Anne McBride

Who is Anne McBride?

Anne C. McBride was a perennial 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, was leader of the Social Credit Party of Ontario and sought the leadership of the federal Social Credit Party of Canada at the 1982 Social Credit leadership convention. She also tried to form her own United Party of Canada in the early 1980s.

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.