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2022 Ontario general election

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2022 Ontario general election
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The 2022 Ontario general election was held on June 2, 2022, to elect Members of the Provincial Parliament to serve in the 43rd Parliament of Ontario.

Quick facts 124 seats of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario 63 seats needed for a majority, Turnout ...

The governing Progressive Conservatives, led by Premier Doug Ford, were re-elected to a second majority government, winning 7 more seats than they had won in 2018. The NDP retained their status as the Official Opposition, despite losing seats and finishing third in the popular vote, while the Ontario Liberals finished 2nd in the popular vote, but only won 8 seats, a gain of one seat from 2018 but falling short of official party status. The Green Party retained the single seat they won in 2018 while the New Blue and Ontario Party failed to win a seat, both losing their lone sitting MPPs.

A total of 4,701,959 valid votes were cast in this election, as well as a smaller number of invalid ballots.[2] The election set a record for the lowest voter turnout in an Ontario provincial election, as only 44.06% of the people who were eligible voted. This broke the previous record for low turnout of 48.2% in the 2011 election.[3]

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Background

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As of December 2016, Ontario elections are held on or before the first Thursday in June in the fourth calendar year following the previous general election.[4]

In the June 2018 Ontario general election, the Progressive Conservative Party (PC Party) led by Doug Ford won a strong majority government. The New Democratic Party (NDP) led by Andrea Horwath became the Official Opposition; this was the first time since 1990 they surpassed their third-place status. The governing Liberal Party led by Premier Kathleen Wynne was decimated, winning only 7 out of the 124 seats in the legislature and being reduced to third-place status. The Green Party won its first seat in history, with leader Mike Schreiner becoming its first Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP).

Wynne resigned as leader immediately after the 2018 election and MPP John Fraser succeeded her as interim leader; he held that post until March 2020, when Wynne's former minister of transportation, Steven Del Duca, became permanent leader of the Liberal Party. Meanwhile, Horwath and Schreiner both remained leader of their parties and had no intention of resigning.

By December 2019, polling showed that the Ford government was as unpopular as the previous Wynne government.[5] However, the Progressive Conservatives experienced a surge of support during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic; a Mainstreet Research poll in June 2020 showed the PCs at 42 percent, the Liberals at 28 percent, and the NDP at 23 percent.[6]

On October 5, 2020, Ontario MPPs voted unanimously in favour of a motion stating that the government will not call an election prior to the fixed election date in 2022.[7][8] Before this vote, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario could have been dissolved earlier by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario on a motion of no confidence or if the Premier triggered a snap election (the former was extremely unlikely to work against the incumbent government with a majority).

In April 2021, the province experienced a major third wave of COVID-19 infections, and, after quickly reversing government health policies, such as opening and then abruptly closing restaurants, the government was criticized over their handling of COVID-19. This led to the PCs' support dipping, but remaining ahead of the Liberals and NDP.[9]

In late April 2022 – days before the election call – the Ford government released its budget, promising to implement it if the government was reelected. The budget recorded a deficit of $19.9 billion and promised substantial spending on infrastructure (including for their proposed Highway 413) and tax breaks for some workers and seniors.[10]

On May 3, 2022, Premier Doug Ford met with the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario to advise dissolution of the legislature and for writs of election be drawn up.[11]

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Timeline

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  1. from cabinet and caucus due to allegations of sexual misconduct
  2. from caucus after opposing the government's cuts to francophone services
  3. later removed after alleged autism comment, and alleged lack of commitment to the caucus
  4. accepted position at Massey College of the University of Toronto
  5. from caucus after voting against Bill 195
  6. co-created (alongside her husband) the New Blue Party, and officially joined soon after
  7. from caucus due to refusal to get vaccinated against COVID-19
  8. from caucus following party accusations that she had misrepresented her COVID-19 vaccine status.
  9. from caucus during vetting process for re-election for having joined an Islamophobic Facebook group
  10. from caucus after losing nomination contest to be re-elected

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  • May 3: Writs of the election were drawn up, dissolving the Legislature and officially starting the campaign.[39]
  • May 10: First leaders' debate, organized by Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities.[40]
  • May 16: Second leaders' debate, organized by Broadcast Consortium.[41]
  • June 2: Election day.
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Campaign period

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Contests

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Incumbents not standing for reelection

26 MPPs chose not to campaign in the election:

  1. Previously elected under the NDP banner
  2. Previously elected under the PC banner

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Debates

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Issues

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The 2022 Ontario Budget, entitled Ontario's Plan to Build, served as the platform of the governing PC Party. The main five themes it emphasized were: growing the clean energy economy with minerals from the Ring of Fire, building infrastructure including Highway 413, the Bradford Bypass and expanding GO service, supporting workers by funding more skilled trades programs, raising the minimum hourly wage to $15 and allowing universities to issue three-year degrees, lowering taxes by eliminating license plate stickers, eliminating tolls and reducing housing development fees and lastly to avoid future COVID-19 lockdowns by hiring more healthcare workers..[70]

The Official Opposition NDP's campaign focused on increased funding for social programs and government services, which would be paid for through higher taxes on businesses and individuals earning over $200,000 per year. Funding would go toward reducing class sizes, raising welfare payments and disability payments, subsidies for black, indigenous and LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs, hiring more healthcare and education staff and increased wages for public servants. The NDP also proposed to expand COVID-19 vaccine mandates, implement a mixed member proportional electoral system, to close down all privately owned long-term care facilities and to stop the construction of new highway projects.

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Endorsements

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Opinion polls

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Notes

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Results

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Despite only posting a marginal increase in the popular vote, the Progressive Conservative Party won with an increased parliamentary majority.[171]

PC gains came primarily at the expense of the New Democratic Party, who lost significant vote share primarily to the Liberal Party. Nevertheless, the NDP maintained their role as official opposition by a large margin. Although she won her seat, Andrea Horwath resigned as leader of the NDP.[172]

Despite edging out the NDP for second place in the popular vote, the Liberals only gained one seat and failed to regain official party status. After failing to win in his own riding, Liberal leader Steven Del Duca also announced his resignation as party leader.[173]

The only two candidates outside the three largest parties to be elected were Green Party leader Mike Schreiner and independent candidate Bobbi Ann Brady, who prior to the election was the executive assistant to the retiring PC MPP in her riding.

The official results, certified by Elections Ontario, are as follows:

83 31 8 1 1
Progressive Conservative New Democratic Liberal G I
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Popular vote
PC
40.83%
Liberal
23.91%
New Democratic
23.74%
Green
5.96%
Others
5.56%
Seat summary
PC
66.94%
New Democratic
25.00%
Liberal
6.45%
Green
0.81%
Others
0.81%
  1. Bobbi Ann Brady was elected for Haldimand—Norfolk with 15,921 votes, or 0.34% of the province-wide vote.

Synopsis of results

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  = open seat
  = turnout is above provincial average
  = incumbent re-elected under the same party banner
  = incumbent switched allegiance after 2018 election
  = other incumbents renominated
  1. Summarized from "Data Explorer". Elections Ontario. Retrieved December 15, 2022.
  2. including spoilt ballots
  3. Provincewide turnout was 44.06%
  4. minor political parties receiving less than 1% of the popular vote are aggregated under "Other"; independent candidates are aggregated separately

Comparative analysis for ridings (2022 vs 2018)

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Turnout, winning shares and swings

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  1. Summarized from "Data Explorer". Elections Ontario. Retrieved December 15, 2022.
  2. Share won by winning candidate, with difference noted from share achieved by the same party in 2018.
  3. Positive indicates improvement to standing of party winning in 2018; negative points to 2018's second-place party being swung to.
  4. did not campaign in 2018

Changes in party vote shares

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Post-election pendulum

The robustness of the margins of victory for each party can be summarized in electoral pendulums. These are not necessarily a measure of the volatility of the respective riding results. The following tables show the margins over the various 2nd-place contenders, for which one-half of the value represents the swing needed to overturn the result. Actual seat turnovers in the 2022 election are noted for reference.

  = seats that turned over in the election

Results summary by region

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Detailed results

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Summary analysis

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Most marginal 2-way and 3-way contests

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Significant results among independent and minor party candidates

Those candidates not belonging to a major party, receiving more than 1,000 votes in the election, are listed below:

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Seats changing hands

Of the 124 seats, 26 were open because of MPPs who chose not to stand for reelection, and voters in only 14 seats changed allegiance from the previous election in 2018.


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There were 14 seats that changed allegiance in the election:

Of the 14 seats that changed hands, seven were open seats where the MPPs chose to retire, and seven others saw their incumbents defeated.

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  1. sat as an Independent at dissolution
  1. chose to stand as an Independent in the election

Three PC MPPs had changed allegiance during the course of the past Legislature, but failed to secure reelection under their new banners. The seats reverted to the PCs.

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Student Vote results

Student Vote elections are mock elections that run parallel to real elections, in which students not of voting age participate. They are administered by CIVIX Canada, in partnership with Elections Ontario. Student Vote elections are for educational purposes and do not count towards the actual results.

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