Bruce Fanjoy

Bruce Fanjoy (born 1964) is a Canadian politician who has been the member of Parliament (MP) for Carleton since 2025. A member of the Liberal Party, Fanjoy was elected in the 2025 federal election, unseating incumbent MP and Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre.

Bruce Fanjoy MP
Member of Parliament for Carleton
Incumbent
Assumed office April 28, 2025
Preceded by	Pierre Poilievre
Personal details
Born	1964 or 1965 (age 60–61) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Party	Liberal
Children	2
Relatives	Harold Fanjoy (uncle) David Myles (third cousin)
Education	Dalhousie University (BComm) Saint Mary's University (MBA)
Website	brucefanjoy.liberal.ca

Early life and career

Bruce Fanjoy was born c. 1964^[1] in Toronto, Ontario, but grew up in Saint John, New Brunswick, with both of his parents having been from there. His family lived in the Saint John neighbourhood of Millidgeville where Fanjoy attended elementary school, after which they moved to Fredericton after Fanjoy's father, Emery Fanjoy, took a secretary position for the government. Fanjoy and his family later moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia.^[2][3] Fanjoy has a Bachelor of Commerce (BComm) from Dalhousie University and an Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Saint Mary's University.^[4] He worked in business and marketing, including as director of marketing at Deloitte,^[5] before focusing on being a parent and turning to volunteer roles.^[6]

Political career

See also: Carleton in the 2025 Canadian federal election

Fanjoy was elected MP for Carleton in the 2025 Canadian federal election, unseating Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, who had held the riding seven times since the 2004 Canadian federal election.^[6] The election in Carleton was targeted by the activist group Longest Ballot Committee, which managed to get 91 candidates on the ballot.^[7] Despite this, Fanjoy received more than 50% of the votes in Carleton.^[6][8]

Personal life

Fanjoy resides in a house that he built in Ottawa's Manotick community.^[6] He has two children.^[9] Fanjoy's uncle, Harold Fanjoy, was a Progressive Conservative Member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick (MLA) from 1974 to 1987.^[2] Fanjoy and incumbent Fredericton—Oromocto Liberal MP David Myles are third cousins through their shared great-great-grandparents.^[10]

Electoral record

v t e 2025 Canadian federal election: Carleton
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Bruce Fanjoy	43,846	50.95	+19.09
	Conservative	Pierre Poilievre	39,333	45.70	−6.16
	New Democratic	Beth Prokaska	1,221	1.42	−9.95
	Green	Mark Watson	561	0.65	−1.50
	United	Karen Bourdeau	112	0.13	N/A
	Canadian Future	Shawn MacEachern	63	0.07	N/A
	Independent	Lorant Polya	57	0.07
	Independent	Scott Falkingham	45	0.05
	Independent	Sana Ahmad	41	0.05
	Independent	Pierre Gauthier	38	0.04
	Marijuana	Danny Légaré	37	0.04	N/A
	Independent	Guillaume Paradis	37	0.04
	Independent	Dan Kyung	35	0.04
	Rhinoceros	Sébastien CoRhino	31	0.04	N/A
	Independent	Sarah Burke	27	0.03
	Independent	Mark Moutter	23	0.03
	Independent	David Zhu	21	0.02
	Independent	Charlie Currie	20	0.02
	Independent	John Dale	20	0.02
	Independent	Euan Fraser Tait	18	0.02
	Independent	John Boylan	17	0.02
	Independent	Mélodie Anderson	16	0.02
	Independent	Alex Banks	16	0.02
	Independent	Michael Bednarski	15	0.02
	Independent	David Nguyen	15	0.02
	Independent	Sophie Bearden	14	0.02
	Independent	Seyed Hosseini Lavasani	13	0.02
	No affiliation	Jeani Boudreault	12	0.01
	Independent	Alexandra Engering	12	0.01
	Independent	Lajos Polya	12	0.01
	No affiliation	Darcy Vanderwater	12	0.01
	Independent	Jenny Cartwright	11	0.01
	Independent	Jeffrey Goodman	11	0.01
	Independent	Donald McKay	11	0.01
	Independent	Daniel Stuckless	11	0.01
	Independent	Maria Gabriel	10	0.01
	No affiliation	Laina Kohler	10	0.01
	Independent	Charles Lemieux	10	0.01
	Independent	Marthalee Aykroyd	9	0.01
	Independent	Ryan Huard	9	0.01
	Independent	Sarah Thompson	9	0.01
	Independent	Alain Bourgault	8	0.01
	Independent	Daniel Gagnon	8	0.01
	Independent	Robert Harris	8	0.01
	Independent	Andrea Hollinger	8	0.01
	Independent	Connie Lukawski	8	0.01
	Independent	John Francis O'Flynn	8	0.01
	Independent	Peter Gorman	7	0.01
	Independent	Julian Selody	7	0.01
	Independent	Michal Wieczorek	7	0.01
	Independent	Line Bélanger	6	0.01
	Independent	Blake Hamilton	6	0.01
	Independent	Loren Hicks	6	0.01
	No affiliation	Alexander Lein	6	0.01
	Independent	Agnieszka Marszalek	6	0.01
	Independent	Hakim Sheriff	6	0.01
	Independent	Tetia Bayoro	5	0.01
	Independent	David Cherniak	5	0.01
	Independent	Kevin Krisa	5	0.01
	Independent	Alain Lamontagne	5	0.01
	Independent	Winston Neutel	5	0.01
	Independent	Lény Painchaud	5	0.01
	Independent	Elliot Wand	5	0.01
	Independent	Dante Camarena Jimenez	4	0.00
	Independent	Jaël Champagne Gareau	4	0.00
	Independent	Gerrit Dogger	4	0.00
	Independent	Gregory Gillis	4	0.00
	No affiliation	Christopher Navarro-Canseco	4	0.00
	Independent	Lanna Palsson	4	0.00
	Independent	Spencer Rocchi	4	0.00
	Independent	Patrick Strzalkowski	4	0.00
	No affiliation	Manon Marie Lili Desbiens	3	0.00
	Independent	Artem Gudkov	3	0.00
	No affiliation	Kerri Hildebrandt	3	0.00
	Independent	Trevor Holsworth	3	0.00
	No affiliation	Krzysztof Krzywinski	3	0.00
	Independent	Samuel Lafontaine	3	0.00
	Independent	Roger Sherwood	3	0.00
	Independent	Yogo Shimada	3	0.00
	Independent	Michael Skirzynski	3	0.00
	Independent	Julie St-Amand	3	0.00
	Independent	Daniel Graham	2	0.00
	Independent	Zornitsa Halacheva	2	0.00
	Independent	Anthony Hamel	2	0.00
	Independent	Demetrios Karavas	2	0.00
	Independent	Sheri Oberman	2	0.00
	Independent	Wallace Richard Rowat	2	0.00
	Independent	Pascal St-Amand	2	0.00
	Independent	Benjamin Teichman	2	0.00
	Independent	Joseph Maw	1	0.00
	No affiliation	Ysack Dupont	0	0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			86,060	99.31
Total rejected ballots			595	0.69
Turnout			86,655	81.84
Eligible voters			105,889
	Liberal notional gain from Conservative		Swing		+12.63
Source: Elections Canada[11][12]
Note: number of eligible voters does not include voting day registrations.

See also

• Ali France, who similarly defeated the leader of the opposition in the Australian election within the same week of Fanjoy's election