Pat Sobeski

Who is Pat Sobeski?

Patrick Anthony Sobeski is mayor-elect of Woodstock, Ontario and was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1993. His background was business and personnel management.

He was elected in the 1988 federal election at the Cambridge electoral district for the Progressive Conservative party. He served in the 34th Canadian Parliament but lost to Janko Peric of the Liberal Party in the 1993 federal election, finishing with less than half of Peric's votes, and even behind the Reform party's Reg Petersen.

Sobeski served as a municipal councillor in Woodstock, Ontario since 2003. He was elected as the mayor of Woodstock, Ontario in the 2010 municipal election, defeating incumbent Michael Harding.