Gino Matrundola was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1987 to 1990.
10 Facts About Gino Matrundola
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Gino Matrundola was educated at the Italian Polytechnical School in Rome, Italy, and Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto.
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Gino Matrundola was licensed as a real estate agent in North York, Ontario in 1964, and eventually founded his own realty company.
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Gino Matrundola became an active member of both the Ontario Liberal Party and the Liberal Party of Canada.
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Gino Matrundola won the Ontario Liberal Party nomination in the riding of Armourdale for the 1985 Ontario election, but lost the election to Progressive Conservative incumbent Bruce McCaffrey by 212 votes.
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Gino Matrundola was elected in the newly created riding of Willowdale, which incorporated much of Armourdale, defeating Progressive Conservative candidate Charles Harnick.
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Gino Matrundola served as a backbench supporter of the David Peterson government.
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In Willowdale, Gino Matrundola lost to Harnick by 834 votes, marking one of the few gains by Mike Harris's Tories in this election.
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Gino Matrundola attempted a political comeback but was defeated for the provincial Liberal nomination for the 1995 provincial election by Les Scheininger.
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Gino Matrundola returned to running his real estate firm full-time and remains an active Liberal.