Ontario Liberal Party

Ontario Liberal Party
Party leader	John Fraser (interim)
founding	1857
Headquarters	Toronto
Alignment	liberalism
Parliament seats	7/107
Website	www.ontarioliberal.ca

The Ontario Liberal Party (French Parti libéral de l'Ontario ) is a liberal political party in the Canadian province of Ontario . Although it is ideologically similar to the Liberal Party of Canada , the two parties are organizationally independent. Chair is Kathleen Wynne , incumbent Prime Minister of the province. Since the elections in June 2018, the Liberals only have 7 out of 107 MPs in the legislative assembly of Ontario , which is why the official party status has been revoked.

history

The Liberal Party of Ontario has its origins in the Reform Party of Robert Baldwin and William Lyon Mackenzie , which campaigned for self- government in the 1830s and 1840s and spoke out against the conservative clique rule of the Family Compact . The modern liberals emerged in 1857 when George Brown united the reformers and the radical Clear Grits of southeastern Ontario. After Ontario joined the Canadian Confederation in 1867, the Liberals were initially in the opposition, but gained a majority in 1871 under Edward Blake . The following year, Oliver Mowat became Prime Minister, who held this office until 1896, longer than anyone else.

After more than 30 years in power, the Liberals were defeated by the Conservatives in 1905. It began a slow decline and was briefly pushed into the role of only the third largest party by the United Farmers of Ontario . In the 1920s, the party was torn apart by wing fighting. Many reformist forces that supported the federal party under William Lyon Mackenzie King turned their backs on the provincial party because it was considered too narrow-minded and conservative. By 1930 the Liberals were a small, rural and Protestant party that only had support in the south-west of the province.

After a series of weak party leaders, Mitchell Hepburn was elected to the top of the party. He managed to form an electoral coalition with the liberal-progressives and to involve reformers, urban voters, Catholics and Francophones. Hepburn led the Liberal 1934 election victory, in which he benefited from the fact that the Conservatives with the consequences of the global economic crisis had to fight. William Lyon Mackenzie King refused to use the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to break up strikes by workers in the automotive industry, creating a deep rift between the Federal and Provincial Parties. Hepburn was deposed as party leader in 1942, and in 1943 the Liberals had to return to the opposition.

For the next four decades, the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario dominated provincial politics. The liberals were often more conservative than the actual conservatives and their electoral base was again limited to the southwest. In the greater Toronto area they were temporarily no longer represented at all. It was not until 1987 that David Peterson managed to lead the Liberals to another election victory. Peterson had modernized the party and brought it back more into the middle of the political spectrum to appeal to urban voters and immigrants. But only three years later he was defeated and for the first time ever the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP) had a majority. In 1996, Dalton McGuinty was elected party leader who led the Liberals to victory in 2003. In 2007 the party achieved a similarly good result, in 2011 it narrowly missed the absolute majority of seats and formed a minority government by 2018.

In the elections in June 2018, the party suffered a historic defeat with only 7 seats out of 107, thereby revoking its official party status . As a result, Kathleen Wynne resigned as party chairman, John Fraser was elected temporarily.

Election results

Results of the Ontario Liberal Party in the legislative assembly elections:

choice seats total Weighted seats proportion of 1867 82 41 k. A. 1871 82 43 k. A. 1875 88 50 k. A. 1879 88 57 k. A. 1883 88 48 k. A. 1886 90 57 k. A. 1890 91 55 k. A. 1894 94 58 k. A. 1898 94 51 k. A. 1902 98 50 k. A. 1905 98 28 k. A. 1908 106 19th k. A. 1911 106 22nd k. A. 1914 111 25th 38.6% 1919 111 27 26.9% 1923 111 14th 21.8% 1926 112 14th 24.6% 1929 112 13 32.8% 1934 90 65 50.4% 1937 90 66 51.6%

year seats total Weighted seats be right proportion of 1943 90 15th k. A. 31.2% 1945 90 14th k. A. 29.8% 1948 90 14th k. A. 29.8% 1951 90 14th k. A. 31.5% 1955 98 11 k. A. 33.3% 1959 98 22nd k. A. 36.6% 1963 108 24 k. A. 35.3% 1967 117 28 k. A. 31.6% 1971 117 20th k. A. 27.8% 1975 125 36 k. A. 34.3% 1977 125 34 k. A. 31.5% 1981 125 34 k. A. 33.7% 1985 125 48 1,377,965 37.9% 1987 130 95 1,788,214 47.3% 1990 130 36 1.302.134 32.4% 1995 130 30th 1,291,326 31.1% 1999 103 35 1,751,472 39.9% 2003 103 72 2,090,001 46.5% 2007 107 71 1,867,192 42.2% 2011 107 53 1,622,426 37.6% 2014 107 58 1,863,974 38.7% 2018 107 7th 1,124,381 19.6%

Party leader

Surname Chair premier George Brown 1857-1867 Archibald McKellar 1867-1868 Edward Blake 1868-1872 1871-1872 Oliver Mowat 1872-1896 1872-1896 Arthur Sturgis Hardy 1896-1899 1896-1899 George William Ross 1899-1907 1899-1905 George Perry Graham 1907 Alexander Grant MacKay 1907-1911 Newton Rowell 1911-1917 William Proudfoot 1917-1919 Hartley Dewart 1919-1921 Wellington Hay 1922-1923 WEN Sinclair 1923-1930 Mitchell Hepburn 1930-1942 1934-1942 Gordon Daniel Conant 1942–1943 (interim) 1942-1943 Harry Nixon 1943–1944 (interim) 1943

Surname Chair premier Mitchell Hepburn 1944-1945 Farquhar Oliver 1945-1950 Walter Thomson 1950-1954 Farquhar Oliver 1954-1958 John Wintermeyer 1958-1964 Andy Thompson 1964-1966 Robert Nixon 1966-1976 Stuart Smith 1976-1982 David Peterson 1982-1990 1985-1990 Robert Nixon 1990-1991 Murray Elston 1991 James J. Bradley 1991-1992 Lyn McLeod 1992-1996 Dalton McGuinty 1996-2013 2003-2013 Kathleen Wynne 2013-2018 2013-2018 John Fraser (interim) 2018-

See also

• List of political parties in Canada

Web links

• Ontario Liberal Party

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Wendy Gillis: Kathleen Wynne resigns Liberal leadership. In: The Star. June 7, 2018, accessed August 13, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Elections in Ontario ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Ontario elections