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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name=Pat Sobeski<br />
| birthname=Patrick Anthony Sobeski<br />
| image=Pat Sobeski.png<br />
| imagesize=150px<br />
| caption=Sobeski in May 2012<br />
| birth_date={{birth date|df=yes|1951|7|25}}<br />
| birth_place=[[Woodstock, Ontario]], Canada<br />
| death_date={{death date and age|df=yes|2016|3|17|1951|7|25}}<br />
| death_place=Woodstock, Ontario, Canada<br />
| spouse=<br />
| residence=<br />
| riding1=[[Cambridge (federal electoral district)|Cambridge]]<br />
| predecessor1=[[Chris Speyer (politician)|Chris Speyer]]<br />
| successor1=[[Janko Peric]]<br />
| term_start1=1988<br />
| term_end1=1993<br />
| office2=City councillor of Woodstock, Ontario<br />
| predecessor2=<br />
| successor2=<br />
| term_start2=2003<br />
| term_end2=2010<br />
| office3=Mayor of Woodstock, Ontario<br />
| predecessor3=Michael Harding<br />
| successor3=Trevor T. Birtch<br />
| term_start3= 2010<br />
| term_end3=2014<br />
| profession=architect<br />
| party=[[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Patrick Anthony''' "'''Pat'''" '''Sobeski''' (25 July 1951 – 17 March 2016) was a Canadian politician, who has served as a member of the [[House of Commons of Canada]] from 1988 to 1993, and as mayor of Woodstock from 2010 to 2014.<br />
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He was elected in the [[1988 Canadian federal election|1988 federal election]] at the [[Cambridge (federal electoral district)|Cambridge electoral district]] for the [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative party]]. He served in the [[34th Canadian Parliament]] but lost to [[Janko Peric]] of the [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal Party]] in the [[1993 Canadian federal election|1993 federal election]], finishing with less than half of Peric's votes, and even behind the [[Reform Party of Canada|Reform party's]] Reg Petersen.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.city.cambridge.on.ca/relatedDocs/1993%20Peric%20wins%20local%20seat.pdf | publisher=[[Cambridge, Ontario|City of Cambridge, Ontario]] | accessdate=15 March 2009 | first=Jim | last=Quantrell | work=Cambridge Times | date=4 November 2008 | title=1993: Peric wins local seat }}</ref><br />
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Sobeski served as a municipal councillor in [[Woodstock, Ontario]] beginning in 2003. He was elected as the mayor of Woodstock in the [[2010 Oxford County municipal elections|2010 municipal election]], defeating incumbent Michael Harding.<ref>{{cite news |title=Sobeski wins in landslide |date=25 October 2010| url=http://www.woodstocksentinelreview.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2815744&auth= | newspaper=[[Woodstock Sentinel-Review]] | accessdate=25 October 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/waterloo-region-mayors-re-elected-upset-in-woodstock-1.567157 | title=Waterloo Region mayors re-elected, upset in Woodstock | publisher=[[CKCO-DT]] | date=25 October 2010 | accessdate=25 October 2010}}</ref><br />
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Sobeski was defeated by Birtch in a faceoff along with former Mayor Harding in 2014.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://lfpress.com/2014/10/28/incumbent-mayors-fell-in-woodstock-goderich-and-other-municipalities | title= Incumbent mayors fell in Woodstock, Goderich and other municipalities | first=Jane | last=Sims | date=27 October 2014 | newspaper=London Free Press | accessdate=6 February 2022}}</ref> He died on 17 March 2016.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/former-woodstock-mayor-cambridge-mp-pat-sobeski-dies-at-64-1.2823569 | title=Former Woodstock mayor, Cambridge MP Pat Sobeski dies at 64 | publisher=CTV Kitchener | date=18 March 2016 | accessdate=19 March 2016 }}</ref><br />
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== Electoral record ==<br />
{{1993 Canadian federal election/Cambridge}}<br />
{{1988 Canadian federal election/Cambridge}}<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=14052}}<br />
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[[Category:1951 births]]<br />
[[Category:2016 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario]]<br />
[[Category:Politicians from Cambridge, Ontario]]<br />
[[Category:Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs]]<br />
[[Category:People from Woodstock, Ontario]]<br />
[[Category:21st-century mayors of places in Ontario]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada]]<br />
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