Anne McBride
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Nova Scotia-born Anne C. McBride was a frequent candidate in Canadian federal and provincial elections and by-elections in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. McBride was an ordained minister in the Assemblies of God, a Pentecostal Christian denomination.
At various times, McBride ran for mayor of Toronto, defeated John C. Turmel for the leadership of the Ontario Social Credit Party, sought the leadership of the federal Social Credit Party of Canada, and tried to form her own United Party of Canada in the early 1980s. In 1982, she ran unsuccessfully as an independent candidate in a federal by-election in the Toronto riding of Broadview-Greenwood, where she won few votes.
Her last election bid may have been in the 1993 federal election, when she garnered 144 votes as an independent candidate in the Scarborough-Agincourt riding.