Ontario general election, 1999

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Map of Ontario's ridings and their popular vote for their party elected
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The Ontario Legislature after the 1999 election.


The Ontario general election of 1999 was held in the late spring of 1999 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, Canada.

The governing Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, led by Premier Mike Harris, was re-elected to a second majority government.

It was the first election in which the Legislative Assembly of Ontario had a reduced number of seats. Previously, the province's riding (electoral district) boundaries were different from those used in federal elections. In the 1999 election, for the first time, provincial riding boundaries were redrawn to precisely match federal ridings, resulting in 27 fewer seats -- and 27 fewer Members of Provincial Parliament -- in the Ontario Legislature.

According to a poll released on the eve of the election, the Liberal Party entered the campaign with a lead over the Progressive Conservatives. This poll's accuracy was disputed by many, however, and even Liberal leader Dalton McGuinty cast doubt on it: noting that most polling companies claim to be accurate 19 times out of 20, he suggested that this might have been 20th.

Subsequent polls taken in the early period of the campaign showed the Progressive Conservatives with a commanding lead over the Liberals, in a manner more consistent with pre-election numbers. In retrospect, it seems likely that the first poll created a false sense of expectation around the Liberals, and damaged the party's ability to build a viable support base during the campaign.

The Harris Tories had delivered large tax cuts, but they had also severely cut spending and had failed to eliminate the province's deficit. They had the support of the legendary Tory political machine, bolstered by a group of American experts imported from the Republican Party. They targeted Dalton McGuinty as inexperienced ("Dalton McGuinty is not up to the job" was a Tory campaign slogan), and claimed he did not have a clear vision.

The extensive use of attack ads and wedge issues by the Tories was a new development in Canadian politics, and some commentators worried the election process was becoming Americanized.

The third major party, the Ontario New Democratic Party led by Howard Hampton, spent much the campaign battling the memory of Bob Rae's unpopular government in the early 1990s, and was unable to gain much support.

The Liberal Party managed to recover some support late in the campaign, but it was not enough to defeat the Tories.

Results

Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal/rowTemplate:Canadian politics/party colours/NDP/rowTemplate:Canadian politics/party colours/Green/row
Party Party Leader # of
candidates
Seats Popular Vote
1995 Elected % Change # % % Change

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Progressive Conservative Mike Harris 103 82 59 -28.0% 1,978,059 45.1% +0.3%
Liberal Dalton McGuinty 103 30 35 +16.7% 1,751,472 39.9% +8.8%
New Democratic Howard Hampton 103 17 9 -47.1% 551,009 12.6% -8.0%
Green Frank de Jong 57 - - - 30,749 0.7% +0.3%

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Family Coalition Giuseppe Gori 37 - - - 24,216 0.6% -0.9%

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Natural Law Ron Parker 73 - - - 19,491 0.4% -

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Freedom Lloyd Walker 14 - - - 4,806 0.1% -

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Libertarian Sam Apelbaum 7 - - - 2,337 0.1% -0.1%

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Communist Hassan Husseini 4 - - - 814 0.02% -

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Confederation of Regions   2 - - - 282 0.01% -

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Reform   1 - - - 174 0.003% -

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Others 62 1 - -100% 26,798 0.6% -0.2%
Total 567 130 103 -20.8% 4,390,207 100%  

Notes:

It is possible that some independent candidates were actually members of these or other unregistered parties.

Riding results

Algoma—Manitoulin:

Barrie—Simcoe—Bradford:

Beaches—East York:

Bramalea—Gore—Malton—Springdale:

Brampton Centre:

Brampton West—Mississauga:

Brant:

Broadview—Greenwood:

Bruce—Grey:

Burlington:

Cambridge:

Carleton—Gloucester:

Chatham-Kent—Essex:

Davenport:

Don Valley East:

Don Valley West:

Dufferin—Peel—Wellington—Grey:

Durham:

Eglinton—Lawrence:

Elgin—Middlesex—London:

Erie—Lincoln:

Essex:

Etobicoke Centre:

Etobicoke—Lakeshore:

Etobicoke North:

Glengarry—Prescott—Russell:

Guelph—Wellington:

Haldimand—Norfolk—Brant:

Haliburton—Victoria—Brock:

Halton:

Hamilton East:

Hamilton Mountain:

Hamilton West:

Hastings—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington:

Huron—Bruce:

Kenora—Rainy River:

Kingston and the Islands:

Kitchener Centre:

Kitchener—Waterloo:

Lambton—Kent—Middlesex:

Lanark—Carleton:

Leeds—Grenville:

London North Centre:

London—Fanshawe:

London West:

Markham:

Mississauga Centre:

Mississauga East:

Mississauga South:

Mississauga West:

Nepean—Carleton:

Niagara Centre:

Niagara Falls:

Nickel Belt:

Nipissing:

Northumberland:

Oak Ridges:

Oakville:

Oshawa:

Ottawa Centre:

Ottawa South:

Ottawa—Vanier:

Ottawa West—Nepean:

Oxford:

Parkdale—High Park:

Parry Sound—Muskoka:

Perth—Middlesex:

Peterborough:

Pickering—Ajax—Uxbridge:

Prince Edward-Hastings:

Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke:

Sarnia—Lambton:

Sault Ste. Marie:

Scarborough—Agincourt:

Scarborough Centre:

Scarborough East:

Scarbourgh—Rouge River:

Scarborough Southwest:

Simcoe—Grey:

Simcoe North:

St. Catharines:

St. Paul's:

Stoney Creek:

Stormont—Dundas—Charlottenburgh:

Sudbury:

Thornhill:

Thunder Bay—Atikokan:

Thunder Bay—Superior North:

Timiskaming—Cochrane:

Timmins—James Bay:

Toronto Centre—Rosedale:

Trinity—Spadina:

Vaughan—King—Aurora:

Waterloo—Wellington:

Wentworth—Burlington:

Whitby—Ajax:

Willowdale:

Windsor—St. Clair:

Windsor West:

York Centre:

York North:

York South—Weston:

York West:

(Note: The official returns list Ray as a candidate of the Ontario Communist Party, rather than the Communist League. This, however, is an error.)

post-election changes:

Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Aldershot (res. Toni Skarica, February 7, 2000), September 7, 2000:

Parry Sound—Muskoka (res. Ernie Eves, February 8, 2001), March 22, 2001:

Vaughan—King—Aurora (dec. Al Palladini, March 7, 2001), June 28, 2001:

Beaches—East York (res. Frances Lankin, July 31, 2001), September 20, 2001:

Nipissing (res. Mike Harris, April 2, 2002), May 2, 2002:

Dufferin—Peel—Wellington—Grey (res. David Tilson, April 2, 2002), May 2, 2002):

See also

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