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Marit Stiles [note 1] (born September 20, 1969) is a Canadian politician who has been the leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP) and the leader of the Official Opposition since February 4, 2023. She has represented the Toronto riding of Davenport in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since June 7, 2018.
For many years, the Ontario NDP was the most successful provincial NDP branch outside the national party's western heartland. It had its first breakthrough under its first leader, Donald C. MacDonald in the 1967 provincial election, when the party elected 20 Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) to the Ontario Legislative Assembly.
The NDP won a seat, and retained one that they already held, in 2006 by-elections: Peter Tabuns; Toronto-Danforth 2006by-2007-2011-2014–2018-2022-present, former Toronto City Councillor/frm Head of Greenpeace, interim NDP leader and leader of the opposition (2022-2023)
The Ontario New Democratic Party holds 28 of the 124 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and is the official opposition. Marit Stiles, Party Leader and Leader of the Official Opposition; Jill Andrew; Teresa Armstrong; Catherine Fife; Cindy Forster; Jennifer French; Wayne Gates; France Gélinas; Lisa Gretzky; Percy Hatfield; Taras ...
Interim Leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party (2022–2023) Member of Provincial Parliament for Toronto—Danforth (2006–present) Member of Toronto City Council (1990–1997) Toronto: Former executive director of Greenpeace Canada Toronto—St. Paul’s: Jill Andrew: Member of Provincial Parliament for Toronto—St. Paul’s (2018 ...
10 As Ontario PC leader John Tory did not win a seat in the 2007 election, Runciman served as Leader of the Opposition in the legislature. (Tory had been running in the Don Valley West riding.) After spending more than a year outside the legislature, Tory sought a seat in the March 5, 2009 by-election in Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock . [ 4 ]
Below is a list of the premiers of the province of Ontario, Canada, since Confederation in 1867. Ontario uses a unicameral Westminster-style parliamentary government, in which the premier is the leader of the party that controls the most seats in the Legislative Assembly. The premier is Ontario's head of government.
The 2023 Ontario New Democratic Party leadership election was held in Toronto, on February 4, 2023. [3] The leadership election was called after ONDP leader Andrea Horwath announced her resignation on June 2, 2022, in her concession speech on the night of the 2022 Ontario general election, in which the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario won a second consecutive majority government under ...