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The 43rd Parliament of Ontario was the session of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from August 8, 2022 to January 28, 2025 with the membership having been determined by the results of the 2022 general election held on June 2. [1] It was led by a Progressive Conservative Party majority government under the premiership of Doug Ford.
In the 43rd Parliament, however, the tradition of appointing three Official Opposition presiding officers was broken when three members from the governing Progressive Conservatives were appointed: Ted Arnott by secret ballot, and Donna Skelly and Patrice Barnes by the Government House Leader Paul Calandra, despite the fact that the Official ...
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.
^* Frank Miller's Progressive Conservative Party won a plurality of seats in the 1985 Ontario general election, but the resulting 33rd Parliament of Ontario passed a motion of no confidence against him less than two months into his mandate, replacing his government with David Peterson's Liberal Party.
The Legislative Assembly was established by the British North America Act, 1867 (later re-titled Constitution Act, 1867), which dissolved the Province of Canada into two new provinces, with the portion then called Canada West becoming Ontario. As such, the 1st Parliament of Ontario was one of the three legislative bodies succeeding the ...
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Map of Southern Ontario with the ridings shaded based on how they voted in the 2006 federal election. Ontario's federal political trends vary despite the fact that the federal Liberals dominated the province from 1993 to 2004 against a "divided right" between the centrist Progressive Conservative Party and strongly conservative Canadian Alliance.
If the longest-serving member is a Cabinet Minister, party Leader, House Leader or Whip, they cannot act as presiding officer. [2] In 1994, following the 1993 Canadian federal election , Liberal member Len Hopkins filled this role as his caucus mate Herb Gray , then the longest-serving member, was in Cabinet under Prime Minister Jean Chrétien ...