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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.
A minority government, or minority cabinet or minority parliament, is a cabinet formed in a parliamentary system when a political party or coalition of parties does not have a majority of overall seats in the parliament. It is sworn into office, with or without the formal support of other parties, to enable a government to be formed. Under such a government, legislation can only be passed with the support of enough other members of the legislature to provide a majority, encouraging multi-partisanship. In bicameral parliaments, the term relates to the situation in chamber whose confidence is considered most crucial to the continuance in office of the government.
The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, often shortened to Ontario PC Party, PC, or Conservatives, is a centre-right political party in Ontario, Canada. The party has been led by Premier Doug Ford since March 10, 2018.
Under amendments passed by the Legislature in December 2005, Ontario elections are now held on fixed dates: the first Thursday of October every four years. [2] The writ of election was issued by Lieutenant Governor David Onley on September 7, 2011.
A writ of election is a writ issued ordering the holding of an election. In Commonwealth countries writs are the usual mechanism by which general elections are called and are issued by the head of state or their representative. In the United States, it is more commonly used to call a special election for a political office.
The Lieutenant Governor of Ontario is the viceregal representative in Ontario of the Canadian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, who operates distinctly within the province but is also shared equally with the ten other jurisdictions of Canada, as well as the other Commonwealth realms and any subdivisions thereof, and resides predominantly in her oldest realm, the United Kingdom. The Lieutenant Governor of Ontario is appointed in the same manner as the other provincial viceroys in Canada and is similarly tasked with carrying out most of the monarch's constitutional and ceremonial duties. The current Lieutenant Governor of Ontario is Elizabeth Dowdeswell.
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Party | 2007 | Gain from(loss to) | 2011 | |||
Lib | PC | NDP | ||||
Liberal | 71 | (11) | (7) | 53 | ||
Progressive Conservative | 26 | 11 | 37 | |||
New Democratic | 10 | 7 | 17 | |||
Total | 107 | 18 | (11) | (7) | 107 |
Party | Toronto | 905 Belt | Ham/Niagara | Central | East | Midwest | Southwest | North | Total | |
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Liberal | 17 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 53 | |
Conservative | 3 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 37 | ||
New Democratic | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 17 | ||||
Total | 22 | 18 | 10 | 11 | 14 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 107 |
Party | Party leader | Candidates | Seats | Popular vote | ||||||
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2007 | Dissol. | 2011 | Change | # | % | Change | ||||
Liberal | Dalton McGuinty | 107 | 71 | 70 | 53 | -18 | 1,625,102 | 37.65% | -4.7% | |
Progressive Conservative | Tim Hudak | 107 | 26 | 25 | 37 | +11 | 1,530,076 | 35.45% | +3.8% | |
New Democratic | Andrea Horwath | 107 | 10 | 10 | 17 | +7 | 981,508 | 22.74% | +5.9% | |
Green | Mike Schreiner | 107 | - | - | 126,021 | 2.92% | -5.1% | |||
Libertarian | Sam Apelbaum | 51 | - | - | 19,447 | 0.45% | +0.3% | |||
Family Coalition | Phil Lees | 31 | - | - | 9,524 | 0.22% | -0.6% | |||
Freedom | Paul McKeever | 57 | - | - | 9,253 | 0.21% | +0.1% | |||
Independents and no affiliation | 36 | - | - | 9,021 | 0.21% | – | ||||
Communist | Elizabeth Rowley | 9 | - | - | 1,162 | 0.03% | -0.01% | |||
Northern Ontario Heritage | Edward Deibel | 3 | - | - | 676 | 0.02% | ||||
Special Needs | Danish Ahmed | 4 | - | - | 667 | 0.02% | +0.01% | |||
Reform | Bradley J. Harness | 4 | - | - | 647 | 0.01% | +0.01% | |||
Paramount Canadians | Ranvir Dogra | 4 | - | - | 562 | 0.01% | ||||
Confederation of Regions | vacant | 3 | - | - | 559 | 0.01% | – | |||
Socialist | Michael Laxer | 5 | - | - | 519 | 0.01% | ||||
People's Political Party | Kevin Clarke | 4 | - | - | 386 | < .01% | ||||
Vegan Environmental | Paul Figueiras | 3 | - | - | 366 | < .01% | ||||
Republican | Trueman Tuck | 3 | - | - | 232 | < .01% | – | |||
The Only Party | Michael Green | 3 | - | - | 188 | < .01% | ||||
Human Rights | Marilyn McCormick | 2 | - | - | 170 | < .01% | ||||
Canadians' Choice | Bahman Yazdanfar | 3 | - | - | 156 | < .01% | ||||
Paupers | John Turmel | 2 | - | - | 140 | < .01% | ||||
Vacant | 2 | |||||||||
Total | 655 | 107 | 107 | 107 | 4,316,382 | 100% | -2.43% | |||
Source: "40TH GENERAL ELECTION - SUMMARY OF VALID BALLOTS CAST" (PDF). Elections Ontario . Retrieved May 17, 2014. |
Liberal
| Progressive Conservative
New Democratic Party |
Polling Firm | Date of Polling | Link | Liberal | PC | NDP | Green | Type of poll | Margin of error |
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Angus Reid | October 4–5, 2011 | 37 | 33 | 26 | 3 | Online | 3.6% | |
EKOS | October 3–5, 2011 | 37.7 | 31.5 | 23.3 | 5.9 | Interactive voice response | 2.0% | |
Forum Research | October 4, 2011 | HTML | 37 | 36 | 23 | 3 | Interactive voice response | 3.1% |
Angus Reid | October 3–4, 2011 | 33 | 36 | 26 | 5 | Online | 2.1% | |
Abacus Data | October 3–4, 2011 | HTML | 37 | 34 | 24 | 4 | Online | 3.1% |
EKOS | October 2–4, 2011 | 39.0 | 29.7 | 23.1 | 6.6 | Interactive voice response | 2.2% | |
Nanos Research | October 2–3, 2011 | 40.1 | 33.0 | 23.2 | 2.8 | Telephone | 4.2% | |
EKOS | October 2–3, 2011 | 39.1 | 29.1 | 24.5 | 6.0 | Interactive voice response | 2.9% | |
Nanos Research | October 1–3, 2011 | 37.7 | 33.2 | 25.8 | 2.1 | Telephone | 3.4% | |
Ipsos Reid | September 30 – October 3, 2011 | 41 | 31 | 25 | 3 | Telephone | 3.1% | |
Nanos Research | September 30 – October 2, 2011 | 35.9 | 36.4 | 25.7 | 1.2 | Telephone | 3.5% | |
EKOS | September 29 – October 2, 2011 | 37.8 | 30.6 | 22.7 | 7.3 | Interactive voice response | 2.8% | |
Nanos Research | September 29 – October 1, 2011 | 36.5 | 34 | 26.8 | 1.9 | Telephone | 3.5% | |
Nanos Research | September 28–30, 2011 | 38.0 | 35.3 | 24.6 | 1.8 | Telephone | 3.5% | |
Angus Reid | September 28–30, 2011 | 33 | 34 | 26 | 6 | Online | 3.1% | |
Leger Marketing | September 28–29, 2011 | 32 | 34 | 29 | 5 | Online | 3.1% | |
Nanos Research | September 28–29, 2011 | 37.7 | 34.4 | 25.5 | 2.0 | Telephone | 4.3% | |
Environics | September 26–28, 2011 | HTML | 35 | 36 | 25 | 3 | Online | |
Abacus Data | September 23–25, 2011 | 33 | 37 | 23 | 6 | Online | 2.9% | |
EKOS | September 21–25, 2011 | 34.9 | 31.4 | 24.7 | 7.6 | Interactive voice response | 2.3% | |
Forum Research | September 22–23, 2011 | HTML | 35 | 35 | 23 | 5 | Interactive voice response | 0.5% |
Angus Reid | September 13–15, 2011 | HTML | 32 | 36 | 26 | 6 | Online | 3.1% |
Leger Marketing | September 12–15, 2011 | 33 | 36 | 26 | 5 | Online | 3.1% | |
Abacus Data | September 9–12, 2011 | HTML | 32 | 41 | 20 | 6 | Online | 3.2% |
Nanos Research | September 10–11, 2011 | 38.1 | 34.7 | 24.3 | 2.7 | Telephone | 4.9% | |
Ipsos Reid | September 7–11, 2011 | HTML | 38 | 37 | 24 | 1 | Telephone | 3.5% |
Harris-Decima | August 25 – September 4, 2011 | HTML | 40 | 29 | 24 | 6 | Telephone | 3.8% |
Nanos Research | August 30 – September 1, 2011 | 31.9 | 35.4 | 22.8 | 4.1 | Telephone | 3.1% | |
Forum Research | August 29–30, 2011 | HTML | 30 | 35 | 26 | 7 | Interactive voice response | 2.0% |
Angus Reid | August 25–28, 2011 | 31 | 38 | 24 | 6 | Online | 3.1% | |
Nanos Research | August 10–13, 2011 | 37.6 | 42.1 | 16.2 | 3.4 | Telephone | 3.4% | |
Ipsos Reid | July 29 – August 4, 2011 | HTML | 36 | 38 | 23 | 3 | Telephone | 4.9% |
Forum Research | July 27–28, 2011 | HTML | 28 | 38 | 24 | 7 | Interactive voice response | 2.1% |
Ipsos Reid | June 7 – July 7, 2011 | HTML | 31 | 42 | 22 | 5 | Telephone | 3.5% |
Forum Research | June 21–22, 2011 | HTML | 26 | 41 | 22 | 8 | Interactive voice response | 1.7% |
Ipsos Reid | May 17 – June 9, 2011 | HTML | 34 | 40 | 20 | 6 | Telephone | 3.5% |
Nanos Research | May 14–15, 2011 | 34 | 41 | 19 | 5 | Telephone | 4.7% | |
Nanos Research | March 8–11, 2011 | 35 | 44 | 16 | 4 | Telephone | 4.9% | |
Nanos Research | January 31 – February 3, 2011 | 39 | 43 | 13 | 5 | Telephone | 4.7% | |
Ipsos Reid | January 20, 2011 | HTML | 35 | 38 | 17 | 9 | Telephone | |
Ipsos Reid | November 18, 2010 | HTML | 32 | 41 | 20 | 7 | ||
Angus Reid | September 28, 2010 | 29 | 41 | 22 | 8 | Online | 3.5% | |
Ipsos Reid | August 21, 2010 | HTML | 35 | 36 | 18 | 11 | ||
Ipsos Reid | June 19, 2010 | HTML | 37 | 32 | 20 | 11 | ||
Nanos Research | February 9–10, 2010 | 41.4 | 37.9 | 12.8 | 7.9 | Telephone | 4.9% | |
Ipsos Reid | December 13, 2009 | HTML | 38 | 34 | 15 | 10 | ||
Angus Reid | December 4, 2009 | 27 | 41 | 20 | 11 | |||
Nanos Research | October 24–25, 2009 | 36.6 | 35 | 17.2 | 9.8 | Telephone | 4.8% | |
Environics | October 2009 | HTML | 32 | 37 | 19 | 11 | ||
Environics | June 2009 | HTML | 44 | 32 | 15 | 8 | ||
Environics | April 2009 | HTML | 44 | 29 | 17 | 11 | ||
Environics | January 2009 | HTML | 45 | 32 | 12 | 11 | ||
Environics | November 2008 | HTML | 35 | 30 | 21 | 13 | ||
Environics | June 2008 | HTML | 41 | 31 | 16 | 12 | ||
Environics | March 2008 | HTML | 38 | 30 | 19 | 12 | ||
Environics | January 2008 | HTML | 45 | 34 | 18 | 2 | ||
Environics | November 2007 | HTML | 44 | 31 | 22 | 3 | ||
Election 2007 | October 10, 2007 | 42.3 | 31.6 | 16.8 | 8.0 |
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