Larry O'Connor (born May 4, 1956) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was the mayor of the township of Brock, Ontario from 2006 to 2011. He was also a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995.
Background
O'Connor was born in Oshawa, Ontario. He worked at General Motors plant as an assembly worker. He was a member of the political action committee of the Canadian Auto Workers Local 222 in Oshawa. He is married to Christina with whom he has one son. He defeated Liberal incumbent Bill Ballinger by 1,230 votes. He was appointed as Parliamentary assistant to the Minister of the Environment, Ruth Grier.
In 1991, he argued against a proposal to create a garbage dump in the Durham region. He suggested that York region was the only viable option. Later in the year, he defended the NDP's legislation called the Waste Management Act saying that it was a reasonable compromise to handle the problem of finding a place for Toronto's garbage.
The NDP were defeated in the 1995 provincial election, having lost much of their support base in the Greater Toronto Area. O'Connor finished second in his re-election bid, with 8,048 votes, almost 17,000 votes behind Progressive Conservative Julia Munro.
He planned to run for the federal New Democratic Party in Oshawa in the 2004 federal election, but lost the NDP nomination to Sid Ryan.
In 2002–03, O'Connor supported Bill Blaikie for the leadership of the federal NDP.