Ontario general election, 1975

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The Ontario general election of 1975 was held on September 18, 1975, to elect the 125 members of the Legislative Assembly (Members of Provincial Parliament, or "MPPs") of the Province of Ontario, Canada.

The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, led by Bill Davis and campaigning under the slogan, "Your Future. Your choice.", won a ninth consecutive term in office. It lost its majority in the legislature, however, for the first time since the 1945 election. The PC Party lost 27 seats from its result in the previous election.

The social democratic Ontario New Democratic Party, led by Stephen Lewis, doubled its representation in the legislature, and became the official opposition on the strength of a campaign which called for rent control and highlighted horror stories of individuals bad landlords and exorbitant rent increases. The campaign forced the Davis Tories to promise shortly before the election to implement rent controls.

The Ontario Liberal Party, led by Robert Nixon, won 15 additional seats, but lost the role of official opposition to the NDP. One member of its caucus was elected as a Liberal-Labour candidate.

[edit] Results

	Party	Leader	1971	Elected	% change	Popular vote
						%	change
	Progressive Conservative	Bill Davis	78	51	-34.6%	36.1%	-8.4%
	New Democratic	Stephen Lewis	19	38	+100%	28.9%	+1.8%
	Liberal	Robert Nixon	20	35	+75.0%	34.3%	+6.5%
	Liberal-Labour		-	1	-
Total Seats			117	125	+6.8%	100%

Preceded by 1971 election

List of Ontario general elections

Succeeded by 1977 election

[edit] See also

• Politics of Ontario
• List of Ontario political parties
• Premier of Ontario
• Leader of the Opposition (Ontario)