1959 Ontario general election
The 1959 Ontario general election was held on June 11, 1959, to elect the 98 members of the 26th Legislative Assembly of Ontario (Members of Provincial Parliament, or "MPPs") of the Province of Ontario.[1]
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98 seats in the 26th Legislative Assembly of Ontario 50 seats were needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, led by Leslie Frost, won a sixth consecutive term in office, and maintained its majority in the legislature, although it lost 12 of the 83 seats it had won in the previous election.
The Ontario Liberal Party, led by John Wintermeyer, increased its caucus from 11 to 22 members, and continued in the role of official opposition. Liberal-Labour MPP Albert Wren was re-elected and continued to sit with the Liberal caucus. Wren died in 1961 and was succeeded in a by-election by Robert Gibson.
The social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), led by Donald C. MacDonald, won two additional seats, for a total of five.
Results
| Political party | Party leader | MPPs | Votes | |||||||
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| Candidates | 1955 | Dissol. | 1959 | ± | # | % | ± (pp) | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Leslie Frost | 98 | 83 | 71 | 12 |
868,815 | 46.15% | 1.91 | ||
| Liberal | John Wintermeyer | 97 | 10 | 21 | 11 |
682,589 | 36.26% | 3.46 | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Donald C. MacDonald | 80 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
313,834 | 16.67% | 0.13 | ||
| Liberal–Labour | 1 | 1 | 1 |  |
6,559 | 0.35% | 0.06 | |||
| Independent-PC | 2 | 1 | – | 1 |
2,119 | 0.11% | 0.29 | |||
| Labor–Progressive | Bruce Magnuson | 9 | – | – | – | 4,304 | 0.23% | 0.96 | ||
| Social Credit | 5 | – | – | – | 1,740 | 0.09% | New | |||
| Labour-CCF | 1 | – | – | – | 1,512 | 0.08% | New | |||
| Independent | 2 | – | – | – | 832 | 0.04% | 0.48 | |||
| White Canada | 1 | – | – | – | 268 | 0.01% | New | |||
| Independent-Liberal | – | – | – | Did not campaign | ||||||
| Independent-Social Credit | – | – | – | Did not campaign | ||||||
| Socialist-Labour | – | – | – | Did not campaign | ||||||
| Vacant | ||||||||||
| Total | 296 | 98 | 98 | 98 | 1,882,572 | 100.00% | ||||
| Blank and invalid ballots | 21,272 | |||||||||
| Registered voters / turnout | 3,187,801 | 59.72% | 1.68 | |||||||
| Party | Seats | Votes | Change (pp) | ||
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| █ Progressive Conservative | 71 / 98 | 46.15% | -1.91 | ||
| █ Liberal | 21 / 98 | 36.26% | 3.46 | ||
| █ Co-operative Commonwealth | 5 / 98 | 16.67% | 0.13 | ||
| █ Other | 1 / 98 | 0.92% | -1.68 | ||
Seats that changed hands
| Party | 1955 | Gain from (loss to) | 1959 | ||||||||||
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| PC | Lib | CCF | L-L | I-PC | |||||||||
| Progressive Conservative | 83 | (11) | (2) | 1 | 71 | ||||||||
| Liberal | 10 | 11 | 21 | ||||||||||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | 3 | 2 | 5 | ||||||||||
| Liberal–Labour | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Independent-PC | 1 | (1) | – | ||||||||||
| Total | 98 | 13 | (1) | – | (11) | – | (2) | – | – | 1 | – | 98 | |
There were 14 seats that changed allegiance in the election.
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See also
References
- "1959 General Election". Elections Ontario. Elections Ontario. Retrieved January 3, 2021.
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