1963 Ontario general election
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]
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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 |
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- The Town of Weston was withdrawn from York-Humber, and transferred to York South.
Results
Political party | Party leader | MPPs | Votes | |||||||
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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![]() |
- Successor to the CCF
- Successor to Labor-Progressive
Party | Seats | Votes | Change (pp) | ||
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█ 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 | ||||||||
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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.
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See also
References
- "1963 General Election". 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.