March 30, 2013(2013-03-30) (aged 60) Welland, Ontario, Canada
Political party
New Democratic Party
Occupation
Lawyer
Peter Kormos (October 7, 1952 – March 30, 2013)[1] was a politician in Welland, Ontario, Canada. A lawyer by profession, he was first elected as an Ontario New Democratic Party (ONDP) Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the Welland constituency in a 1988 provincial by-election. He replaced veteran NDP legislator Mel Swart. Kormos was re-elected in every subsequent Ontario general election until his retirement from provincial politics in 2011.
In 2012, he was elected to Niagara Regional Council in a by-election.[2]
^"Former NDP politician Peter Kormos dead at 60". CBC News. 30 March 2013. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
^"Peter Kormos wins Welland byelection ". Hamilton Spectator, March 27, 2012.
ability to provide one-on-one mentoring to children and youth. PeterKormos was one of them. Kormos was elected to Niagara Regional Council in a municipal by-election...
(ONDP), where Ontario legislator PeterKormos was her political mentor. In 1996, she gave a nomination speech for Kormos at the ONDP leadership convention...
George Marshall and the late PeterKormos, who died in March 2013. Another representative of Welland was appointed to fill Kormos's seat since late May 2013...
which was won by Jack Layton. After an unsuccessful attempt to draft PeterKormos to run for the leadership of the Ontario NDP, the Socialist Caucus endorsed...
Minister of Consumer and Commercial Relations after the previous minister, PeterKormos was fired by Bob Rae for a series of political blunders. Churley remained...
disappointed by the rightward shifts of the Rae government. Rival candidate PeterKormos accused her in the leadership debate of bearing responsibility for the...
in the 1987 and 1990 campaigns. After assuming office, Rae appointed PeterKormos, one of the most vocal proponents of public insurance, as the minister...
several mills. New Democrat MPP PeterKormos was visibly angry and yelled at Hall to "Get the hell out of here". Kormos later said "The timing of it was...
party's critic for natural resources. In 1996, Martel and fellow MPP PeterKormos surreptitiously entered a government building for a new department for...
Waterloo Record. 18 March 1991. p. A4. Hall, Chris (18 March 1991). "Rae fires Kormos". The Ottawa Citizen. p. A1. "A fourth local support? Wobbly cabinet". The...
considered the front-runner, on the third ballot. Leadership candidate PeterKormos and his support generally went to Hampton rather than Lankin, which was...
Centre Henry D'Angela 12,526 Ann Gronski 10,336 PeterKormos 23,289 Jordan McArthur 768 PeterKormos Niagara Falls Kim Craitor 18,904 Bart Maves 15,353...
conference, she also later attracted some controversy when Ontario MPP PeterKormos shouted her out of a press conference with Premier Dalton McGuinty. Sandy...
support base and finished fourth behind Howard Hampton, Frances Lankin and PeterKormos. Following the contest, Silipo was appointed deputy leader of the party...
Karen Haslam Bob Huget PeterKormos Frances Lankin Floyd Laughren Bob Mackenzie Rosario Marchese Shelley Martel Irene Mathyssen Peter North Ed Philip Allan...
Cam Wilson 2893 (9.0%) PeterKormos 20488 (63.6%) John Sabados (CoR) 878 (2.7%) Barry Fitzgerald (F) 386 (1.2%) PeterKormos Wentworth East Total votes:...
the support of high-profile party members such as the left-wing MPP PeterKormos and Sid Ryan, the President of CUPE Ontario, Andrea Horwath, the MPP...
Karen Haslam Bob Huget PeterKormos Frances Lankin Floyd Laughren Bob Mackenzie Rosario Marchese Shelley Martel Irene Mathyssen Peter North Ed Philip Allan...
in the 1999 provincial election. Sheehan faced popular NDP maverick PeterKormos in the riding Niagara Centre, and lost by over 4,000 votes. Sheehan was...
Haeck Welland—Thorold PeterKormos 12,848 Bob Muir 8,630 Greg Reid 8,089 Helene Ann Darisse 232 Barry Fitzgerald (F) 285 PeterKormos Wentworth East Mark...
Karen Haslam Bob Huget PeterKormos Frances Lankin Floyd Laughren Bob Mackenzie Rosario Marchese Shelley Martel Irene Mathyssen Peter North Ed Philip Allan...
Ontario, on June 4, 2004, at the age of 77. Jim Bradley, John O'Toole and PeterKormos paid tribute to him in the legislature. Gombu, Phinjo (October 25, 1990)...
and 1987. He retired in 1988, and was replaced in the legislature by PeterKormos, also of the NDP. Two years after his retirement, the NDP won a majority...
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