Lois Brown

Lois Brown MP
Member of the Canadian Parliament for Newmarket—Aurora
Incumbent
Assumed office 2008
Preceded by	Belinda Stronach
Personal details
Born	January 22, 1955 (1955-01-22) Stouffville, Ontario
Political party	Conservative
Other political affiliations	Canadian Alliance
Profession	Teacher, Consultant

Lois Brown (born January 22, 1955 in Stouffville, Ontario) is a Canadian businesswoman and politician, currently the elected Member of Parliament for Newmarket—Aurora. She is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada.

She is a former member of the Canadian Alliance, and was nominated as its candidate prior to the merger with the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

In the 2004 federal election, Brown lost the Conservative nomination to Belinda Stronach, who went on to defeat Liberal candidate Martha Hall Findlay by a narrow margin. Stronach later crossed the floor to the Liberals and became a cabinet minister.

Brown was the Conservative nominee in the 2006 federal election, where Stronach defeated her by 4,805 votes.

In the 2008 election, Brown was the riding's Conservative candidate once again, and this time she won the seat by defeating the new Liberal candidate, Tim Jones, by 6,623 votes. Stronach did not seek re-election and retired from politics.

In the 2011 election, Brown resumed her role as Conservative party candidate for the riding. She won a landslide victory over the other five candidates with 54.33% of votes in her riding, defeating the liberal candidate Kyle Peterson by 17,724 votes.

Brown sits on the Standing Committee on Transport, and the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Electoral record

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Lois Brown	31,600	54.29	+7.56
	Liberal	Kyle Peterson	13,908	23.90	-10.39
	New Democrat	Kassandra Bidarian	8,886	15.27	+6.80
	Green	Vanessa Long	2,628	4.52	-3.71
	Progressive Canadian	Dorian Baxter	998	1.71	-0.18
	Animal Alliance	Yvonne Mackie	182	0.31	-
Total valid votes			58,202	100.00
Total rejected ballots			219	0.37
Turnout			58,421	64.01
Eligible voters			91,275

Newmarket—Aurora - Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Lois Brown	24,873	46.73%	+8.68%
	Liberal	Tim Jones	18,250	34.29%	-11.93%
	New Democrat	Mike Seaward	4,508	8.47%	-1.12%
	Green	Glenn Hubbers	4,381	8.23%	+3.46%
	Progressive Canadian	Dorian Baxter	1,004	1.89%	+0.65%
	Christian Heritage	Ray Luff	211	0.40%	N/A

Newmarket—Aurora - Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Belinda Stronach	27,176	46.22%	+3.80%
	Conservative	Lois Brown	22,371	38.05%	-4.37%
	New Democrat	Ed Chudak	5,639	9.59%	-0.34%
	Green	Glenn Hubbers	2,805	4.77%	+0.30%
	Progressive Canadian	Dorian Baxter	729	1.24%	-0.86%
	Canadian Action	Peter Maloney	79	0.13%	N/A

External links

• Lois Brown
• Lois Brown - Parliament of Canada biography