Cristina Martins

Cristina Martins MPP

Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament for Davenport
Incumbent
Assumed office June 12, 2014
Preceded by	Jonah Schein
Personal details
Born	Portugal
Political party	Liberal Party
Residence	Toronto, Ontario

Cristina Bento Martins is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario who was elected in 2014. She represents the riding of Davenport.

Background

She emigrated with her family from Portugal in 1970. Prior to her election, she worked almost 15 years in the pharmaceutical industry.

Politics

Martins ran in the 2011 provincial election as the Liberal candidate in the riding of Davenport. She was defeated by New Democratic Party candidate Jonah Schein by 1,414 votes.^[1] She ran again in the 2014 election this time defeating Schein by 2,041 votes.^[2]^[3]

She is a Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and International Trade.

Election results

Ontario general election, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Cristina Martins	16,205	45.52	+4.11
	New Democratic	Jonah Schein	14,164	39.79	-6.14
	Progressive Conservative	Lan Daniel	2,619	7.36	-0.57
	Green	Daniel Stein	1,974	5.55	+2.82
	Libertarian	Nunzio Venuto	252	0.71
	Communist	Mariam Ahmad	174	0.49	-0.03
	Freedom	Franz Cauchi	111	0.31	0
	The People	Troy Young	99	0.28
	Liberal gain from New Democratic		Swing		+5.13
Source: Elections Ontario^[2]

Ontario general election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	New Democratic	Jonah Schein	14,367	45.93	+9.44
	Liberal	Cristina Martins	12,953	41.41	-0.41
	Progressive Conservative	Kirk Russell	2,480	7.93	-1.48
	Green	Frank de Jong	855	2.73	-7.49
	Independent	Mark Jagg	250	0.80
	Communist	Miguel Figueroa	163	0.52	-0.12
	Freedom	Franz Cauchi	96	0.31
	Human Rights	Alix Thompson	82	0.26
	The Only Party	Kiros Ghiwot	33	0.11
Total valid votes			31,279	100.00
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			178	0.57
Turnout			31,457	45.59
Eligible voters			68,998
	New Democratic gain from Liberal		Swing		+4.93
Source: Elections Ontario^[1]

References

1 2 "Summary of Valid Ballots Cast for Each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. October 6, 2011. p. 3. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
1 2 "General Election by District: Davenport". Elections Ontario. June 12, 2014.
↑ Dale, Daniel (June 13, 2014). "Liberal Cristina Martins recaptures Davenport in Ontario election". CBC News.

External links

Ontario Legislative Assembly Parliamentarian History

Current members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

41st Legislative Assembly of Ontario

Liberal	Wynne Albanese Anderson Baker Ballard Balkissoon Berardinetti Bradley Chan Chiarelli Colle Coteau Crack Damerla Del Duca Delaney Dhillon Dickson Dong Duguid Flynn Fraser Gravelle Hoggarth Hoskins Hunter Jaczek Kiwala Kwinter Lalonde Leal Levac MacCharles Malhi Mangat Martins Matthews Mauro McGarry McMahon McMeekin Meilleur Milczyn Moridi Murray Naidoo-Harris Naqvi Orazietti Potts Qaadri Rinaldi Sandals Sergio Sousa Takhar Thibeault Vernile Wong Zimmer

Progressive Conservative	Brown Arnott Bailey Barrett Clark Coe Fedeli Hardeman Harris Hillier Hudak Jones MacLaren MacLeod Martow McDonell McNaughton Miller Munro Nicholls Pettapiece Scott Smith Thompson Walker Wilson Yakabuski Yurek

New Democrat	Horwath Armstrong Bisson Campbell DiNovo Fife Forster French Gates Gélinas Gretzky Hatfield Mantha Miller Natyshak Sattler Singh Tabuns Taylor Vanthof

Party leaders listed first (in bold italics). Government members in bold denotes cabinet.

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