Ian MacLachlan Arrol

Ian MacLachlan Arrol (February 20, 1924 – June 16, 2000) was Member of Parliament for the federal riding of York East, elected as a Progressive Conservative in the Robert Stanfield-led resurgence of 1972. He was defeated in the Liberal sweep of 1974.

Ian MacLachlan Arrol
Member of Parliament for York East
In office 1972–1974
Preceded by	Steve Otto
Succeeded by	David Collenette
Personal details
Born	(1924-02-20)February 20, 1924
Died	June 16, 2000(2000-06-16) (aged 76)
Political party	Progressive Conservative
Profession	Radio announcer, teacher

Radio career

Arrol was a radio announcer in Vancouver and Calgary in the 1940s and 1950s until graduating from University of British Columbia and teachers college, teaching in Vancouver in the early 1960s and for the Scarborough Board of Education (at Woburn Collegiate Institute) in the late 1960s and early 1970s.^[1] He also was a reporter with the Daily Colonist in Victoria BC in the mid-1960s.

Political career

Arrol's first foray into electoral politics was with a different party: he ran as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) candidate in the 1948 Alberta general election in the electoral district of Medicine Hat. He finished a distant third, losing to longtime Social Credit incumbent John Robinson.^[2]

Electoral record

v t e 1972 Canadian federal election: York East
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Ian MacLachlan Arrol	18,729
	Liberal	Steve Otto	18,039
	New Democratic Party	W. Thomas Beckett	10,876
	No affiliation	Janina Klee	113
	No affiliation	Harold Rowbottom	104

v t e 1974 Canadian federal election: York East
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	David Collenette	20,682
	Progressive Conservative	Ian MacLachlan Arrol	17,593
	New Democratic Party	Kay MacPherson	9,818
	Marxist–Leninist	John Dennis	150
	Communist	Dan Hammond	128
	Independent	Paul M. Miniato	121