2003 Ontario general election

Canadian provincial election September 2023 August 2025 2003 Ontario general election Ontario parliamentary no no no 56.87% (1.78pp) 1999 Ontario general election 1999 37th Legislative Assembly of Ontario 2007 Ontario general election 2007 38th Legislative Assembly of Ontario 103 seats in the 38th Legislative Assembly of Ontario 52 seats were needed in a majority October 2, 2003 Dalton McGuinty, Mayors' Summit (cropped).jpg 120 120 160 0 0 ON Liberal nohash Dalton McGuinty December 1, 1996 ON Liberal name Ottawa South 35 72 37 2,090,001 46.4% 6.6pp Ernie Eves, September 11 memorial service (S2311 fl3398 it0093) (cropped).jpg 180 120 160 10 30 ON PC nohash Ernie Eves March 23, 2002 ON PC name Dufferin—Peel—Wellington—Grey 59 24 35 1,559,181 34.6% 10.5pp Howard Hampton, Toronto City Summit Alliance (cropped).jpg 120 120 160 0 0 ON NDP nohash Howard Hampton June 22, 1996 ON NDP name Kenora—Rainy River 9 7 2 660,730 14.7% 2.1pp File:Ontario_Provincial_Election,_2003_-_Results_By_Riding.svg 430px Popular vote by riding. As this is an FPTP election, seat totals are not determined by popular vote, but instead via results by each riding. Click the map for more details. Premier Premier after election Ernie Eves ON PC name Dalton McGuinty ON Liberal name General elections were held on October 2, 2003, to elect the 103 members of the 38th Legislative Assembly (Members of Provincial Parliament, or "MPPs") of the province of Ontario, Canada. The election was called on September 2 by Premier Ernie Eves in the wake of supporting pollsBlackout gives Eves boost: poll https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/blackout-gives-eves-boost-poll/article18429312/ Globe and Mail 21 August 2003 19 July 2022 for the governing Ontario Progressive Conservative Party in the days following the 2003 North American blackout. The election resulted in a majority government won by the Ontario Liberal Party, led by Dalton McGuinty. Lead-up to the campaign In 1995, the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party under Mike Harris came from third place to upset the front-running Ontario Liberal Party under Lyn McLeod and the governing Ontario New Democratic Party under Bob Rae to form a majority government. Over the following two terms, the Harris government 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, student testing in public education, and public tax credits for parents who sent their children to private schools. In the 1999 provincial election, the Tories were able to ride a strong economy and a campaign aimed at depicting rookie Liberal leader Dalton McGuinty as "not up to the job" to another majority government. The Walkerton Tragedy, however, 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, and as a result the government's popularity was badly damaged. A movement to provide tax credits to parents with children in private schools also proved to be unpopular. In October 2001, Harris announced his intention to resign,Ontario premier to resign http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ontario-premier-to-resign-1.300076 4 March 2017 CBC News CBC/Radio-Canada 16 October 2001 4 March 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170304200404/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ontario-premier-to-resign-1.300076 live and the PC party called a leadership convention for 2002 to replace him. Five candidates emerged: former Finance Minister Ernie Eves who had retired earlier that year, current Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, Environment Minister Elizabeth Witmer, Health Minister Tony Clement and Labour Minister Chris Stockwell. 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" 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 abortions. At the convention, Eves won 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 of Hydro One, 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, 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 had 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 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.Campbell Murray Inquiry demanded over track's slot permits https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/inquiry-demanded-over-tracks-slot-permits/article25277508/ 4 March 2017 The Globe and Mail 18 January 2003 The Globe and Mail Inc. Monte Kwinter said he wants the Integrity Commissioner to investigate whether there is any link between this decision and the $80,000 donation to Enterprise Minister Jim Flaherty and another $10,000 to Premier Ernie Eves during the Progressive Conservative leadership campaign by racetrack operator Norm Picov and the companies he owns. 4 March 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170304194055/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/inquiry-demanded-over-tracks-slot-permits/article25277508/ live Then, Tourism Minister Cam Jackson was forced to resign when the Liberals revealed he had charged taxpayers more than $100,000 for hotel rooms, steak dinners and alcoholic beverages.Mackie Richard Minister quits in expense controversy https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/minister-quits-in-expense-controversy/article1026765/ 4 March 2017 The Globe and Mail The Globe and Mail Inc. 3 October 2002 5 March 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170305041918/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/minister-quits-in-expense-controversy/article1026765/ live The Liberals showed the Tories had secretly given a large tax break to the Toronto Blue Jays, a team owned by prominent Tory Ted Rogers. At the same time, both the New Democrats and Liberals criticized the government over skyrocketing electricity prices. In May 2002, the government had followed California and Alberta in deregulating the electricity market. With contracting supply due to construction delays at the Pickering 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, they wished to dismiss the Legislative Assembly of Ontario until as late as possible in the spring. The budget was instead to be announced at the Magna International headquarters in Newmarket, Ontario, rather than in the Legislature. The move was met with outrage from the PC Speaker Gary Carr, who called the move unconstitutional and would rule that it was a prima facie case of contempt of the legislature. The controversy over the location of the budget far outstripped any support earned by the content of the budget. The government faced a major crisis when SARS killed several people in Toronto and threatened the stability of the health care system. On April 23, when the World Health Organization advised against all but essential travel to Toronto to prevent the spread of the virus, Toronto tourism greatly suffered. thumb|Downtown Toronto during the 2003 Blackout 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. Stockwell was accused of accepting thousands of dollars in undeclared gifts from Ontario Power Generation, 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 did 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 such as opposing photo radar and establishing "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 polarize the electorate again 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's 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, a former reporter, was responsible for media relations. Deb Hutton was Mike Harris's right arm as executive assistant. Jaime Watt and Perry Miele worked on the advertising. Guy Giorno 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 worked on fundraising and debate prep, and was actually one of two people (the other was John Matheson) to play Liberal leader Dalton McGuinty during preparation for the 1999 leaders' debate. (Andy Brandt 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 took Long's position as campaign co-chair and more or less all the same players settled into the same places. A few new faces included Jeff Bangs as campaign manager. Bangs was a long-time Eves loyalist who had grown up in his riding 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 straightforward 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 deductibility 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 Jean Chrétien 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. McGuinty, however, 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 35, including dynamic politicians like George Smitherman and Michael Bryant. 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 by 9%. While they almost cornered the market of those angry at the Tories, however, 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. The 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 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. Early on, McGuinty set down three strategic imperatives. First, no tax cuts. This ran against the conventional wisdom of politics that it was necessary 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 the 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 supporters fought with Paul Martin supporters. McGuinty set a tone that divisions were left at the door. The emphasis on building the team was highly successful as jobs 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, 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 accountant 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 the opponent, McGuinty ran only positive ads for the duration of the campaign. In the pre-writ period, the Liberal advertising featured 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. The principle battlefield of the election, however, 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 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 resultant 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 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. Hampton also made an appearance in front of the Toronto home of millionaire Peter Munk to denounce Eves' tax breaks, claiming that they would save Munk $18,000 a year. 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. Campaign events Early weeks 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 first week of the campaign, two polls showed a tight race: a poll done by EKOS for the Toronto Star showed a 1.5% Liberal lead, while a smaller poll done by COMPAS showed a 5% Liberal lead.Leaders cast cautious eyes on tight polls 4 March 2017 CBC News CBC/Radio-Canada 7 September 2003 http://toronto.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=onel_polls20030907 https://web.archive.org/web/20050415190544/http://toronto.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=onel_polls20030907 15 April 2005 dead A poll done by Environics in late June and early July showed a 13-point lead for the Liberals.Tories improve in latest poll http://toronto.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=to_poll20030718 4 March 2017 CBC Toronto CBC/Radio-Canada 18 July 2003 https://web.archive.org/web/20041112191147/http://toronto.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=to_poll20030718 12 November 2004 dead 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. 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. After the Liberals Gerry Phillips 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.Eves draws blank on price of campaign promises http://toronto.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=onel_eves20030909 4 March 2017 CBC News CBC/Radio-Canada 9 September 2003 https://web.archive.org/web/20041112162025/http://toronto.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=onel_eves20030909 12 November 2004 dead 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.Cheney Peter Election shelves overhaul of auto insurance https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/election-shelves-overhaul-of-auto-insurance/article1045457/ 4 March 2017 The Globe and Mail The Globe and Mail Inc. 10 September 2003 5 March 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170305043434/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/election-shelves-overhaul-of-auto-insurance/article1045457/ live On Wednesday the government was broadsided when – days after a raid at a meat packing plant exposed the sorry 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.Yourk Darren McGuinty moves on tax issue https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/mcguinty-moves-on-tax-issue/article25686487/ 4 March 2017 The Globe and Mail The Globe and Mail Inc. 11 September 2003 The Toronto Star obtained a confidential 2002 cabinet document showing that Agriculture Minister Helen Johns and her staff alerted Mr. Eves that the province's meat-inspection system posed a risk to public health. "By doing nothing, he put lives at risk. He rolled the dice and, again, gambled with people's lives. That's not leadership," Mr. Hampton said at a stop in Toronto. The leaked document states that the "current meat inspection legislation and regulations are outdated." It also recommended an array of improvements, including full-time inspectors, national standards, food-handler training and provincial inspection of meat-processing plants now administered by municipalities, the Star reported. The NDP and Liberals have promised a public inquiry following suspension of the licence of an Aylmer meat-packing plant at the centre of two investigations after it was shut down late last month and meat was seized because of alleged illegal processing. 5 March 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170305041924/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/mcguinty-moves-on-tax-issue/article25686487/ live The issue was made worse when Agriculture Minister Helen Johns 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' old riding), a donor with Tory connections offered him money to bolster his campaign and draw votes away from the Liberals. The allegations were denied by the Tories.Yourk Darren McGuinty moves on tax issue https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/mcguinty-moves-on-tax-issue/article25686487/ 4 March 2017 The Globe and Mail The Globe and Mail Inc. 11 September 2003 The Eves campaign was also deflecting bribe allegations from a Green Party candidate in the old riding of former premier Mike Harris. Todd Lucier said he was offered money by a "core part of the Mike Harris team" to help him take votes away from the Liberal candidate in the closely contested Nipissing riding. The Tory campaign has denied it had anything to do with the offer. 5 March 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170305041924/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/mcguinty-moves-on-tax-issue/article25686487/ live 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.Galloway Gloria Smith Graeme McGuinty scores, Eves stumbles on taxes https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/mcguinty-scores-eves-stumbles-on-taxes/article1166000/ 8 March 2017 The Globe and Mail The Globe and Mail Inc. 12 September 2003 8 March 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170308141523/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/mcguinty-scores-eves-stumbles-on-taxes/article1166000/ live The "Kitten-eater" controversy On September 12, the Eves campaign issued a news release that called Dalton McGuinty an "evil reptilian kitten-eater from another planet".Smith Greame Kitten-eater controversy litters battle for Ontario https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/kitten-eater-controversy-litters-battle-for-ontario/article18430647/ 18 January 2017 The Globe and Mail The Globe and Mail Inc. 13 September 2003 31 January 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170131195103/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/kitten-eater-controversy-litters-battle-for-ontario/article18430647/ live The words appeared at the end of the news release. Eves said the epithet was meant as a joke, and acknowledged the words were "over the top", but refused to apologize. There is speculation the epithet was an obscure reference to an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which McGuinty stated, in a blog post that week, he enjoys watching.Kinsella Warren Carroll Michael The War Room: Political Strategies for Business, NGOs, and Anyone Who Wants to Win 2007 The Dundurn Group Toronto 978-1-55002-746-4 39 https://books.google.com/books?id=rTqVAQAAQBAJ&q=Kitten-eater+ontario&pg=PA39 3 March 2017 Introduction: Welcome to the War Room In response, McGuinty said his campaign will not be "sidetracked" by the incident. Despite efforts by two Conservative spies at a Liberal campaign event to shoo away a white kitten,Ireton Julie Liberals eat up 'kitten' coverage http://www.cbc.ca/ontariovotes2003/notebook/ireton_092903.html 3 March 2017 CBC 27 September 2003 4 March 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304044553/http://www.cbc.ca/ontariovotes2003/notebook/ireton_092903.html live members of the media managed to take photographs of McGuinty holding the kitten, a moment some described as a defining moment of the campaign.Zerucelli John Dalton McGuinty Will Always Be a Lawyer https://www.oba.org/JUST/Features_List/2012/Dalton-McGuinty-Will-Always-Be-a-Lawyer JUST. Magazine Ontario Bar Association 3 March 2017 1 June 2012 3 March 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170303123203/https://www.oba.org/JUST/Features_List/2012/Dalton-McGuinty-Will-Always-Be-a-Lawyer live Liberal Party officials made T-shirts that were emblazoned with the words "Call Me An Evil Reptilian Kitten Eater ... But I Want Change". The T-shirts were handed out to party supporters at a rally held that same night. Later weeks 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 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, which denounced a Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission decision not to allow leader Frank de Jong to participate.December 2024 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 confident as Ontario campaign ends http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mcguinty-confident-as-ontario-campaign-ends-1.385837 10 March 2017 CBC News CBC/Radio-Canada 2 October 2003 12 March 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170312051512/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mcguinty-confident-as-ontario-campaign-ends-1.385837 live 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.Mallan Caroline McGuinty targets Tory strongholds http://www.ekospolitics.com/articles/TorStar29Sept2003.pdf 11 March 2017 Toronto Star (via EKOS Politics) Toronto Star Newspapers Limited 29 September 2003 19 November 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201119145850/https://www.ekospolitics.com/articles/TorStar29Sept2003.pdf live 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 water tragedy, the deaths of Dudley George and Kimberly Rogers, the possible sale of publicly owned electric utility 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. As one Tory insider put it: "So many chickens came to roost, it's like a remake of The Birds".Mark Winfield, "Blue-green Province: The Environment and the Political Economy of Ontario". UBC Press, 2012 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, 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-per cent 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 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 such as 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 such as 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", which would give it a share of official Queen's Park staff, money for research, and guaranteed time during 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. The party was returned to official party status seven months into the session, when Andrea Horwath won a by-election in Hamilton East on May 13, 2004. The Tories were completely shut out of 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 suburbs like Aurora and Whitby were high-profile PC cabinet ministers able to retain their seats. With the arguable exception of Elizabeth Witmer, no PC member represented an urban riding. The 38th Parliament 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, although their numbers did not count in the official election. 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.https://studentvote.ca/docs/past-parallel-elections/Ontario%202003%20Results.pdf Ontario Election 2003 Results Student Vote 4 March 2022 3 June 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190603160305/http://studentvote.ca/docs/past-parallel-elections/Ontario%202003%20Results.pdf live There was also a vote for elementary students. Opinion polls + Evolution of voting intentions at provincial level Polling firmLast day of survey Source OLP PCO ONDP GPO Other ME Margin of Error SampleElection 2003October 2, 200346.434.614.72.81.5Ipsos-ReidSeptember 25, 2003Mackie Richard Liberals on verge of huge majority: Poll-based projection says McGuinty on track to rout Eves's Tories 72-22 September 27, 2003 The Globe and Mail A1503115EKOSAugust 2003Mackie Richard Liberals shrug off opinion-poll drop: Optimistic survey numbers discounted before campaign began, McGuinty says September 8, 2003 The Globe and Mail A443.54213CompasAugust 2003Mackie Richard Liberal lead shrinking, polls find: Tories narrow gap as election campaign grabs attention of undecided voters September 6, 2003 The Globe and Mail A1464112Ipsos-ReidApril 19, 2003Mackie Richard Support for Tories slides, poll shows April 24, 2003 The Globe and Mail A184831164EKOSMarch, 2003Regul Eric Eves lobs another bad voter pitch: To the Point April 8, 2003 The Globe and Mail B24936Ipsos-ReidFebruary 20, 2003Mackie Richard Ontario voters prepared to oust Tories, poll finds February 28, 2003 The Globe and Mail A14336155Ipsos-ReidJanuary 4, 2003Mackie Richard Ontario PCs gain, but Liberals hold lead January 11, 2003 The Globe and Mail A54538143Ernie Eves becomes Premier of Ontario (April 15, 2002)Angus ReidAugust 29, 2000Ontario Political Scene September 2000 Ipsos September 22, 2000 https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/ontario-political-scene-september-20004639152Angus ReidJune 13, 2000The Political Fallout of Walkerton Ipsos June 19, 2000 https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/political-fallout-walkerton4538152Angus ReidDecember 29, 1999Politics in Ontario Ipsos January 17, 1999 https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/politics-ontario4236175Angus ReidAugust 15, 1999The re-election of Mike Harris Ipsos September 1, 1999 https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/re-election-mike-harris4043134Election 1999June 3, 199939.945.112.60.71.7 Results Summary of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario election results |- !rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|Party !rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|Party leader !rowspan="2" |Candidates !colspan="4" |Seats !colspan="3" |Popular vote |- !1999 !Dissol. !2003 !Change !# !% !Change |- ON Liberal row-name | style="text-align:left;" |Dalton McGuinty | 103 || 35 || 36 || 72 || 37 || 2,090,001 || 46.47% || 6.57 |- ON PC row-name | style="text-align:left;" |Ernie Eves | 103 || 59 || 56 || 24 || 35 || 1,559,181 || 34.67% || 10.39 |- ON NDP row-name | style="text-align:left;" |Howard Hampton | 103 || 9 || 9 || 7 || 2 || 660,730 || 14.69% || 2.14 |- ON Green row-name | style="text-align:left;" |Frank de Jong | 102 || – || – || – || – || 126,651 || 2.82% || 2.12 |- ON FCP row-name | style="text-align:left;" |Giuseppe Gori | 51 || – || – || – || – || 34,623 || 0.77% || 0.22 |- ON Independent row-name | | 24 || – || 1 || – || – || 13,211 || 0.29% || 0.32 |- ON Freedom row-name | style="text-align:left;" |Paul McKeever | 24 || – || – || – || – || 8,376 || 0.19% || 0.08 |- ON Communist row-name | style="text-align:left;" |Elizabeth Rowley | 6 || – || – || – || – || 2,187 || 0.05% || 0.03 |- ON Libertarian row-name | style="text-align:left;" |Sam Apelbaum | 5 || – || – || – || – || 1,991 || 0.04% || 0.01 |- ON CoR row-name | style="text-align:left;" |Richard ButsonDe facto. Party had no leader. | 1 || – || – || – || – || 293 || 0.01% || ON Vacant row | style="text-align:left;" colspan="4"|Vacant |1 | style="text-align:center;" colspan="5" |  |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"|Total !522 !103 !103 !103 | |4,497,244 |100.00 | |-style="background:#E9E9E9;" |colspan="8" style="text-align:left;"|Rejected, unmarked and declined ballots |30,923 |colspan="2"|  |-style="background:#E9E9E9;" |colspan="8" style="text-align:left;"|Turnout |4,528,167 |colspan="2"|  |-style="background:#E9E9E9;" |colspan="8" style="text-align:left;"|Registered voters / turnout % |7,962,607 |56.87% |1.44 |} The following were among the Independent candidates: Ten ran as "Independent Renewal" candidates. This was the Marxist-Leninist Party under another name. Candidates from the Independent Reform Party and Communist League also ran as independents. Costas Manios 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 had sat in the house as an "Independent Liberal" from 2001 to 2003. Vote and seat summaries Ternary plots - shift of electoral support (1999-2003) 350 200 yes center Electoral districts identified by colours of winning parties File:Ternary ON1999.svg 1999 Ternary plot of 1999 results File:Ternary ON2003.svg 2003 Ternary plot of 2003 results Popular vote #ddd 600px 410px Liberal ON Liberal 46.47 PC ON PC 34.67 New Democratic ON NDP 14.69 Others ON Independent 4.17Seats summary #ddd 600px 410px Liberal ON Liberal 69.90 PC ON PC 23.30 New Democratic ON NDP 6.80 Synopsis of results Results of the 2003 Ontario general election by riding + Results by riding - 2003 Ontario general election https://results.elections.on.ca/en/data-explorer?fromYear=1867&toYear=2019&electionType=GE&electionId=312 2003 Ontario General Election elections.on.ca Elections Ontario June 20, 2023 Riding Winning party Turnoutincluding spoilt ballots Votesminor political parties receiving less than 1% of the popular vote are aggregated under "Other"; independent candidates are aggregated separately1999 1stplace Votes Share Margin# Margin% 2ndplace 3rdplace Lib PC NDP Green Ind Independent or No Affiliation Other Total  Algoma—Manitoulin Lib Lib 14,520 48.68% 5,061 16.97% NDP PC 57.83% 14,520 5,168 9,459 680 – – 29,827Barrie—Simcoe—Bradford PC PC 31,529 51.78% 9,531 15.65% Lib NDP 56.03% 21,998 31,529 5,641 1,278 – 441 60,887Beaches—East York NDP NDP 21,239 51.23% 11,169 26.94% Lib PC 55.63% 10,070 8,157 21,239 1,995 – – 41,461Bramalea—Gore—Malton—Springdale PC Lib 19,306 45.61% 3,757 8.87% PC NDP 49.82% 19,306 15,549 4,931 1,176 868 503 42,333Brampton Centre PC Lib 16,661 43.48% 1,005 2.62% PC NDP 50.25% 16,661 15,656 4,827 820 – 356 38,320Brampton West—Mississauga PC Lib 28,926 46.18% 2,512 4.01% PC NDP 50.84% 28,926 26,414 5,103 811 – 1,388 62,642Brant Lib Lib 24,236 54.55% 10,618 23.90% PC NDP 56.14% 24,236 13,618 5,262 1,014 295 – 44,425Toronto—Danforth NDP NDP 18,253 47.14% 6,007 15.51% Lib PC 55.86% 12,246 6,562 18,253 1,368 73 217 38,719Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound PC PC 23,338 52.07% 8,457 18.87% Lib NDP 62.90% 14,881 23,338 4,159 769 586 1,086 44,819Burlington PC PC 21,506 46.15% 1,852 3.97% Lib NDP 61.51% 19,654 21,506 3,832 1,086 – 523 46,601Cambridge PC PC 19,996 42.50% 3,437 7.30% Lib NDP 53.79% 16,559 19,996 8,513 983 – 1,001 47,052Davenport Lib Lib 15,586 58.81% 8,343 31.48% NDP PC 49.06% 15,586 1,977 7,243 907 293 497 26,503Don Valley East Lib Lib 21,327 56.80% 9,300 24.77% PC NDP 55.32% 21,327 12,027 3,058 558 – 579 37,549Don Valley West PC Lib 23,488 52.59% 6,094 13.65% PC NDP 59.84% 23,488 17,394 2,540 1,239 – – 44,661Dufferin—Peel—Wellington—Grey PC PC 29,222 56.64% 14,363 27.84% Lib Grn 58.50% 14,859 29,222 3,148 3,161 – 1,202 51,592Durham PC PC 23,814 47.09% 5,224 10.33% Lib NDP 58.40% 18,590 23,814 6,274 1,183 – 707 50,568Eglinton—Lawrence Lib Lib 23,743 56.89% 11,341 27.18% PC NDP 57.90% 23,743 12,402 4,351 1,236 – – 41,732Elgin—Middlesex—London Lib Lib 24,914 57.31% 11,765 27.06% PC NDP 60.32% 24,914 13,149 4,063 673 – 671 43,470Erie—Lincoln PC PC 20,348 48.49% 4,058 9.67% Lib NDP 60.85% 16,290 20,348 3,950 713 – 666 41,967Essex Lib Lib 20,559 45.28% 7,945 17.50% NDP PC 53.36% 20,559 11,234 12,614 998 – – 45,405Etobicoke Centre PC Lib 22,070 49.41% 4,460 9.99% PC NDP 62.50% 22,070 17,610 3,400 1,584 – – 44,664Etobicoke—Lakeshore PC Lib 19,680 44.16% 5,156 11.57% PC NDP 59.52% 19,680 14,524 8,952 708 225 480 44,569Etobicoke North PC Lib 16,727 53.98% 9,749 31.46% PC NDP 47.91% 16,727 6,978 3,516 503 1,990 1,275 30,989Glengarry—Prescott—Russell Lib Lib 28,956 65.97% 18,035 41.09% PC NDP 57.60% 28,956 10,921 2,544 1,471 – – 43,892Ottawa—Orléans PC Lib 25,300 50.36% 4,538 9.03% PC NDP 63.39% 25,300 20,762 2,778 1,402 – – 50,242Guelph—Wellington PC Lib 23,607 42.22% 2,872 5.14% PC NDP 60.08% 23,607 20,735 6,745 3,917 – 914 55,918Haldimand—Norfolk—Brant PC PC 20,109 46.10% 2,958 6.78% Lib NDP 59.38% 17,151 20,109 4,720 1,088 – 548 43,616Halton PC PC 33,610 48.20% 5,498 7.89% Lib NDP 59.73% 28,112 33,610 5,587 1,295 – 1,123 69,727Hamilton East Lib Lib 16,015 52.15% 6,980 22.73% NDP PC 46.73% 16,015 4,033 9,035 563 378 684 30,708Hamilton Mountain Lib Lib 23,524 51.79% 11,507 25.33% NDP PC 58.96% 23,524 8,637 12,017 494 – 748 45,420Hamilton West NDP Lib 15,600 39.97% 2,132 5.46% NDP PC 55.28% 15,600 8,185 13,468 727 303 750 39,033Hastings—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington Lib Lib 21,548 51.89% 7,839 18.88% PC NDP 58.68% 21,548 13,709 4,286 1,311 – 673 41,527Huron—Bruce PC Lib 19,879 45.79% 3,285 7.57% PC NDP 66.46% 19,879 16,594 4,973 934 – 1,029 43,409Kenora—Rainy River NDP NDP 15,666 60.12% 8,920 34.23% Lib PC 48.57% 6,746 3,343 15,666 305 – – 26,060Chatham-Kent—Essex Lib Lib 23,022 59.26% 11,436 29.44% PC NDP 55.64% 23,022 11,586 2,893 1,069 – 281 38,851Kingston and the Islands Lib Lib 28,877 60.28% 19,237 40.16% PC NDP 54.29% 28,877 9,640 5,514 3,137 – 735 47,903Kitchener Centre PC Lib 18,280 42.60% 2,160 5.03% PC NDP 53.24% 18,280 16,120 6,781 1,728 – – 42,909Kitchener—Waterloo PC PC 23,957 43.08% 1,501 2.70% Lib NDP 59.06% 22,456 23,957 6,084 1,774 395 949 55,615Lambton—Kent—Middlesex PC Lib 18,533 45.11% 3,473 8.45% PC NDP 59.75% 18,533 15,060 4,523 1,133 1,053 780 41,082Lanark—Carleton PC PC 29,641 48.99% 6,175 10.21% Lib NDP 61.42% 23,466 29,641 3,554 2,564 – 1,275 60,500Leeds—Grenville PC PC 21,443 48.70% 3,776 8.58% Lib NDP 62.11% 17,667 21,443 2,469 1,799 – 649 44,027London North Centre PC Lib 20,212 43.43% 6,752 14.51% PC NDP 56.44% 20,212 13,460 11,414 780 – 674 46,540London—Fanshawe PC Lib 13,920 35.87% 1,869 4.82% NDP PC 52.45% 13,920 11,777 12,051 568 – 493 38,809London West PC Lib 25,581 51.46% 10,118 20.35% PC NDP 60.02% 25,581 15,463 7,403 805 – 460 49,712Markham PC Lib 27,253 51.70% 5,996 11.38% PC NDP 53.89% 27,253 21,257 2,679 824 – 697 52,710Mississauga Centre PC Lib 18,466 47.45% 2,620 6.73% PC NDP 50.89% 18,466 15,846 3,237 776 – 588 38,913Mississauga East PC Lib 16,686 48.68% 2,854 8.33% PC NDP 51.38% 16,686 13,832 2,479 666 256 358 34,277Mississauga South PC Lib 17,211 43.80% 234 0.60% PC NDP 56.89% 17,211 16,977 3,606 949 – 555 39,298Mississauga West PC Lib 27,903 50.84% 7,497 13.66% PC NDP 54.67% 27,903 20,406 4,196 1,395 – 989 54,889Nepean—Carleton PC PC 31,662 54.06% 10,784 18.41% Lib NDP 62.23% 20,878 31,662 3,828 2,200 – – 58,568Niagara Centre NDP NDP 23,289 49.64% 10,763 22.94% Lib PC 60.25% 12,526 10,336 23,289 768 – – 46,919Niagara Falls PC Lib 18,904 46.86% 3,551 8.80% PC NDP 57.40% 18,904 15,353 4,962 1,124 – – 40,343Nickel Belt NDP NDP 16,567 46.52% 2,808 7.89% Lib PC 61.82% 13,759 4,804 16,567 479 – – 35,609Nipissing PC Lib 18,003 49.84% 3,025 8.37% PC NDP 62.60% 18,003 14,978 2,613 528 – – 36,122Northumberland PC Lib 20,382 45.05% 2,566 5.67% PC NDP 60.31% 20,382 17,816 5,210 1,839 – – 45,247Oak Ridges PC PC 32,647 47.27% 2,521 3.65% Lib NDP 54.15% 30,126 32,647 4,464 1,821 – – 69,058Oakville PC Lib 22,428 49.81% 3,437 7.63% PC NDP 62.31% 22,428 18,991 2,858 – – 751 45,028Oshawa PC PC 14,566 37.32% 1,019 2.61% NDP Lib 51.46% 9,383 14,566 13,547 636 – 901 39,033Ottawa Centre Lib Lib 22,295 45.10% 10,933 22.12% NDP PC 55.63% 22,295 11,217 11,362 3,821 214 524 49,433Ottawa South Lib Lib 24,647 51.70% 8,234 17.27% PC NDP 58.77% 24,647 16,413 4,306 1,741 – 562 47,669Ottawa—Vanier Lib Lib 22,188 53.53% 11,310 27.29% PC NDP 50.80% 22,188 10,878 6,507 1,876 – – 41,449Ottawa West—Nepean PC Lib 23,127 47.04% 2,850 5.80% PC NDP 62.13% 23,127 20,277 4,099 1,309 353 – 49,165Oxford PC PC 18,656 44.06% 2,521 5.95% Lib NDP 60.22% 16,135 18,656 5,318 838 – 1,399 42,346Parkdale—High Park Lib Lib 23,008 57.83% 16,572 41.65% PC NDP 54.94% 23,008 6,436 6,275 2,758 204 1,105 39,786Parry Sound—Muskoka PC PC 18,776 48.51% 5,444 14.06% Lib NDP 60.03% 13,332 18,776 3,838 2,277 – 484 38,707Perth—Middlesex PC Lib 17,017 42.71% 1,337 3.36% PC NDP 59.70% 17,017 15,680 4,703 1,201 – 1,241 39,842Peterborough PC Lib 24,626 44.74% 6,208 11.28% PC NDP 62.76% 24,626 18,418 9,796 1,605 178 414 55,037Pickering—Ajax—Uxbridge PC Lib 24,970 45.76% 1,010 1.85% PC NDP 59.62% 24,970 23,960 3,690 1,946 – – 54,566Prince Edward—Hastings Lib Lib 22,937 57.38% 10,137 25.36% PC NDP 57.20% 22,937 12,800 3,377 628 – 229 39,971Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke Lib PC 19,274 44.14% 645 1.48% Lib NDP 63.97% 18,629 19,274 5,092 671 – – 43,666Sarnia—Lambton Lib Lib 18,179 47.54% 6,327 16.54% PC NDP 59.34% 18,179 11,852 6,482 1,414 – 316 38,243Sault Ste. Marie NDP Lib 20,050 57.04% 8,671 24.67% NDP PC 61.10% 20,050 2,674 11,379 441 – 606 35,150Scarborough—Agincourt Lib Lib 23,026 61.10% 11,689 31.02% PC NDP 52.88% 23,026 11,337 2,209 566 – 550 37,688Scarborough Centre PC Lib 21,698 52.07% 10,012 24.02% PC NDP 56.60% 21,698 11,686 3,653 642 3,259 736 41,674Scarborough East PC Lib 21,798 51.50% 7,475 17.66% PC NDP 59.21% 21,798 14,323 5,250 668 – 285 42,324Scarborough—Rouge River Lib Lib 23,976 63.85% 14,508 38.63% PC NDP 48.09% 23,976 9,468 2,246 1,326 – 536 37,552Scarborough Southwest PC Lib 17,501 46.93% 5,675 15.22% PC NDP 54.88% 17,501 11,826 6,688 689 – 586 37,290Simcoe—Grey PC PC 26,114 51.47% 8,609 16.97% Lib NDP 60.30% 17,505 26,114 5,032 875 – 1,212 50,738Simcoe North PC PC 23,393 46.13% 3,680 7.26% Lib NDP 60.85% 19,713 23,393 5,515 1,540 101 453 50,715St. Catharines Lib Lib 25,319 57.44% 12,387 28.10% PC NDP 56.43% 25,319 12,932 3,944 1,167 – 714 44,076St. Paul's Lib Lib 24,887 54.76% 13,684 30.11% PC NDP 58.04% 24,887 11,203 6,740 2,266 – 354 45,450Stoney Creek PC Lib 24,751 48.93% 5,234 10.35% PC NDP 62.01% 24,751 19,517 5,419 898 – – 50,585Stormont—Dundas—Charlottenburgh Lib Lib 19,558 51.18% 5,610 14.68% PC Grn 55.78% 19,558 13,948 1,639 2,098 968 – 38,211Sudbury Lib Lib 24,631 68.98% 19,563 54.79% PC NDP 55.95% 24,631 5,068 4,999 1,009 – – 35,707Thornhill PC Lib 21,419 46.90% 796 1.74% PC NDP 57.78% 21,419 20,623 2,616 705 – 304 45,667Thunder Bay—Atikokan Lib Lib 17,735 58.25% 11,153 36.63% NDP PC 55.61% 17,735 5,365 6,582 762 – – 30,444Thunder Bay—Superior North Lib Lib 21,938 72.45% 17,390 57.43% NDP PC 55.61% 21,938 2,912 4,548 882 – – 30,280Timiskaming—Cochrane Lib Lib 18,499 59.56% 12,169 39.18% PC NDP 61.15% 18,499 6,330 5,741 489 – – 31,059Timmins—James Bay NDP NDP 14,941 49.70% 2,568 8.54% Lib PC 57.30% 12,373 2,527 14,941 219 – – 30,060Toronto Centre—Rosedale Lib Lib 23,872 52.78% 13,904 30.74% PC NDP 53.13% 23,872 9,968 9,112 1,739 324 218 45,233Trinity—Spadina NDP NDP 19,268 47.51% 6,341 15.64% Lib PC 52.05% 12,927 4,985 19,268 2,362 256 756 40,554Vaughan—King—Aurora PC Lib 36,928 56.14% 15,184 23.08% PC NDP 58.20% 36,928 21,744 4,697 2,412 – – 65,781Haliburton—Victoria—Brock PC PC 24,297 47.41% 7,126 13.91% Lib NDP 63.18% 17,171 24,297 7,884 956 – 936 51,244Waterloo—Wellington PC PC 22,550 48.97% 5,206 11.31% Lib NDP 55.28% 17,344 22,550 3,970 1,203 – 978 46,045Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Aldershot PC Lib 23,045 47.53% 4,904 10.12% PC NDP 63.56% 23,045 18,141 5,666 903 – 727 48,482Whitby—Ajax PC PC 27,240 48.33% 4,647 8.24% Lib NDP 60.40% 22,593 27,240 5,155 1,375 – – 56,363WillowdaleError in EO report re Willowdale corrected http://www.willowdalendp.ca/ Alexander Brown for Willowdale November 7, 2011 willowdalendp.ca June 21, 2023 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20111107144426/http://www.willowdalendp.ca/ November 7, 2011 PC Lib 21,823 46.97% 1,866 4.02% PC NDP 55.73% 21,823 19,957 3,084 933 – 669 46,466Windsor—St. Clair Lib Lib 19,692 54.92% 9,259 25.82% NDP PC 47.81% 19,692 4,162 10,433 1,315 253 – 35,855Windsor West Lib Lib 21,993 62.51% 14,610 41.53% NDP PC 43.87% 21,993 4,187 7,383 1,233 386 – 35,182York Centre Lib Lib 18,808 59.41% 10,946 34.57% PC NDP 49.59% 18,808 7,862 3,494 1,496 – – 31,660York North PC PC 24,517 47.19% 3,463 6.67% Lib NDP 58.33% 21,054 24,517 4,029 1,854 – 497 51,951York South—Weston Lib Lib 19,932 61.56% 13,685 42.27% NDP PC 50.74% 19,932 4,930 6,247 794 – 475 32,378York West Lib Lib 16,102 69.31% 12,148 52.29% NDP PC 43.95% 16,102 2,330 3,954 437 – 408 23,231 #F5F5DC silver = open seat #F0E68C silver = turnout is above provincial average #DCDCDC silver = incumbent re-elected #87CEFA silver = incumbency arose from byelection gain #FFA07A silver = incumbent barred from renomination a Comparative analysis for ridings (2003 vs 1999) + Summary of riding results by turnout and vote share for winning candidate (vs 1999) https://results.elections.on.ca/en/data-explorer?fromYear=1867&toYear=2022&levelOfDetail=election Data Explorer Elections Ontario December 15, 2022Riding and winning partyTurnoutVote share % Change (pp) % Change (pp)  Algoma—Manitoulin Lib Hold 57.83 -0.15 -2 1em background:#708090 48.68 4.16 -2 1em background:ON LiberalBarrie—Simcoe—Bradford PC Hold 56.03 0.47 -2 1em background:#708090 51.78 -12.27 -2 1em background:ON PCBeaches—East York NDP Hold 55.63 1.99 -2 1em background:#708090 51.23 5.30 -2 1em background:ON NDPBramalea—Gore—Malton—Springdale Lib Gain 49.82 -1.44 -2 1em background:#708090 45.61 6.8 -2 1em background:ON LiberalBrampton Centre Lib Gain 50.25 -1.51 -2 1em background:#708090 43.48 15.48 -2 1em background:ON LiberalBrampton West—Mississauga Lib Gain 50.84 -0.4 -2 1em background:#708090 46.18 8.95 -2 1em background:ON LiberalBrant Lib Hold 56.14 -3.57 -2 1em background:#708090 54.55 7.58 -2 1em background:ON LiberalToronto—Danforth NDP Hold 55.86 -1.88 -2 1em background:#708090 47.14 0.22 -2 1em background:ON NDPBruce—Grey—Owen Sound PC Hold 62.90 0.90 -2 1em background:#708090 52.07 -2.40 -2 1em background:ON PCBurlington PC Hold 61.51 1.05 -2 1em background:#708090 46.15 -16.60 -2 1em background:ON PCCambridge PC Hold 53.79 -2.29 -2 1em background:#708090 42.50 -12.35 -2 1em background:ON PCDavenport Lib Hold 49.06 -9.97 -2 1em background:#708090 58.81 9.09 -2 1em background:ON LiberalDon Valley East Lib Hold 55.32 -6.25 -2 1em background:#708090 56.80 6.30 -2 1em background:ON LiberalDon Valley West Lib Gain 59.84 -3.22 -2 1em background:#708090 52.59 8.98 -2 1em background:ON LiberalDufferin—Peel—Wellington—Grey PC Hold 58.50 -0.12 -2 1em background:#708090 56.64 -8.11 -2 1em background:ON PCDurham PC Hold 58.40 -0.11 -2 1em background:#708090 47.09 -9.97 -2 1em background:ON PCEglinton—Lawrence Lib Hold 57.90 -2.92 -2 1em background:#708090 56.89 0.11 -2 1em background:ON LiberalElgin—Middlesex—London Lib Hold 60.32 -1.41 -2 1em background:#708090 57.31 11.12 -2 1em background:ON LiberalErie—Lincoln PC Hold 60.85 0.26 -2 1em background:#708090 48.49 -2.19 -2 1em background:ON PCEssex Lib Hold 53.36 -3.63 -2 1em background:#708090 45.28 -11.45 -2 1em background:ON LiberalEtobicoke Centre Lib Gain 62.50 -2.05 -2 1em background:#708090 49.41 9.04 -2 1em background:ON LiberalEtobicoke—Lakeshore Lib Gain 59.52 -0.82 -2 1em background:#708090 44.16 8.30 -2 1em background:ON LiberalEtobicoke North Lib Gain 47.91 -7.01 -2 1em background:#708090 53.98 19.95 -2 1em background:ON LiberalGlengarry—Prescott—Russell Lib Hold 57.60 -2.64 -2 1em background:#708090 65.97 10.59 -2 1em background:ON LiberalOttawa—Orléans Lib Gain 63.39 2.52 -2 1em background:#708090 50.36 9.92 -2 1em background:ON LiberalGuelph—Wellington Lib Gain 60.08 0.97 -2 1em background:#708090 42.22 9.61 -2 1em background:ON LiberalHaldimand—Norfolk—Brant PC Hold 59.38 -3.24 -2 1em background:#708090 46.10 -5.09 -2 1em background:ON PCHalton PC Hold 59.73 0.07 -2 1em background:#708090 48.20 -16.75 -2 1em background:ON PCHamilton East Lib Hold 46.73 -5.99 -2 1em background:#708090 52.15 -1.57 -2 1em background:ON LiberalHamilton Mountain Lib Hold 58.96 -3.06 -2 1em background:#708090 51.79 11.54 -2 1em background:ON LiberalHamilton West Lib Gain 55.28 -2.59 -2 1em background:#708090 39.97 10.81 -2 1em background:ON LiberalHastings—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington Lib Hold 58.68 -2.8 -2 1em background:#708090 51.89 5.15 -2 1em background:ON LiberalHuron—Bruce Lib Gain 66.46 -0.32 -2 1em background:#708090 45.79 3.96 -2 1em background:ON LiberalKenora—Rainy River NDP Hold 48.57 -9.02 -2 1em background:#708090 60.12 15.38 -2 1em background:ON NDPChatham-Kent—Essex Lib Hold 55.64 -3.16 -2 1em background:#708090 59.26 3.22 -2 1em background:ON LiberalKingston and the Islands Lib Hold 54.29 -0.22 -2 1em background:#708090 60.28 5.58 -2 1em background:ON LiberalKitchener Centre Lib Gain 53.24 -4.14 -2 1em background:#708090 42.60 2.68 -2 1em background:ON LiberalKitchener—Waterloo PC Hold 59.06 4.68 -2 1em background:#708090 43.08 -11.28 -2 1em background:ON PCLambton—Kent—Middlesex Lib Gain 59.75 -0.71 -2 1em background:#708090 45.11 2.18 -2 1em background:ON LiberalLanark—Carleton PC Hold 61.42 3.30 -2 1em background:#708090 48.99 -9.41 -2 1em background:ON PCLeeds—Grenville PC Hold 62.11 0.39 -2 1em background:#708090 48.70 -4.40 -2 1em background:ON PCLondon North Centre Lib Gain 56.44 0.51 -2 1em background:#708090 43.43 22.54 -2 1em background:ON LiberalLondon—Fanshawe Lib Gain 52.45 -2.62 -2 1em background:#708090 35.87 0.83 -2 1em background:ON LiberalLondon West Lib Gain 60.02 -2.61 -2 1em background:#708090 51.46 7.12 -2 1em background:ON LiberalMarkham Lib Gain 53.89 -1.44 -2 1em background:#708090 51.70 21.1 -2 1em background:ON LiberalMississauga Centre Lib Gain 50.89 -0.57 -2 1em background:#708090 47.45 7.20 -2 1em background:ON LiberalMississauga East Lib Gain 51.38 -1.46 -2 1em background:#708090 48.68 9.69 -2 1em background:ON LiberalMississauga South Lib Gain 56.89 -0.66 -2 1em background:#708090 43.80 12.32 -2 1em background:ON LiberalMississauga West Lib Gain 54.67 0.21 -2 1em background:#708090 50.84 12.81 -2 1em background:ON LiberalNepean—Carleton PC Hold 62.23 1.20 -2 1em background:#708090 54.06 -8.25 -2 1em background:ON PCNiagara Centre NDP Hold 60.25 -3.14 -2 1em background:#708090 49.64 5.21 -2 1em background:ON NDPNiagara Falls Lib Gain 57.40 -1.98 -2 1em background:#708090 46.86 4.66 -2 1em background:ON LiberalNickel Belt NDP Hold 61.82 2.23 -2 1em background:#708090 46.52 4.57 -2 1em background:ON NDPNipissing Lib Gain 62.60 -2.21 -2 1em background:#708090 49.84 6.7 -2 1em background:ON LiberalNorthumberland Lib Gain 60.31 -0.88 -2 1em background:#708090 45.05 1.08 -2 1em background:ON LiberalOak Ridges PC Hold 54.15 -2.41 -2 1em background:#708090 47.27 -12.71 -2 1em background:ON PCOakville Lib Gain 62.31 1.82 -2 1em background:#708090 49.81 17.06 -2 1em background:ON LiberalOshawa PC Hold 51.46 -0.94 -2 1em background:#708090 37.32 -9.43 -2 1em background:ON PCOttawa Centre Lib Hold 55.63 2.67 -2 1em background:#708090 45.10 6.93 -2 1em background:ON LiberalOttawa South Lib Hold 58.77 1.03 -2 1em background:#708090 51.70 2.11 -2 1em background:ON LiberalOttawa—Vanier Lib Hold 50.80 1.68 -2 1em background:#708090 53.53 0.50 -2 1em background:ON LiberalOttawa West—Nepean Lib Gain 62.13 3.23 -2 1em background:#708090 47.04 12.68 -2 1em background:ON LiberalOxford PC Hold 60.22 -0.74 -2 1em background:#708090 44.06 -9.20 -2 1em background:ON PCParkdale—High Park Lib Hold 54.94 -5.52 -2 1em background:#708090 57.83 2.91 -2 1em background:ON LiberalParry Sound—Muskoka PC Hold 60.03 -1.07 -2 1em background:#708090 48.51 -9.46 -2 1em background:ON PCPerth—Middlesex Lib Gain 59.70 -0.55 -2 1em background:#708090 42.71 6.36 -2 1em background:ON LiberalPeterborough Lib Gain 62.76 0.00 -2 1em background:#708090 44.74 4.55 -2 1em background:ON LiberalPickering—Ajax—Uxbridge Lib Gain 59.62 -0.01 -2 1em background:#708090 45.76 11.48 -2 1em background:ON LiberalPrince Edward—Hastings Lib Hold 57.20 0.21 -2 1em background:#708090 57.38 12.27 -2 1em background:ON LiberalRenfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke PC Gain 63.97 2.74 -2 1em background:#708090 44.14 3.76 -2 1em background:ON PCSarnia—Lambton Lib Hold 59.34 -0.83 -2 1em background:#708090 47.54 -1.38 -2 1em background:ON LiberalSault Ste. Marie Lib Gain 61.10 -0.98 -2 1em background:#708090 57.04 29.45 -2 1em background:ON LiberalScarborough—Agincourt Lib Hold 52.88 -3.74 -2 1em background:#708090 61.10 10.40 -2 1em background:ON LiberalScarborough Centre Lib Gain 56.60 -1.64 -2 1em background:#708090 52.07 17.54 -2 1em background:ON LiberalScarborough East Lib Gain 59.21 -0.23 -2 1em background:#708090 51.50 10.62 -2 1em background:ON LiberalScarborough—Rouge River Lib Hold 48.09 -4.69 -2 1em background:#708090 63.85 6.60 -2 1em background:ON LiberalScarborough Southwest Lib Gain 54.88 -3.28 -2 1em background:#708090 46.93 13.28 -2 1em background:ON LiberalSimcoe—Grey PC Hold 60.30 0.08 -2 1em background:#708090 51.47 -14.53 -2 1em background:ON PCSimcoe North PC Hold 60.85 0.97 -2 1em background:#708090 46.13 -7.02 -2 1em background:ON PCSt. Catharines Lib Hold 56.43 -3.18 -2 1em background:#708090 57.44 3.54 -2 1em background:ON LiberalSt. Paul's Lib Hold 58.04 -1.85 -2 1em background:#708090 54.76 4.18 -2 1em background:ON LiberalStoney Creek Lib Gain 62.01 -0.09 -2 1em background:#708090 48.93 8.94 -2 1em background:ON LiberalStormont—Dundas—Charlottenburgh Lib Hold 55.78 -5.58 -2 1em background:#708090 51.18 3.20 -2 1em background:ON LiberalSudbury Lib Hold 55.95 0.26 -2 1em background:#708090 68.98 10.27 -2 1em background:ON LiberalThornhill Lib Gain 57.78 -0.91 -2 1em background:#708090 46.90 -0.46 -2 1em background:ON LiberalThunder Bay—Atikokan Lib Hold 55.61 0.14 -2 1em background:#708090 58.25 -5.78 -2 1em background:ON LiberalThunder Bay—Superior North Lib Hold 55.61 0.67 -2 1em background:#708090 72.45 11.55 -2 1em background:ON LiberalTimiskaming—Cochrane Lib Hold 61.15 -2.10 -2 1em background:#708090 59.56 11.18 -2 1em background:ON LiberalTimmins—James Bay NDP Hold 57.30 -0.12 -2 1em background:#708090 49.70 -3.20 -2 1em background:ON NDPToronto Centre—Rosedale Lib Hold 53.13 -3.91 -2 1em background:#708090 52.78 13.88 -2 1em background:ON LiberalTrinity—Spadina NDP Hold 52.05 -0.01 -2 1em background:#708090 47.51 -0.37 -2 1em background:ON NDPVaughan—King—Aurora Lib Gain 58.20 -1.58 -2 1em background:#708090 56.14 15.97 -2 1em background:ON LiberalHaliburton—Victoria—Brock PC Hold 63.18 -0.62 -2 1em background:#708090 47.41 -15.40 -2 1em background:ON PCWaterloo—Wellington PC Hold 55.28 -0.94 -2 1em background:#708090 48.97 -12.49 -2 1em background:ON PCAncaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Aldershot Lib Gain 63.56 -1.90 -2 1em background:#708090 47.53 14.04 -2 1em background:ON LiberalWhitby—Ajax PC Hold 60.40 1.21 -2 1em background:#708090 48.33 -9.52 -2 1em background:ON PCWillowdale Lib Gain 55.73 -5.12 -2 1em background:#708090 46.97 4.68 -2 1em background:ON LiberalWindsor—St. Clair Lib Hold 47.81 -4.65 -2 1em background:#708090 54.92 9.84 -2 1em background:ON LiberalWindsor West Lib Hold 43.87 -5.40 -2 1em background:#708090 62.51 -2.99 -2 1em background:ON LiberalYork Centre Lib Hold 49.59 -6.83 -2 1em background:#708090 59.41 -1.69 -2 1em background:ON LiberalYork North PC Hold 58.33 -0.30 -2 1em background:#708090 47.19 -14.62 -2 1em background:ON PCYork South—Weston Lib Hold 50.74 -7.49 -2 1em background:#708090 61.56 8.17 -2 1em background:ON LiberalYork West Lib Hold 43.95 -9.23 -2 1em background:#708090 69.31 5.99 -2 1em background:ON Liberal Principal races + Party candidates in 2nd place Party in 1st place Party in 2nd place TotalLibPCNDPON Liberal row-name – 57 15 72ON PC row-name 23 – 1 24ON NDP row-name 7 – 7 Total30 57 16 103 + Principal races, according to 1st and 2nd-place results Parties SeatsON Liberal colour&nameON PC colour&name80ON Liberal colour&nameON NDP colour&name22ON PC colour&nameON NDP colour&name1 Total103 + Candidates ranked 1st to 5th place, by party Parties 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th TotalON Liberal colour&name72 30 1 103ON PC colour&name24 57 22 103ON NDP colour&name7 16 78 2 103ON Green colour&name 2 92 7 101ON FCP colour&name 7 41 48ON Independent colour&name 2 9 11ON Freedom colour&name 11 11ON Communist colour&name 3 3ON Libertarian colour&name 2 2 + Resulting composition of the 38th Legislative Assembly of Ontario Source PartyLibPCNDPTotalSeats retained Incumbents returned 31 22 7 60Open seats held 2 1 3Replacement of incumbent 1 1Seats changing hands Incumbents defeated 31 31Byelection gains held 2 2Open seats gained 5 1 6Total 72 24 7 103 See also Politics of Ontario List of Ontario political parties Premier of Ontario Leader of the Opposition (Ontario) Notes References Further reading Mutimer David Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs, 2003 2009 University of Toronto Press Toronto 978-0-8020-9985-3 https://archive.org/details/canadianannualre0000unse_e7f6 registration Tardi Gregory Dunn Christopher Provinces: Canadian Provincial Politics 2006 University of Toronto Press Toronto 978-1-4426-0068-3 145–174 2nd https://archive.org/details/provincescanadia0000unse Legal Portrait of the 2003 Ontario General Election registration Ontario. Chief Election Officer 2000, 2001, 2002 By-Elections / 2003 General Election: Election Summaries with Statistics from the Records 2003 Elections Ontario https://archive.org/details/31761115473779 1183-0565 Ontario. Chief Election Officer Annual Report of the Chief Election Officer of Ontario under the Election Finances Act 2003 Elections Ontario http://www.elections.on.ca/NR/rdonlyres/27651D3C-51CB-4081-9A62-8F0596121629/0/EFA__Report_English_Final_Web_OCt_05.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20071004232047/http://www.elections.on.ca/NR/rdonlyres/27651D3C-51CB-4081-9A62-8F0596121629/0/EFA__Report_English_Final_Web_OCt_05.pdf October 4, 2007 1183-0565 External links General resources Party platforms Government of Ontario Ontario Legislative Assembly https://web.archive.org/web/20070316080710/http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/members/members_all.do?locale=en 2007-03-16 CBC - Ontario Votes 2003 http://www.elections.on.ca/content/dam/NGW/sitecontent/2014/historical-results/comparative/1999-2011%20General%20Elections%20-%20Results.pdf 1999–2011 General Elections Results from Elections Ontario Parties Ontario Liberal Party Liberal Party of Ontario Ontario New Democratic Party Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario Ontario New Democratic Party Ontario Progressive Conservative Party Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) Ontario Family Party Freedom Party of Ontario Green Party of Ontario Ontario Libertarian Party Ontario Provincial Confederation of Regions Party Ontario general 2003 General election Category:October 2003 in Canada Category:2003 Ontario general election