Leslie Church
Leslie Church | |
|---|---|
| Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Jobs and Families | |
| Assumed office June 5, 2025 Serving with Annie Koutrakis | |
| Parliamentary Secretary to the Secretaries of State for Labour, Seniors, and Children and Youth | |
| Assumed office June 5, 2025 | |
| Member of Parliament for Toronto—St. Paul's | |
| Assumed office April 28, 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Don Stewart |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Residence(s) | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Website | lesliechurch |
Leslie Church MP is a Canadian politician who has served as a member of Parliament from the electoral district of Toronto-St. Paul's since 2025.
Career
Church is a lawyer and a former diplomat.[1] She previously served as chief of staff to Chrystia Freeland.[2] Church ran in the 2024 Toronto—St. Paul's federal by-election, and lost to conservative candidate Don Stewart.[3] She ran again in the 2025 Canadian federal election, and defeated Stewart on April 28, 2025.[4] Following her victory, Church made comparisons between her two campaigns as "night and day," after the resignation of Justin Trudeau.[5]
Electoral record
| 2025 Canadian federal election: Toronto—St. Paul's | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | 44,313 | 61.88 | +12.37 | |||||
| Conservative | Don Stewart | 23,708 | 33.11 | +6.60 | ||||
| New Democratic | Bruce Levy | 2,506 | 3.50 | −12.39 | ||||
| Green | Shane Philips | 552 | 0.77 | −4.79 | ||||
| People's | Joseph Frasca | 329 | 0.46 | −2.04 | ||||
| Marxist–Leninist | David Gershuny | 147 | 0.21 | N/A | ||||
| Canadian Future | Cynthia Valdron | 58 | 0.08 | N/A | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | ||||||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||||
| Turnout | 71,613 | 74.05 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 96,713 | |||||||
| Liberal notional hold | Swing | +2.89 | ||||||
| Note: The changes in percentage value and swing were calculated using the redistributed results of the 2021 general election, not the 2024 by-election. The seat of Toronto—St. Paul's was won by the Liberals in 2021, but the seat was held by the Conservatives since 2024 following the by-election. | ||||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[6][7] | ||||||||
| Canadian federal by-election, June 24, 2024: Toronto—St. Paul's Resignation of Carolyn Bennett | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Conservative | Don Stewart | 15,565 | 42.11 | +16.81 | ||||
| Liberal | 14,932 | 40.40 | -8.82 | |||||
| New Democratic | Amrit Parhar | 4,073 | 11.02 | -5.81 | ||||
| Green | Christian Cullis | 1,057 | 2.86 | -3.13 | ||||
| People's | Dennis Wilson | 238 | 0.64 | -2.02 | ||||
| Independent | Jonathan Schachter | 97 | 0.26 | |||||
| Independent | Mário Stocco | 82 | 0.22 | |||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Meñico Turcotte | 59 | 0.16 | |||||
| Rhinoceros | Sean Carson | 51 | 0.14 | |||||
| Independent | Thibaud Mony | 51 | 0.14 | |||||
| Independent | Glen MacDonald | 42 | 0.11 | |||||
| Independent | Mélodie Anderson | 39 | 0.11 | |||||
| Independent | Demetrios Karavas | 37 | 0.10 | |||||
| No Affiliation | Stephen Davis | 36 | 0.10 | |||||
| Independent | Jordan Wong | 31 | 0.08 | |||||
| Marijuana | Danny Légaré | 30 | 0.08 | |||||
| Independent | Alex Banks | 27 | 0.07 | |||||
| Centrist | Ali Mohiuddin | 26 | 0.07 | |||||
| Independent | Jaël Champagne Gareau | 23 | 0.06 | |||||
| Independent | Michael Bednarski | 18 | 0.05 | |||||
| Independent | John Dale | 18 | 0.05 | |||||
| Independent | Pierre Larochelle | 17 | 0.05 | |||||
| Independent | Joshua Bram Hieu Pham | 17 | 0.05 | |||||
| Independent | Marie-Hélène LeBel | 16 | 0.04 | |||||
| Independent | Guillaume Paradis | 16 | 0.04 | |||||
| Independent | Daniel Andrew Graham | 13 | 0.04 | |||||
| Independent | Pierre Granger | 13 | 0.04 | |||||
| Independent | Julie St-Amand | 13 | 0.04 | |||||
| Independent | Loren Hicks | 12 | 0.03 | |||||
| Independent | Matéo Martin | 12 | 0.03 | |||||
| Independent | Blake Hamilton | 11 | 0.03 | |||||
| Independent | Line Bélanger | 10 | 0.02 | |||||
| Independent | Charles Currie | 10 | 0.03 | |||||
| Independent | Cory Deville | 10 | 0.03 | |||||
| Independent | Alexandra Engering | 10 | 0.03 | |||||
| Independent | Daniel Stuckless | 10 | 0.03 | |||||
| Independent | Erle Stanley Bowman | 9 | 0.02 | |||||
| Independent | Anthony Hamel | 9 | 0.02 | |||||
| Independent | Pascal St-Amand | 9 | 0.02 | |||||
| Independent | Sébastien CoRhino | 8 | 0.02 | |||||
| Independent | Mark Dejewski | 8 | 0.02 | |||||
| Independent | Daniel Gagnon | 8 | 0.02 | |||||
| Independent | Agnieszka Marszalek | 8 | 0.02 | |||||
| Independent | Olivier Renaud | 8 | 0.02 | |||||
| Independent | Patrick Strzalkowski | 8 | 0.02 | |||||
| Independent | Donald Gagnon | 7 | 0.02 | |||||
| Independent | Benjamin Teichman | 7 | 0.02 | |||||
| Independent | MarthaLee Aykroyd | 6 | 0.02 | |||||
| Independent | Myriam Beaulieu | 6 | 0.02 | |||||
| Independent | Kubera Desai | 6 | 0.02 | |||||
| Independent | Donovan Eckstrom | 6 | 0.02 | |||||
| Independent | Kevin Krisa | 6 | 0.02 | |||||
| Independent | Lorant Polya | 6 | 0.02 | |||||
| Independent | Roger Sherwood | 6 | 0.02 | |||||
| Independent | Elliot Wand | 6 | 0.02 | |||||
| Independent | Michal Wieczorek | 6 | 0.02 | |||||
| Independent | Maxime Boivin | 5 | 0.01 | |||||
| Independent | Martin Acetaria Caesar Jubinville | 5 | 0.01 | |||||
| Independent | Jean-Denis Parent Boudreault | 4 | 0.01 | |||||
| Independent | Léthycia-Félix Corriveau | 4 | 0.01 | |||||
| Independent | Ysack Dupont | 4 | 0.01 | |||||
| Independent | Dji-Pé Frazer | 4 | 0.01 | |||||
| Independent | Zornitsa Halacheva | 4 | 0.01 | |||||
| Independent | Alain Lamontagne | 4 | 0.01 | |||||
| Independent | Renée Lemieux | 4 | 0.01 | |||||
| Independent | Danimal Preston | 4 | 0.01 | |||||
| Independent | Spencer Rocchi | 4 | 0.01 | |||||
| Independent | Yogo Shimada | 4 | 0.01 | |||||
| Independent | Darcy Vanderwater | 4 | 0.01 | |||||
| Independent | Mylène Bonneau | 3 | 0.01 | |||||
| Independent | Guillaume Gagnier-Michel | 3 | 0.01 | |||||
| Independent | Kerri Hildebrandt | 3 | 0.01 | |||||
| Independent | Krzysztof Krzywinski | 3 | 0.01 | |||||
| Independent | Connie Lukawski | 3 | 0.01 | |||||
| Independent | Wallace Richard Rowat | 3 | 0.01 | |||||
| Independent | Gavin Vanderwater | 3 | 0.01 | |||||
| Independent | Alain Bourgault | 2 | 0.01 | |||||
| No Affiliation | Manon Marie Lili Desbiens | 2 | 0.01 | |||||
| Independent | Gerrit Dogger | 2 | 0.01 | |||||
| Independent | Samuel Ducharme | 2 | 0.01 | |||||
| Independent | Yusuf Kadir Nasihi | 2 | 0.01 | |||||
| Independent | Winston Neutel | 2 | 0.01 | |||||
| Independent | Jacques Saintonge | 2 | 0.01 | |||||
| Independent | Felix-Antoine Hamel | 0 | 0.00 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 36,962 | |||||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||||
| Turnout | 43.52 | -21.96 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 84,934 | |||||||
| Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +12.76 | ||||||
References
- ^ "Leslie Church". lesliechurch.liberal.ca. Retrieved 2025-04-29.
- ^ "Freeland's former chief of staff begins new chapter at Proof Strategies". iPolitics. 22 January 2025.
- ^ "A Rematch in Toronto–St. Paul's". The Local. 22 April 2025. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
- ^ "Toronto-St. Paul's flips from Conservatives to Liberals". CTV News. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
- ^ Taylor, Stephanie. "With Trudeau gone, it's like 'night and day' in a former Toronto Liberal fortress that turned Tory blue". National Post. Retrieved 28 May 2025.
- ^ "Voter information service". Elections Canada. Retrieved April 18, 2025.
- ^ "Election Night Results - Electoral Districts". Elections Canada. 29 April 2025. Retrieved 29 April 2025.