Paul Harold Macklin, PC, MP (born May 22, 1944 in Northumberland County, Ontario) is a Canadian politician. He was a member of the House of Commons of Canada, representing the riding of Northumberland—Quinte West of the Liberal Party caucus from 2000 to 2006.[1]
Macklin has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Western Ontario, and a law degree from the University of Windsor. After being called to the bar, Macklin worked for the Toronto firm of Davies, Ward & Beck.[1]
He was first elected to Parliament in the federal election of 2000, winning a fairly easily victory over his Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative opponents in the riding of Northumberland. The CA and PC parties merged in late 2003, and Macklin faced a much more difficult challenge in that year's federal election, defeating Conservative Doug Galt by only 313 votes.[2]
Macklin served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada from February 2002 to December 2003, and was re-appointed to the position on July 20, 2004.[3]
He was defeated by Conservative Rick Norlock in the 2006 election. Macklin was acclaimed as the Liberal candidate for the riding of Northumberland-Quinte West for the 2008 election, and was again defeated by Norlock.[1]
In July 2009, Paul Macklin announced he would not seek the Liberal nomination in Northumberland-Quinte West for the next election. The following September his successor was determined by a Liberal nomination race and Cobourg business woman Kim Rudd was chosen to succeed Macklin.[4]
Paul Macklin currently sits on the Northumberland-Quinte West Federal Liberal Association as the Policy Director, still active in politics and a key advisor to Rudd and her campaign.[5]
| 2000 Canadian federal election: Northumberland | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
| Liberal | Paul Macklin | 20,109 | ||||||
| Alliance | Rick Norlock | 11,410 | ||||||
| Progressive Conservative | Ralph James Zarboni | 8,768 | ||||||
| New Democratic | Ben Burd | 2,141 | ||||||
| Green | Tom Lawson | 1,102 | ||||||
| Canadian Action | Gail Thompson | 276 | ||||||
| 2004 Canadian federal election: Northumberland—Quinte West | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Liberal | Paul Macklin | 22,989 | 39.85 | |||||
| Conservative | Doug Galt | 22,676 | 39.31 | |||||
| New Democratic | Russ Christianson | 9,007 | 15.61 | |||||
| Green | Steven Haylestrom | 3,016 | 5.23 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 57,688 | 100.00 | ||||||
| 2006 Canadian federal election: Northumberland—Quinte West | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Conservative | Rick Norlock | 25,833 | 41.21 | +1.91 | ||||
| Liberal | Paul Macklin | 22,566 | 36.00 | -3.85 | ||||
| New Democratic | Russ Christianson | 11,334 | 18.08 | +2.47 | ||||
| Green | Pat Lawson | 2,946 | 4.70 | -0.53 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 62,679 | 100.00 | ||||||
| 2008 Canadian federal election: Northumberland—Quinte West | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Rick Norlock | 27,615 | 48.71 | +7.50 | $84,880 | |||
| Liberal | Paul Macklin | 16,209 | 28.59 | -7.41 | $83,766 | |||
| New Democratic | Russ Christianson | 8,230 | 14.52 | -3.56 | $20,947 | |||
| Green | Ralph Torrie | 4,633 | 8.17 | +3.47 | $34,300 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 56,687 | 100.00 | $93,766 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 186 | 0.33 | ||||||
| Turnout | 56,873 | |||||||