1951 Ontario general election
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
90 seats in the 24th Legislative Assembly of Ontario 46 seats were needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
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[]
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 |
Party | Seats | Votes | Change (pp) | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
█ Progressive Conservative | 79 / 90 |
48.46% |
7.18 | ||
█ Liberal | 7 / 90 |
31.06% |
1.72 | ||
█ Co-operative Commonwealth | 2 / 90 |
19.10% |
-7.42 | ||
█ Other | 2 / 90 |
1.38% |
-1.48 |
Seats that changed hands[]
Party | 1948 | Gain from (loss to) | 1951 | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
PC | Lib | CCF | Lbr-P | L-L | |||||||||
Progressive Conservative | 53 | 8 | (1) | 18 | 1 | 79 | |||||||
Liberal | 13 | 1 | (8) | 1 | 7 | ||||||||
Co-operative Commonwealth | 21 | (18) | (1) | 2 | |||||||||
Labor–Progressive | 2 | (1) | 1 | ||||||||||
Liberal–Labour | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Total | 90 | 1 | (27) | 8 | (2) | 19 | – | 1 | – | – | – | 90 |
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[]
- ^ "1951 General Election". Elections Ontario. Elections Ontario. Retrieved January 3, 2021.
- 1951 elections in Canada
- General elections in Ontario
- 1951 in Ontario
- November 1951 events
- Canadian election stubs