Lisa MacLeod

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Lisa MacLeod is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on March 30, 2006. A member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, MacLeod was elected in the Nepean—Carleton electoral district. Lisa is the youngest female PC MPP ever elected in Ontario, and is currently the youngest member sitting in the Ontario Legislature today.

MacLeod studied political science at St. Francis Xavier University. She graduated in 1997 and completed her thesis entitled "The Question of Identity in the Canadian Constitutional Crisis".

Prior to her election, Lisa MacLeod was a federal Conservative aide on Parliament Hill and a political commentator. Her family ties to politics include Donald MacLeod, a former Cabinet Minister under Robert Stanfield in Nova Scotia, and Donald Cameron, a Premier of Nova Scotia. Her father, Danny MacLeod, has served as a municipal Councillor in Nova Scotia since 1986.

Lisa MacLeod is married to Joseph Varner and they have one daughter, Victoria, who was born in 2005.^{[citation needed]}

2006 by-election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	+/-
	Progressive Conservative	Lisa MacLeod	17,311	57.6	+3.5
	Liberal	Brian Ford	9,457	31.4	-4.2
	New Democrat	Laurel Gibbons	2,489	8.3	+1.8
	Green	Peter V. Tretter	634	2.1	-1.7
	Independent	John C. Turmel	112	0.4	-
	Freedom	Jurgen Vollrath	74	0.2	-