with two other candidates with parliamentary experience. Although finishing in third place, the Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock NDP received its highest number of votes since the 1990 provincial election with an 11.32% increase in popular vote from the previous provincial election. He ran again in the 2014 provincial election with an additional 2.44% increase in popular vote. After politics After his defeat in 1995, Abel established the Dundas Review, a weekly community newspaper in Dundas, Ontario. He later worked for the City of Kawartha Lakes as Senior Licensing Officer/Municipal Law Enforcement Officer and Deputy Division Registrar until his retirement in 2012. Abel and his wife Debra currently own and operate a cottage resort on Sturgeon Lake near Lindsay, Ontario. Electoral record Wentworth North Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock References External links 1952 births Trade unionists from Ontario Living people Ontario New Democratic Party MPPs Politicians from Hamilton, Ontario Canadian Union of Public Employees people