Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario Parti progressiste-conservateur de l'Ontario | |
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Abbreviation | PC |
Leader | Doug Ford |
President | Michael Diamond |
House leader | Paul Calandra |
Founded | 1854 (as Conservative Party of Canada West) |
Preceded by | Upper Canada Tories |
Headquarters | 400-56 Aberfoyle Crescent, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Youth wing | Ontario Young Progressive Conservative Association |
Membership (2018) | 133,000[1] |
Ideology | Conservatism (Canadian) Progressive conservatism Economic liberalism |
Political position | Centre to centre-right |
Colours | Blue |
Seats in the Legislature | 78 / 124 |
Website | |
ontariopc | |
The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (French: Parti progressiste-conservateur de l'Ontario), often shortened to the Ontario PC Party or simply the PCs, colloquially known as the Tories, is a centre to centre-right political party in Ontario, Canada.
During its uninterrupted governance from 1943 to 1985, the Ontario PC Party adhered to the ideology of
History
Origins
The first Conservative Party in
The modern Conservative Party originated in the
Until becoming the Progressive Conservatives in 1942, the party was officially known as the "Liberal-Conservative Association of Ontario", reflecting its liberal-conservative origins, but became widely known as the Conservative Party.
Confederation
Pre-war dynasty
After 33 years in
Post-war dynasty
Late in the 1930s and early in the 1940s, the Conservatives re-organized and developed new policies. Rather than continue to oppose government spending and intervention, a policy which hurt the party politically in the time of the Great Depression, the Conservatives changed their policies to support government action where it would lead to economic growth.
The party changed its name to the "Progressive Conservative" party after its federal counterpart changed its name to the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in December 1942 on the insistence of its new leader, John Bracken, whose roots were in the populist Progressive Party.
The Progressive Conservatives took advantage of Liberal infighting to win a minority government in the 1943 provincial election, reducing the Liberals to third-party status. Drew called another election in 1945, only two years into his mandate, to get a majority government. The PCs played up Cold War tensions to win a landslide majority, though it emerged several years later that the PC government had set up a secret department of the Ontario Provincial Police to spy on the opposition and the media.[citation needed] The PCs would dominate Ontario politics for the next four decades.
Under Drew and his successor,
Robarts opposed Canadian Medicare when it was proposed, but later endorsed it fully, and the party implemented the public health care system that continues to this day. He led the party towards a civil libertarian movement. As a strong believer in the promotion of both official languages, he opened the door to French education in Ontario schools.
Big Blue Machine
In 1971,
Davis governed until 1985 with a team of advisers known as the "Big Blue Machine" because of their reputed political and strategic skills. Their stamp on the party was so strong that many refer to the Tories' long rule over Ontario as the "Big Blue Machine era".
During its 43 years of domination, the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario was seen as a centrist party, with the Liberals being to its right and the New Democratic Party to its left. However, its base of support remained with socially conservative voters in rural Southern Ontario. Davis largely reconciled these differences and emerged one of the most popular politicians in Ontario's history. Other conservatives in the federal PC Party accused him of damaging the conservative image in Canada by moving to the left on some issues. Davis continued the rapid expansion of community colleges, universities, and highways across Ontario.
1980s to 1995: in Opposition
Davis retired in 1985. At a
Soon afterward, the
When the Liberal-NDP Accord expired, an election was held in 1987 in which the Tories were reduced to third place in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. They only won 16 seats, their worst showing in over half a century. Grossman was personally defeated in his downtown Toronto riding and resigned immediately. Andy Brandt was the party's interim leader until a leadership election was held in 1990 in which Mike Harris defeated Dianne Cunningham.
Three months after the election of Harris, and only three years into the, typically, four-year term of the Liberal government, David Peterson called a provincial election, in which the PCs failed to improve their standing, but which resulted in the defeat of the Liberals by Rae's NDP.
Mike Harris and the "Common Sense Revolution"
In the
Public opinion on the Harris government was polarized. The government was criticized on issues such as health care, the environment, education, and social policies. Strikes and protests including a 1997 teacher's strike beleaguered its first term. But it won a second majority in the 1999 general election, and held generally stable support until Harris's departure as party leader in 2002.
A slide in PC support began in early 2000 according to Ipsos-Reid, when the Tories fell behind the Liberals in the public opinion polls for the first time since the 1999 election, with 36% support of those polled, compared to 42% for the Liberals and 17% for the NDP. Later in 2000, Liberal support rose to about half of those polled, while PC support remained in the low 30s. This pattern held through to the 2002 leadership campaign, when PC support rose to 37%, while the Liberals retained the support of about half of those polled.
Ernie Eves: distancing the party from Harris and 2003 defeat
With the resignation of Mike Harris in 2002, the PCs held a leadership election. Ernie Eves, who had been Harris's minister of finance, and who had the backing of almost all PC members of provincial parliament (MPPs), won the campaign, defeating his successor as minister of finance, Jim Flaherty.
Eves was a Red Tory, unlike Harris. He'd tried to blunt some of the edges of the more radical elements of Harris's platform while in Cabinet. His distancing from the Common Sense Revolution continued after he became premier. He killed plans to sell off Hydro One and re-imposed retail price controls on electricity, capping the price at 4.3 cents per kilowatt-hour, and vowing to keep it capped until at least 2006.
During the summer after Eves's election as leader, the PCs closed the gap in popular support considerably, placing only two percentage points behind the Liberals in two summer public opinion polls. By the autumn of 2002, however, Eves's "honeymoon" with the voters was over, and the party fell back in the polls, hovering in the mid-to-high 30s, while the Liberals scored in the mid-to-high 40s.
Despite his attempt to recast the Tory government as a moderate one, Eves was unable to reverse the slide in the polls the Tories had suffered in the last years of Harris's tenure.
Eves asked Flaherty's campaign chairman, Jaime Watt, to co-manage the PC election campaign, along with the rest of the "Whiz Kids" team that had previously worked for Harris. Only Tom Long, the central organizer in Harris's campaigns, refused to work for Eves.
The "Whiz Kids" reputation for competence was marred by publicity stunts such as handing down his government's second budget at the headquarters of Magna International instead of in the provincial legislature. Voter backlash against this break with parliamentary tradition forced the delay of a planned spring election in 2003.
In May 2003, Eves released the party's platform, "The Road Ahead". The document promoted an aggressive hard-right agenda, and was closer in spirit to Harris and Flaherty's agenda than to Eves's own. In releasing this document, Eves reversed his earlier positions on banning teacher's strikes, jailing the homeless, private school tax credits and same-sex marriage. The platform also called for mortgage interest deductibility.
The PC election campaign was riddled with mistakes and miscues, and Eves appeared uncomfortable trying to sell a platform he had opposed only a year earlier. In contrast, the Liberals had spent the last four years positioning themselves as the government in waiting, and ran on the simple platform of "Choose Change". PC television ads which attacked Liberal leader Dalton McGuinty as "still not up to the job" were received poorly by the voting public, and allowed the Liberal campaign to portray the Tories as needlessly confrontational.
A critical point in the campaign was when a member of the Eves team jokingly referred to McGuinty as an "
Opposition under John Tory (2004 to 2009)
In early 2004, Eves announced his intention to step down as leader. A leadership convention to replace him was called for the fall.
Jim Flaherty was the first to enter the race, campaigning on the same right wing platform as in 2002. He was soon opposed by John Tory, a former executive with Rogers Cable and a Toronto mayoral candidate in 2003 (a position he would ultimately win in 2014), sometimes viewed as a Red Tory due to his association to former premier Bill Davis. MPP Frank Klees, the third candidate in the race, was a supporter of the Common Sense Revolution and campaigned for a parallel private health care system.
The
In polling prior to the 2007 general election, the PCs' support rose after the first Liberal budget in 2004. The party was virtually tied with the Liberals, as Tory has experimented with several different orientations. During his first year as leader, Tory attempted to rise above partisan politics, openly contemptuous of partisan moves and pledging to improve decorum in the legislature. In his second year as leader, Tory adopted a more traditional approach to the issues, sharply opposing the Liberal plans on taxes, spending, deficits and cuts. Heading into the election year, Tory put most of his emphasis on criticizing the government's handling of a standoff with Mohawk aboriginals in Caledonia in order to portray the government as weak. He also emphasized traditional right-wing issues like taxes, crime and government spending.
During the 2006 PC Policy Convention, Tory introduced his plan for shaping up the PCs' platform for the 2007 election campaign. His ideas were stated in what have been called "The White Papers".[6]
The party experienced a drop in popularity, however, after Tory pledged to provide government funding for
2008 party convention and the leadership review question
As a result of the election loss, the party decided to hold a leadership review vote at its 2008 General Party Meeting in London.[8] The Ontario PC Party's constitution requires that the party hold a leadership review vote at the first party convention after an election defeat.[8]
From the election day until the 2008 General Meeting, party members were divided into two "camps": those who supported John Tory's position as party leader and those who opposed his leadership. Several campaigns to oust John Tory as leader of the party, most notably by a party activist group led by former party president Rueben Devlin called Grassroots PC.[9][10] John Tory had the public support of the PC legislative caucus, and most notably, support from former premiers and predecessors Ernie Eves and Bill Davis.[11]
The lead-up to the review vote was marked by high emotions on both sides of the debate and allegations of rule breaking. Such allegations were risen when caucus members sent letters on party letterhead seeking support for Tory. The letters signed by Tory MPPs Bob Runciman and Toby Barrett were a clear violation of the rules of the party, as the party in general is supposed to be neutral on the leadership review question.[12] Tory responded by stating that he and his supporters will reimburse the party for the letters that the caucus members had sent in support of Tory's position as leaders. As a result, the party's president, Blair McCreadie, had stated that the matter is closed.[12] A supporter of Tory's, PC Youth President Andrew Brander, launched a series of last-minute challenges of delegates on the grounds that they are representing ridings where they neither live nor work.[13]
Tory received 66.9% support, lower than internal tracking which showed him more comfortably in the 70 per cent range - appeared to come as a shock to Tory.[11][14] The percentage of support received by Tory was nearly identical to Joe Clark's 1983 support when he was federal PC leader, which resulted in Clark resigning as leader, and is often seen as the benchmark for Canadian party leaders to get to stay on as leader.[15]
Three hours after the leadership review vote, John Tory announced to the delegates at the Ontario PC's general meeting that he would stay on as leader of the Party.[16] Tory came under heavy criticism from several party members following this delay, with his opponents signalling that they would continue to call for an end to what they called his 'weak' leadership.[17] Other party members, such as former Mike Harris's chief of staff Guy Giorno and interim leader of the opposition Bob Runciman, supported John Tory, saying that his opponents should accept the results and move on.[16][17]
Opposition under Tim Hudak (2009 to 2014)
John Tory announced his pending resignation as leader on March 6, 2009; the day following his defeat in a by-election for
Hudak led the PCs through two elections. In the 2011 provincial election, the McGuinty Liberal government was reduced to a minority. Hudak's Tories were widely expected to win the 2014 provincial election but the Liberals, now led by Kathleen Wynne, were returned with a majority government largely due to Hudak's campaign pledge to cut 100,000 public service jobs by attrition rather than by layoffs. Hudak resigned in the aftermath. On July 2, 2014, Jim Wilson was chosen by the Progressive Conservative caucus to be its interim leader until the 2015 leadership election.[18]
Opposition under Patrick Brown (2015 to 2018)
On May 9, 2015, the membership elected Patrick Brown, a federal Conservative MP from Barrie, as the leader of the party. Christine Elliott was the unsuccessful candidate with Vic Fedeli, Lisa MacLeod, and Monte McNaughton withdrawing prior to the vote.
Since he did not hold a seat in the Legislature, the party requested that MPP Garfield Dunlop resign his seat in Simcoe North so that Brown could run. Brown was elected as MPP for Simcoe North in a by-election held September 3, 2015.[19]
At the party's 2016 Annual General Meeting (the first since the leadership election) Brown announced that the PCs would take on a more inclusive and compassionate tone, shifting to the political centre by reach out to groups that do not typically support the party including trade unions, and pursue "sensible" carbon pricing.[20] He also unveiled a new logo to represent the commitment to "inclusion, renewal, openness and change".[21] Brown stated his intention to change the party by moving away from past campaigns where one particular issue often cost them support, such as Tim Hudak's proposed public sector job cuts in the 2014 election or John Tory's proposal to extend public funding to all faith-based schools in 2007.[20]
At the PC's weekend policy convention on November 25, 2017, their "People's Guarantee" platform was released. Brown's platform was described as centrist on many issues, and included proposals such as opting-in to the federal carbon tax "backstop" (while criticizing the Liberal's
Led by the
On January 24, 2018, Brown was accused by two women of engaging in sexual misconduct. Brown denied the allegations and initially refused to step down. After pressure from within the party caucus, including calls for his resignation by deputy PC leaders Sylvia Jones and Steve Clark,[32] he resigned as leader in the early hours of January 25, with some aspects of the allegations later proving to be false or unconfirmed.[33][34][35][36][37]
Transition under Vic Fedeli (January to March 2018)
With Brown's resignation occurring less than five months before the
Fedeli's first major task as interim leader was to investigate the allegations of questionable spending on lawsuits and unsubstantiated favours to allies during Brown's tenure.[40] Party president Rick Dykstra resigned on January 28, 2018.[41] He indicated that it was time for "someone else to lead us through the hard work". Shortly afterwards, Maclean's magazine revealed allegations of sexual assault against Dykstra, stemming from a 2014 incident when Dykstra was a federal MP.[42][43] Several other key party and campaign staffers were dismissed or their positions eliminated due to a "reorganization" in the days after Brown's resignation.[44]
Doug Ford leadership (March 2018 to present)
On March 10, 2018, Doug Ford, former Toronto city councillor, the brother of the late former mayor of Toronto Rob Ford and son of the late former MPP Doug Ford Sr., was elected as leader of the PC Party, narrowly defeating runner-up Christine Elliott on the third ballot with 50.6% of allocated points, although Elliot had more votes. Due to not having a seat in the legislature, Ford chose to have Vic Fedeli remain as leader of the opposition prior to the 2018 election.
On June 7, 2018, Ford led the PCs to a majority government. The Tories won 76 of 124 seats and 40.5% of the vote.
In the 2022 Ontario general election, Ford led the PCs to another victory winning with an increased majority.[45]
Ideology and principles
Ideology
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The Ontario PC Party is a centre[46] to centre-right[47][48][49] conservative political party. In recent years, the PC Party has repeatedly campaigned on the following policies:
Economic regulation
- Allowing private retailers to sell alcohol and cannabis[50][51][52]
- Streamlining regulations[51][53][52][54]
- Opposing calls to ban licensed firearm ownership[55][56]
Education
- Adding financial literacy to the curriculum[57][53]
- Supporting sex-education, but allowing parents to opt-out of it[51][58]
- Reducing the power of teachers' unions[59][53][52]
- Hiring teachers based on merit and qualifications, rather than seniority[51][60]
- Abolishing the Ontario College of Trades[61][53]
Healthcare
- Supporting
- Hiring more healthcare workers[51][62][53][52][64]
- Allowing privately run healthcare clinics to provide publicly funded healthcare procedures[65][53][66]
Government spending
- Pursuing
- Opposing the implementation of a universal basic income and "no strings attached" welfare payments[68][52]
- Reducing corporate welfare[51][53][52]
Infrastructure
- Funding the construction of more highways and roads[51][52][62][53][69]
- Funding the construction of
- De-politicizing the approval process for housing construction[71]
- Support the use of hydro electricity and nuclear electricity[51][60][72]
Law-enforcement
- Opposing legalization of recreational drugs [73][74][75]
- Hiring more police officers and opposing the
- Pursuing longer prison sentences during prosecutions[55][76][78]
Taxation
- Reducing of
- Reducing of business taxes[51][52][62][53][80]
- Reducing gasoline taxes and opposing a carbon tax[81][62][53]
Other issues
Party leaders
The party was known as the Liberal-Conservative Association of Ontario from 1867 to 1942, and then as the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario from 1942 to present.
Photo | Leader | Years in Office | Note | |
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1 | John Sandfield Macdonald | 1867–1871 | First Premier of Ontario | |
2 | Matthew Crooks Cameron | 1871–1878 | Leader of the Opposition | |
3 | William Ralph Meredith | 1878–1894 | Leader of the Opposition. Later Chief Justice of Ontario (1913-1923).
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4 | George Frederick Marter | 1894–1896 | Leader of the Opposition | |
5 | Sir James P. Whitney |
1896–1914 | Premier of Ontario 1905-1914, Leader of the Opposition 1896-1905 | |
6 | Sir William Hearst | 1914–1919 | Premier of Ontario | |
7 | George Howard Ferguson |
1919–1930 | Premier of Ontario 1923-1930, Leader of the Opposition 1919-1923 | |
8 | George Stewart Henry | 1930–1936 | Premier of Ontario 1930-1934, Leader of the Opposition 1934-1938. | |
9 | William Earl Rowe | 1936–1938 | Concurrently served as a federal Conservative MP. Henry continued as Leader of the Opposition as Rowe did not have a seat in the legislature. Remained a federal MP until 1963. Served as Lieutenant Governor of Ontario 1963-1968. | |
10 | George Drew | 1938–1948 | Premier of Ontario 1943-1948. Leader of the Opposition 1939-1943. Resigned as Premier to become leader of the federal Progressive Conservative Party and federal Leader of the Opposition (1948-1956). Served as High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (1957-1964) | |
11 | Thomas Kennedy | 1948–1949 (interim) | Premier of Ontario. Also Minister of Agriculture (1930-1934, 1943-1953) | |
12 | Leslie Frost | 1949–1961 | Premier of Ontario | |
13 | John Robarts | 1961–1971 | Premier of Ontario | |
14 | Bill Davis | 1971–1985 | Premier of Ontario | |
15 | Frank Miller | 1985 | Premier of Ontario | |
16 | Larry Grossman | 1985–1987 | Leader of the Opposition | |
17 | Andy Brandt | 1987–1990 (interim) | Leader of the third party | |
18 | Mike Harris | 1990–2002 | Premier of Ontario | |
19 | Ernie Eves | 2002–2004 | Premier of Ontario 2002-2003, Leader of the Opposition 2003-2004 | |
20 | John Tory | 2004–2009 | Leader of the Opposition 2005-2007, later Mayor of Toronto (2014-2023) | |
21 | Bob Runciman | 2009 (interim) | Leader of the Opposition. Later a Senator (2010-2017) | |
22 | Tim Hudak | 2009–2014 | Leader of the Opposition | |
23 | Jim Wilson | 2014–2015 (interim) | Leader of the Opposition | |
24 | Patrick Brown | 2015–2018 | Leader of the Opposition. Later Mayor of Brampton, Ontario (2018-present)
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25 | Vic Fedeli | 2018 (interim) | Leader of the Opposition | |
26 | Doug Ford | 2018–present | Premier of Ontario |
Party presidents
President | Years in office | Notes | |
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1 | Alexander David (A.D.) McKenzie | 1943–1960 | Lawyer by profession, McKenzie was the long-time president of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Association and chairman of the party's organizational committee, and full-time party organizer (1942-1960), until his death, and was considered the architect of the party's rise to power and its 6 general election and 20 by-election victories during his tenure.[84][85] |
2 | Elmer D. Bell | 1960–1968 | Lawyer based in Exeter, Ontario. Later appointed chairman of the Ontario Police Commission[86] Bell succeeded McKenzie as party president while Hugh Latimer was appointed to the position of chairman, which had responsibilities of being a full-time party organizer, and was replaced in that role by former MPP Ernie Jackson when John Robarts became party leader.[85]
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3 | Alan Eagleson | 1968–1976 | MPP 1963–1967, lawyer, executive director of the NHLPA 1967-1991[85][87] |
4 | Gerald (Geri) Nori | 1976–1980[85] | Sault Ste. Marie-based lawyer |
5 | David McFadden | 1980-1986 | MPP 1985–1987 |
6 | Tom Long | 1986-1989 | Executive assistant in the PMO 1984–1986, election co-chair and party advisor. Ran for Canadian Alliance leadership in 2000. |
7 | Kay Weatherall | 1989–1990 | Retiree |
8 | Tony Clement | 1990–1992 | Ontario MPP and provincial cabinet minister 1995–2003; federal MP (2006–2019) and cabinet minister 2006-2015 |
9 | Steve Gilchrist | 1992–1994 | Ontario MPP and provincial cabinet minister 1995-2003 |
10 | Peter Van Loan | 1994–1998 | Federal MP (2004-2018) and cabinet minister (2006-2015) |
11 | Rueben Devlin | 1998–2002 | President of Humber River Regional Hospital |
12 | Blair McCreadie | 2002–2008 | Partner, Dentons LLP |
13 | Ken Zeise | 2008–2012 | Principal Consultant, Dominion Group Benefits Limited, group.ca |
14 | Richard Ciano | 2012–2016 | market researcher, strategist and pollster |
15 | Rick Dykstra | 2016–2018 | federal MP 2006–2015, resigned following allegations of sexual misconduct. |
16 | Jag Badwal | 2018 | Mississauga-based real estate agent, became president after Dykstra's resignation. |
17 | Brian Patterson | 2018–2022 | 40 year activist within the Ontario PC Party. |
18 | Michael Diamond | 2022–Present |
Election results
Election | Leader | Seats | Change +/- | Votes | % | Status |
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1867 | John Sandfield Macdonald | 41 / 82
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41 | 80,111 | 50.3% | Coalition Government |
1871 | 38 / 82
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3 | 59,926 | 45.9% | Official Opposition | |
1875 | Matthew Crooks Cameron | 34 / 88
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4 | 89,355 | 46.8% | Official Opposition |
1879 | William Ralph Meredith | 29 / 88
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5 | 118,513 | 47.8% | Official Opposition |
1883 | 37 / 88
|
8 | 120,853 | 46.6% | Official Opposition | |
1886 | 32 / 90
|
5 | 148,969 | 47.0% | Official Opposition | |
1890 | 34 / 91
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2 | 130,289 | 39.9% | Official Opposition | |
1894 | 23 / 94
|
9 | 104,369 | 27.8% | Official Opposition | |
1898 | James P. Whitney
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42 / 94
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19 | 204,011 | 47.7% | Official Opposition |
1902 | 48 / 98
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6 | 215,883 | 49.7% | Official Opposition | |
1905 | 69 / 98
|
21 | 237,612 | 53.37% | Majority Government | |
1908 | 86 / 106
|
17 | 246,324 | 54.7% | Majority Government | |
1911 | 82 / 106
|
4 | 205,338 | 55.6% | Majority Government | |
1914 | 84 / 111
|
1 | 268,548 | 55.3% | Majority Government | |
1919 | William Howard Hearst | 25 / 111
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59 | 403,655 | 34.9% | Third Party |
1923 | George Howard Ferguson
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75 / 111
|
50 | 473,819 | 49.8% | Majority Government |
1926 | 72 / 112
|
3 | 640,515 | 57.6% | Majority Government | |
1929 | 90 / 112
|
18 | 574,730 | 58.8% | Majority Government | |
1934 | George S. Henry
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17 / 90
|
73 | 621,218 | 39.8% | Official Opposition |
1937 | William Earl Rowe | 23 / 90
|
6 | 619,610 | 40% | Official Opposition |
1943 | George Drew | 38 / 90
|
15 | 469,672 | 35.7% | Minority Government |
1945 | 66 / 90
|
28 | 781,345 | 44.3% | Majority Government | |
1948 | 53 / 90
|
13 | 725,799 | 41.5% | Majority Government | |
1951 | Leslie Frost | 79 / 90
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26 | 860,939 | 48.5% | Majority Government |
1955 | 83 / 98
|
4 | 846,592 | 48.5% | Majority Government | |
1959 | 71 / 98
|
12 | 868,815 | 46.3% | Majority Government | |
1963 | John Robarts | 77 / 108
|
6 | 1,052,740 | 48.9% | Majority Government |
1967 | 69 / 117
|
8 | 1,018,755 | 42.3% | Majority Government | |
1971 | Bill Davis | 78 / 117
|
9 | 1,465,313 | 44.5% | Majority Government |
1975 | 51 / 125
|
27 | 1,192,592 | 36.1% | Minority Government | |
1977 | 58 / 125
|
7 | 1,322,723 | 39.7% | Minority Government | |
1981 | 70 / 125
|
12 | 1,412,488 | 44.4% | Majority Government | |
1985[a] | Frank Miller | 52 / 125
|
18 | 1,343,044 | 37.0% | Official Opposition |
1987 | Larry Grossman | 16 / 130
|
36 | 931,473 | 24.7% | Third Party |
1990 | Mike Harris | 20 / 130
|
4 | 944,564 | 23.5% | Third Party |
1995 | 82 / 130
|
62 | 1,870,110 | 44.8% | Majority Government | |
1999 | 59 / 103
|
23 | 1,978,059 | 45.1% | Majority Government | |
2003 | Ernie Eves | 24 / 103
|
35 | 1,559,181 | 34.7% | Official Opposition |
2007 | John Tory | 26 / 107
|
2 | 1,398,857 | 31.6% | Official Opposition |
2011 | Tim Hudak | 37 / 107
|
11 | 1,527,959 | 35.4% | Official Opposition |
2014 | 28 / 107
|
9 | 1,506,267 | 31.25% | Official Opposition | |
2018 | Doug Ford | 76 / 124
|
48 | 2,324,742 | 40.50% | Majority Government |
2022 | 83 / 124
|
7 | 1,912,057 | 40.80% | Majority Government |
See also
- Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet of the 40th Legislative Assembly of Ontario
- List of Ontario general elections
- List of premiers of Ontario
- List of leaders of the opposition in Ontario
- List of political parties in Canada
- List of political parties in Ontario
- Ontario PC Youth Association
- Ontario PC Campus Association
Notes
- ^ Won most seats in 1985 election, but lost power after Liberals signed a pact with the NDP to form the government.
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