Sarah Doucette

Sarah Doucette (/duːˈsɛt/ ^ⓘ doo-SET) is a Canadian politician, who served on Toronto City Council from 2010 to 2018. In the 2010 city council election, Doucette defeated Bill Saundercook in Ward 13, Parkdale–High Park.^[1] Doucette was born in Winchester, Hampshire but grew up on the Isle of Wight, in the United Kingdom in the 1960s.^[2] Doucette came to Canada in 1980. She and her husband have two children. They have lived in the Swansea neighbourhood of Toronto for fifteen years.^[2] Doucette worked at the Swansea Town Hall since 2004 and in 2008, she became executive assistant to the executive director. To run for city council she had to take a leave of absence from her job. The 2010 election race was her first campaign.^[3] She was re-elected in 2014, but decided not to run in the 2018 election.^[4]

Preceded byBill Saundercook

ConstituencyWard 13, Parkdale–High Park

Born

Winchester, United Kingdom

Children2

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Sarah Doucette
Doucette in 2010
Toronto City Councillor for Ward 13 Parkdale-High Park
In office December 1, 2010 – December 1, 2018
Preceded by	Bill Saundercook
Constituency	Ward 13, Parkdale–High Park
Personal details
Born	Winchester, United Kingdom
Children	2
Occupation	Public Administrator

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Doucette comes from a long line of municipal politicians. Both her grandfather and her mother were city councillors and were then elected as mayors: he, in Winchester in 1953, and she in the county of the Isle of Wight, during the 1990s.^[2] Doucette supported Peggy Nash in her bid to become leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada.^[5][6]