Patrice Barnes

Canadian politician

Patrice Barnes MPP
Barnes as deputy speaker.

Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament for Ajax
Incumbent
Assumed office June 2, 2022
Preceded by	Rod Phillips

Personal details
Born	Jamaica
Political party	Progressive Conservative

Patrice Barnes is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2022 provincial election. She represents the riding of Ajax as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.^[1]

Barnes is a former school trustee.^[2] In 2023 she was appointed deputy speaker.^[3]

Electoral history

v t e 2022 Ontario general election: Ajax
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Patrice Barnes	15,336	40.69	+1.65
	Liberal	Amber Bowen	13,561	35.98	+10.18
	New Democratic	Christine Santos	6,291	16.69	−14.27
	Green	Neil Runnalls	1,305	3.46	+0.96
	New Blue	Garry Reader	625	1.66
	Ontario Party	Aaron Hopkins	330	0.88
	Independent	Intab Ali	127	0.34
	Independent	Allen Hadley	112	0.30
Total valid votes			37,687	100.0
Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots			209
Turnout			37,896	39.96
Eligible voters			94,295
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		−4.27
Source(s) "Summary of Valid Votes Cast for Each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. Archived from the original on 2023-05-18. "Statistical Summary by Electoral District" (PDF). Elections Ontario. Archived from the original on 2023-05-21.

References

^ Marco Chown Oved (June 2, 2022). "PC Patrice Barnes elected in Ajax". Toronto Star. ISSN 0319-0781.
^ "PC Patrice Barnes elected in Ajax". The Toronto Star. 2 June 2022.
^ "'Sometimes it gets very heated in the House' -Patrice Barnes". The Caribbean Camera. 2023-01-05. Retrieved 2023-04-26.

External links

Media related to Patrice Barnes at Wikimedia Commons

v t e Current members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
43rd Parliament of Ontario
Progressive Conservative	D. Ford Anand Arnott Babikian Bailey Barnes Bethlenfalvy Bouma Bresee Byers Calandra R. Cho S. Cho Clark Coe Crawford Cuzzetto Dixon Dowie Downey Dunlop Fedeli Flack M. Ford Gallagher Murphy Ghamari Grewal Hardeman Harris Hogarth Holland S. Jones T. Jones Jordan Kanapathi Kerzner Khanjin Kusendova-Bashta Leardi Lecce Lumsden MacLeod Martin McCarthy McGregor Mulroney Oosterhoff Pang Parsa Piccini Pierre Pirie Quinn Rae Rickford Riddell Romano Sabawy Sandhu Sarkaria Sarrazin Saunderson Scott Skelly Dave Smith David Smith G. Smith L. Smith T. Smith Surma Tangri Thanigasalam Thompson Tibollo Triantafilopoulos Wai Williams Yakabuski
New Democratic	Stiles Andrew Armstrong Begum Bell Bourgouin Burch Fife French Gates Gélinas Glover Gretzky Harden Karpoche Kernaghan Mamakwa Pasma Rakocevic Sattler Shaw Stevens Tabuns Taylor Vanthof Vaugeois West Wong-Tam
Liberal†	Blais Bowman Collard Fraser Hazell Hsu McCrimmon McMahon Shamji
Green†	Schreiner Clancy
Independent	Brady Jama Ke Mantha Rasheed
Party leaders listed first (in bold italics). Government members in bold denotes cabinet. † Party does not have official party status in the Legislature