Ontario Provincial Confederation of Regions Party
Ontario Provincial Confederation of Regions Party | |
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Active provincial party | |
Leader | Murray Reid[1] |
President | Murray Reid |
Founded | April 26, 1989 |
Headquarters | 274 Stone Road RR 2 Renfrew, Ontario |
Ideology |
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Colours | Green, yellow |
Seats in Legislature | 0 |
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The Ontario Provincial Confederation of Regions Party is a minor political party in Ontario, Canada, the provincial branch of the now-defunct Confederation of Regions Party of Canada. The party was founded in 1989, around the time the federal CoR was dissolved, and remains the last Confederation of Regions Party in Canada.
The CoR survives only in Ontario, though once a national movement whose original raison d'être was to promote the rights of regions other than Ontario and Quebec, now it advocates for regions within Ontario. It has reinvented itself twice: in the 1990s, first in campaigning across mainly rural regions of Ontario with targeted policies, before in the 2000s finding resonance in Northern Ontario and Northeastern Ontario, where it continues to play a minor role in provincial elections.
Party platform
The party campaigns on the promotion of
If elected, the party would hold a referendum on the
Election results
Results of recent elections for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario:[2]
Election year | No. of overall votes |
% of overall total |
No. of candidates run |
No. of seats won |
+/− | Government |
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1990 | 75,873 | 1.89 | 33 | 0 / 130
|
New Party | Extra-parliamentary |
1995 | 3,971 | 0.10 | 6 | 0 / 130
|
= | Extra-parliamentary |
1999 | 282 | 0.01 | 2 | 0 / 103
|
= | Extra-parliamentary |
2003 | 293 | 0.01 | 1 | 0 / 103
|
= | Extra-parliamentary |
2007 | 446 | 0.01 | 2 | 0 / 107
|
= | Extra-parliamentary |
2011 | 559 | 0.01 | 3 | 0 / 107
|
= | Extra-parliamentary |
2014 | 549 | 0.01 | 2 | 0 / 107
|
= | Extra-parliamentary |
2018 | 386 | 0.01 | 2 | 0 / 107
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= | Extra-parliamentary |
In the
Typical of that 1999-2018 era was the 2014 General Election. The party was only able to field two candidates in the 2014 election. Fauzia Sadiq, the party's candidate in
However, heading towards the June 2nd, 2022, General Election in the Province of Ontario, of the province's 124 constituencies, the party has three organized constituency associations and all three associations are offering candidates for this 2022 election, according to Elections Ontario. That same election administration body reports that the coming June 2022 will feature 26 registered political parties of which four parties are seen as "major" parties. Thus of the remaining 22 "minor" parties, according to Elections Ontario data, as a "minor" party, CoR is able to maintain more organized constituency associations than 12 of those 22 "minor" parties, thus making CoR a "Top Half" "minor" party, organization-wise, in the province.
The party failed to win any seats in the 2022 Ontario general election.
Party leaders
References
- ^ "Registered Political Parties". Elections Ontario. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
- ^ Elections Ontario Summary of Valid Ballots Cast 2011 Archived 2014-05-01 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Jeff Labine, "Election dance card set", The Daily Press (Timmins), Tuesday, May 27, 2014.
- ^ "Join CoR Party for your voice to be heard in Ontario - ontariocorparty".