Politics
He was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1990 provincial election, defeating Liberal incumbent Ed Fulton by 1,774 votes in Scarborough East as the NDP won a majority government. He served as a parliamentary secretary from 1990 to 1991. He used his medical training to advocate for sickle-cell disease and other health issues.
The NDP were defeated in the 1995 provincial election, and Frankford lost his seat to Progressive Conservative candidate Steve Gilchrist by almost 12,000 votes.
He ran for the federal New Democratic Party for the Canadian House of Commons in the 1997 federal election, but finished a distant fourth against Liberal John McKay in Scarborough East. He also attempted to return to the provincial legislature in the 1999 provincial election, but finished third against Liberal Gerry Phillips in Scarborough—Agincourt. Frankford's wife, Helen Breslauer, has also been an NDP candidate.
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