Political Career
Ritchie ran in the 1974 election as the Progressive Conservative candidate in the riding of Algoma, finishing third of four candidates (Liberal Maurice Foster took more than half the vote, while New Democrat Hughene MacDonald finished a hundred votes ahead of Ritchie). He was victorious in the 1979 federal election, when he won a field of seven candidates in York East, unseating incumbent Liberal David Collenette.
During his time in the Canadian House of Commons, Ritchie was Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Finance John Crosbie. He also served on the standing committees on Finance, Trade, and Economic Affairs and on Public Accounts.
He was defeated by Collenette in the 1980 election. Besides a failed attempt to win the Progressive Conservative nomination in Broadview—Greenwood for a 1982 by-election, his political career was over.
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