Ted Chudleigh was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2014, representing the ridings of Halton North and later Halton.
10 Facts About Ted Chudleigh
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Ted Chudleigh received a Bachelor of Science degree from Michigan State University in 1965.
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Ted Chudleigh later worked for the Ministry of Agriculture, and owned an IGA store in the Niagara Region.
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Ted Chudleigh was elected to the Ontario legislature in the provincial election of 1995, defeating Liberal Walt Elliot and incumbent New Democrat Noel Duignan in the riding of Halton North.
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Ted Chudleigh was re-elected in the redistributed riding of Halton in the 1999 provincial election, by a margin of over 20,000 votes over his closest opponent.
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Ted Chudleigh served as a backbench supporter for Premiers Mike Harris and Ernie Eves.
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The Tories lost the provincial election of 2003, and Ted Chudleigh was returned with a greatly reduced margin of victory.
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Ted Chudleigh endorsed Frank Klees's unsuccessful bid to lead the Progressive Conservative Party in 2004.
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Ted Chudleigh was re-elected as the MPP for Halton in the 2007 provincial election by 176 votes over the Liberal candidate Gary Zemlak, and was re-elected for a fifth time in 2011 by more than 3,000 votes over Liberal candidate Indira Naidoo-Harris.
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In 2014, Ted Chudleigh faced Naidoo-Harris again, this time losing to her by about 4,000 votes.