# Iain Angus

Iain Francis Angus (born June 1, 1947) is a Canadian politician, who has served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and the House of Commons of Canada, as well as on Thunder Bay City Council.
Then an employee with the city of Thunder Bay, Angus entered electoral politics in the 1975 provincial election as the Ontario New Democratic Party candidate in Fort William. He served until the 1977 election, when he was defeated by Mickey Hennessy.
He returned to work for the city, unsuccessfully standing as a federal New Democratic Party candidate in the 1979 and 1980 elections for the electoral district of Thunder Bay—Atikokan. On his third campaign as a federal candidate, he was elected in the 1984 election, winning over Progressive Conservative candidate Ken Boshcoff by a margin of 2,675 votes. He served until the 1993 election, when he was defeated by Liberal candidate Stan Dromisky.
Angus subsequently launched his own business as a consultant. He was elected to the Thunder Bay City Council in the 2003 municipal election and was re-elected in 2006, 2010, and 2014. He ran unsuccessfully for mayor in the 2018 municipal election.

## Electoral record

| 2018 Thunder Bay Mayoral Election | Vote | % |
| Bill Mauro | 13,940 | 33.91 |
| Frank Pullia | 13,178 | 32.06 |
| Iain Angus | 5,816 | 14.15 |
| Shane Judge | 5,155 | 12.54 |
| Ronald Chookomolin | 895 | 2.18 |
| Mariann Sawicki | 792 | 1.93 |
| Peter Panetta | 708 | 1.72 |
| Wolfgang Schoor | 244 | 0.59 |
| Jim Gamble | 189 | 0.46 |
| Kevin Cernjul | 151 | 0.37 |
| Ed Hailio | 40 | 0.10 |
| 2014 Thunder Bay City Council election | Vote | % |
| Iain Angus (X) | 15,861 | 10.78 |
| Larry Hebert (X) | 14,664 | 9.97 |
| Rebecca Johnson (X) | 14,620 | 9.94 |
| Aldo Ruberto (X) | 14,311 | 9.73 |
| Frank Pullia | 14,112 | 9.59 |
| Tamara Johnson | 10,207 | 6.94 |
| Lawrence Timko | 9,164 | 6.23 |
| Barry Streib | 8,972 | 6.10 |
| Terri-Lynne Carter | 6,856 | 4.66 |
| Andrew Brigham | 5,752 | 3.91 |
| Sargon Khubyar | 5,465 | 3.71 |
| Robin Rickards | 5,082 | 3.45 |
| Chris Holland | 4,475 | 3.04 |
| Diane Armstrong | 4,406 | 2.99 |
| Kimberly Coreau | 3,714 | 2.52 |
| Norm Sponchia | 3,029 | 2.05 |
| Ian Convey | 2,856 | 1.94 |
| Wolfgang Schoor | 2,783 | 1.89 |
| Ed Hailio | 1,011 | 0.68 |
1993 Canadian federal election: Thunder Bay—Atikokan :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Liberal | Stan Dromisky | 19,947 | 57.4% |
| New Democratic | Iain Angus | 6,555 | 18.9% |
| Reform | Colyne Gibbons | 5,380 | 15.5% |
| Progressive Conservative | Tony Stehmann | 2,836 | 8.2% |
1988 Canadian federal election: Thunder Bay—Atikokan :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| New Democratic | Iain Angus | 13,132 | 35.9% |
| Liberal | Stan Dromisky | 11,968 | 32.7% |
| Progressive Conservative | Ken Boshcoff | 11,454 | 31.3% |
| Communist | Paul Pugh | 75 | 0.2% |
1984 Canadian federal election: Thunder Bay—Atikokan :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| New Democratic | Iain Angus | 14,715 | 41.5% |
| Progressive Conservative | Ken Boshcoff | 12,040 | 34.0% |
| Liberal | Dale Willoughby | 8,704 | 24.5% |
1980 Canadian federal election: Thunder Bay—Atikokan :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Liberal | Paul McRae | 13,234 | 39.2% |
| New Democratic | Iain Angus | 13,150 | 39.0% |
| Progressive Conservative | Ken Moffat | 7,225 | 21.4% |
| Libertarian | Nora Ronis | 87 | 0.3% |
| Marxist–Leninist | Dianne Robinson | 35 | 0.1% |
1979 Canadian federal election: Thunder Bay—Atikokan :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Liberal | Paul McRae | 11,921 | 34.9% |
| New Democratic | Iain Angus | 11,667 | 34.1% |
| Progressive Conservative | Ken Moffatt | 10,392 | 30.4% |
| Libertarian | Nora Ronis | 92 | 0.3% |
| Communist | Walter E. Rogers | 84 | 0.2% |
| Marxist–Leninist | Doris Stevens | 29 | 0.1% |