Political Career
In December 1972, at the age of 21, Mancini was elected to the local municipal council. In December 1974, Mancini was elected deputy mayor and Essex County councillor at the age of 23. Mancini was elected to the provincial legislature the following year in the Ontario general election of 1975, defeating Progressive Conservative Frank Klees by just over 2,000 votes in Essex South. He defeated Klees again by a wider margin in the 1977 Ontario election, and easily retained his seat in the elections of 1981, 1985 and 1987.
The Liberal Party was able to form a minority government under David Peterson following the 1985 provincial election, after 42 years in opposition. Mancini was named as the Premier's parliamentary assistant from 1985 to 1987. He was promoted to minister without portfolio responsible for disabled persons on September 29, 1987, and finally to Minister of Revenue on August 2, 1989
The Liberals were unexpectedly defeated by the New Democratic Party in the 1990 Ontario election. Mancini was the only Liberal MPP elected in the Windsor to London region. He was chosen to serve as the opposition house leader from November 1991 to February 1992. While in opposition Mancini was chairman of the Public Accounts Committee. He endorsed Steve Mahoney's bid to lead the Liberal Party in 1991. Mancini retired from the legislature on April 30, 1993.
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