Party.

Johnson previously served as a public school trustee for the Trillium Lakelands District School Board and as president of the Ontario Public School Boards Association. In his term on the OPSBA, Johnson introduced breakfast, co-operative education and literacy programs for his district. He has also served on the Lindsay Chamber of Commerce.

Johnson was also the party's candidate in Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock in the 2007 provincial election, losing to Laurie Scott.

[edit] Electoral record

Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock by-election, March 5, 2009 resignation of Laurie Scott
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Rick Johnson	15,482	43.73	+14.22
	Progressive Conservative	John Tory	14,576	41.17	-8.73
	Green	Mike Schreiner	2,352	6.64	-0.56
	New Democrat	Lyn Edwards	2,117	5.98	-5.92
	Independent	Jason Taylor	320	0.90
	Family Coalition	Jake Pothaar	258	0.73	-0.07
	Freedom	Bill Denby	140	0.40	-0.4
	Independent	John C. Turmel	92	0.26
	Libertarian	Paolo Fabrizio	71	0.20

Ontario general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Laurie Scott	24,272	49.9
	Liberal	Rick Johnson	14,324	29.5
	New Democrat	Joan Corrigan	5,773	11.9
	Green	Douglas Smith	3,475	7.2
	Freedom	Bill Denby	391	0.8
	Family Coalition	Jake Pothaar	364	0.8

[edit] References

^ "John Tory loses bid for seat in by-election". Toronto Star, March 5, 2009.

[edit] External links

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[0] "John Tory loses bid for seat in by-election". Toronto Star, March 5, 2009.

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