Ontario General Election, 1995 - Results

Results

Party Party leader # of
candidates
Seats Popular vote
1990 Elected % Change # % % Change
Progressive Conservative Mike Harris 130 20 82 +310% 1,870,110 44.8% +21.3%
Liberal Lyn McLeod 130 36 30 -16.7% 1,291,326 31.1% -1.3%
New Democratic Bob Rae 130 74 17 -77.0% 854,163 20.6% -17.0%
Family Coalition Donald Pennell 55 - - - 61,657 1.5% -0.1%
Natural Law Ron Parker 68 - - - 18,326 0.4% +0.4%
Green Frank de Jong 37 - - - 14,108 0.4% -0.3%
Libertarian John Shadbolt 18 - - - 6,085 0.2% -0.4%
Freedom Jack Plant 11 - - - 4,532 0.1% -0.1%
Confederation of Regions 6 - - - 3,971 0.1% -1.8%
Communist Darrell Rankin 5 - - - 1,015 0.02% -0.08%
Independent 61 - 1 - 33,077 0.8% +0.5%
Total 636 130 130 - 4,158,370 100% -

Notes:

At least five unregistered parties fielded candidates in this election.

  • The Reform Association of Ontario ran fifteen candidates. Their leader was Kimble Ainslie. A Globe and Mail article from August 19, 1995 indicates that the party won 6,400 votes.
  • John Steele campaigned as a candidate of the Communist League.
  • The Ontario Renewal Party ran a number of candidates under the leadership of Diane Johnston. This was the Marxist-Leninist party under a different name.
  • Amani Oakley and Joe Flexer ran as "Independent Labour" candidates in Toronto with the support of dissident or former members of the Ontario New Democratic Party and with the support of OPSEU in the case of Oakley and the Canadian Auto Workers in the case of Flexer .
  • John Turmel's Abolitionist Party ran at least two candidates.

Candidates from the aforementioned parties appeared on the ballot as independents. It is possible that some candidates listed below as independents actually belonged to these or other parties.

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