Francesco Sorbara
Canadian politician (born 1971)
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Francesco Sorbara (born February 28, 1971) is a Canadian politician who served as a Member of Parliament for the riding of Vaughan—Woodbridge from 2015 to 2025.[1][2]
Francesco Sorbara | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament for Vaughan—Woodbridge | |
| In office October 19, 2015 – March 23, 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Julian Fantino |
| Succeeded by | Michael Guglielmin |
| Personal details | |
| Born | February 28, 1971 Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada |
| Party | Liberal |
| Spouse | Rose Greco |
| Children | 3 |
| Profession | corporate debt analyst |
Sorbara served as a member of numerous Standing Committees during his tenure in the House of Commons, including the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, the Standing Committee on Industry and Technology, the Standing Committee on Natural Resources, and the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics. He was also an associate member of the House of Commons Standing Committee of Finance.
Sorbara is Chair of the Canada-Europe (CAEU) Parliamentary Association, Vice-chair of the Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group as well as an executive member of the Canada-Germany, Canada-Ireland, Canada-Israel, Canada-Italy and Canada-Japan Interparliamentary Groups.[3]
In the 2025 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, he endorsed Mark Carney.[4] He was unseated in the 2025 election by Conservative candidate Michael Guglielmin.[5]
Following his defeat, it was announced that he had joined the office of Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne as a policy advisor.[6]
Electoral record
| 2025 Canadian federal election: Vaughan—Woodbridge | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ** Preliminary results — Not yet official ** | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Michael Guglielmin | 40,358 | 59.89 | +19.62 | ||||
| Liberal | Francesco Sorbara | 25,676 | 38.10 | –8.05 | ||||
| New Democratic | Ali Bahman | 895 | 1.33 | –5.60 | ||||
| People's | Roman Yevseyev | 455 | 0.68 | –4.71 | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | ||||||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||||
| Turnout | 67,384 | 71.24 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 94,586 | |||||||
| Conservative notional gain from Liberal | Swing | +13.84 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[7][8] | ||||||||
| 2021 Canadian federal election: Vaughan—Woodbridge | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Francesco Sorbara | 21,699 | 45.98 | -5.30 | $101,382.39 | |||
| Conservative | Angela Panacci | 19,019 | 40.35 | +4.01 | $54,146.42 | |||
| New Democratic | Peter Michael DeVita | 3,265 | 6.93 | -0.84 | $1,680.93 | |||
| People's | Mario Greco | 2,567 | 5.45 | +3.76 | $4,672.39 | |||
| Green | Muhammad Hassan Khan | 453 | 0.96 | -1.63 | $361.60 | |||
| Independent | Luca Mele | 159 | 0.34 | – | none listed | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 47,162 | – | – | $111,032.70 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 460 | |||||||
| Turnout | 47,622 | 58.31% | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 80,832 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -4.66 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[9] | ||||||||
| 2019 Canadian federal election: Vaughan—Woodbridge | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Francesco Sorbara | 25,810 | 51.28 | +2.51 | $99,407.18 | |||
| Conservative | Teresa Kruze | 18,289 | 36.34 | -7.52 | none listed | |||
| New Democratic | Peter DeVita | 3,910 | 7.77 | +3.12 | none listed | |||
| Green | Raquel Fronte | 1,302 | 2.59 | +1.33 | none listed | |||
| People's | Domenic Montesano | 852 | 1.69 | none listed | ||||
| Independent | Muhammad Hassan Khan | 165 | 0.33 | $1,220.37 | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 50,328 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 480 | |||||||
| Turnout | 50,808 | 63.7 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 79,749 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +5.05 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[10][11] | ||||||||
| 2015 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Francesco Sorbara | 23,131 | 48.90 | – | – | |||
| Conservative | Julian Fantino | 20,647 | 43.64 | – | – | |||
| New Democratic | Adriana Marie Zichy | 2,198 | 4.65 | – | – | |||
| Libertarian | Anthony Gualtieri | 731 | 1.55 | – | – | |||
| Green | Elise Boulanger | 600 | 1.27 | – | – | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | – | 100.0 | $205,908.35 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | – | – | – | |||||
| Turnout | – | – | – | |||||
| Eligible voters | 73,190 | |||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[12][13] | ||||||||
