1959 Ontario general election

1959 Ontario general election

← 1955 June 11, 1959 1963 →
98 seats in the 26th Legislative Assembly of Ontario 50 seats were needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   LIB Leader Leslie Frost John Wintermeyer Donald C. MacDonald Party Progressive Conservative Liberal Co-operative Commonwealth Leader since April 27, 1949 April 20, 1958 November 21, 1953 Leader's seat Victoria Waterloo North York South Last election 83 11 3 Seats won 71 22 5 Seat change 12 11 2 Percentage 46.3% 36.6% 16.7% Swing 2.2pp 3.3pp 0.2pp
Premier before election Leslie Frost Progressive Conservative Premier after election Leslie Frost Progressive Conservative

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]

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[]

Elections to the 26th Parliament of Ontario (1959)

Political party		Party leader	MPPs					Votes
			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

Seats that changed hands[]

There were 14 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)

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