1951 Ontario general election

1951 Ontario general election

← 1948 November 22, 1951 1955 →
90 seats in the 24th Legislative Assembly of Ontario 46 seats were needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Leslie Frost Walter Thomson Ted Jolliffe Party Progressive Conservative Liberal Co-operative Commonwealth Leader since April 27, 1949 November 10, 1950 April 3, 1942 Leader's seat Victoria Ran in Ontario (Lost) York South (lost re-election) Last election 53 14 21 Seats won 79 8 2 Seat change 26 6 19 Percentage 48.5% 31.5% 19.1% Swing 7.0pp 1.7pp 3.3pp
Premier before election Leslie Frost Progressive Conservative Premier after election Leslie Frost Progressive Conservative

The 1951 Ontario general election was held on November 22, 1951, to elect the 90 members of the 24th Legislative Assembly of Ontario (Members of Provincial Parliament, or "MPPs") of the Province of Ontario.^[1]

The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, led by Leslie Frost, won a fourth consecutive term in office, increasing its caucus in the legislature from 53 in the previous election to 79—a solid majority.

The Ontario Liberal Party, led by Walter Thomson, lost six seats, but regained the role of official opposition because of the collapse of the CCF vote. Albert Wren was elected as a Liberal-Labour candidate and sat with the Liberal caucus.

The social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), led by Ted Jolliffe, lost all but two of its previous 21 seats with Jolliffe himself being defeated in the riding of York South.

One seat was won by J.B. Salsberg of the Labor-Progressive Party (which was the Communist Party of Ontario). LPP leader A.A. MacLeod lost his downtown Toronto seat of Bellwoods in this election and three other LPP candidates were also defeated.

Results[]

Elections to the 24th Parliament of Ontario (1951)

Political party		Party leader	MPPs					Votes
			Candidates	1948	Dissol.	1951	±	#	%	± (pp)
	Progressive Conservative	Leslie Frost	90	53	53	79	26	860,939	48.46%	7.18
	Liberal	Walter Thomson	88	13	13	7	6	551,753	31.06%	1.72
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Ted Jolliffe	77	21	21	2	19	339,362	19.10%	7.42
	Labor–Progressive	Stewart Smith	6	2	2	1	1	11,914	0.67%	0.33
	Liberal–Labour		2	1	1	1		7,939	0.45%	0.01
	Independent		4	–	–	–		1,869	0.11%	0.01
	Independent-Labour		1	–	–	–		1,375	0.08%	New
	Independent-PC		2	–	–	–		1,094	0.06%	0.13
	Socialist-Labour		1	–	–	–		371	0.02%	0.03
	Independent-CCF		–	–	–	–		Did not campaign
	Labour		–	–	–	–		Did not campaign
	Social Credit		–	–	–	–		Did not campaign
	Union of Electors		–	–	–	–		Did not campaign
	Vacant
Total			271	90	90	90		1,776,616	100.00%
Blank and invalid ballots								23,834
Registered voters / turnout								2,745,709	65.57%	2.09

Seats that changed hands[]

There were 29 seats that changed allegiance in the election.

See also[]

• Politics of Ontario
• List of Ontario political parties
• Premier of Ontario
• Leader of the Opposition (Ontario)

References[]

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