Campbell was first elected in the
1974 federal election at the
South Western Nova electoral district for the
Liberal Party. She served as a backbench supporter of
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's government. After her first term in Parliament, she was defeated by
Charles E. Haliburton of the
Progressive Conservative (PC) Party in the
1979 federal election; following electoral redistribution in 1976, her riding had been renamed South West Nova. Following the short-lived Progressive Conservative minority government of
Joe Clark, she was re-elected at South West Nova in
1980. She served as a government-side backbencher under Pierre Trudeau and
John Turner until the
1984 Canadian federal election, when she lost the seat again to PC challenger
Gerald Comeau. Her last term in Parliament began with her second comeback in the
1988 federal election. She served in opposition under John Turner and
Jean Chrétien. She did not seek another term in Parliament after this and left federal politics as of the
1993 federal election.
Electoral record ==References==