Walter George Pitman OC OOnt (May 18, 1929 – June 12, 2018) was an educator and politician in Ontario, Canada.
Pitman was a high school teacher when he was nominated by Peterborough's New Party Club to be their candidate in a 1960 by-election.
The by-election was called at a time when the CCF, which had been almost wiped out in the 1958 federal election, was in the process of creating, with the Canadian Labour Congress, a new social democratic political party.
[3] Pitman not only won a seat in the House of Commons of Canada but his electoral performance dwarfed the 1,800 votes the CCF had received in the riding in the 1957 and 1958 elections.
Despite Pitman's new found political celebrity he narrowly lost his seat in the 1962 election by 564 votes.