Peggy Sattler

Peggy Sattler
MPP
Peggy Sattler MPP
	Sattler in 2018
House Leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party
	In office; February 1, 2021 – February 15, 2023
Leader	Andrea Horwath, Peter Tabuns (interim) and Marit Stiles
Critic, Democratic Reform
	In office; February 1, 2021 – March 29, 2023
Leader	Andrea Horwath, Peter Tabuns (interim) and Marit Stiles
Critic, Labour
	In office; February 1, 2021 – May 3, 2022
Leader	Andrea Horwath
Critic, Economic Development
	In office; August 23, 2018 – August 30, 2019
Leader	Andrea Horwath
Critic, Training, Colleges, and Universities; and Research and Innovation.
	In office; June 25, 2014 – June 7, 2018
Leader	Andrea Horwath
Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament; for London West
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; September 9, 2013
Preceded by	Chris Bentley
Personal details
Born	1962 (age 61–62); Dundas, Ontario
Political party	New Democratic
Spouse	Neil Bradford
Children	2
Residence	London, Ontario
Occupation	Policy analyst

Peggy Sattler (born c. 1962) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She has been a New Democratic Member of Provincial Parliament of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario representing the riding of London West since 2013.

Background

Sattler was born in Dundas, Ontario. She attended McMaster University where she earned a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's degree at Western University in educational policy. Sattler was working on the master’s degree when she went to Ottawa as a staffer for NDP MPs Marion Dewar and Jack Whittaker from 1987-90. There she met her future husband, a fellow staffer named Neil Bradford. She also served on the staff of NDP MPP Marilyn Churley at Queen’s Park from 1990–95, after which she and her husband moved to London in 1995 from Toronto.^[2] She was a Thames Valley District School Board trustee for 13 years,^[3] including terms as vice-chair from 2004 to 2006 and chair from 2006 to 2008. Sattler was also Western Region vice-president of the Ontario Public School Boards' Association.^[4] Professionally, until her election as MPP, Sattler was director of policy studies with the Academica Group, specializing in post-secondary education issues.^[5] She lives in London with her husband Neil Bradford and their two children.^[2]

Politics

Sattler was elected in a by-election on August 1, 2013. She ran as the New Democratic candidate in the riding of London West. She defeated Progressive Conservative candidate Ali Chahbar by 3,381 votes.^[6] She was re-elected in the 2014 provincial election defeating PC candidate Jeff Bennett by 5,951 votes.^[7]

She is the party's Critic for Colleges & Universities and the Chief Opposition Whip.^[8]^[9]

Electoral record

v t e 2022 Ontario general election: London West
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Peggy Sattler	22,510	45.13	−10.21	$126,499
	Progressive Conservative	Paul Paolatto	16,886	33.85	+4.81	$92,003
	Liberal	Vanessa Lalonde	6,077	12.18	+2.27	$27,325
	Green	Colleen McCauley	1,713	3.43	−0.31	$2,016
	New Blue	Kristopher Hunt	1,277	2.56		$5,424
	Ontario Party	Cynthia Workman	521	1.04		$2,767
	Libertarian	Jacques Y. Boudreau	434	0.87	−0.07	$0
	Consensus Ontario	Brad Harness	267	0.54	+0.02	$0
	Freedom	Mike Mcmullen	197	0.39	+0.04	$0
Total valid votes/Expense limit			49,882	99.49	+0.84	$144,777
Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots			257	0.51	-0.84
Turnout			50,139	48.62	-11.94
Eligible voters			103,410
	New Democratic hold		Swing		−7.51
Source(s) "Summary of Valid Votes Cast for Each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. 2022. Archived from the original on 2023-05-18. "Statistical Summary by Electoral District" (PDF). Elections Ontario. 2022. Archived from the original on 2023-05-21.

2018 Ontario general election: London West
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Peggy Sattler	32,644	55.33	+14.97
	Progressive Conservative	Andrew Lawton	17,133	29.04	-0.53
	Liberal	Jonathan Hughes	5,847	9.91	-13.81
	Green	Pamela Reid	2,211	3.75	-0.44
	Libertarian	Jacques Boudreau	552	0.94
	Consensus Ontario	Brad Harness	304	0.52
	Freedom	Tracey Pringle	209	0.35	-1.81
	Communist	Michael Lewis	96	0.16
Total valid votes			58,996	98.65	-0.21
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			805	1.35	+0.21
Turnout			59,801	60.56	+4.53
Eligible voters			98,749
	New Democratic hold		Swing
Source: Elections Ontario^[10]

2014 Ontario general election: London West
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Peggy Sattler	22,243	40.36	-1.52
	Progressive Conservative	Jeff Bennett	16,295	29.57	-3.17
	Liberal	Nick Steinburg	13,070	23.72	+7.87
	Green	Keith McAlister	2,310	4.19	-0.06
	Freedom	Al Gretzky	1,188	2.16	-2.80
Total valid votes			55,106	98.86	-0.40
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			633	1.14	+0.40
Turnout			55,739	56.03	+16.86
Eligible voters			98,749
	New Democratic hold		Swing		+0.82
Source: Elections Ontario^[11]

Ontario provincial by-election, August 1, 2013 Resignation of Chris Bentley
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Peggy Sattler	15,704	41.88	+20.16
	Progressive Conservative	Ali Chahbar	12,426	32.74	+3.26
	Liberal	Ken Coran	5,965	15.85	-29.81
	Freedom	Al Gretzky	1,856	4.96	+4.36
	Green	Gary Brown	1,608	4.25	+1.84
	Libertarian	Geoffrey Serbee	117	0.31
Total valid votes			37,676	99.26
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			279	0.74
Turnout			37,955	39.17
Eligible voters			96,905
	New Democratic gain from Liberal		Swing		+8.45
Source: Elections Ontario^[12]