1963 Ontario general election
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
108 seats in the 27th Legislative Assembly of Ontario 55 seats were needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
The 1963 Ontario general election was held on September 25, 1963, to elect the 108 members of the 27th Legislative Assembly of Ontario (Members of Provincial Parliament, or "MPPs") of the Province of Ontario.[1]
The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, led by John Robarts, who had replaced Leslie Frost as PC leader and premier in 1961, won a seventh consecutive term in office, and maintained its majority in the legislature, increasing its caucus from the 71 members elected in the previous election to 77 members in an enlarged legislature.
The Ontario Liberal Party, led by John Wintermeyer, increased its caucus from 22 to 24 members, although Wintermeyer lost his seat of Waterloo North. He resigned as party leader but the Liberals continued in their role of official opposition. Robert Gibson of Kenora was re-elected as a Liberal-Labour MPP sitting with the Liberal caucus.
The social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation was formally dissolved and succeeded by the Ontario New Democratic Party in 1961. The newly conglomerated party was still led by Donald C. MacDonald, and won two additional seats, for a total of seven.
Expansion of Legislative Assembly[]
The size of the Legislative Assembly was increased from 98 to 108 members,[2] through the reorganization of Toronto's suburban ridings:
Abolished ridings | New ridings |
---|---|
| |
|
Results[]
Political party | Party leader | MPPs | Votes | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Candidates | 1959 | Dissol. | 1963 | ± | # | % | ± (pp) | |||
Progressive Conservative | John Robarts | 108 | 71 | 77 | 6 | 1,052,740 | 48.61% | 2.46 | ||
Liberal | John Wintermeyer | 107 | 21 | 23 | 2 | 754,032 | 34.82% | 1.44 | ||
New Democratic[a 1] | Donald C. MacDonald | 97 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 340,208 | 15.71% | 0.96 | ||
Liberal–Labour | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6,774 | 0.31% | 0.04 | ||||
Independent-PC | 1 | – | – | – | 5,190 | 0.24% | 0.13 | |||
Independent | 7 | – | – | – | 2,759 | 0.13% | 0.09 | |||
Social Credit | 9 | – | – | – | 2,313 | 0.11% | 0.02 | |||
Communist[a 2] | 6 | – | – | – | 1,654 | 0.08% | 0.15 | |||
Socialist-Labour | 1 | – | – | – | 103 | – | New | |||
Labour-CCF | – | – | – | Did not campaign | ||||||
White Canada | – | – | – | Did not campaign | ||||||
Vacant | ||||||||||
Total | 337 | 98 | 98 | 108 | 2,165,773 | 100.00% | ||||
Blank and invalid ballots | 18,028 | |||||||||
Registered voters / turnout | 3,435,745 | 59.72% | 3.84 |
Party | Seats | Votes | Change (pp) | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
█ Progressive Conservative | 77 / 108 |
48.61% |
2.46 | ||
█ Liberal | 23 / 108 |
34.82% |
-1.44 | ||
█ New Democratic | 7 / 108 |
15.71% |
-0.96 | ||
█ Other | 1 / 108 |
0.86% |
-0.06 |
Reorganization of ridings[]
The reorganized ridings returned the following MPPs:
Seats that changed hands[]
Party | 1959 | Gain from (loss to) | 1963 | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
PC | Lib | NDP | L-L | ||||||||
Progressive Conservative | 67 | 4 | (6) | 1 | 66 | ||||||
Liberal | 20 | 6 | (4) | (1) | 21 | ||||||
New Democratic | 4 | (1) | 1 | 4 | |||||||
Liberal–Labour | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Total | 92 | 6 | (5) | 5 | (6) | 1 | 1 | – | – | 92 |
There were 12 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[]
- ^ "1963 General Election". Elections Ontario. Elections Ontario. Retrieved January 3, 2021.
- ^ The Representation Amendment Act, 1962-63, S.O. 1962-63, c. 125
Further reading[]
- Saywell, John T., ed. (1964). Canadian Annual Review for 1963. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
- 1963 elections in Canada
- General elections in Ontario
- 1963 in Ontario
- September 1963 events in Canada
- Canadian election stubs