This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "1975 Ontario general election" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(April 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
1975 Ontario general election
← 1971
September 18, 1975
1977 →
← outgoing members
elected members →
125 seats in the 30th Legislative Assembly of Ontario 63 seats were needed for a majority
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Bill Davis
Stephen Lewis
Robert Nixon
Party
Progressive Conservative
New Democratic
Liberal
Leader since
February 12, 1971
October 4, 1970
January 6, 1967
Leader's seat
Brampton
Scarborough West
Brant—Oxford—Norfolk
Last election
78
19
20
Seats won
51
38
36
Seat change
27
19
16
Popular vote
1,192,592
956,904
1,125,615
Percentage
36.07%
28.94%
34.04%
Swing
8.43pp
1.79pp
6.29pp
Premier before election
Bill Davis
Progressive Conservative
Premier after election
Bill Davis
Progressive Conservative
The 1975 Ontario general election was held on September 18, 1975, to elect the 125 members of the 30th Legislative Assembly of Ontario (Members of Provincial Parliament, or "MPPs") of the Province of Ontario, Canada.
The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, led by Bill Davis and campaigning under the slogan, "Your Future. Your choice.", won a tenth consecutive term in office but lost its majority in the legislature for the first time since the 1945 election. The PC party lost 27 seats from its result in the previous election.
The social democratic Ontario New Democratic Party, led by Stephen Lewis with the slogan "Tomorrow starts today", doubled its representation in the legislature, and became the Official Opposition on the strength of a campaign which called for rent control in Ontario and highlighted horror stories of individuals victimized by bad landlords who imposed exorbitant rent increases. The campaign forced Davis' Tories to promise to implement rent controls shortly before the election.
The Ontario Liberal Party, led by Robert Nixon, won 16 additional seats, but lost the role of Official Opposition to the NDP. One member of its caucus was elected as a Liberal-Labour candidate.
and 23 Related for: 1975 Ontario general election information
The 1975Ontariogeneralelection was held on September 18, 1975, to elect the 125 members of the 30th Legislative Assembly of Ontario (Members of Provincial...
- 1975)". ElectionsOntario. Archived from the original on 2007-06-18. Retrieved 2006-12-21. "Composition Of Legislature Following OntarioGeneral Elections...
The 1977 Ontariogeneralelection was held on June 9, 1977, to elect the 125 members of the 31st Legislative Assembly of Ontario. The Progressive Conservative...
(electoral district) of the 1975Ontariogeneralelection, that was held on September 18, 1975. Extrapolated from Canadian Press (1975-09-19). The Toronto Daily...
The 1981 Ontariogeneralelection was held on March 19, 1981, to elect members of the 32nd Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, Canada. The...
The 1971 Ontariogeneralelection was held on October 21, 1971, to elect the 117 members of the 29th Legislative Assembly of Ontario (Members of Provincial...
The 1975 Alberta generalelection was held on March 26, 1975, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta to the 18th Alberta Legislature....
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario fielded a full slate of 125 candidates in the 1975Ontariogeneralelection. The party, which had been in power...
Ontariogeneralelection. Terry Coughlin (elected at founding meeting, July 24, 1975) Paul Mollon (1977 election) Scott Bell (1981 and 1985 elections)...
The party currently forms the Official Opposition in Ontario following the 2018 generalelection. It is a provincial section of the federal New Democratic...
legislature during generalelections. Generalelections must be conducted every four years from the date of the last election. An election may also happen...
1973 to 1975, he served on the board of governors for Seneca College. He was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1975 provincial election, defeating...
had occurred. The Tory, Erik Nielsen, won the new election in December 1957. The election in one Ontario riding, Wellington South was postponed pursuant...
(pre-Confederation) List of federal by-elections in Canada ElectionsOntario. "Composition Of Legislature Following OntarioGeneralElections". Retrieved 2021-08-31....
street in Barrie named after him. He ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1975 provincial election, coming a close second to Progressive Conservative...
to be re-elected with comfortable majority. However, the 1990 Ontariogeneralelection backfired since it was interpreted as a sign of arrogance, with...
The 2023 Ontario Liberal Party leadership election was held following the resignation of Steven Del Duca on June 2, 2022, after the party won only 8 seats...
(electoral district) of the 1977 Ontariogeneralelection, that was held on June 9, 1977. Extrapolated from Canadian Press (1975-09-19). The Toronto Daily Star...
in the West, but Liberal support in Ontario and Quebec ensured a majority Liberal government. The previous election had resulted in the Liberals emerging...
Ontario provincial election having fallen to only seven seats, the worst defeat of a governing party in Ontario history. Prior to the 2018 election,...
the Ontario Teachers' Federation. He campaigned for a seat on the North York Hydro Commission in 1974, and ran for the Ontario legislature in 1975 and...
Global Information
