Dalton James Patrick McGuinty Jr. is a former Canadian politician who served as the 24th premier of Ontario from 2003 to 2013. He was the first Liberal leader to win two majority governments since Mitchell Hepburn nearly 70 years earlier. In 2011,he became the first Liberal premier to secure a third consecutive term since Oliver Mowat after his party was re-elected in that year's provincial election.
The Ontario Liberal Party is a political party in the province of Ontario,Canada. The party has been led by Bonnie Crombie since December 2023.
The Ontario New Democratic Party is a social democratic political party in Ontario,Canada. The party sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum and currently forms the Official Opposition in Ontario following the 2018 general election. It is a provincial section of the federal New Democratic Party.
William Grenville Davis,was a Canadian politician who served as the 18th premier of Ontario from 1971 to 1985. Behind Oliver Mowat,Davis was the second-longest serving premier of Ontario.
John Bracken was a Canadian agronomist and politician who was the 11th and longest-serving premier of Manitoba (1922–1943) and later the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (1942–1948).
Frank Stuart Miller was a Canadian politician who served as the 19th premier of Ontario for four months in 1985. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1971 as a Progressive Conservative member of the central Ontario riding of Muskoka. He served in the cabinet of Premier Bill Davis in several portfolios including Minister of Health and Minister of Natural Resources. He also served five years as the Treasurer of Ontario.
The Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba is a centre-right political party in Manitoba,Canada. It is currently the opposition party in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba,following a defeat in the 2023 provincial election.
George Alexander Drew was a Canadian politician. He served as the 14th premier of Ontario from 1943 to 1948 and founded a Progressive Conservative dynasty that would last 42 years. He later served as leader of the federal Progressive Conservative Party and Leader of the Official Opposition from 1948 to 1956.
Robert Fletcher Nixon is a retired Canadian politician in the province of Ontario,Canada. The son of former Premier of Ontario Harry Nixon,he was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in a 1962 by-election following his father's death. The younger Nixon was elected leader of the Ontario Liberal Party in 1967 and led them through three provincial elections,the first two where the Liberals retained their standing as the second-largest party and official opposition in the legislature.
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 1985 to 1987. Ruprecht represented Toronto's Parkdale and then Davenport constituencies for the Liberal Party of Ontario for 30 years. On 5 July 2011,he announced that he was leaving politics and would not seek re-election in the October 2011 provincial election.
Ted Chudleigh is a former politician in Ontario,Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2014,representing the ridings of Halton North and later Halton. Chudleigh is the grandson of Thomas Laird Kennedy,who served as Premier of Ontario in 1949.
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.
Margaret Marland is a former Canadian politician in Ontario. 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.
The 1948 Ontario general election was held on June 7,1948,to elect the 90 members of the 23rd Legislative Assembly of Ontario of the Province of Ontario.
Steven Offer is a former politician in Ontario,Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1985 to 1995 who represented the riding of Mississauga North. He served as a cabinet minister in the government of David Peterson.
Philip Andrew Gillies is a former politician in Ontario,Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1981 to 1987 as a Progressive Conservative,and was a cabinet minister in the government of Frank Miller.
Robert Douglas Kennedy was a politician in Ontario,Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1967 to 1985,as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.
Osias F. "Osie" Villeneuve was a longtime politician in Ontario,Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and the House of Commons of Canada,and was an elected representative almost continuously from the 1940s until his death.
A leadership election was held by the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario on April 27,1949 to replace retiring leader and premier George Drew who had resigned after losing his seat in the 1948 provincial election and deciding to enter federal politics. The interim leader of the party was Thomas Laird Kennedy. The party selected Leslie Frost on the first ballot.
William Arthur Goodfellow was a politician in Ontario,Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1943 to 1963 who represented the riding of Northumberland. He served as a cabinet minister in the governments of George Drew,Thomas Kennedy,Leslie Frost,and John Robarts.
