Andrea Horwath Biography: Net Worth, Salary, Children, Husband, Party, Twitter, Age

Andrea Horwath MPP is a Canadian politician who has been the Official Opposition Leader in Ontario since 2018 and the leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party since 2009.

Since 2004, she has served as a member of the Hamilton Centre Provincial Parliament.

Andrea Horwath is the first woman to lead the Ontario New Democratic Party, and one of only three women to lead a political party with representation in the Ontario provincial legislature (the other two are former Ontario Liberal Party leaders Kathleen Wynne and Lyn McLeod). She was elected to the position at the Ontario NDP leadership convention in 2009.

Horwath led the Ontario NDP to formal opposition status in the 2018 provincial election, following 23 years of no government or opposition.

Horwath grew up in Hamilton, Ontario, and graduated from McMaster University with a bachelor’s degree in labor studies. To help pay for her education, she worked part-time as a waitress.

Andrew, a Hungarian immigrant from Slovakia, worked on the assembly line at the Ford Motor Company facility in Oakville, Ontario. Diane, her mother, is French-Irish.