Ontario Liberal Party leadership elections

Ballot-by-ballot results of leadership elections in the Ontario Liberal Party, a political party in the Province of Ontario, Canada.

Note: Before 1919, the leaders of the Ontario Liberal Party were chosen by the party's elected Members of the Legislative Assembly. There were calls for a more open process as early as 1907.

Contents

1919 leadership convention

(Held on June 26, 1919.)

First Ballot:

Second Ballot:

1922 leadership convention

(Held on March 3, 1922.)

(Note: The vote totals do not appear to have been announced.)

1930 leadership convention

(Held on December 16–17, 1930.)

1943 leadership convention

Main article: Liberal Party of Ontario leadership convention, 1943

(Held on April 30, 1943.)

1945 leadership convention

(Held on April 2, 1945.)

[Hepburn was defeated in the 1945 provincial election, and Farquhar Oliver was chosen as the Ontario Liberal Party's parliamentary leader on July 4, 1945.]

1947 leadership convention

(Held on May 16, 1947.)[1]

(Note: The vote totals do not appear to have been announced. Oliver is believed to have received about two thirds of the approximately 750 votes cast)

1950 leadership convention

(Held on November 10, 1950.)

First Ballot:

Second Ballot (Sullivan eliminated; Hicks, Cox and Hipel withdrew):

Third Ballot (Calder eliminated):

1954 leadership convention

(Held on April 9, 1954.)

1958 leadership convention

(Held on April 20, 1958.)

First Ballot:

Wren eliminated; Whicher and Reaume withdrew.

Second Ballot:

Singer eliminated.

Third Ballot:

1964 leadership convention

(Held on September 19–20, 1964.)

First Ballot:

Second Ballot (Gould eliminated):

Third Ballot (Sargent eliminated):

Fourth Ballot (Copps eliminated):

Fifth Ballot (Greene eliminated):

Sixth Ballot (Nixon eliminated):

1967 leadership convention

(Held on January 6, 1967.)

(Nixon was elected interim leader by the caucus on November 16, 1966 following the resignation of Andrew Thompson. Nixon had suggested that Charles Templeton may become permanent leader but members of his caucus spoke in opposition and Templeton decline to run. Nixon was acclaimed as permanent leader at the party's 1967 convention. He announced his resignation as party leader in 1972, but subsequently entered the race to succeed himself in 1973.)

1973 leadership convention

(Held on October 28, 1973.)

First Ballot:

Second Ballot:

Third Ballot (Deacon endorsed Nixon):

1976 leadership convention

(Held on January 25, 1976.)

First Ballot:

Second Ballot:

Third Ballot:

1982 leadership convention

(Held on February 21, 1982).

First Ballot:

Second Ballot (Sweeney eliminated, Breithaupt withdrew):

1992 leadership convention

(Held February 8–9, 1992, in Hamilton, Ontario.)

First Ballot:

Second Ballot (Ramsay eliminated, released delegates):

Third Ballot (Mahoney eliminated, supported McLeod):

Fourth Ballot (Beer eliminated, released delegates):

Fifth Ballot (Sorbara eliminated, released delegates):

(Note: There were 21 spoiled ballots on the final count, mostly from diehard supporters of Sorbara.)

1996 leadership convention

Main article: Ontario Liberal Party leadership convention, 1996

(Held November 30-December 1, 1996 in Toronto, Ontario)

First Ballot (results announced 7:31 pm, November 30):

Second Ballot (results announced 10:25 pm, November 30; Kells eliminated; Castrilli initially withdrew from the ballot but subsequently returned, causing a delay in voting):

Third Ballot (results announced 12:39 am, December 1; Castrilli eliminated and Gerretsen withdrew, both supported McGuinty):

Fourth Ballot (results announced 2:35 am, December 1; Duncan eliminated, supported Kennedy):

Fifth Ballot (results announced 4:25 am, December 1; Cordiano eliminated, supported McGuinty):

Reference

  1. ^ "Liberal Leadership Race Won By Oliver", Ottawa Citizen, May 17, 1947