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The Ontario general election of 1987 was held on September 10, 1987, to elect members of the 34th Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, Canada.
Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province accounting for 38.3 percent of the country's population, and is the second-largest province in total area. Ontario is fourth-largest jurisdiction in total area when the territories of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut are included. It is home to the nation's capital city, Ottawa, and the nation's most populous city, Toronto, which is also Ontario's provincial capital.
Contents
- Results
- Riding results
- Algoma
- Algoma—Manitoulin
- Beaches—Woodbine
- Brampton North
- Brampton South
- Brantford
- Brant-Haldimand
- Bruce
- Burlington South
- Cambridge
- Carleton
- Carleton East
- Chatham—Kent
- Cochrane North
- Cochrane South
- Cornwall
- Don Mills
- Dovercourt
- Downsview
- Dufferin—Peel
- Durham Centre
- Durham East
- Durham West
- Durham—York
- Eglinton
- Elgin
- Essex—Kent
- Essex South
- Etobicoke—Humber
- Etobicoke—Lakeshore
- Etobicoke—Rexdale
- Etobicoke West
- Fort William
- Fort York
- Frontenac—Addington
- Grey—Owen Sound
- Guelph
- Halton Centre
- Halton North
- Hamilton Centre
- Hamilton East
- Hamilton Mountain
- Hamilton West
- Hastings—Peterborough
- High Park—Swansea
- Huron
- Kenora
- Kingston and the Islands
- Kitchener
- Kitchener—Wilmot
- Lake Nipigon
- Lambton
- Lanark—Renfrew
- Lawrence
- Leeds—Grenville
- Lincoln
- London Centre
- London North
- London South
- Markham
- Middlesex
- Mississauga East
- Mississauga North
- Mississauga South
- Mississauga West
- Muskoka—Georgian Bay
- Nepean
- Niagara Falls
- Niagara South
- Nickel Belt
- Nipissing
- Norfolk
- Northumberland
- Oakville South
- Oakwood
- Oriole
- Oshawa
- Ottawa Centre
- Ottawa East
- Ottawa—Rideau
- Ottawa South
- Ottawa West
- Oxford
- Parkdale
- Parry Sound
- Perth
- Peterborough
- Port Arthur
- Prescott and Russell
- Prince Edward—Lennox
- Quinte
- Rainy River
- Renfrew North
- Riverdale
- St. Andrew—St. Patrick
- St. Catharines
- St. Catharines—Brock
- St. George—St. David
- Sarnia
- Sault Ste. Marie
- Scarborough—Agincourt
- Scarborough Centre
- Scarborough East
- Scarborough—Ellesmere
- Scarborough North
- Scarborough West
- Simcoe Centre
- Simcoe East
- Simcoe West
- Stormont—Dundas—Glengarry & East Grenville
- Sudbury
- Sudbury East
- Timiskaming
- Victoria—Haliburton
- Waterloo North
- Welland—Thorold
- Wellington
- Wentworth East
- Wentworth North
- Willowdale
- Wilson Heights
- Windsor—Riverside
- Windsor—Sandwich
- Windsor—Walkerville
- York Centre
- York East
- York Mills
- York—Mackenzie
- York South
- Yorkview
- Byelections after 1987
- See also
The governing Ontario Liberal Party, led by Premier David Peterson, was returned to power with their first majority government in half a century, and the second-largest majority government in the province's history. Peterson had successfully managed to govern with a minority in the Legislature by obtaining the co-operation of the Ontario New Democratic Party, led by Bob Rae, in a confidence and supply agreement. It was through the NDP's support that Peterson was able to form a government, even though the Progressive Conservative Party had won a slightly larger number of seats in the previous election.
The Ontario Liberal Party is a provincial political party in the province of Ontario, Canada. The party is ideologically aligned with the Liberal Party of Canada but the two parties are organizationally independent and have separate, though overlapping, memberships.
David Robert Peterson, 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.
The Ontario New Democratic Party is a social-democratic political party in Ontario, Canada. The Ontario NDP, led by Andrea Horwath since March 2009, currently forms the Official Opposition in Ontario following the 2018 general election. It is a provincial section of the federal New Democratic Party. It was formed in October 1961 from the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL).
The PC Party, led by Larry Grossman, campaigned on a platform of tax cuts to stimulate the economy. Its support continued to slide, however, as voters opted for the change that the Liberal-NDP arrangement provided, with even Grossman losing his own seat. The NDP was unable to convince voters that it should be given credit for the success of the Liberal government that it had supported. Despite losing six seats, the party became the Official Opposition for the second time in the party's history. The PCs fell to 16 seats and third place in the legislature, their worst showing in an election in half a century.
Lawrence Sheldon "Larry" Grossman, was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly as a Progressive Conservative from 1975 to 1987, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Bill Davis and Frank Miller. Grossman was leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives from 1985 to 1987.
