1955 Ontario general election

1955 Ontario general election

← 1951 June 9, 1955 1959 →
98 seats in the 25th Legislative Assembly of Ontario 50 seats were needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Leslie Frost Farquhar Oliver Donald C. MacDonald Party Progressive Conservative Liberal Co-operative Commonwealth Leader since April 27, 1949 April 9, 1954 November 21, 1953 Leader's seat Victoria Grey South York South Last election 79 8 2 Seats won 83 11 3 Seat change 4 3 1 Percentage 48.5% 33.3% 16.5% Swing ±0.0pp 1.8pp 2.6pp
Premier before election Leslie Frost Progressive Conservative Premier after election Leslie Frost Progressive Conservative

The 1955 Ontario general election was held on June 9, 1955, to elect the 98 members of the 25th 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 fifth consecutive term in office, increasing its caucus in the legislature from 79 in the previous election to 83.

The Ontario Liberal Party, again led by Farquhar Oliver, won three additional seats in the enlarged legislature, increasing its caucus from 8 to 11, and continuing in the role of official opposition. Liberal-Labour MPP Albert Wren was re-elected and continued to sit with the Liberal caucus.

The social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), led by Donald C. MacDonald, won one additional seat, for a total of three.

The Labor-Progressive Party (which was the Communist Party) lost its last remaining seat with the defeat of J.B. Salsberg.

One "PC Independent" was elected.

Expansion of Legislative Assembly[]

For the first time since the 1934 election, the number of seats in the Legislature was adjusted, rising from 90 to 98.^[2] The following changes were made:

• Addington became Frontenac—Addington
• London was divided into London North and London South
• Muskoka—Ontario was reduced to Muskoka, ceding its part of Ontario County to Ontario
• Nickel Belt was separated from Sudbury
• Oshawa was separated from Ontario
• Ottawa West was carved out from Carleton
• Wellington North became Wellington—Dufferin
• Part of Wentworth became Wentworth East
• York Centre was carved out from York North
• York—Humber was separated from York West
• York—Scarborough was ceded from York East

Results[]

Elections to the 25th Parliament of Ontario (1955)

Political party		Party leader	MPPs					Votes
			Candidates	1951	Dissol.	1955	±	#	%	± (pp)
	Progressive Conservative	Leslie Frost	97	79		83	4	846,592	48.06%	0.40
	Liberal	Farquhar Oliver	94	7		10	3	577,774	32.80%	1.74
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Donald C. MacDonald	81	2		3	1	291,410	16.54%	2.56
	Labor–Progressive	Stewart Smith	31	1		–	1	20,875	1.19%	0.52
	Liberal–Labour		2	1		1		7,305	0.41%	0.04
	Independent-PC		1	–	–	1	1	7,033	0.40%	0.34
	Independent		5	–	–	–		9,169	0.52%	0.41
	Independent-Liberal		1	–	–	–		641	0.04%	New
	Independent-Social Credit		1	–	–	–		602	0.03%	New
	Socialist-Labour		1	–	–	–		124	0.01%
	Independent-Labour		–	–	–	–		Did not campaign
	Vacant
Total			314	90	90	98		1,761,525	100.00%
Blank and invalid ballots								22,622
Registered voters / turnout								2,905,760	61.40%	4.17

Reorganization of ridings[]

The reorganized ridings returned the following MLAs:

Seats that changed hands[]

There were 10 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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