David Winninger

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David Winninger (born October 10, 1949 in London, Ontario, Canada), is a politician in Ontario. He was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995.

Winninger has a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Western Ontario, as well as a law degree from McGill University in Montreal. He practiced law for 10 years before entering political life and received the Quebec Bar Prize in 1977.

Winninger first ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1985 provincial election, finishing a distant third place against Liberal Joan Smith in the riding of London South. He ran again in the 1987 provincial election, and again placed third.

Elected as an NDP MPP

The Ontario NDP won an unexpected majority government in the 1990 provincial election, and Winninger was elected as an MPP for London South. Despite being one of the few lawyers in the NDP caucus, Winninger was never appointed to Bob Rae's cabinet, and served as a parliamentary assistant from 1990 to 1995. From 1991 to 1995, he was the parliamentary assistant to the Attorney General. In 1992, he passed a private member's bill to save the Talbot Block, an historical site within London.

The NDP were defeated in the provincial election of 1995, and Winninger lost his seat to Progressive Conservative Bob Wood by over 7,000 votes.

Elected to London city council

Winninger was elected to London city council in 2000. He won re-election in 2003. In 2006, he was elected as councillor for Ward 11 in London's revised ward system of 14 wards--each represented by one councillor. He is currently a councillor in the city of London, representing Ward 11, and sits on the London Public Library Board.

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