Ontario general election, 2003 - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Ontario general election of 2003 was held on October 2, 2003, to elect the 103 members of the 38th Legislative Assembly

38th Legislative Assembly of Ontario

The 38th Legislative Assembly of Ontario was a legislature of the government of the Province of Ontario, Canada. It officially opened November 19, 2003, at Queen's Park in Toronto, and ended on June 5, 2007...

(Members of Provincial Parliament, or "MPPs") of the Province of Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

Canada

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.

The election was called on September 2 by Premier Ernie Eves

Ernie Eves

Ernest Lawrence "Ernie" Eves was the 23rd Premier of the province of Ontario, Canada, from April 15, 2002, to October 23, 2003.-Beginnings:...

to capitalize on an increase in support for the governing Ontario Progressive Conservative Party in the days following the 2003 North American blackout. The election was won, however, by the Ontario Liberal Party

Ontario Liberal Party

The Ontario Liberal Party is a provincial political party in the province of Ontario, Canada. It has formed the Government of Ontario since the provincial election of 2003. The party is ideologically aligned with the Liberal Party of Canada but the two parties are organizationally independent and...

, led by Dalton McGuinty

Dalton McGuinty

Dalton James Patrick McGuinty, Jr., MPP is a Canadian lawyer, politician and, since October 23, 2003, the 24th and current Premier of the Canadian province of Ontario....

Lead up to the campaign

In 1995, the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party or "Tories" under Mike Harris

Mike Harris

Michael Deane "Mike" Harris was the 22nd Premier of Ontario from June 26, 1995 to April 15, 2002. He is most noted for the "Common Sense Revolution", his Progressive Conservative government's program of deficit reduction in combination with lower taxes and cuts to government...

came from third place to upset the front-running Ontario Liberal Party

Ontario Liberal Party

under Lyn McLeod

Lyn McLeod

Lyn McLeod is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1987 to 2003. McLeod was a cabinet minister in the Liberal government of David Peterson from 1987 to 1990, and served as leader of the Ontario Liberal Party from 1992 to 1996.-Background - Pre...

and the highly unpopular governing Ontario New Democratic Party

Ontario New Democratic Party

The Ontario New Democratic Party or , formally known as New Democratic Party of Ontario, is a social democratic political party in Ontario, Canada. It is a provincial section of the federal New Democratic Party. It was formed in October 1961, a few months after the federal party. The ONDP had its...

under Bob Rae

Bob Rae

Robert Keith "Bob" Rae, PC, OC, OOnt, QC, MP is a Canadian politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Toronto Centre and interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada....

to form a majority government. The Harris government was far more activist than earlier Ontario PC governments, and over the next two terms moved to cut personal income tax rates by 30%, closed almost 40 hospitals to increase efficiency, cut the Ministry of the Environment staff in half, and undertook massive reforms of the education system including mandatory teacher testing and student testing in public education and public tax credits for parents who sent their children to private schools.

In the 1999 provincial election

Ontario general election, 1999

An Ontario general election was held on June 3, 1999, to elect members of the 37th Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, Canada....

, the Tories were able to ride a strong economy and a campaign aimed at proving rookie Liberal leader Dalton McGuinty

Dalton McGuinty

Dalton James Patrick McGuinty, Jr., MPP is a Canadian lawyer, politician and, since October 23, 2003, the 24th and current Premier of the Canadian province of Ontario....

was "not up to the job" to another majority government. However, the Walkerton Tragedy

Walkerton Tragedy

The Walkerton Tragedy is a series of events that accompanied the contamination of the water supply of Walkerton, Ontario, Canada, by E. coli bacteria in May 2000.-Summary:Walkerton is a relatively small community located in Ontario...

, where a contaminated water supply led to the deaths of 7 people and illness of at least 2,300 were linked in part to government environment and regulatory cutbacks, the government was badly damaged. A movement to provide tax credits to parents with children in private schools also proved to be unpopular.

In September 2001, Harris announced his intention to resign and the PC party called a leadership convention for 2002 to replace him. Five candidates emerged: former Finance Minister Ernie Eves

Ernie Eves

Ernest Lawrence "Ernie" Eves was the 23rd Premier of the province of Ontario, Canada, from April 15, 2002, to October 23, 2003.-Beginnings:...

who had retired earlier that year, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty

Jim Flaherty

James Michael "Jim" Flaherty, PC, MP is Canada's Minister of Finance and he has also served as Ontario's Minister of Finance. From 1995 until 2005, he was the Member of Provincial Parliament for Whitby—Ajax, and a member of the Progressive Conservative Party caucus...

, Environment Minister Elizabeth Witmer

Elizabeth Witmer

Elizabeth Witmer is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She has been a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1990, originally representing Waterloo North and later Kitchener—Waterloo for the Progressive Conservative Party.Witmer moved with her family to Ontario at a young age...

, Health Minister Tony Clement

Tony Clement

Tony Peter Clement, PC, MP is a Canadian federal politician, President of the Treasury Board, Minister for the Federal Economic Initiative for Northern Ontario and member of the Conservative Party of Canada....

and Labour Minister Chris Stockwell

Chris Stockwell

Chris Stockwell is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 2003, and served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves. Before entering provincial politics, he had been a...

. The resulting leadership election was divisive in the PC Party, with Flaherty adopting a hard-right platform and attacking the front-running Eves as "a pale, pink imitation of Dalton McGuinty

Dalton McGuinty

Dalton James Patrick McGuinty, Jr., MPP is a Canadian lawyer, politician and, since October 23, 2003, the 24th and current Premier of the Canadian province of Ontario....

" and a "serial waffler." At one point, anti-abortion activists apparently supporting Flaherty distributed pamphlets attacking Tony Clement because his wife worked for hospitals that performed abortion

Abortion

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s. At the convention, Eves was able to win on the second ballot after Elizabeth Witmer and Tony Clement both endorsed him.

Eves took office on April 15, 2002, and promptly re-aligned his government to the political centre. The party would negotiate a deal with striking government workers, dramatically cancel an IPO

Initial public offering

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of Hydro One

Hydro One

Hydro One Incorporated delivers electricity across the Canadian province of Ontario. It is a Corporation established under the Business Corporations Act with a single shareholder, the Government of Ontario....

, the government's electricity transmission company, and defer planned tax breaks for corporations and private schools for a year. With polls showing the Conservatives moving from a 15 point deficit to a tie in public opinion with the Liberals, the media praising Eves' political reorientation of the government, and the opposition Liberals reeling from the seizure of some of their political turf, the time seemed ripe for a snap election call. Many political observers felt that Eves had the momentum to win an election at that time.

However, several factors likely convinced Eves to wait to call an election. First, in 1990

Ontario general election, 1990

The Ontario general election of 1990 was held on September 6, 1990, to elect members of the 35th Legislative Assembly of the province of Ontario, Canada....

, the Liberals had lost the election in part due to perceptions that they called the election early for purely partisan reasons. Since then, the shortest distance between elections has been four years less five days (Ontario has since moved to fixed date election dates). Second, the PC Party was exhausted and divided from a six-month leadership contest. Third, the move to the centre had created opposition in traditional Conservative support. Financial conservatives and businesses were angered over Eves' cancellation of the hydro IPO. Others felt betrayed that promised tax cuts had not been delivered, seemingly breaking the PCs' own Taxpayer Protection Act, while private school supporters were upset their promised tax credit had been delayed for a year.

In the fall of 2002, the opposition Liberals began a round of attacks on perceived PC mismanagement. First, Jim Flaherty

Jim Flaherty

was embroiled in scandal when it was revealed that his leadership campaign's largest donor had received a highly lucrative contract for slot machines from the government. Then, Tourism Minister Cam Jackson

Cam Jackson

Cameron "Cam" Jackson is a Canadian politician. A Progressive Conservative, he was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1985, and held the office of Member of Provincial Parliament for Burlington until his resignation on September 28, 2006 to run for mayor of Burlington in the...

was forced to resign when the Liberals revealed he had charged taxpayers more than $100,000 for hotel rooms, steak dinners and alcoholic beverages. The Liberals showed the Tories had secretly given a large tax break to the Toronto Blue Jays

Toronto Blue Jays

The Toronto Blue Jays are a professional baseball team located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Blue Jays are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball 's American League ....

, a team owned by prominent Tory Ted Rogers

Edward Samuel Rogers

Edward Samuel "Ted" Rogers, Jr., OC was the President and CEO of Rogers Communications Inc., and the fifth richest person in Canada in terms of net worth. His father Edward S. Rogers, Sr...

.

At the same time, both the New Democrats

Ontario New Democratic Party

and Liberals criticized the government over skyrocketing electricity prices. In May 2002, the government had followed California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

and Alberta

Alberta

Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

in deregulating the electricity market

Electricity market

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. With contracting supply due to construction delays at the Pickering

Pickering, Ontario

Pickering is a city located in Southern Ontario, Canada immediately east of Toronto in Durham Region. It is part of the Greater Toronto Area, the largest metropolitan area in Canada.- Early Period :...

nuclear power plant and rising demand for electricity in an unusually warm autumn, the spot price for electricity rose, resulting in consumer outrage. In November, Eves fixed the price of electricity and ended the open market, appeasing consumers but angering conservative free-marketers.

That winter, Eves promised a provincial budget before the beginning of the fiscal year, to help hospitals and schools budget effectively. However, as multiple scandals in the fall had already made the party unwilling to return to Question Period

Question Period

Question Period, known officially as Oral Questions occurs each sitting day in the Canadian House of Commons. According to the House of Commons Compendium, “The primary purpose of Question Period is to seek information from the Government and to call it to account for its actions.”-History:The...

, they wished to dismiss the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

Legislative Assembly of Ontario

The Legislative Assembly of Ontario , is the legislature of the Canadian province of Ontario, and is the second largest provincial legislature of Canada...

until as late as possible in the spring. The budget was instead to be announced at the Magna International

Magna International

Magna International Inc. , is an automotive supplier headquartered in Aurora, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's largest automobile parts manufacturer, and one of the country's largest companies. It owns the Magna Steyr automobile production company of Austria....

headquarters in Newmarket, Ontario

Newmarket, Ontario

Newmarket is a town in Southern Ontario located approximately 50 km north of downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is part of the Greater Toronto Area and is connected to Toronto by freeway, and is served by three interchanges along Highway 404. It is also connected to Highway 400 via Highway 9...

rather than in the Legislature. The move was met with outrage from the PC Speaker

Speaker (politics)

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, Gary Carr

Gary Carr

Gary Carr is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 2003, and served in the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal from 2004 to early 2006...

who called the move unconstitutional and would rule that it was a prima facae case of contempt

Contempt

Contempt is an intensely negative emotion regarding a person or group of people as inferior, base, or worthless—it is similar to scorn. It is also used when people are being sarcastic. Contempt is also defined as the state of being despised or dishonored; disgrace, and an open disrespect or willful...

of the legislature. The controversy over the location of the budget would far outstrip any support earned by the content of the budget.

The government faced a major crisis when SARS killed several people in Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

and threatened the stability of the health care system. On April 23, when the World Health Organization

World Health Organization

The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations that acts as a coordinating authority on international public health. Established on 7 April 1948, with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, the agency inherited the mandate and resources of its predecessor, the Health...

advised against all but essential travel to Toronto to prevent the spread of the virus, Toronto tourism greatly suffered.

When the spring session was finally convened in late spring, the Eves government was forced through three days of debate on the contempt motion over the Magna budget followed by weeks of calls for the resignation of Energy Minister Chris Stockwell

Chris Stockwell

. Stockwell was accused of accepting thousands of dollars in undeclared gifts from Ontario Power Generation

Ontario Power Generation

Ontario Power Generation is a public company wholly owned by the Government of Ontario. OPG is responsible for approximately 70% of the electricity generation in the Province of Ontario, Canada. Sources of electricity include nuclear, hydroelectric, solar, wind, and fossil fuel...

, an arms length crown corporation he regulated, when he travelled to Europe in the summer of 2002. Stockwell finally stepped aside after dominating the provincial news for almost a month, and would not seek reelection.

By the summer of 2003, the Progressive Conservatives received an unexpected opportunity to re-gain popularity in the form of the 2003 North American blackout. When the blackout hit, Eves initially received criticism for his late response; however, as he led a series of daily briefings to the press in the days after the blackout, Eves was able to demonstrate leadership and stayed cool under pressure. The crisis also allowed Eves to highlight his principal campaign themes of experience, proven competence and ability to handle the government. When polls began to register a moderate increase for the Conservatives, the table was set for an election call.

Progressive Conservative campaign

In 1995 and 1999, the Progressive Conservatives ran highly focused, disciplined campaigns based on lessons learned principally in US states by the Republican Party. In 1995, the core PC strategy was to polarize the electorate around a handful of controversial ideas that would split opposition between the other two parties. The PCs stressed radical tax cuts, opposition to job quotas, slashing welfare rates and a few hot button issues like opposing photo radar and establish "boot camps" for young offenders. They positioned leader Mike Harris as an average-guy populist who would restore common sense to government after ten lost years of NDP and Liberal mismanagement. The campaign manifesto, released in 1994, was titled the "Common Sense Revolution" and advocated a supply side economics solution to a perceived economic malaise.

In 1999, the PCs were able to point to increased economic activity as evidence that their supply side plan worked. Their basic strategy was to again polarize the electorate around a handful of controversial ideas and their record while preventing opposition from rallying exclusively around the Liberals by undermining confidence in Liberal leader Dalton McGuinty. They ran a series of negative television ads against McGuinty in an attempt to brand him as "not up to the job." At the same time, they emphasized their economic record, while downplaying disruptions in health care and education as part of a needed reorganization of public services that promoted efficiency and would lead to eventual improvements.

Both campaigns proved highly successful and the principal architects of those campaigns had been dubbed the "whiz kids" by the press. David Lindsay, Mike Harris' chief of staff, was responsible for the overall integration of policy, communications, campaign planning and transition to government while Mitch Patten served as campaign secretary. Tom Long and Leslie Noble jointly ran the campaigns, with Long serving as campaign chair and Noble as campaign manager. Paul Rhodes

Paul Rhodes

Paul Rhodes is a Canadian political strategist. He was communications director for the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party during the 1995, 1999 and 2003 elections, and communications director for Ontario Premier Mike Harris from 1995 to 1997...

, a former reporter, was responsible for media relations. Deb Hutton was Mike Harris' right arm as executive assistant. Jaime Watt

Jaime Watt

Jaime Watt is a Canadian political strategist who was most notable for playing an important role in the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario's two election victories under the leadership of Mike Harris....

and Perry Miele worked on the advertising. Guy Giorno

Guy Giorno

Guy Giorno is a Canadian lawyer and conservative political activist. Giorno was Chief of Staff to then Premier of Ontario Mike Harris. In 2002 he joined the Toronto office of the Fasken Martineau DuMoulin law firm...

worked on policy and speechwriting in 1995 and in 1999 was in charge of overall messaging. Scott Munnoch was tour director and Glen Wright rode the leader's bus. Future leader John Tory

John Tory

John Howard Tory is a Canadian businessman, political activist, former leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, former Member of Provincial Parliament and broadcaster...

worked on fundraising and debate prep, and was actually one of two people (the other was John Matheson) to play Liberal leader Dalton McGuinty

Dalton McGuinty

Dalton James Patrick McGuinty, Jr., MPP is a Canadian lawyer, politician and, since October 23, 2003, the 24th and current Premier of the Canadian province of Ontario....

during preparation for the 1999 leaders' debate. (Andy Brandt

Andy Brandt

Andrew S. "Andy" Brandt is a former politician and public administrator who has served in a number of roles in the province of Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Progressive Conservative from 1981 to 1990, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Bill...

and Giorno played NDP leader Howard Hampton.)

Heading into 2003, Tom Long refused to work for Ernie Eves. Most speculated that Long saw Eves as too wishy-washy and not enough of a traditional hard-right conservative. Jaime Watt

Jaime Watt

took Long's position as campaign co-chair and more or less all the same players settled into the same spot. A few new faces included Jeff Bangs as campaign manager. Bangs was a long-time Eves loyalist who had grown up in his riding

Electoral district (Canada)

An electoral district in Canada, also known as a constituency or a riding, is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based...

of Parry Sound.

The Progressive Conservatives once again planned on polarizing the electorate around a handful of hot button campaign pledges. However, with their party and government listing in public opinion polls, they found their only strong contrasts were around the experience and stature of Premier Eves. Their campaign slogan "Experience You Can Trust" was designed to highlight Eves' years in office.

The party platform, dubbed "The Road Ahead," was longer and broader than in earlier years. Five main planks would emerge for the campaign:

Tax deductions for mortgage payments.
Rebate seniors the education portion of their property taxes.
Tax credits for parents sending their children to private schools.
Banning teachers' strikes by sending negotiations to binding arbitration.
A "Made-in-Ontario" immigration system.

Each plank was targeted at a key Tory voting bloc: homeowners, seniors, religious conservatives, parents and law-and-order types.

Eves' campaigning followed a straight-forward pattern. Eves would highlight one of the five elements of the platform and then attack Dalton McGuinty for opposing it. For instance, he would visit the middle-class home of a visible minority couple with two kids and talk about how much money they would get under his mortgage deducatability plan. That would be followed by an attack on McGuinty for having a secret plan to raise their taxes. Or he would campaign in a small town assembly plant and talk about how under a "Made-in-Ontario" immigration plan fewer new Canadians would settle in Toronto and more outside the city, helping the plant manager with his labour shortage. Then he would link McGuinty to Prime Minister of Canada

Prime Minister of Canada

The Prime Minister of Canada is the primary minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and thus head of government for Canada, charged with advising the Canadian monarch or viceroy on the exercise of the executive powers vested in them by the constitution...

Jean Chrétien

Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien , known commonly as Jean Chrétien is a former Canadian politician who was the 20th Prime Minister of Canada. He served in the position for over ten years, from November 4, 1993 to December 12, 2003....

and say McGuinty supported the federal immigration system that allows terrorists and criminals into the country.

The Tory television advertising also attempted to polarize the election around these issues.

In one of the ads, a voice-over accompanying an unflattering photo of the Liberal leader asks "Ever wonder why Dalton McGuinty wants to raise your taxes?" The ad then points out that McGuinty has opposed Tory plans to allow homeowners a tax deduction on mortgage interest and to give senior citizens a break on their property taxes.

In another ad, the voice-over asks "Doesn't he (McGuinty) know that a child's education is too important to be disrupted by lockouts and strikes?" It says that McGuinty has sided with the unions and rejected the Tory proposal to ban teacher strikes.

Both ads end with the attack "He's still not up to the job."

Armed with a majority, the Tories were hoping to hold the seats they already had, while targeting a handful of rural Liberal seats in hopes of increasing their majority. They campaigned relatively little in Northern Ontario, with the exception of North Bay and Parry Sound, both of which they held.

Liberal campaign

The first half of Dalton McGuinty's 1999 campaign was widely criticized as disorganized and uninspired, and most journalists believe he gave a poor performance in the leaders' debate. However, McGuinty was able to rally his party in the last ten days. On election day, the Liberals won 40% of the vote, their second best showing in almost fifty years. Perhaps more importantly, nine new MPPs were elected, boosting the caucus from 30 to 36, including dynamic politicians like George Smitherman

George Smitherman

George Smitherman is a Canadian politician and broadcaster. He represented the provincial riding of Toronto Centre in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2010, when he resigned to contest the mayoralty of Toronto in the 2010 municipal election...

and Michael Bryant

Michael Bryant (politician)

Michael J. Bryant is former public administrator and former politician in Ontario, Canada. A Harvard-trained lawyer, he was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the electoral district of St. Paul's for the Ontario Liberal Party from 1999 until 2009...

.

In 1999, the Liberal strategy had been to polarize the electorate between Mike Harris and Dalton McGuinty. They purposely put out a platform that was devoid of ideas, to ensure the election was about the Tory record, and not the Liberal agenda. To an extent, they succeeded. Support for the NDP collapsed from 21% to just 13%, while the Liberals climbed 9%. However, while they almost cornered the market of those angry at the Tories, they could not convince enough people to be angry at the Tories to win.

The night he conceded defeat, McGuinty was already planning how to win the next election. He set out the themes that the Liberals would build into their next platform. Liberals, he said, would offer "some of those things that Ontarians simply have to be able to count on - good schools, good hospitals, good health care, good education and something else.... We want to bring an end to fighting so we can finally start working together."

McGuinty replaced many of his young staff with experienced political professionals he recruited. Three he kept in key positions were Don Guy, his campaign manager and a pollster with Pollara, Matt Maychak, his director of communications, and Bob Lopinski, his director of issues management. To develop his platform, he added to this a new chief of staff, Phil Dewan, a former policy director for Premier David Peterson

David Peterson

David Robert Peterson, PC, O.Ont was the 20th Premier of the Province of Ontario, Canada, from June 26, 1985 to October 1, 1990. He was the first Liberal premier of Ontario in 42 years....

and Ottawa veteran Gerald M. Butts. He also sought out Peterson-era Ontario Minister of Labour Greg Sorbara to run for president of the Ontario Liberal Party

Ontario Liberal Party

.

Early on, McGuinty set down three strategic imperatives. First, no tax cuts. This ran against the conventional wisdom of politics that you had to offer tax cuts to win; everyone from Mike Harris to Bill Clinton had campaigned on reducing the tax burden on the middle class. But McGuinty was determined that Ontario voters would accept that the money was needed to restore public health care and education services. Second, a positive tone. McGuinty wanted to avoid the typical opposition leader role of automatically opposing whatever the government announced, and instead, set the agenda with positive alternatives. While attacking your opponent was important, that would be left to caucus surrogates. Third, one big team. At the time, the Ontario Liberal Party was riven into factions. Peterson-era people distrusted more recent arrivals. Jean Chrétien

Jean Chrétien

supporters fought with Paul Martin

Paul Martin

Paul Edgar Philippe Martin, PC , also known as Paul Martin, Jr. is a Canadian politician who was the 21st Prime Minister of Canada, as well as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada....

supporters. McGuinty set a tone that divisions were left at the door.

The emphasis on building the team was highly successful as job that in 1999 were done by one person were now assigned to groups of four or six or eight. Dewan brought on board veterans of the Peterson regime such as Sheila James, Vince Borg and David MacNaughton. From Ottawa, campaign veterans such as Warren Kinsella

Warren Kinsella

Warren James Douglas Kinsella , is a Toronto-based Canadian, lawyer, author, musician, political consultant, commentator, and blogger...

, Derek Kent and Gordon Ashworth signed on to help oust the Ontario Tories from power.

The Liberal strategy was the same as in 1999: polarize the election between the Conservatives and Liberals to marginalize the NDP and then convince enough voters that the Conservatives had to go. With polls showing more than 60% of voters reporting it was "time for a change", the Liberals campaign theme was "choose change". The theme summarized the two-step strategy perfectly: first, boil the election down to a two-party choice and then cast the Liberals as a capable and trustworthy agent of change at a time when voters were fed up with the government.

After the sparse platform of 1999, the 2003 Liberal platform was a sprawling omnibus of public policy crossing five main policy booklets, three supplements aimed at specific geographic or industrial groups and a detailed costing exercise. The principle planks that were highlighted in the election were:

Freezing taxes and balancing the books.
Improving test scores and lowering class sizes in public schools.
Reducing wait times for key health services.
Improving environmental protection and quality of life.
Repairing the divisions of the Harris-Eves era.

McGuinty backed up his comprehensive platform with a meticulous costing by a forensic account and two bank economists. While the Conservatives had adopted a third-party verification in 1995, they did not in 2003, allowing the Liberals to gain credibility that they could pay for their promises.

In contrast to the Eves campaign, where the leader was both positive and negative message carrier, the Liberals used a number of caucus members to criticize the Harris-Eves government while McGuinty was free to promote his positive plan for change.

The Liberal advertising strategy was highly risky. While conventional wisdom says the only way to successfully respond to a negative campaign is with even more negative ads against your opponent, McGuinty ran only positive ads for the duration of the campaign.

In the pre-writ period, the Liberal advertising Dalton McGuinty speaking to the camera, leaning against a tree while snow falls, saying "People hear me say that I'll fix our hospitals and fix our schools and yet keep taxes down. Am I an optimist? Maybe. What I'm not is cynical, or jaded, or tired. I don't owe favours to special interests or old friends or political cronies. Together, we can make Ontario the envy of the world, once again. And, I promise you this, no one will work harder than I will to create that Ontario."

During the first stage of the campaign, the principal Liberal ad featured a tight close-up of Dalton McGuinty as he spoke about his plans for Ontario. In the key line of the first ad, McGuinty looks into the camera and says "I won't cut your taxes, but I'm not going to raise them either."

Geographically, the Liberal campaign was able to rest on a solid core of seats in Toronto and Northern Ontario that were at little risk at the beginning of the election period. They had to defend a handful of rural seats that had been recently won and were targeted by the PCs. However, the principle battlefield of the election was in PC-held territory in the "905" region of suburbs around Toronto, particularly Peel and York districts, suburban seats around larger cities like Ottawa and Hamilton and in Southwestern Ontario in communities like London, Kitchener-Waterloo and Guelph.

NDP campaign

The 1999 NDP campaign received its lowest level of popular support since the Second World War, earning just 12.6% of the vote and losing party status with just nine seats. Several factors led to this poor showing, including a lacklustre campaign, Hampton's low profile and a movement called strategic voting that endorsed voting for the Liberals in most ridings in order to remove the governing Tories. After the election, there was a short-lived attempt to remove leader Howard Hampton

Howard Hampton

Howard George Hampton, MPP is a Canadian lawyer and politician. He has served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada, since 1987 as the Member of Provincial Parliament from the northern riding of Kenora—Rainy River. A member of the Ontario New Democratic Party, he was also the party's...

publicly led by leaders of the party's youth wing. However, the majority of party members blamed the defeat on NDP supporters voting Liberal in hopes of removing Harris and the Tories from power. As a result, Hampton was not widely blamed for this severe defeat and stayed on as leader.

Under the rules of the Legislative Assembly, a party would receive "official party status", and the resources and privileges accorded to officially-recognized parties, if it had 12 or more seats; thus, the NDP would lose caucus funding and the ability to ask questions in the House. However, the governing Conservatives changed the rules after the election to lower the threshold for party status from 12 seats to 8. The Tories argued that since Ontario's provincial ridings now had the same boundaries as the federal ones, the threshold should be lowered to accommodate the smaller legislature. Others argued that the Tories were only helping the NDP so they could continue to split the vote with the Liberals.

During the period before the election, Hampton identified the Conservative plan for deregulating and privatizing electricity generation and transmission as the looming issue of the next election. With the Conservatives holding a firm market-oriented line and the Liberal position muddled, Hampton boldly focused the party's Question Period and research agendas almost exclusively on energy issues. Hampton quickly distinguished himself as a passionate advocate of maintaining public ownership of electricity generation, and published a book on the subject, Public Power, in 2003.

With the selection of Eves as the PC leader, the NDP hoped that the government's move to the centre in the spring of 2002 would reduce the polarization of the Ontario electorate between the PCs and Liberals and improve the NDP's standing. It was also hoped that the long-standing split between labour and the NDP would be healed as the bitter legacy of the Rae government faded.

The co-chairs of the NDP campaign were Diane O'Reggio, newly installed as the party's provincial secretary after a stint in Ottawa working for the federal party, and Andre Foucault, secretary-treasurer of the Communications Energy and Paperworkers union. The manager was Rob Milling, principal secretary to Hampton. Communications were handled by Sheila White

Sheila White (politician)

Sheila White is a Canadian political activist and a member of the New Democratic Party. She has run for office unsuccessfully five times, to date, in Toronto, Canada....

and Gil Hardy. Jeff Ferrier was the media coordinator.

The NDP strategy was to present itself as distinct from the Liberals on the issue of public ownership of public services, primarily in electricity and health care, while downplaying any significant differences between the Liberals and PCs. There was a conscious effort to discourage "strategic voting" where NDP supporters vote Liberal to defeat the Conservatives. The NDP slogan was "publicpower", designed to highlight both the energy issue Hampton had championed and public health care, while promoting a populist image of empowerment for average people.

The NDP campaign was designed to be highly visual and memorable. Each event was built around a specific visual thematic. For instance, in the first week of the campaign, Hampton attacked the Liberal energy platform saying it was "full of holes" and holding up a copy of the platform with oversized holes punched in it. He also illustrated it "had more holes than Swiss cheese" by also displaying a large block of cheese. At another event, Hampton and his campaign team argued that the Liberal positions were like "trying to nail Jello to the wall" by literally attempting to nail Jello to a wall.

The first round of NDP ads avoided personal attacks, and cast leader Howard Hampton as a champion of public utilities. In one 30-second spot, Mr. Hampton talks about the effects of privatization of the power industry and the blackout. "For most of us, selling off our hydro was the last straw," he says. The clip is mixed with images of Toronto streets during power failure.

Geographically, the NDP campaign focused on targeting seats in Scarborough and Etobicoke in Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa and Northern Ontario.

The writs

The first week of the campaign was dominated by the Conservatives, who launched a series of highly negative attacks at Liberal leader Dalton McGuinty while highlighting popular elements of their platform. On the Saturday of the first week, a round of media-sponsored public opinion polls showed the Liberals 12 point lead reduced to a tie between the Liberals and Conservatives. The Conservative strategy of "going negative" appeared to be working. Combined with Premier Eves' high-profile performance in the blackout, most media commentators believed the Liberals would have to also go negative.

As the campaign entered week 2, it was anticipated that the Liberals would push a series of highly negative ads to combat advertising by the Conservatives that attacked Dalton McGuinty. However, instead they went positive and stayed positive throughout the campaign. It was Eves who went on the defensive as the Liberals worked the media to put the Premier on his heels. Stung by years of arrogance by the PC Party toward reporters, the media were quick to pile on.

After the Liberals Gerry Phillips

Gerry Phillips

Gerry Phillips was a politician in the riding of Scarborough—Agincourt which is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was a member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament, and served as a senior minister in the governments of Premier's Dalton McGuinty and David Peterson.-Early life:Phillips was...

and Gerald M. Butts accused Eves of having no plan to pay for his $10.4 billion in promises, Eves stumbled when he could not provide his own cost for his promises. "I couldn't tell you off the top of my head," he admitted. Then came a story on the front of the Globe and Mail saying that Ontarians would have to pay "millions" in extra premiums because the election call had delayed implementation of new auto insurance regulations promised by Eves on the eve of the campaign. On Wednesday the government was broadsided when - days after a raid at a meat packing plant exposed the story state of public health at some abattoirs - leaked documents showed the PC government had been sitting on recommendations to improve meat safety, leading to calls for a public inquiry by the opposition parties. The issue was made worse when Agriculture Minister Helen Johns

Helen Johns

Helen Johns is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She was born in Toronto, Ontario She was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003, and served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves.Johns has a Bachelor of Arts degree...

refused all media calls and had to be literally tracked down in her riding by reporters. On Thursday, according to the Green party candidate in Nipissing (Mike Harris's old riding), a donor with Tory connections offered him money to bolster his campaign and draw votes away from the Liberals. The same day, Eves attacked Dalton McGuinty for voting against a bill to protect taxpayers from increased taxes, when it turns out McGuinty in fact voted for that bill.
Finally, on the Friday of the second week, the Eves campaign issued a bizarre press release calling Dalton McGuinty an "evil reptilian kitten-eater from another planet". This moment would prove the defining moment of the campaign. First, it was so memorable and unusual that it served to attract the attention of all Ontarians, including those who don't pay attention to a campaign until its final days. Second, the over-the-top negativity brought to life a key critique of the Liberals, that the Harris-Eves Tories picked fights for no reason and went too far. Third, the hysteria around the comment put the Eves campaign on the defensive in the media at a critical point and prevented them from regaining their footing after a difficult week. Fourth, it polarized the election around the PCs and Liberals, and left the NDP on the sidelines. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the Eves team was instantly at each other's throats over who would take the blame for approving the press release.

The Conservatives spent the third week on the defensive and dropping in the polls, unable to recover from the disasters of the second week and fresh new attacks. The Liberals produced documents from the Walkerton Inquiry showing that individual Conservative MPPs were warned about risks to human health and safety resulting from cuts to the Environment Ministry budget. An attack on Dalton McGuinty saying he needed "professional help" forced an apology from the Conservatives to people with mental illness. Tory MPP John O'Toole

John O'Toole

John O'Toole is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He has been a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1995, representing the riding of Durham for the Progressive Conservative Party....

said the Tory negative campaign was a mistake, putting Eves on the defensive once again. A leaked memo was used by the opposition to accuse the government of threatening public sector workers into not telling the truth at a public inquiry into the government's handling of the SARS crisis. Eves ended the week with another event that backfired, brandishing barbed wire and a get out of jail free card to attack the Liberals as soft on crime. Reporters spent more time focused on Eves' first use of props in the election than on his message.

By the fourth week of the campaign, polls showed the Liberals pulling away from the Conservatives with a margin of at least 10 points. It was widely believed that only a disastrous performance in the leader's debate stood between Dalton McGuinty and the Premier's Office. McGuinty - who had stumbled badly in the 1999 debate - was able to play off low expectations and a surprisingly low-key Eves to earn the draw he wanted. The debate itself was also subject to criticism from the Green Party of Ontario

Green Party of Ontario

The Green Party of Ontario is a political party in Ontario, Canada. The party is led by Mike Schreiner. It has never held any seats in the Ontario Legislative Assembly; however, the party did see significant gains in the 2007 provincial election, earning 8% of the popular vote with some candidates...

, which denounced a Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission decision not to allow leader Frank de Jong

Frank de Jong

Frank de Jong, is a Canadian politician, environmentalist and elementary school teacher at Fern Avenue Public School...

to participate.

The final week of the campaign was marred by more negative attacks from Eves and the Conservatives. At one point, Premier Eves referred to Mr. McGuinty as having a "pointy head", a remark he later conceded was inappropriate. McGuinty was able to extend the bad press from the incident another day when he joked to radio hosts that they needed to be careful "so I won't spear you with my sharp pointy head." McGuinty spent the last days of the campaign travelling through previously rock solid PC territory in ridings like Durham, Simcoe and Leeds-Grenville to large crowds.

For its part, the Ontario New Democratic Party

Ontario New Democratic Party

(NDP) led a theatrical campaign that proved ineffective. Leader Howard Hampton

Howard Hampton

made an appearance in front of the Toronto home of millionaire Peter Munk

Peter Munk

Peter Munk, CC is a Canadian businessman. He is the chairman and founder of the mining company Barrick Gold, the world's largest gold-mining corporation.-Early years:...

to denounce Eves' tax breaks, claiming that they would save Munk $18,000 a year. He attempted to nail Jell-O

Jell-O

Jell-O is a brand name belonging to U.S.-based Kraft Foods for a number of gelatin desserts, including fruit gels, puddings and no-bake cream pies. The brand's popularity has led to it being used as a generic term for gelatin dessert across the U.S. and Canada....

to a wall to dramatize the elusiveness he accused his opponents of regarding hydro privatization. He also used a piece of Swiss cheese

Swiss cheese

Swiss cheese is a generic name in North America for several related varieties of cheese which resemble the Swiss Emmental. Some types of Swiss cheese have a distinctive appearance, as the blocks of the cheese are riddled with holes known as "eyes". Swiss cheese has a piquant, but not very sharp,...

to suggest that his opponents' platforms were full of holes. http://toronto.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=onel_ndpend20031002

Issues

The campaign was contentious on the issues as well, with both the Liberals and Howard Hampton's New Democrats attacking the Tories' record in office. Various scandals and other unpopular moves reduced public opinion of the Tories going into the race, including the Walkerton

Walkerton, Ontario

Walkerton is a community in the Canadian province of Ontario, located within and governed by the municipality of Brockton. It is the site of Brockton's municipal offices and the county seat of Bruce County...

water tragedy, the deaths of Dudley George and Kimberly Rogers

Kimberly Rogers

Kimberly Rogers was a Canadian whose death in 2001, while under house arrest for welfare fraud, caused extensive controversy around Ontario Works...

, the possible sale of publicly owned electric utility Hydro One

Hydro One

, the SARS outbreak, the decision to release the 2003 budget at an auto parts factory instead of the Legislature, the widespread blackout in August, and the Aylmer packing plant tainted meat investigation. http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20031002.wwhyy1002/BNStory/SpecialEvents4/. As one Tory insider put it "So many chickens came to roost, its like a remake of The Birds
The Birds (film)
The Birds is a 1963 horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock based on the 1952 short story "The Birds" by Daphne du Maurier. It depicts Bodega Bay, California which is, suddenly and for unexplained reasons, the subject of a series of widespread and violent bird attacks over the course of a few...

".

One of the most contentious issues was education. All three parties pledged to increase spending by $2 billion, but Premier Eves also pledged to ban teacher strikes, lock-outs, and work-to-rule campaigns during the school year, a move the other parties rejected. Teacher strikes had plagued the previous Progressive Conservative mandate of Mike Harris

Mike Harris

, whose government had deeply cut education spending.

Tax cuts were also an issue. The Progressive Conservatives proposed a wide range of tax cuts, including a 20-percent cut to personal income taxes, and the elimination of education tax paid by seniors, two moves that would have cost $1.3 billion together. The Liberals and New Democrats rejected these cuts as profligate. The Liberals also promised to cancel some pending Tory tax cuts and to eliminate some tax cuts already introduced.

Assessment

CBC Newsworld

CBC News Network is a Canadian English language Category C specialty news channel owned and operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation . It broadcasts into over 10 million homes in Canada. It is the world's third-oldest television service of this nature, after CNN in the United States and...

declared a Liberal victory minutes after ballot-counting began. Ernie Eves conceded defeat only ninety minutes into the count.

The Liberals won a huge majority with 72 seats, almost 70% of the 106 seat legislature. The Liberals not only won almost every seat in the city of Toronto, but every seat bordering on Toronto as well. All seven seats in Peel region went Liberal, as well as previously safe PC 905 seats like Markham, Oakville and Pickering-Ajax. The Liberals also made a major breakthrough in Southwestern Ontario, grabbing all three seats in London as well as rural seats like Perth-Middlesex, Huron-Bruce and Lambton-Kent. If the story of the PC majorities in 1995 and 1999 were the marriage of rural and small-town conservative bedrock with voters in the suburbs, the 2003 election was a divorce of those suburban voters from rural Ontario and a new marriage to the mid-town professionals and New Canadians who make up the Liberal base.

The NDP had a disappointingly confusing election: on one hand, they won seven seats, one fewer than the eight required to keep "official party status

Official party status

Official party status refers to the Canadian practice of recognizing political parties in the Parliament of Canada and the provincial legislatures. The type of recognition and threshold needed to obtain it varies...

", which would give it a share of official Queen's Park staff, money for research, and guaranteed time during Question Period

Question Period

. On the other hand, they increased their share of the popular vote for the first time since 1990. Despite the mixed results, Hampton stayed on as party leader, saying that the party did not blame him for the poor performance in an election where voters were apparently more concerned about defeating the Tories by any means necessary than about voting their conscience. The party was returned to official party status seven months into the session, when Andrea Horwath

Andrea Horwath

Andrea Horwath , is a Canadian activist and politician. She is the Leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party in Canada. She is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Hamilton Centre, and was chosen as the party's leader at its 2009 leadership convention.She is...

won a by-election in Hamilton

Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...

East on May 13, 2004.

The Tories were completely shut out of Toronto

Toronto

, where 19 out of 22 ridings were won by the Liberals, and the remaining three were carried by the New Democrats. Perhaps more ominously for the PCs, they were also shut out of any seats bordering Toronto; only in the outermost and most ethically homogenous suburbs like Aurora and Whitby were high-profile PC cabinet ministers able to retain their seats. With the arguable exception of Elizabeth Witmer

Elizabeth Witmer

, no PC member represents an urban riding. The PC caucus is now overwhelmingly older white men from rural ridings elected in 1995 and ideologically right-wing.

The 38th Parliament of Ontario

38th Legislative Assembly of Ontario

opened on November 19, 2003 at 3 p.m. Eastern Time with a Throne Speech in which the McGuinty government laid out their agenda.

Student vote

High school students in every riding in Ontario were allowed to cast ballots in their classrooms as part of a student vote. While their numbers did not count in the official election, they did tell a story all on their own. The student vote reflected change a lot more than the actual result, as well as widespread anti-conservatism. 93 ridings favoured the Liberals in the student vote, nine favoured the New Democrats, and one favoured the Greens, while the Conservatives were shut out. There was also a vote for elementary students.

Provincial results

Party		Party leader	# of candidates	Seats				Popular vote
Party		Party leader	# of candidates	1999 Ontario general election, 1999 An Ontario general election was held on June 3, 1999, to elect members of the 37th Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, Canada....	font style="font-size: 75%;">Dissolution Dissolution of parliament In parliamentary systems, a dissolution of parliament is the dispersal of a legislature at the call of an election.Usually there is a maximum length of a legislature, and a dissolution must happen before the maximum time...	Elected	% Change	#	%	% Change	Liberal Ontario Liberal Party The Ontario Liberal Party is a provincial political party in the province of Ontario, Canada. It has formed the Government of Ontario since the provincial election of 2003. The party is ideologically aligned with the Liberal Party of Canada but the two parties are organizationally independent and...	Dalton McGuinty Dalton McGuinty Dalton James Patrick McGuinty, Jr., MPP is a Canadian lawyer, politician and, since October 23, 2003, the 24th and current Premier of the Canadian province of Ontario....	103	35	36	72	+105.7%	2,090,001	46.4%	+6.6%	Progressive Conservative	Ernie Eves Ernie Eves Ernest Lawrence "Ernie" Eves was the 23rd Premier of the province of Ontario, Canada, from April 15, 2002, to October 23, 2003.-Beginnings:...	103	59	56	24	-59.3%	1,559,181	34.6%	-10.5%	New Democrats Ontario New Democratic Party The Ontario New Democratic Party or , formally known as New Democratic Party of Ontario, is a social democratic political party in Ontario, Canada. It is a provincial section of the federal New Democratic Party. It was formed in October 1961, a few months after the federal party. The ONDP had its...	Howard Hampton Howard Hampton Howard George Hampton, MPP is a Canadian lawyer and politician. He has served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada, since 1987 as the Member of Provincial Parliament from the northern riding of Kenora—Rainy River. A member of the Ontario New Democratic Party, he was also the party's...	103	9	9	7	-22.2%	660,730	14.7%	+2.1%	Green Green Party of Ontario The Green Party of Ontario is a political party in Ontario, Canada. The party is led by Mike Schreiner. It has never held any seats in the Ontario Legislative Assembly; however, the party did see significant gains in the 2007 provincial election, earning 8% of the popular vote with some candidates...	Frank de Jong Frank de Jong Frank de Jong, is a Canadian politician, environmentalist and elementary school teacher at Fern Avenue Public School...	102	-	-	-	-	126,651	2.8%	+2.1%	Family Coalition Family Coalition Party of Ontario The Family Coalition Party is a small political party in Ontario, Canada that promotes a socially conservative ideology. It was formed in 1987 by members of the pro-life organization Campaign Life Coalition, and has fielded candidates in every provincial election since then...	Giuseppe Gori	51	-	-	-	-	34,623	0.8%	+0.2%	Freedom Freedom Party of Ontario The Freedom Party of Ontario is a provincial political party in Ontario, Canada. It was founded on January 1, 1984 in London, Ontario by Robert Metz and Marc Emery, as a successor to the Unparty....	Paul McKeever Paul McKeever Paul McKeever leads the Freedom Party of Ontario and the unregistered Freedom Party of Canada, two political parties advocating laissez-faire capitalism. McKeever graduated from Trent University with an Honours Bachelor of Science in 1989 and a Master of Arts from the University of Western Ontario...	24	-	-	-	-	8,376	0.2%	+0.1%	Communist Communist Party of Canada The Communist Party of Canada is a communist political party in Canada. Although is it currently a minor or small political party without representation in the Federal Parliament or in provincial legislatures, historically the Party has elected representatives in Federal Parliament, Ontario...	Elizabeth Rowley Elizabeth Rowley Elizabeth Rowley is a politician, writer, and political activist in Ontario, Canada. Current leader of the Communist Party of Ontario, and a leading member of the Communist Party of Canada, Rowley has campaigned for office many times at both the municipal, federal and provincial levels.-Political...	6	-	-	-	-	2,187	0.05%	+0.03%	Libertarian Ontario Libertarian Party The Ontario Libertarian Party is a political party in Ontario, Canada that was founded in 1975 by Bruce Evoy, Vince Miller, and others, inspired by the formation three years earlier of the US Libertarian Party. The Party is guided by adherence to the philosophical ideas of Austrian Economics and...	Sam Apelbaum Sam Apelbaum Sam Apelbaum is a politician in Ontario, Canada. A lawyer and real estate agent, he has been the leader of the Ontario Libertarian Party since 1996....	5	-	-	-	-	1,991	0.04%	-0.06%	Confederation of Regions Ontario Provincial Confederation of Regions Party 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...	none (Richard Butson Richard Butson Colonel Arthur Richard Cecil Butson, GC, OMM, CD and Bar was born of British parents in China, and later emigrated to Canada.... , de facto)	1	-	-	-	-	293	0.01%	Independent & non-affiliated	24	-	1	-	-100%	13,211	0.3%	-0.3%	Independent Renewal	10	-	-	-	-	3,402	-	-	Independent Liberal	1	-	-	-	-	3,259	-	-	Independent Reform	1	-	-	-	-	586	-	-	Communist League	1	-	-	-	-	204	-	-	Other independent	11	-	-	-	-	5,760	-	-
	Vacant				1
Total				103	103	103	-	4,497,244	100%

Notes:

¹ "Before" refers to the party standings in the Legislature at the end of the legislative session, and not to the standings at the previous election.

² Richard Butson

Richard Butson

Colonel Arthur Richard Cecil Butson, GC, OMM, CD and Bar was born of British parents in China, and later emigrated to Canada....

was the sole candidate for the Confederation of Regions Party.

³Ten candidates ran as "Independent Renewal" candidates. This was the Marxist-Leninist

Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)

The Communist Party of Canada is a Canadian federal Marxist–Leninist political party.The party is registered with Elections Canada as the Marxist–Leninist Party of Canada...

Party under another name.

⁴Candidates from the Independent Reform Party and Communist League

Communist League (Canada)

The Communist League in Canada was founded as the "Revolutionary Workers League/Ligue Ouvrière Révolutionnaire" in 1977 as the result of a merger of the League for Socialist Action , the Revolutionary Marxist Group and the Groupe Marxiste Revolutionaire.Originally a Trotskyist party, the RWL was...

also ran as independents.

⁵Costas Manios

Liberal Party candidates, 1999 Ontario provincial election

The Ontario Liberal Party ran a full slate of 103 candidates in the 1999 provincial election, and elected 35 Members of Provincial Parliament to form the official opposition in the provincial legislature...

ran as an "Independent Liberal" candidate after being denied the opportunity to run for the Liberal Party nomination in Scarborough Centre. Outgoing MPP Claudette Boyer

Claudette Boyer

Claudette Boyer is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1999 as a Liberal, but was later forced to leave the party as a result of legal difficulties...

had sat in the house as an "Independent Liberal" from 2001 to 2003.

It is possible that some other candidates listed on the ballot as independents ran for unregistered parties.

The following table gives the number of seats each party won, and the number of ridings in which each party came second, third, and fourth:
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Party		Seats	Second	Third	Fourth
Liberal Ontario Liberal Party The Ontario Liberal Party is a provincial political party in the province of Ontario, Canada. It has formed the Government of Ontario since the provincial election of 2003. The party is ideologically aligned with the Liberal Party of Canada but the two parties are organizationally independent and...	72	30	1	0	Progressive Conservative	24	57	22	0	New Democrats Ontario New Democratic Party The Ontario New Democratic Party or , formally known as New Democratic Party of Ontario, is a social democratic political party in Ontario, Canada. It is a provincial section of the federal New Democratic Party. It was formed in October 1961, a few months after the federal party. The ONDP had its...	7	16	78	2	Green Green Party of Ontario The Green Party of Ontario is a political party in Ontario, Canada. The party is led by Mike Schreiner. It has never held any seats in the Ontario Legislative Assembly; however, the party did see significant gains in the 2007 provincial election, earning 8% of the popular vote with some candidates...	0	0	2	92	Family Coalition Family Coalition Party of Ontario The Family Coalition Party is a small political party in Ontario, Canada that promotes a socially conservative ideology. It was formed in 1987 by members of the pro-life organization Campaign Life Coalition, and has fielded candidates in every provincial election since then...	0	0	0	7	Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...	0	0	0	1	Independent Liberal	0	0	0	1

Ottawa

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Nepean—Carleton

Nepean—Carleton

Nepean—Carleton is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 1988 and since 1997....

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|Rod Vanier
20,878 (35.65%)
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|John Baird
John Baird (Canadian politician)
John Russell Baird, PC, MP is a Canadian politician currently serving as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper....

31,662 (54.06%)
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|Liam McCarthy
3,828 (6.54%)
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|Matt Takach
2,200 (3.76%)
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|John Baird
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Ottawa Centre

Ottawa Centre (provincial electoral district)

Ottawa Centre is an urban provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1968...

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|Richard Patten

Richard Patten

Richard Andrew Patten is a politician in Ontario, Canada. Patten was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Ottawa Centre.-Biography:...

Chris Bradshaw

Christopher John Bradshaw is a Canadian politician and business person. He served as interim leader of the Green Party of Canada from 2001 to 2003, and has sought public office as a candidate of the Green Party of Canada and the Green Party of Ontario.Bradshaw has a Bachelor of Arts degree in...

3,821 (7.73%)
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|Stuart Ryan
(Comm)
306 (0.62%)
Matt Szymanowicz
(F)
218 (0.44%)
Fakhry Guirguis
(Ind)
214 (0.43%)
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|Richard Patten
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Ottawa—Orléans

Ottawa—Orléans

Ottawa—Orléans is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1988....

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|Phil McNeely

Phil McNeely

Philip McNeely is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Ottawa—Orléans for the Ontario Liberal Party....

25,300 (50.36%)
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|Brian Coburn
Brian Coburn
Brian Coburn is not to be confused with the person of the same name who represents the same area on the Ottawa-Carleton Catholic School BoardBrian Coburn is a politician in Ontario, Canada...

20,762 (41.32%)
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|Ric Dagenais
2,778 (5.53%)
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|Melanie Ransom
1,402 (2.79%)
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|
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|Brian Coburn
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Ottawa South

Ottawa South (provincial electoral district)

Ottawa South is a riding in the Canadian province of Ontario, in the city of Ottawa. It is represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario by the Premier of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty....

||
|Dalton McGuinty
Dalton McGuinty
Dalton James Patrick McGuinty, Jr., MPP is a Canadian lawyer, politician and, since October 23, 2003, the 24th and current Premier of the Canadian province of Ontario....

24,647 (51.7%)
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|Richard Raymond
16,413 (34.43%)
|
|James McLaren
4,306 (9.03%)
|
|David Chernushenko
1,741 (3.65%)
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|John Pacheco
(FCP)
562 (1.18%)
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|Dalton McGuinty
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Ottawa—Vanier

Ottawa—Vanier (provincial electoral district)

Ottawa—Vanier is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1908.It is composed of the eastern part of downtown Ottawa....

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|Madeleine Meilleur

Madeleine Meilleur

Madeleine Meilleur is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and is a cabinet minister in the government of Premier Dalton McGuinty.-Background:...

22,188 (53.53%)
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|Maurice Lamirande
10,878 (26.24%)
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|Joseph Zebrowski
6,507 (15.7%)
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|Raphael Thierrin
1,876 (4.53%)
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|
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|Claudette Boyer

Claudette Boyer

†
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Ottawa West—Nepean

Ottawa West—Nepean

Ottawa West—Nepean is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997. Its population in 2001 was 112,509.-Geography:...

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|Jim Watson
23,127 (47.04%)
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|Garry Guzzo

Garry Guzzo

Garry Guzzo is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003....

20,277 (41.24%)
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|Marlene Rivier
4,099 (8.34%)
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|Neil Adair
1,309 (2.66%)
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|Robert Gauthier
(Ind)
353 (0.72%)
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|Garry Guzzo
|-
|}

Eastern Ontario

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Glengarry—Prescott—Russell

Glengarry—Prescott—Russell

Glengarry—Prescott—Russell is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1953...

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|Jean-Marc Lalonde

Jean-Marc Lalonde

Jean-Marc Lalonde is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a former member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Glengarry—Prescott—Russell for the Ontario Liberal Party....

28,956
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|Albert Bourdeau
10,921
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|Guy Belle-Isle
2,544
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|Louise Pattington
1,471
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|Jean-Marc Lalonde
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Hastings—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington

Hastings—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington

Hastings—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington was a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1984 to 2003, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2007.-Description:...

||
|Leona Dombrowsky

Leona Dombrowsky

Leona Dombrowsky is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario representing the riding of Prince Edward—Hastings, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Premier Dalton McGuinty....

21,548
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|Barry Gordon
13,709
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|Ross Sutherland
4,286
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|Adam Scott
1,311
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|John-Henry Westen
(FCP)
673
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|Leona Dombrowsky
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kingston and the Islands

Kingston and the Islands

Kingston and the Islands is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968....

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|John Gerretsen

John Gerretsen

John Philip Gerretsen is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and a Minister in the Cabinet of Premier Dalton McGuinty.-Early life:...

28,877
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|Hans Westenberg
9,640
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|Janet Collins

Janet Collins

Janet Collins was a ballet dancer and choreographer.Janet Collins was one of the few classically trained Black dancers of her generation. In 1951 she won the Donaldson Award for best dancer on Broadway for her work in Cole Porter's Out of This World...

5,514
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|Eric Walton
3,137
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|Chris Beneteau
(FCP)
735
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|John Gerretsen
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Lanark—Carleton
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|Marianne Wilkinson

Marianne Wilkinson

Marianne Wilkinson is the Councillor of Kanata North in the City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She is a long-time resident of Kanata and a veteran public servant in that former city. She served as Kanata's first mayor following its incorporation...

23,466 (38.79%)
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|Norm Sterling
Norm Sterling
Norman William Sterling is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is one of the longest-serving members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, having been first elected in 1977....

29,641 (48.99%)
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|Jim Ronson
3,554 (5.87%)
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|John Baranyi
2,564 (4.24%)
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|Jim Gardiner
(FCP)
1,275 (2.11%)
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|Norm Sterling
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Leeds—Grenville
|
|Stephen Mazurek
17,667
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|Bob Runciman
Bob Runciman
Robert William "Bob" Runciman is a veteran Canadian politician and former provincial Leader of the Opposition in the Ontario Legislature. First elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1981, he held the seat continuously for Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario for the next 29 years...

21,443
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|Steve Armstrong
2,469
|
|Jerry Heath
1,799
|
|Melody Trolly
(FCP)
649
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|Bob Runciman
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Prince Edward—Hastings

Prince Edward—Hastings

Prince Edward—Hastings is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968...

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|Ernie Parsons

Ernie Parsons

Ernie Parsons is a Justice of the Peace and former politician in Ontario, Canada. Until 2007 he was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Prince Edward—Hastings for the Ontario Liberal Party.Parsons received a Civil Engineering degree from Carleton University...

22,937
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|John Williams
12,800
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|Jodie Jenkins
3,377
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|Joe Ross
628
|
|Trueman Tuck
(F)
229
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|Ernie Parsons
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke

Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke

Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1979.It is represented by Cheryl Gallant of the Conservative Party....

|
|Derek Nighbor
18,629
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|John Yakabuski

John Yakabuski

John Yakabuski is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the eastern Ontario riding of Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke for the Progressive Conservative Party...

19,274
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|Felcite Stairs
5,092
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|Chris Walker
671
|
|
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|Sean Conway

Sean Conway

Sean Conway is a Canadian university professor and administrator. He served for 28 years as a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, from 1975 to 2003, and was a high-profile cabinet minister in the government of David Peterson...

†
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Stormont—Dundas—
Charlottenburgh

Stormont—Dundas—Charlottenburgh

Stormont—Dundas—Charlottenburgh was a federal electoral district in eastern Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2004, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2007...

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|Jim Brownell

Jim Brownell

Jim Brownell is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry for the Ontario Liberal Party...

Tom Manley

Tom Manley is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was one of three co-Deputy Leaders of the Green Party of Canada until 2005, and was considered a leading candidate to be its next leader. On Friday, September 23, 2005, Manley resigned from the Green Party to join the Liberal Party of Canada...

2,098
|
|Gary Besner
(Ind)
968
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|John Cleary

John Cleary

John Cleary is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1987 to 2003.Cleary was educated at St. Lawrence College...

†
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Central Ontario

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Barrie—Simcoe—Bradford
|
|Mike Ramsay
21,998
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|Joe Tascona
31,529
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|John Thomson
5,641
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|Stewart Sinclair
1,278
|
|Roberto Sales
(FCP)
441
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|Joe Tascona
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound

Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound

Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound is a federal electoral district that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1935....

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|Dave Hocking
14,881
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|Bill Murdoch

Bill Murdoch

Bill Murdoch is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He has been a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1990, and represents the riding of Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound as a Progressive Conservative....

23,338
|
|Colleen Purdon
4,159
|
|Martin Donald
769
|
|Linda Freiburger
(FCP)
1,086
Bill Cook
(Ind - Independent Reform)
586
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|Bill Murdoch
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Dufferin—Peel—Wellington—Grey

Dufferin—Peel—Wellington—Grey

Dufferin—Peel—Wellington—Grey was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2004.-Federal electoral district:...

|
|Dan Yake
14,859
||
|Ernie Eves
Ernie Eves
Ernest Lawrence "Ernie" Eves was the 23rd Premier of the province of Ontario, Canada, from April 15, 2002, to October 23, 2003.-Beginnings:...

29,222
|
|Mitchel Healey
3,148
|
|Frank de Jong
Frank de Jong
Frank de Jong, is a Canadian politician, environmentalist and elementary school teacher at Fern Avenue Public School...

3,161
|
|Dave Davies
(FCP)
1,202
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|Ernie Eves
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Durham

Durham (electoral district)

Durham is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1904 to 1968, and since 1988....

|
|Garry Minnie
18,590
||
|John O'Toole

John O'Toole

John O'Toole is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He has been a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1995, representing the riding of Durham for the Progressive Conservative Party....

23,814
|
|Teresa Williams
6,274
|
|Gordon MacDonald
1,183
|
|Cathy McKeever
(F)
707
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|John O'Toole
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Haliburton—Victoria—Brock
|
|Jason Ward

Jason Ward

Jason Robert Ward is a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who currently plays with EHC Black Wings Linz in the Austrian Hockey League. He has formerly played 336 games in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, Los Angeles Kings, and Tampa Bay Lightning...

17,171
||
|Laurie Scott
24,297
|
|Earl Manners
7,884
|
|Douglas Smith
1,183
|
|Paul Gordon
(FCP)
663
Charles Olito
(F)
273
||
|Chris Hodgson

Chris Hodgson

Chris Hodgson is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1994 to 2003, and a cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves...

†
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Northumberland

Northumberland (Ontario electoral district)

Northumberland was a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1917 to 1968 and from 1987 to 2003, ad in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2007....

||
|Lou Rinaldi

Lou Rinaldi

Luigino "Lou" Rinaldi is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Northumberland—Quinte West for the Ontario Liberal Party....

20,382
|
|Doug Galt
Doug Galt
Doug Galt is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003, and an unsuccessful contender for the Canadian House of Commons in 2004....

17,816
|
|Murray Weppler
5,210
|
|Derrick Kelly
1,839
|
|
||
|Doug Galt
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Peterborough

Peterborough (electoral district)

Peterborough is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1953.The riding's borders have differed slightly since its creation in 1953, but has always included most or all of Peterborough County and its county seat of...

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|Jeff Leal

Jeff Leal

Jeff Leal is a politician in the Canadian province of Ontario. He has represented Peterborough in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 2003 as a member of the Ontario Liberal Party.-Early life and municipal career:...

24,626
|
|Gary Stewart

Gary Stewart (politician)

Richard Gary Stewart is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003, and briefly served as a cabinet minister under Mike Harris.Stewart was educated at Banting Institute, receiving a Mortician Certificate, and...

18,418
|
|Dave Nickle
9,796
|
|Tim Holland
1,605
|
|Max Murray
(FCP)
414
Bob Bowers
(Ind)
178
||
|Gary Stewart
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Simcoe—Grey

Simcoe—Grey

Simcoe—Grey is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997.It was created in 1996 from parts of Barrie—Simcoe—Bradford, Bruce—Grey, Simcoe Centre, Simcoe North, Wellington—Grey—Dufferin—Simcoe and York—Simcoe.It consists of...

|
|Mark Redmond
17,505
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|Jim Wilson
26,114
|
|Leo Losereit
5,032
|
|Geoffrey Maile
875
|
|Steven Taylor
(FCP)
801
Philip Bender
(Lbt)
411
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|Jim Wilson
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Simcoe North

Simcoe North

Simcoe North is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada. It was established as a federal riding in 1867. Its population was 119,400 in 2006.-Demographics:Ethnic groups: 92.3% White, 5.9% Native Canadian...

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|Paul Sloan
19,713
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|Garfield Dunlop

Garfield Dunlop

thumb|Garfield Dunlop speaks at a Literacy conference in June 2009Garfield Dunlop is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Simcoe North for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.Dunlop was educated at the...

23,393
|
|John Niddery
5,515
|
|Nina Pruesse
1,540
|
|Blaine Scott
(FCP)
453
Karnail Singh
(Ind)
101
||
|Garfield Dunlop
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|York North

York North

York North was an electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from Confederation in 1867 until 2004. It is also an electoral district that was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1867 to 2007...

|
|John Taylor
21,054
||
|Julia Munro

Julia Munro

Julia Munro is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the Greater Toronto Area riding of York—Simcoe for the Progressive Conservative Party....

24,517
|
|Sylvia Gerl
4,029
|
|Bob Burrows
1,854
|
|Simone Williams
(FCP)
497
||
|Julia Munro
|-
|}

Southern Durham & York

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Markham

Markham (electoral district)

Markham was a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada created in 1986. Also known as Markham—Whitchurch-Stouffville, it was a federal electoral district that elected representatives to the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 to 2000....

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|Tony Wong
27,253
|
|David Tsubouchi
David Tsubouchi
is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves.-Education:...

21,257
|
|Janice Hagan
2,679
|
|Bernadette Manning
824
|
|Patrick Redmond
(FCP)
697
||
|David Tsubouchi
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Oak Ridges

Oak Ridges (electoral district)

Oak Ridges was a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2003 and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2007...

|
|Helena Jaczek

Helena Jaczek

Helena Jaczek, is a Canadian politician. She was originally elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2007 provincial election and was re- elected in the 2011 provincial election representing the riding of Oak Ridges—Markham. She is a member of the Liberal Party.-Background:Jaczek was...

31,026
||
|Frank Klees
Frank Klees
Frank Klees is a Canadian politician and the Progressive Conservative member of Provincial Parliament for the riding of Newmarket—Aurora north of Toronto. He was a candidate in the 2009 Progressive Conservative leadership election placing second behind victor Tim Hudak.-Early life:Klees was born...

32,647
|
|Pamela Courtot
4,464
|
|Steven Haylestrom
1,821
|
|
||
|Frank Klees
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Oshawa

Oshawa (electoral district)

Oshawa is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968....

|
|Chris Topple
9,383
||
|Jerry Ouellette
Jerry Ouellette
Jerry J. Ouellette is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He has been a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1995, representing the riding of Oshawa for the Progressive Conservative Party. Ouellette was Minister of Natural Resources in the government of Ernie Eves.Ouellette graduated...

14,566
|
|Sid Ryan

Sid Ryan

Patrick Cyril "Sid" Ryan is president of the Ontario Federation of Labour and a longtime Canadian labour union leader and politician.-Biography:...

13,547
|
|Karen Tweedle
636
|
|Paul McKeever

Paul McKeever

Paul McKeever leads the Freedom Party of Ontario and the unregistered Freedom Party of Canada, two political parties advocating laissez-faire capitalism. McKeever graduated from Trent University with an Honours Bachelor of Science in 1989 and a Master of Arts from the University of Western Ontario...

(F)
518
Dale Chilvers
(FCP)
383
||
|Jerry Ouellette
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Pickering—Ajax—Uxbridge

Pickering—Ajax—Uxbridge

Pickering—Ajax—Uxbridge was an electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2003. This riding was created in 1996, from parts of Durham and Ontario ridings....

||
|Wayne Arthurs

Wayne Arthurs (politician)

Wayne Arthurs is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Pickering—Scarborough East since the 2007 provincial election.-Background:...

24,970
|
|Janet Ecker
Janet Ecker
Janet Ecker is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003, and was a senior cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves.-Background:...

23,960
|
|Vern Edwards
3,690
|
|Adam Duncan
1,946
|
|
||
|Janet Ecker
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Thornhill

Thornhill (electoral district)

Thornhill is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997.It covers the community of Thornhill, Ontario, which is made up of portions of Vaughan and Markham, and was created in 1996 from parts of...

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|Mario Racco

Mario Racco

Mario G. Racco is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He sat in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the Greater Toronto Area riding of Thornhill for the Liberal Party from 2003 to 2007....

21,419
|
|Tina Molinari
Tina Molinari
Tina R. Molinari is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is a Justice of the Peace and was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2003, serving as an associate minister and member of the Cabinet in the government of Ernie Eves.-School...

20,623
|
|Laurie Orrett
2,616
|
|Bridget Haworth
705
|
|Lindsay King
(F)
304
||
|Tina Molinari
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Vaughan—King—Aurora

Vaughan—King—Aurora

Vaughan—King—Aurora was a federal electoral riding in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2004, and was a provincial electoral riding represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2007....

||
|Greg Sorbara

Greg Sorbara

Gregory Sam "Greg" Sorbara, MPP a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Vaughan. Sorbara served as the Minister of Finance in the Ontario Liberal Party government of Premier Dalton McGuinty from 2003 to 2007.He resigned on October 11, 2005, following a police investigation involving...

36,928
|
|Carmine Iacono
21,744
|
|Mike Seaward
4,697
|
|Adrian Visentin
2,412
|
|
||
|Greg Sorbara
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Whitby—Ajax

Whitby—Ajax

Whitby—Ajax was a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada. It was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2003, and the in Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2007...

|
|Dennis Fox
22,593
||
|Jim Flaherty
Jim Flaherty
James Michael "Jim" Flaherty, PC, MP is Canada's Minister of Finance and he has also served as Ontario's Minister of Finance. From 1995 until 2005, he was the Member of Provincial Parliament for Whitby—Ajax, and a member of the Progressive Conservative Party caucus...

27,240
|
|Dan Edwards
5,155
|
|Michael MacDonald
1,375
|
|
||
|Jim Flaherty
|-
|}

Downtown Toronto

|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Beaches—East York

Beaches—East York

Beaches—East York is a federal electoral district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1988....

|
|Monica Purdy
10,070
|
|Angela Kennedy
8,157
||
|Michael Prue

Michael Prue

Michael D. Prue is a Canadian politician, who represents the riding of Beaches—East York in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. He is the New Democratic Party critic for Finance, Public Infrastructure Renewal, Community and Social Services and the Management Board of Cabinet, and for issues...

21,239
|
|Tom Mason
1,995
|
|
||
|Michael Prue
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Davenport

Davenport (electoral district)

Davenport is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1935. Its population in 2001 was 111,705.-Geography:...

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|Tony Ruprecht

Tony Ruprecht

Tony Ruprecht is a former Canadian politician. His first elected position was as an alderman in the old Toronto City Council, in the late 1970s. He became a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1981, and served in premier David Peterson's cabinet as minister without portfolio from...

15,586
|
|Tom Smith
1,977
|
|Jordan Berger
7,243
|
|Mark O'Brien
907
|
|David Senater
(Ind)
293
Franz Cauchi
(F)
264
Nunzio Venuto
(Lbt)
233
||
|Tony Ruprecht
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Don Valley West

Don Valley West

Don Valley West is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1979. Its population in 2001 was 115,539....

||
|Kathleen Wynne

Kathleen Wynne

Kathleen O. Wynne is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Don Valley West for the Liberal Party.-Background:...

23,488
|
|David Turnbull
David Turnbull
David Turnbull is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 2003, and was a candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada in the federal election of 2004.Turnbull was educated at the Edinburgh College of Domestic...

17,394
|
|Ali Naqvi
2,540
|
|Philip Hawkins
1,239
|
|
||
|David Turnbull
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Eglinton—Lawrence

Eglinton—Lawrence

Eglinton—Lawrence is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1979, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999....

||
|Mike Colle

Mike Colle

Michael Colle is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Eglinton—Lawrence for the Ontario Liberal Party.-Background:...

23,743
|
|Corinne Korzen
12,402
|
|Robin Alter
4,351
|
|Mark Viitala
1,236
|
|
||
|Mike Colle
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Parkdale—High Park

Parkdale—High Park

Parkdale—High Park is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1979.Peggy Nash of the New Democratic Party was elected the Member of Parliament for the riding on May 2, 2011....

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|Gerard Kennedy

Gerard Kennedy

Gerard Michael Kennedy is a Canadian politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as Ontario's Minister of Education from 2003 to 2006, when he resigned to make an unsuccessful bid for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada...

23,008
|
|Stephen Snell
6,436
|
|Margo Duncan
6,275
|
|Neil Spiegel
2,758
|
|Stan Grzywna
(FCP)
591
Karin Larsen
(Comm)
349
John Steele
(Ind [Communist League])
204
Dick Field
(F)
165
||
|Gerard Kennedy
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. Paul's
||
|Michael Bryant

Michael Bryant (politician)

24,887
|
|Charis Kelso
11,203
|
|Julian Heller
6,740
|
|Peter Elgie
2,266
|
|Carol Leborg
(F)
354
||
|Michael Bryant
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Toronto Centre—Rosedale
||
|George Smitherman

George Smitherman

Gabriel Draven

Gabriel Draven is a Toronto based entrepreneur with an MBA from the Schulich School of Business York University. In 2001 he was co-awarded the school's top prize for strategy for work undertaken with Toronto based anti-poverty organization, the Daily Bread Food Bank.He is known for his work in the...

1,739
|
|Philip Fernandez
(Ind [Independent Renewal])
324
Silvio Ursomarzo
(F)
218
||
|George Smitherman
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Toronto—Danforth

Toronto—Danforth

Toronto—Danforth is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1979. It lies to the east of Downtown Toronto....

|
|Jim Davidson
12,246
|
|George Sardelis
6,562
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|Marilyn Churley
18,253
|
|Michael Pilling
1,368
|
|Masood Atchekzai
(FCP)
217
Mehmet Ali Yagiz
(Ind)
73
||
|Marilyn Churley
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Trinity—Spadina

Trinity—Spadina

Trinity—Spadina is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1988.It generally encompasses the western portion of Downtown Toronto. In the 2001 Canadian census, the riding had 106,094 people, of whom 74,409 were eligible to...

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|Nellie Pedro
12,927
|
|Helena Guergis

Helena Guergis

Helena C. Guergis, PC, is a Canadian politician. She has represented Simcoe—Grey in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004, and was appointed Minister of State on October 30, 2008, following the October 14, 2008 Canadian federal election...

4,985
||
|Rosario Marchese

Rosario Marchese

Rosario Marchese is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the downtown Toronto riding of Trinity-Spadina for the New Democratic Party of Ontario.-Background:...

19,268
|
|Greg Laxton
2,362
|
|Judson Glober
(Lbt)
756
Nick Lin
(Ind [Independent Renewal])
256
||
|Rosario Marchese
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|York South—Weston

York South—Weston

York South—Weston is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1979.-Electoral district:It is in the west-end of Toronto. The riding has a largely working class and immigrant population...

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|Joseph Cordiano

Joseph Cordiano

Joseph Cordiano is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was formerly a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and a cabinet minister in the government of Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty.-Early life:...

19,932
|
|Stephen Halicki
4,930
|
|Brian Donlevy
6,247
|
|Enrique Palad
794
|
|Mariangela Sanabria
(FCP)
475
||
|Joseph Cordiano
|-
|}

Suburban Toronto

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Don Valley East

Don Valley East

Don Valley East is a federal electoral district in Canada that covers the northeast section of the North York part of Toronto. The federal riding was created in 1976 from parts of Willowdale, York East, York North, and York—Scarborough ridings....

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|David Caplan

David Caplan

David Caplan is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty...

21,327
|
|Paul Sutherland

Paul Sutherland (politician)

Paul Sutherland is an Ontario politician, former Toronto City Councillor, former North York City Councillor, and a former candidate for the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party in the provincial riding of Don Valley East....

12,027
|
|Murphy Browne
3,058
|
|Dan Craig
558
|
|Ryan Kidd
(FCP)
460
Wayne Simmons
(F)
119
||
|David Caplan
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Etobicoke Centre

Etobicoke Centre (provincial electoral district)

Etobicoke Centre is a provincial electoral district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.It was created in 1999 from parts of Etobicoke West and Etobicoke—Humber....

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|Donna Cansfield

Donna Cansfield

Donna H. Cansfield, is a politician in Ontario, Canada, who has represented the riding of Etobicoke Centre in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 2003...

22,070
|
|Rose Andrachuk
17,610
|
|Margaret Anne McHugh
3,400
|
|Ralph M. Chapman
1,584
|
|
||
|Chris Stockwell

Chris Stockwell

†
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Etobicoke—Lakeshore

Etobicoke—Lakeshore

Etobicoke—Lakeshore is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968....

||
|Laurel Broten

Laurel Broten

Laurel C. Broten is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Etobicoke—Lakeshore for the Ontario Liberal Party. On October 19, 2011, she was appointed Ontario Minister of Education.-Background:Prior to entering politics,...

19,680
|
|Morley Kells

Morley Kells

Morley Kells is a longtime politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on two separate occasions, and was briefly a cabinet minister in the government of Frank Miller...

14,524
|
|Irene Jones

Irene Jones

Irene Jones is a former municipal councillor in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A member of the social democratic New Democratic Party, she served on the Etobicoke and Toronto councils from 1988 until 2003, when she stood down to seek election to the provincial legislature.-Background:Jones was the...

8,952
|
|Junyee Wang
708
|
|Ted Kupiec
(FCP)
480
Janice Murray
(Ind [Independent Renewal])
225
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|Morley Kells
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Etobicoke North

Etobicoke North

Etobicoke North is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1979. It covers Rexdale, the northern part of Etobicoke, which is part of Toronto....

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|Shafiq Qaadri

Shafiq Qaadri

Shafiq Qaadri is a family doctor and politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Etobicoke North for the Liberal Party.-Background:...

16,727
|
|Baljit Gosal
6,978
|
|Kuldip Singh Sodhi
3,516
|
|Mir Kamal
503
|
|Frank Acri
(Ind)
1,990
Teresa Ceolin
(FCP)
1,275
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|John Hastings †
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Scarborough—Agincourt

Scarborough—Agincourt

Scarborough—Agincourt is a federal electoral district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1988.It covers the northwest of the Scarborough part of Toronto...

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|Gerry Phillips

Gerry Phillips

23,026
|
|Yolanda Chan
11,337
|
|Stacy Douglas
2,209
|
|Lawrence Arkilander
566
|
|Tony Ieraci
(FCP)
550
||
|Gerry Phillips
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Scarborough Centre

Scarborough Centre (provincial electoral district)

Scarborough Centre is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1963.It consists of the part of the Scarborough district of the City of Toronto bounded:...

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|Brad Duguid

Brad Duguid

Brad Duguid is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Scarborough Centre and is the province's Minister of Economic Development and Innovation in the Liberal government of Premier Dalton McGuinty for the Ontario Liberal...

21,698
|
|Marilyn Mushinski

Marilyn Mushinski

Marilyn Mushinski is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003, and was a cabinet minister under Mike Harris.-Background:...

Liberal Party candidates, 1999 Ontario provincial election

(Independent Liberal)
3,259
Joseph Internicola
(FCP)
495
Elizabeth Rowley

Elizabeth Rowley

Elizabeth Rowley is a politician, writer, and political activist in Ontario, Canada. Current leader of the Communist Party of Ontario, and a leading member of the Communist Party of Canada, Rowley has campaigned for office many times at both the municipal, federal and provincial levels.-Political...

(Comm)
241
||
|Marilyn Mushinski
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Scarborough East

Scarborough East

Scarborough East was a Canadian electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1968 to 2003, and was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to 2007, and on Toronto City Council....

||
|Mary Anne Chambers

Mary Anne Chambers

Mary Anne Veronica Chambers is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2003 until 2007, and served in the cabinet in the government of Premier Dalton McGuinty.-Background:...

21,798
|
|Steve Gilchrist

Steve Gilchrist

Steve Gilchrist is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003, and served as a cabinet minister in the government of Mike Harris....

Sam Apelbaum

Sam Apelbaum is a politician in Ontario, Canada. A lawyer and real estate agent, he has been the leader of the Ontario Libertarian Party since 1996....

(Lbt)
285
||
|Steve Gilchrist
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Scarborough—Rouge River

Scarborough—Rouge River

Scarborough—Rouge River is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1988....

||
|Alvin Curling

Alvin Curling

Alvin Curling is a prominent Black Canadian. He was Canada's envoy to the Dominican Republic from 2005-2006. A former politician in Ontario, Canada, he was Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario until he resigned on August 19, 2005 to accept his diplomatic appointment...

23,976
|
|Kevin Moore
9,468
|
|Jean-Paul Yovanoff
2,246
|
|Karen Macdonald
1,326
|
|Mitchell Persaud
(FCP)
536
||
|Alvin Curling
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Scarborough Southwest

Scarborough Southwest

Scarborough Southwest is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons.On Toronto City Council, the southeast portion is represented by Gary Crawford. The northwest section is represented by Michelle Berardinetti.-Geography:It covers the...

||
|Lorenzo Berardinetti

Lorenzo Berardinetti

Lorenzo Berardinetti is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is the member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Scarborough Southwest, representing the governing Ontario Liberal Party....

17,501
|
|Dan Newman
Dan Newman
Dan Newman is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves....

11,826
|
|Barbara Warner
6,688
|
|Andrew Strachan
689
|
|Ray Scott
(FCP)
586
||
|Dan Newman
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Willowdale

Willowdale (electoral district)

Willowdale is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1979.The riding was created in 1976 from part of Eglinton....

||
|David Zimmer

David Zimmer

David Zimmer is a Canadian provincial legislator in Ontario's Legislative Assembly, representing the North York area riding of Willowdale for the Ontario Liberal Party.-Background:...

21,823
|
|David Young
David Young (Ontario politician)
David Young was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves....

19,957
|
|Yvonne Bobb
3,084
|
|Sharolyn Vettesse
933
|
|Rina Morra
(FCP)
442
Vaughan Byrnes
(F)
227
||
|David Young
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|York Centre

York Centre

York Centre is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1904 to 1917 and since 1953....

||
|Monte Kwinter

Monte Kwinter

Monte Kwinter is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He has been a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1985, was a cabinet minister in the government of David Peterson from 1985 to 1990, and was re-appointed to a cabinet position when the Liberals returned to power under Dalton...

18,808
|
|Dan Cullen

Dan Cullen

Daniel James Cullen is an Australian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and right-hand off break bowler. He plays his domestic cricket for South Australia and played for Somerset in the 2006 English cricket season....

7,826
|
|Matthew Norrish
3,494
|
|Constantine Kristonis
1,496
|
|
||
|Monte Kwinter
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|York West

York West

York West is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1904 and since 1917.Its population was 110,384 in 2001...

||
|Mario Sergio
16,102
|
|Ted Aver
2,330
|
|Garth Bobb
3,954
|
|Richard Von Fuchs
437
|
|Christopher Black

Christopher Black

Christopher Black is an international criminal lawyer and political activist based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has been involved in high-profile cases involving human rights and war crimes and has defended those accused of these crimes in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia and is on the list of...

(Comm)
408
||
|Mario Sergio
|-
|}

Brampton, Mississauga & Oakville

|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|
Bramalea—Gore—Malton—Springdale
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|Kuldip Kular
19,306
|
|Raminder Gill

Raminder Gill

Raminder Singh Gill is a Canadian politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2003, and has unsuccessfully sought election to the Canadian House of Commons on three separate occasions. He currently serves as a citizenship judge. Gill was born...

15,549
|
|Cesar Martello
4,931
|
|Ernst Braendli
1,176
|
|Frank Chilelli
(Ind - Independent Renewal)
868

Howard Cukoff
(Comm)
503
||
|Raminder Gill
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Brampton Centre

Brampton Centre

Brampton Centre was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2004. This riding was created in 1996 from parts of Brampton riding....

||
|Linda Jeffrey

Linda Jeffrey

Linda Jeffrey is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Brampton—Springdale for the Ontario Liberal Party, and is the province's Minister of Natural Resources in the Liberal government of Premier Dalton...

16,661
|
|Joe Spina

Joe Spina

Joe Spina is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003, representing a Brampton-area riding for the Progressive Conservative Party....

15,656
|
|Kathy Pounder
4,827
|
|Sanjeev Goel

Sanjeev Goel

Sanjeev Goel is a male former deputy leader of the Green Party of Ontario and is a physician in Brampton, Ontario. He is a previous candidate for both the Green Party of Ontario and the Green Party of Canada....

820
|
|Wally Dove
(F)
356
||
|Joe Spina
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Brampton West—Mississauga

Brampton West—Mississauga

Brampton West—Mississauga was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2004...

||
|Vic Dhillon

Vic Dhillon

Vic Dhillon is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the constituency of Brampton West for the Ontario Liberal Party. Dhillon is one of the three Sikh Members of the Legislature, all of whom are members of the Liberal Party.-Early...

28,926
|
|Tony Clement
Tony Clement
Tony Peter Clement, PC, MP is a Canadian federal politician, President of the Treasury Board, Minister for the Federal Economic Initiative for Northern Ontario and member of the Conservative Party of Canada....

26,414
|
|Chris Moise
5,103
|
|Paul Simas
811
|
|Paul Micelli
(FCP)
1,122
John G. Purdy
(F)
266
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|Tony Clement
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Mississauga Centre

Mississauga Centre

Mississauga Centre was a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2004 an in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2007....

||
|Harinder Takhar

Harinder Takhar

Harinder Jeet Singh Takhar is a politician in Ontario, Canada. Takhar was born to a Sikh family in the Indian state of Punjab, with a background in farming and civil service work. He moved to Canada in 1974, and arrived in Mississauga, Ontario in 1977...

18,466
|
|Rob Sampson

Rob Sampson

Rob Sampson is a politician in the Canadian province of Ontario. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Mike Harris.-Career:Sampson has a Bachelor of Arts degree and an MBA from Queen's...

15,846
|
|Michael Miller
3,237
|
|Jeffrey Scott Smith
776
|
|John R. Lyall
(FCP)
588
||
|Rob Sampson
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Mississauga East

Mississauga East

Mississauga East was a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 to 2003, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 2007. It was located in the city of Mississauga.This riding was created in 1987 from...

||
|Peter Fonseca

Peter Fonseca

Peter Fonseca is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Mississauga East—Cooksville for the Ontario Liberal Party from 2003-2011.-Background:...

16,686
|
|Carl DeFaria
Carl DeFaria
Carl DeFaria is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Ernie Eves....

13,382
|
|Michael Hancock

Mike Hancock (Canadian politician)

Mike Hancock was the previous mayor of the city of Brantford, Ontario, Canada. He was elected to the position in the 2003 municipal elections, defeating three-term incumbent Chris Friel by 11668 votes to 11653...

2,479
|
|Donald Barber
666
|
|Gary Nail
(FCP)
358
Pierre Chenier
(Independent Renewal)
256
||
|Carl DeFaria
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Mississauga South

Mississauga South

Mississauga South is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1979....

||
|Tim Peterson

Tim Peterson

Tim Peterson is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the Greater Toronto Area riding of Mississauga South...

17,211
|
|Margaret Marland

Margaret Marland

Margaret Marland is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1985 to 2003, and served as a cabinet minister in the government of Mike Harris.Marland worked as a bank accountant and dental assistant in private life...

16,977
|
|Ken Cole
3,606
|
|Pamela Murray
949
|
|Alfred Zawadzki
(FCP)
555
||
|Margaret Marland
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Mississauga West

Mississauga West

For the current provincial electoral district, see Mississauga West Mississauga West was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 to 2003. It was located in the city of Mississauga in the province of Ontario...

||
|Bob Delaney

Bob Delaney

Bob Delaney is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Mississauga—Streetsville for the Ontario Liberal Party....

27,903
|
|Nina Tangri
20,406
|
|Arif Raza
4,196
|
|Richard Pereira
1,395
|
|Charles Montano
(FCP)
989
||
|John Snobelen

John Snobelen

John Snobelen is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003, and served as a cabinet minister in the government of Mike Harris....

†
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Oakville

Oakville (electoral district)

Oakville is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997.-History:It was created in 1996 from parts of Halton and Oakville—Milton ridings....

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|Kevin Flynn
22,428
|
|Kurt Franklin
18,991
|
|Anwar Naqvi
2,858
|
|
|
|Theresa Tritt
(FCP)
751
||
|Gary Carr
Gary Carr
Gary Carr is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 2003, and served in the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal from 2004 to early 2006...

†
|-
|}

Hamilton, Burlington & Niagara

|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Ancaster—Dundas—
Flamborough—Aldershot
||
|Ted McMeekin

Ted McMeekin

Ted McMeekin is a politician residing in Flamborough Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale for the Liberal Party of Ontario...

Richard Butson

Colonel Arthur Richard Cecil Butson, GC, OMM, CD and Bar was born of British parents in China, and later emigrated to Canada....

(CoR)
293
||
|Ted McKeekin
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Burlington

Burlington (electoral district)

Burlington is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1979.-Geography:It consists of the southern part of the city of Burlington, Ontario....

|
|Mark Fuller
19,654
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|Cam Jackson

Cam Jackson

21,506
|
|David Laird
3,832
|
|Julie Gordon
1,086
|
|Vic Corvaro
(FCP)
523
||
|Cam Jackson
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Erie—Lincoln

Erie—Lincoln

Erie—Lincoln was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2004, and was a provincial electoral district represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2007...

|
|Vance Badawey
16,290
||
|Tim Hudak
Tim Hudak
Timothy Patrick "Tim" Hudak is a politician in Ontario, Canada, and the Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario . He also serves as member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for the riding of Niagara West—Glanbrook.-Background:Tim Hudak was born in Fort Erie, Ontario...

20,348
|
|Julius Antal
3,950
|
|Tom Ferguson
713
|
|Steve Elgersma
(FCP)
666
||
|Tim Hudak
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Halton

Halton (electoral district)

Halton is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1988 and again since 1997. Its population in 2001 was 100,055.-Geography:...

|
|Barbara Sullivan

Barbara Sullivan

Barbara Sullivan Barbara Sullivan Barbara Sullivan (born January 24, 1943 in Calgary, is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1987 to 1995....

28,112
||
|Ted Chudleigh

Ted Chudleigh

Ted Chudleigh is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Halton for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario...

33,610
|
|Jay Jackson
5,587
|
|Matthew Raymond Smith
1,295
|
|Giuseppe Gori
(FCP)
1,123
||
|Ted Chudleigh
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Hamilton East
||
|Dominic Agostino

Dominic Agostino

Dominic Agostino was a Canadian politician who represented the riding of Hamilton East for the Liberal Party in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 until his death in 2004.-Biography:...

16,015
|
|Sohail Bhatti
4,033
|
|Bob Sutton

Bob Sutton

-External links:*...

9,035
|
|Raymond Dartsch
563
|
|Bob Mann

Communist Party candidates, 2003 Ontario provincial election

The Communist Party of Canada - Ontario ran six candidates in the 2003 provincial election in Ontario, Canada. Relevant information about these candidates may be found on this page.-Howard Cukoff :...

(Comm)
380
Kelly Greenaway
(Independent Renewal)
378
Michael Izzotti
(FCP)
304
||
|Dominic Agostino
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Hamilton Mountain

Hamilton Mountain

Hamilton Mountain is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968. The riding is located in the Hamilton, Ontario region....

||
|Marie Bountrogianni

Marie Bountrogianni

Marie Bountrogianni BA, MEd, D.Ed is a psychologist, politician, and was the President and Executive Director of ROM Governors. She was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and a cabinet minister in the government of Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty.Bountrogianni was born in Hamilton,...

23,524
|
|Shakil Hassan
8,637
|
|Chris Charlton

Chris Charlton

Chris Charlton, MP, MA is a German-born, Canadian politician from the City of Hamilton, Ontario. As a New Democrat, she has served as the Member of Parliament for Hamilton Mountain since 2006...

12,017
|
|Selwyn Inniss
494
|
|Eleanor Johnson
(FCP)
748
||
|Marie Bountrogianni
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Hamilton West
||
|Judy Marsales

Judy Marsales

Judy Marsales is a businessperson and politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the former riding of Hamilton West as a member of the Ontario Liberal Party ....

15,600
|
|Doug Brown
8,185
|
|Roy Adams

Roy Adams

Roy J. Adams is a Canadian author, newspaper columnist, human rights activist and academic.He emigrated to Canada in 1973 and taught industrial relations at McMaster University until 1997. Since then he has been a newspaper columnist for the Hamilton Spectator and has written a number of articles...

13,468
|
|Jo Pavlov
727
|
|Lynne Scime

Lynne Scime

Lynne Scime is a veteran social conservative activist in Canada and a perennial candidate for the Family Coalition Party of Ontario.She was chosen as national president of REAL Women in 1987, and was quoted as being opposed to divorce, abortion and homosexuality...

(FCP)
750
Jamilé Ghaddar
(Independent Renewal)
303
||
|David Christopherson

David Christopherson

David Christopherson is a Canadian politician. Since 2004, he has represented the riding of Hamilton Centre in the Canadian House of Commons. He previously served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 2003, and was a cabinet minister in the provincial government of Bob Rae...

†
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Niagara Centre

Niagara Centre

Niagara Centre was a federal and provincial electoral district that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2003, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2007.-Federal riding:...

|
|Henry D'Angela
12,526
|
|Ann Gronski
10,336
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|Peter Kormos

Peter Kormos

Peter Kormos is a politician in Ontario, Canada. A former lawyer, he was first elected as an Ontario New Democratic Party Member of Provincial Parliament to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the Welland constituency in a 1988 provincial by-election. He replaced veteran NDP legislator Mel...

23,289
|
|Jordan McArthur
768
|
|
||
|Peter Kormos
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls (electoral district)

Niagara Falls is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1953.It consists of the city of Niagara Falls and the towns of Niagara-on-the-Lake and Fort Erie....

||
|Kim Craitor

Kim Craitor

Kim Craitor is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the constituency of Niagara Falls for the Ontario Liberal Party.-Early life:...

18,904
|
|Bart Maves

Bart Maves

Bart Maves is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a Regional Councillor representing Niagara Falls for the 2010-2014 term and was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003.Before running for office himself, Maves worked as a legislative...

15,353
|
|Claude Sonier
4,962
|
|Ryan McLaughlin
1,124
|
|
||
|Bart Maves
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. Catharines

St. Catharines (electoral district)

St. Catharines is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968.It consists of the part of the City of St. Catharines lying north of a line drawn from west to east along St. Paul Street West, St...

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|Jim Bradley
25,319
|
|Mark Brickell
12,932
|
|John Bacher
3,944
|
|Jim Fannon

Jim Fannon

Jim Fannon , is a Canadian politician, radio talk show host, entrepreneur, and real estate agent in St. Catharines. He campaigned for the leadership of the Green Party of Canada in 2006....

1,167
|
|Linda Klassen
(FCP)
714
||
|Jim Bradley
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Stoney Creek

Stoney Creek (electoral district)

Stoney Creek was an electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2003 and in the legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2007. It was located in the Hamilton area of Southern Ontario...

||
|Jennifer Mossop

Jennifer Mossop

Jennifer F. Mossop is a former politician and journalist in Ontario, Canada. She was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Stoney Creek for the Ontario Liberal Party from 2003 to 2007.-Journalism:...

24,751
|
|Brad Clark
Brad Clark
Brad Clark is a Canadian politician in Ontario, Canada. He is currently the councillor in Ward nine in Hamilton, Ontario...

19,517
|
|Lorrie McKibbon
5,419
|
|Richard Safka
898
|
|
||
|Brad Clark
|-
|}

Midwestern Ontario

|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Brant

Brant (electoral district)

Brant is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1904 to 1949 and since 1968.The federal riding was created in 1903. It consisted of Brant County excluding Brantford....

||
|Dave Levac

Dave Levac

David Joseph "Dave" Levac is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Brant for the Ontario Liberal Party...

John C. Turmel

John C. Turmel is a perennial candidate for election in Canada, and according to the Guinness Book of Records holds the records for the most elections contested and for the most elections lost having contested 75 elections and lost 74...

(Ind)
295
||
|Dave Levac
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cambridge

Cambridge (electoral district)

Cambridge is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1979. Its population in 2001 was 119,140.-Geography:...

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|Jerry Boyle
16,559
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|Gerry Martiniuk

Gerry Martiniuk

Gerry Martiniuk is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Cambridge for the Progressive Conservative Party....

19,996
|
|Pam Wolf
8,513
|
|Michael Chownyk
983
|
|Al Smith
(FCP)
1,001
||
|Gerry Martiniuk
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Guelph—Wellington

Guelph (provincial electoral district)

Guelph is a provincial electoral district in southwestern Ontario, Canada. It was created for the 2007 provincial election. The entire riding was created from Guelph—Wellington riding.The riding includes all of the city of Guelph....

||
|Liz Sandals

Liz Sandals

Liz Sandals is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Guelph for the Ontario Liberal Party.-Background:...

23,607
|
|Brenda Elliott
Brenda Elliott
Brenda Elliott is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Progressive Conservative from 1995 to 2003, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves....

20,735
|
|James Valcke
6,745
|
|Ben Polley
3,917
|
|Alan John McDonald
(FCP)
914
||
|Brenda Elliott
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Haldimand—Norfolk—Brant

Haldimand—Norfolk—Brant

Haldimand—Norfolk—Brant was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2004...

|
|Rob Esselment
17,151
||
|Toby Barrett

Toby Barrett

Toby Barrett is a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario representing the district of Haldimand—Norfolk for the Progressive Conservative Party....

20,109
|
|Paul Steiner

Paul Steiner

Paul Steiner is a retired German footballer who played mainly as a central defender.-Club career:Born in Waldbrunn, Baden-Württemberg, Steiner started his career in his hometown, playing for TSV Strümpfelbrunn...

4,720
|
|Graeme Dunn
1,088
|
|Barra L. Gots
(FCP)
548
||
|Toby Barrett
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Huron—Bruce

Huron—Bruce

Huron—Bruce is a federalelectoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1953.-History:...

||
|Carol Mitchell

Carol Mitchell

Carol Mitchell is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs in the cabinet of Dalton McGuinty and member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for the riding of Huron—Bruce. She is a member of the Ontario Liberal Party.Mitchell was born in...

19,879
|
|Helen Johns

Helen Johns

16,594
|
|Grant Robertson
4,973
|
|Shelley Hannah
934
|
|Dave Joslin
(FCP)
902
Robert Sabharwal
(F)
127
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|Helen Johns
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kitchener Centre

Kitchener Centre

Kitchener Centre is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997.-Political geography:...

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|John Milloy
18,280
|
|Wayne Wettlaufer

Wayne Wettlaufer

Wayne Wettlaufer is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003....

16,210
|
|Ted Martin

Ted Martin

Edmund John "Ted" Martin was an Australian cricketer who played two first-class matches in 1932–33, both against a touring English side under the captaincy of Douglas Jardine, which used Bodyline tactics...

6,781
|
|Luigi D'Agnillo
1,728
|
|
||
|Wayne Wettlaufer
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kitchener—Waterloo

Kitchener—Waterloo (provincial electoral district)

Kitchener—Waterloo is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999...

|
|Sean Strickland
22,456
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|Elizabeth Witmer
Elizabeth Witmer
Elizabeth Witmer is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She has been a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1990, originally representing Waterloo North and later Kitchener—Waterloo for the Progressive Conservative Party.Witmer moved with her family to Ontario at a young age...

23,957
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|Dan Lajoie
6,084
|
|Pauline Richards
1,774
|
|Lou Reitzel
(FCP)
949
Owen Alastair Ferguson
(Ind)
242
Julian Ichim
(Independent Renewal)
153
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|Elizabeth Witmer
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Oxford

Oxford (electoral district)

Oxford is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since the 1935 election.It consists of the county of Oxford....

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|Brian Brown
16,135
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|Ernie Hardeman
Ernie Hardeman
Ernie Hardeman is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the rural riding of Oxford for the Progressive Conservative Party....

18,656
|
|Shawn Rouse
5,318
|
|Tom Mayberry
838
|
|Andre De Decker
(FCP)
689
Paul Blair
(F)
404
Kaye Sargent

Kaye Sargent

Kaye Sargent was a political activist in Ontario, Canada. She was the Deputy Leader of the Ontario Libertarian Party, and served as the party's leader for three years in the late 1980s. She also campaigned as a federal candidate for the Libertarian Party of Canada.Formerly a singer, Sargent became...

(Lbt)
306
||
|Ernie Hardeman
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Perth—Middlesex

Perth—Middlesex

Perth—Middlesex was an electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2003 and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2007....

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|John Wilkinson
17,017
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|Bert Johnson
15,680
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|Jack Verhulst
4,703
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|John Cowling
1,201
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|Pat Bannon
(FCP)
857
Robert Smink
(F)
384
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|Bert Johnson
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Waterloo—Wellington

Waterloo—Wellington

Waterloo—Wellington was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2003. It continues to be a provincial electoral district represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario...

|
|Deborah Whale
17,344
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|Ted Arnott

Ted Arnott

Theodore Calvin Arnott is a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario representing the district of Wellington—Halton Hills....

22,550
|
|Richard Walsh Bowers
3,970
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|Allan Strong
1,203
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|Gord Truscott
(FCP)
978
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|Ted Arnott
|}

Southwestern Ontario

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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Chatham-Kent—Essex

Chatham-Kent—Essex

Chatham-Kent—Essex is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997.-Federal riding:...

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|Pat Hoy

Pat Hoy

Pat Hoy is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Chatham-Kent—Essex for the Ontario Liberal Party from 1995 to 2011....

David Rodman

David Rodman is a Slovenian ice hockey player. He participated at the 2011 IIHF World Championship as a member of the Slovenia men's national ice hockey team.-External links:...

(F)
281
||
|Pat Hoy
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Elgin—Middlesex—London

Elgin—Middlesex—London

Elgin—Middlesex—London is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons.It was created in 1996 from Elgin—Norfolk, Lambton—Middlesex, and London—Middlesex ridings.-Members of Parliament:...

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|Steve Peters
24,914
|
|Bruce Smith
13,149
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|Bryan Bakker
4,063
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|Mark Viitala
1,236
|
|Ray Monteith
(F)
671
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|Steve Peters
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Essex

Essex (electoral district)

Essex is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1882 and since 1968.-Geography:...

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|Bruce Crozier

Bruce Crozier

Bruce Crozier was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Essex for the Ontario Liberal Party.-Background:...

20,559
|
|Patrick O'Neil
11,234
|
|Pat Hayes

Patrick Michael Hayes

Patrick Michael Hayes is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1985 to 1987, and again from 1990 to 1995.-Background:...

12,614
|
|Darren J. Brown
998
|
|
||
|Bruce Crozier
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Lambton—Kent—Middlesex

Lambton—Kent—Middlesex

Lambton—Kent—Middlesex is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997....

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|Maria Van Bommel

Maria Van Bommel

Maria Van Bommel is a politician in Ontario, Canada. From 2003 to 2011, she was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the London area riding of Lambton—Kent—Middlesex for the Ontario Liberal Party....

18,533
|
|Marcel Beaubien

Marcel Beaubien

Marcel Beaubien is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003, and unsuccessfully sought election to the Canadian House of Commons as the Conservative candidate in the federal riding of Sarnia-Lambton in...

15,060
|
|Joyce Jolliffe
4,523
|
|Tim Van Bodegom
1,133
|
|
James Armstrong
(Ind)
1,053
Wayne Forbes
(F)
780
||
|Marcel Beaubien
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|London North Centre

London North Centre

London North Centre is an electoral district in the province of Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997....

||
|Deb Matthews

Deb Matthews

Deborah Drake Matthews, Ph.D. is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of London North Centre for the Ontario Liberal Party, and is currently the province's Minister of Health and Long-Term Care in the government of...

20,212
|
|Dianne Cunningham
Dianne Cunningham
Dianne Cunningham is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1988 to 2003, and a cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves....

13,460
|
|Rebecca Coulter
11,414
|
|Bronagh Joyce Morgan
780
|
|
Craig Smith
(FCP)
432
Lisa Turner
(F)
242
||
|Dianne Cunningham
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|London—Fanshawe

London—Fanshawe

London—Fanshawe is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997.-Geography:The district consists of the southeast part of the City of London....

||
|Khalil Ramal

Khalil Ramal

Khalil Ramal is a Canadian politician.Khalil Ramal was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of London—Fanshawe for the Ontario Liberal Party...

13,920
|
|Frank Mazzilli

Frank Mazzilli

Frank Mazzilli is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2003....

11,777
|
|Irene Mathyssen

Irene Mathyssen

Irene R. Mathyssen is a Canadian politician and a Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons...

12,051
|
|Bryan Smith
568
|
|Mike Davidson
(F)
493
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|Frank Mazzilli
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|London West

London West

London West is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968. Its population in 2006 was 118,335.-Geography:The district includes the northwest part of the City of London....

||
|Chris Bentley

Chris Bentley

For the Canadian politician, see Christopher Bentley.Chris Bentley is a Rugby Union Player for Exeter Chiefs in the Aviva Premiership. He made his debut in 2004 against London Welsh. His position of choice is Lock-External links:*...

25,581
|
|Bob Wood

Bob Wood (Ontario provincial politician)

Robert "Bob" Wood, QC is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003....

15,463
|
|Patti Dalton
7,403
|
|Laura Wythe
805
|
|Bill Frampton
(F)
460
||
|Bob Wood
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Sarnia—Lambton

Sarnia—Lambton

Sarnia—Lambton is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968....

||
|Caroline Di Cocco

Caroline Di Cocco

Caroline Di Cocco is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is a former member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Sarnia—Lambton for the Ontario Liberal Party from 1999 to 2007 and was a cabinet minister in the government of Dalton McGuinty until her defeat in the...

Bradley Gray

Bradley Gray is an English professional footballer. He is currently with Southern Premier Division club Swindon Supermarine.-Leyton Orient:...

1,414
|
|Andrew Falby
(F)
316
||
|Caroline Di Cocco
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Windsor—St. Clair

Windsor—St. Clair

Windsor—St. Clair was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 to 2003. It was located in the province of Ontario, and included a part of the city of Windsor. This riding was created in 1987 as "Windsor—Lake St. Clair" from parts of Essex—Windsor and...

||
|Dwight Duncan

Dwight Duncan

Dwight Duncan, MPP is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He has been a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1995, and is the Minister of Finance in the government of Dalton McGuinty...

19,692
|
|Matt Bufton
4,162
|
|Madeline Crnec
10,433
|
|Chris Holt
1,315
|
|Saroj Bains
(Independent Renewal)
253
||
|Dwight Duncan
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Windsor West

Windsor West

Windsor West is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968.The district consists of the part of the city of Windsor lying west and south of a line drawn from the U.S...

||
|Sandra Pupatello

Sandra Pupatello

Sandra Pupatello was a politician in Ontario, Canada. She served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2011 as a member of the Ontario Liberal Party, serving as a Minister in the government of Dalton McGuinty....

21,993
|
|Derek Insley
4,187
|
|Yvette Blackburn
7,383
|
|Cary M. Lucier
1,233
|
|Enver Villamizar
(Independent Renewal)
386
||
|Sandra Pupatello
|}

Northern Ontario

|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Algoma—Manitoulin

Algoma—Manitoulin (provincial electoral district)

Algoma—Manitoulin is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1934....

||
|Mike Brown
14,520
|
|Terry McCutcheon
5,168
|
|Peter Denley
9,459
|
|Ron Yurick
680
|
|
||
|Mike Brown
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kenora—Rainy River

Kenora—Rainy River (provincial electoral district)

Kenora—Rainy River is a provincial electoral district in northwestern Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999. It was created from Kenora, most of Rainy River and part of Lake Nipigon. The boundaries of the new district corresponded with the...

|
|Geoff McClain
6,746
|
|Cathe Hoszowski
3,343
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|Howard Hampton
Howard Hampton
Howard George Hampton, MPP is a Canadian lawyer and politician. He has served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada, since 1987 as the Member of Provincial Parliament from the northern riding of Kenora—Rainy River. A member of the Ontario New Democratic Party, he was also the party's...

15,666
|
|Dan King
305
|
|
||
|Howard Hampton
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Nickel Belt

Nickel Belt (provincial electoral district)

Nickel Belt is a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of Ontario. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. The district is located in Northern Ontario and includes much of the eastern and southern parts of the District of Sudbury, as well as most of Greater...

|
|Alex McCauley
13,759
|
|Dave Kilgour
4,804
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|Shelley Martel

Shelley Martel

Shelley Dawn Marie Martel is a Canadian politician. A former member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, she represented the riding of Sudbury East from 1987 to 1999, and Nickel Belt from 1999 until 2007, as a New Democrat....

16,567
|
|Robert Nevin
479
|
|
||
|Shelley Martel
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Nipissing

Nipissing (provincial electoral district)

Nipissing is a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of Ontario, which elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario...

||
|Monique Smith

Monique Smith

Monique M. Smith is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Nipissing for the Liberal Party...

18,003
|
|Al McDonald

Al McDonald

Al McDonald is a politician in Ontario, Canada, currently the mayor of North Bay, Ontario. He was previously a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2002 to 2003, and ran unsuccessfully for the Conservative Party of Canada in the 2004 federal election.McDonald...

14,978
|
|Terry O'Connor
2,613
|
|Jaimie Board
528
|
|
||
|Al McDonald
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Parry Sound—Muskoka
|
|Dan Waters

Dan Waters

Daniel Waters is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995.-Background:...

13,332
||
|Norm Miller

Norm Miller

Norm Miller is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Parry Sound—Muskoka for the Progressive Conservatives...

18,776
|
|Jo-Anne Boulding
3,838
|
|Glen Hodgson
2,277
|
|Charlene Phinney
(FCP)
484
||
|Norm Miller
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Sault Ste. Marie

Sault Ste. Marie (provincial electoral district)

Sault Ste. Marie is a provincial electoral district in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1890 when it was created. The electoral district consists of the City of Sault Ste. Marie, bounded by Prince Township, and the Rankin Indian Reserve 15D....

||
|David Orazietti

David Orazietti

David Michael Orazietti is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Sault Ste. Marie for the Ontario Liberal Party.-Background:...

20,050
|
|Bruce Willson
2,674
|
|Tony Martin

Tony Martin (politician)

Anthony A. "Tony" Martin is a Canadian politician. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 2003, representing the riding of Sault Ste. Marie for the Ontario New Democratic Party . He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons for the federal NDP in 2004, again...

11,379
|
|Dan Brosemer
441
|
|Al Walker
(FCP)
606
||
|Tony Martin
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Sudbury

Sudbury (provincial electoral district)

Sudbury is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1908. It is one of the two districts serving the city of Greater Sudbury.Its population in 2001 was 89,443....

||
|Rick Bartolucci

Rick Bartolucci

Rick Bartolucci is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He has represented Sudbury in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1995, and is a cabinet minister in the government of Dalton McGuinty...

24,631
|
|Mila Wong
5,068
|
|Harvey Wyers
4,999
|
|Luke Norton
1,009
|
|
||
|Rick Bartolucci
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Thunder Bay—Atikokan

Thunder Bay—Atikokan (provincial electoral district)

Thunder Bay—Atikokan is a provincial electoral district in northwestern Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999....

||
|Bill Mauro

Bill Mauro

Bill Mauro is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Thunder Bay—Atikokan for the Ontario Liberal Party....

17,735
|
|Brian McKinnon
5,365
|
|John Rafferty
6,582
|
|Kristin Boyer
762
|
|
||
|Lyn McLeod

Lyn McLeod

†
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Thunder Bay—Superior North

Thunder Bay—Superior North (provincial electoral district)

Thunder Bay—Superior North is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999.The district is in the northwestern part of the province of Ontario....

||
|Michael Gravelle

Michael Gravelle

Michael Gravelle is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is the Minister of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry, and also a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the northern riding of Thunder Bay—Superior North for the Ontario Liberal Party.Gravelle was born in Port...

Carl Rose

Carl Rose was an American cartoonist whose work appeared in The New Yorker, Popular Science, The Saturday Evening Post, and elsewhere. He received the National Cartoonists Society's Advertising and Illustration Award for 1958....

882
|
|
||
|Michael Gravelle
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Timiskaming—Cochrane

Timiskaming—Cochrane (provincial electoral district)

Timiskaming—Cochrane is a provincial electoral district in northern Ontario, Canada. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.-History:...

||
|David Ramsay
18,499
|
|Rick Brassard
6,330
|
|Ben Lefebvre
5,741
|
|Paul Palmer
489
|
|
||
|David Ramsay
|-
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Timmins—James Bay

Timmins—James Bay (provincial electoral district)

Timmins—James Bay is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999...

|
|Michael Doody

Michael Doody

Michael Doody is a Canadian politician, who served as mayor of Timmins, Ontario from 1977 to 1980.He was subsequently re-elected to Timmins City Council in the 2006 municipal election, and retained this office in the 2010 municipal election....

12,373
|
|Merv Russell
2,527
||
|Gilles Bisson

Gilles Bisson

Gilles Bisson is a Franco-Ontarian Canadian politician who has represented the northern riding of Timmins—James Bay in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1990...

14,941
|
|Marsha Kriss
219
|
|
||
|Gilles Bisson
|}

By-election
By-election
A by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections....

s since the general election

Hamilton East (called due to the death of Dominic Agostino

Dominic Agostino

Dominic Agostino was a Canadian politician who represented the riding of Hamilton East for the Liberal Party in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 until his death in 2004.-Biography:...

, March 24, 2004), May 13, 2004:

|-

| style="width: 130px" |NDP
|Andrea Horwath

Andrea Horwath

|align="right"|15,185
|align="right"|63.6
|align="right"|+34.1
|-

|Liberal
|Ralph Agostino
|align="right"|6,362
|align="right"|26.6
|align="right"|-25.5
|-

|PC

Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario , is a right-of-centre political party in Ontario, Canada. The party was known for many years as "Ontario's natural governing party." It has ruled the province for 80 of the years since Confederation, including an uninterrupted run from 1943 to 1985...

|Tara Crugnale
|align="right"|1,772
|align="right"|7.4
|align="right"|-5.7
|-

|Green

Green Party of Ontario

John C. Turmel

|align="right"|122
|align="right"|0.5
|align="right"|-
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|23,887
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}

Dufferin—Peel—Wellington—Grey

Dufferin—Peel—Wellington—Grey

Dufferin—Peel—Wellington—Grey was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2004.-Federal electoral district:...

(resignation of Ernie Eves

Ernie Eves

Ernest Lawrence "Ernie" Eves was the 23rd Premier of the province of Ontario, Canada, from April 15, 2002, to October 23, 2003.-Beginnings:...

, February 1, 2005), March 17, 2005:

|-

| style="width: 130px" |PC

Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

|John Tory

John Tory

John Howard Tory is a Canadian businessman, political activist, former leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, former Member of Provincial Parliament and broadcaster...

|align="right"|15,633
|align="right"|56.3
|align="right"|-0.3
|-

|Liberal
|Bob Duncanson
|align="right"|4,621
|align="right"|16.7
|align="right"|-12.1
|-

|NDP
|Lynda McDougall
|align="right"|3,891
|align="right"|14.0
|align="right"|+7.9
|-

|Green

Green Party of Ontario

|Frank de Jong

Frank de Jong

Frank de Jong, is a Canadian politician, environmentalist and elementary school teacher at Fern Avenue Public School...

|align="right"|2,767
|align="right"|10.0
|align="right"|+3.9
|-

|FCP

Family Coalition Party of Ontario

The Family Coalition Party is a small political party in Ontario, Canada that promotes a socially conservative ideology. It was formed in 1987 by members of the pro-life organization Campaign Life Coalition, and has fielded candidates in every provincial election since then...

|Paul Micelli
|align="right"|488
|align="right"|1.7
|align="right"|-0.6
|-

|Independent
|Bill Cook
|align="right"|164
|align="right"|0.6
|align="right"|-
|-

|Libertarian
|Philip Bender
|align="right"|135
|align="right"|0.5
|align="right"|-
|-

|Independent
|John C. Turmel

John C. Turmel

|align="right"|88
|align="right"|0.3
|align="right"|-
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|23,887
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}

Scarborough—Rouge River

Scarborough—Rouge River

Scarborough—Rouge River is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1988....

(Called due to the resignation of Alvin Curling

Alvin Curling

August 19, 2005. Held November 24, 2005 > > > > > > > > >

By-election By-election A by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections.... : Scarborough—Rouge River Scarborough—Rouge River Scarborough—Rouge River is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1988....
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	+/-
Liberal Ontario Liberal Party The Ontario Liberal Party is a provincial political party in the province of Ontario, Canada. It has formed the Government of Ontario since the provincial election of 2003. The party is ideologically aligned with the Liberal Party of Canada but the two parties are organizationally independent and...	Bas Balkissoon Bas Balkissoon Bas Balkissoon is a politician in Toronto, Ontario. Formerly the Toronto city councillor representing Ward 41 in northeast area of Scarborough, Balkissoon won election to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on November 24, 2005 as the Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament for Scarborough—Rouge...	9,347	57.6	-6.2
Progressive Conservative	Cynthia Lai	4,032	24.9	-0.3
New Democrat New Democratic Party The New Democratic Party , commonly referred to as the NDP, is a federal social-democratic political party in Canada. The interim leader of the NDP is Nycole Turmel who was appointed to the position due to the illness of Jack Layton, who died on August 22, 2011. The provincial wings of the NDP in...	Sheila White Sheila White (politician) Sheila White is a Canadian political activist and a member of the New Democratic Party. She has run for office unsuccessfully five times, to date, in Toronto, Canada....	2,425	14.9	+8.9
Green	Steven Toman	167	1.2	-2.3	Libertarian Ontario Libertarian Party The Ontario Libertarian Party is a political party in Ontario, Canada that was founded in 1975 by Bruce Evoy, Vince Miller, and others, inspired by the formation three years earlier of the US Libertarian Party. The Party is guided by adherence to the philosophical ideas of Austrian Economics and...	Alan Mercer	100	0.6	-	Family Coalition Family Coalition Party of Ontario The Family Coalition Party is a small political party in Ontario, Canada that promotes a socially conservative ideology. It was formed in 1987 by members of the pro-life organization Campaign Life Coalition, and has fielded candidates in every provincial election since then...	Rina Morra	93	0.6	-0.8	Freedom	Wayne Simmons	59	0.4	- Toronto—Danforth Toronto—Danforth Toronto—Danforth is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1979. It lies to the east of Downtown Toronto.... (resignation of Marilyn Churley), March 30, 2006:
NDP	Peter Tabuns Peter Tabuns Peter Charles Tabuns is a Canadian politician. He is serving as a member of the Ontario Legislative Assembly where he represents the riding of Toronto-Danforth as a member of the New Democratic Party. He launched a bid to lead the party after the previous leader, Howard Hampton, resigned. A...	13,064	47.8%
Liberal	Ben Chin Ben Chin Benjamin Byung Kyu Chin , known for short as Ben Chin, is Vice President, Energy Conservation Incentives at Air Miles for Social Change, and a former Canadian political adviser and television journalist.-Personal life and education:...	10,636	38.9%
PC Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario , is a right-of-centre political party in Ontario, Canada. The party was known for many years as "Ontario's natural governing party." It has ruled the province for 80 of the years since Confederation, including an uninterrupted run from 1943 to 1985...	Georgina Blanas	2,713	9.9%
Green Green Party of Ontario The Green Party of Ontario is a political party in Ontario, Canada. The party is led by Mike Schreiner. It has never held any seats in the Ontario Legislative Assembly; however, the party did see significant gains in the 2007 provincial election, earning 8% of the popular vote with some candidates...	Paul Charbonneau	582	2.1%
Freedom Party Freedom Party of Ontario The Freedom Party of Ontario is a provincial political party in Ontario, Canada. It was founded on January 1, 1984 in London, Ontario by Robert Metz and Marc Emery, as a successor to the Unparty....	Franz Cauchi	93	0.3%

Whitby—Ajax

(resignation of Jim Flaherty

Jim Flaherty

), March 30, 2006:

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| style="width: 130px" |PC

Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

|Christine Elliott

Christine Elliott

Christine Janice Elliott is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in a byelection on March 30, 2006. Elliott was a candidate in the 2009 Progressive Conservative leadership election and came in third place behind winner Tim Hudak and runner-up Frank...

|align="right"| 15,843
|align="right"| 46.2%
|align="right"|
|-

|Liberal
|Judi Longfield
|align="right"| 14,529
|align="right"| 42.3%
|align="right"|
|-

|NDP
|Julie Gladman
|align="right"| 3,204
|align="right"| 9.3%
|align="right"|
|-

|Green

Green Party of Ontario

Freedom Party of Ontario

The Freedom Party of Ontario is a provincial political party in Ontario, Canada. It was founded on January 1, 1984 in London, Ontario by Robert Metz and Marc Emery, as a successor to the Unparty....

|Paul McKeever

Paul McKeever

|align=right| 198
|align=right| 0.6%
|align=right|
|}

Nepean—Carleton

Nepean—Carleton

Nepean—Carleton is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 1988 and since 1997....

(resignation of John Baird), March 30, 2006:

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| style="width: 130px" |PC

Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

|Lisa MacLeod

Lisa MacLeod

Lisa MacLeod is a Canadian politician, who was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on March 30, 2006 and subsequently re-elected on October 10, 2007...

Brian Ford (Canadian politician)

Brian Ford was Chief of Police of the Ottawa Police Service from 1993 to 2000.In 2006 he was a candidate in Nepean—Carleton for the Liberal Party of Ontario.-Electoral history:...

|align="right"| 9,457
|align="right"| 31.4%
|align="right"|
|-

|NDP
|Laurel Gibbons
|align="right"| 2,489
|align="right"| 8.3%
|align="right"|
|-

|Green

Green Party of Ontario

|Peter Tretter
|align="right"| 634
|align="right"| 2.1%
|align="right"|
|}

Parkdale—High Park

Parkdale—High Park

(resignation of Gerard Kennedy

Gerard Kennedy

): September 14, 2006

|-

| style="width: 130px"|NDP
|Cheri DiNovo

Cheri DiNovo

Cheri DiNovo, MPP, is a Canadian social democratic politician. She is an United Church of Canada minister and previously headed the Emmanuel-Howard Park congregation in Toronto, Ontario. As the New Democratic Party of Ontario candidate in Parkdale–High Park, she was elected to the Legislative...

|align=right| 11,675
|align=right| 41.0
|align=right| +25.2
|-

| style="width: 130px"| Liberal

Ontario Liberal Party

|Sylvia Watson

Sylvia Watson

Sylvia Watson is a former Canadian politician. She was a Toronto City Councillor for ward 14, part of the riding of Parkdale-High Park from 2003 to 2006 and the candidate for the Liberal Party of Ontario in the 2006 by-election and in the 2007 general election.-Background:Watson and her family...

|align=right| 9,387
|align=right| 33.0
|align=right| -24.8
|-

| style="width: 130px"| PC
|David Hutcheon

David Hutcheon

David Hutcheon is a former municipal politician in Toronto, Ontario.Hutcheon has an honours Bachelor of Arts Degree in History from Rutgers University and a Master's degree in public administration from the University of Western Ontario. He is a Henry Rutgers Scholar and is a recipient of the...

Frank de Jong

Frank de Jong, is a Canadian politician, environmentalist and elementary school teacher at Fern Avenue Public School...

|align=right| 1,758
|align=right| 6.2
|align=right| -0.7
|-

| style="width: 130px"|Family Coalition

Family Coalition Party of Ontario

Ontario Libertarian Party

The Ontario Libertarian Party is a political party in Ontario, Canada that was founded in 1975 by Bruce Evoy, Vince Miller, and others, inspired by the formation three years earlier of the US Libertarian Party. The Party is guided by adherence to the philosophical ideas of Austrian Economics and...

Freedom Party of Ontario

The Freedom Party of Ontario is a provincial political party in Ontario, Canada. It was founded on January 1, 1984 in London, Ontario by Robert Metz and Marc Emery, as a successor to the Unparty....

John C. Turmel

|align=right| 77
|align=right| 0.3
|}

York South—Weston

York South—Weston

(resignation of Joe Cordiano), February 8, 2007:

|-

| style="width: 130px"|NDP
|Paul Ferreira

Paul Ferreira

Paul Ferreira is a Canadian social democratic politician and one of the first openly gay politicians elected to provincial office in Canada. He also has the distinction of being the very first Azorean-Canadian MPP...

|align=right| 8,188
|align=right| 43.3
|align=right| +24.0
|-

| style="width: 130px"| Liberal

Ontario Liberal Party

|Laura Albanese

Laura Albanese

Laura Albanese is a Canadian politician, formerly a news anchor for Italian language news programming on Omni Television. She is the Member of Provincial Parliament in the Ontario Legislative Assembly for the riding of York South—Weston which is situated in the northwest part of Toronto...

|align=right| 7,830
|align=right| 41.4
|align=right| -20.2
|-

| style="width: 130px"| PC
|Pina Martino
|align=right| 1,941
|align=right| 10.3
|align=right| -4.9
|-

| style="width: 130px"|Green
|Mir Kamal
|align=right| 262
|align=right| 1.4
|align=right| -1.1
|-

| style="width: 130px"|Independent

Independent (politician)

In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...

Independent (politician)

Family Coalition Party of Ontario

Ontario Libertarian Party

Freedom Party of Ontario

The Freedom Party of Ontario is a provincial political party in Ontario, Canada. It was founded on January 1, 1984 in London, Ontario by Robert Metz and Marc Emery, as a successor to the Unparty....

|Wayne Simmons
|align=right| 77
|align=right| 0.4
|align=right| +0.4
|}

Burlington

Burlington (electoral district)

(resignation of Cam Jackson

Cam Jackson

), February 8, 2007:

|-

| style="width: 130px" |PC

Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

|Joyce Savoline

Joyce Savoline

Joyce Savoline is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the electoral district of Burlington for the Progressive Conservatives...

|align="right"|11,143
|align="right"|49.0
|align="right"|+2.8
|-

|Liberal
|Joan Lougheed
|align="right"|9,365
|align="right"|41.2
|align="right"|-1.0
|-

|NDP
|Cory Judson
|align="right"|1,310
|align="right"|5.8
|align="right"|-1.4
|-

|Green

Green Party of Ontario

|Frank de Jong

Frank de Jong

Frank de Jong, is a Canadian politician, environmentalist and elementary school teacher at Fern Avenue Public School...

|align="right"|734
|align="right"|3.2
|align="right"|+0.9
|-

|Freedom

Freedom Party of Ontario

The Freedom Party of Ontario is a provincial political party in Ontario, Canada. It was founded on January 1, 1984 in London, Ontario by Robert Metz and Marc Emery, as a successor to the Unparty....

John C. Turmel

|align="right"|90
|align="right"|0.4
|align="right"|+0.4
|}

Markham

Markham (electoral district)

(resignation of Tony Wong), February 8, 2007:

|-

|Liberal
|Michael Chan

Michael Chan (Canadian politician)

Michael Chan is a Canadian politician. He is the Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament for the Ontario provincial riding of Markham-Unionville and Minister of Tourism and Culture in the provincial Liberal government headed by Dalton McGuinty...

|align="right"|9,080
|align="right"|49.3
|align="right"|-1.4
|-

| style="width: 130px" |PC

Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

|Alex Yuan
|align="right"|6,420
|align="right"|34.9
|align="right"|-5.4
|-

|NDP
|Janice Hagan
|align="right"|1,492
|align="right"|8.1
|align="right"|+3.0
|-

|Green

Green Party of Ontario

|Bernadette Manning
|align="right"|999
|align="right"|5.4
|align="right"|+3.8
|-

|Freedom

Freedom Party of Ontario

The Freedom Party of Ontario is a provincial political party in Ontario, Canada. It was founded on January 1, 1984 in London, Ontario by Robert Metz and Marc Emery, as a successor to the Unparty....

|Cathy McKeever
|align="right"|159
|align="right"|0.9
|align="right"|+0.9
|-

|Family Coalition

Family Coalition Party of Ontario

|Patrick Redmond
|align="right"|135
|align="right"|0.7
|align="right"|-0.6
|-

|Libertarian

Ontario Libertarian Party

|Jay Miller
|align="right"|126
|align="right"|0.6
|align="right"|+0.6
|}

Lead up to the campaign

Progressive Conservative campaign

Liberal campaign

NDP campaign

The writs

Issues

Assessment

Student vote

Provincial results

Ottawa

Eastern Ontario

Central Ontario

Southern Durham & York

Downtown Toronto

Suburban Toronto

Brampton, Mississauga & Oakville

Hamilton, Burlington & Niagara

Midwestern Ontario

Southwestern Ontario

Northern Ontario

By-election
By-election
A by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections....

s since the general election

See also

General resources

Parties with seats in the house prior to dissolution

Other parties

Lead up to the campaign

Progressive Conservative campaign

Liberal campaign

NDP campaign

The writs

Issues

Assessment

Student vote

Provincial results

Ottawa

Eastern Ontario

Central Ontario

Southern Durham & York

Downtown Toronto

Suburban Toronto

Brampton, Mississauga & Oakville

Hamilton, Burlington & Niagara

Midwestern Ontario

Southwestern Ontario

Northern Ontario

By-electionBy-electionA by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections....s since the general election

See also

General resources

Parties with seats in the house prior to dissolution

Other parties

By-election
By-election
A by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections....

s since the general election