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1967 Ontario general election

The 1967 Ontario general election was held on October 17, 1967, to elect the 117 members of the 28th Legislative Assembly of Ontario (Members of Provincial Parliament, or "MPPs") of the Province of Ontario, Canada.

The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, led by John Robarts, won an eighth consecutive term in office, and maintained its majority in the legislature despite losing eight seats from its result in the previous election.

The Ontario Liberal Party, led by Robert Nixon, increased its caucus from 24 to 28 members, and continued in the role of official opposition. T. Patrick Reid of Rainy River was elected as a Liberal-Labour MPP. He replaced Robert Gibson, the late MPP for Kenora as the legislature's sole Liberal-Labour MPP.

The social democratic Ontario New Democratic Party, led by Donald C. MacDonald, increased its caucus in the legislature from 7 members to 20.

Expansion of the Legislative Assembly

The size of the Legislative Assembly was increased from 108 to 117 members, mainly through the reorganization of ridings outside Toronto:

Results

Summary

|- ! colspan=2 rowspan=2 | Political party ! rowspan=2 | Party leader ! colspan=4 | MNAs ! colspan=4 | Votes |- ! Candidates !1963 !1967 !± !# ! ± !% ! ± (pp)

|style="text-align:left;"|John Robarts | 117 || 77 || 69 || 8 || 1,018,755 || 33,985 || 42.10% || 6.51

|rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|Robert Nixon | 115 || 23 || 27 || 4 || 762,340 || 8,308 || 31.51% || 3.31

| 2 || 1 || 1 || || 5,051 || 1,723 || 0.21% || 0.10

|style="text-align:left;"|Donald C. MacDonald | 117 || 7 || 20 || 13 || 628,397 || 288,189 || 25.97% || 10.26

| || 5 || – || – || – || 2,382 || 377 || 0.10% || 0.03

|style="text-align:left;"|Harvey Lainson || 7 || – || – || – || 1,906 || 407 || 0.08% || 0.03

|style="text-align:left;"|Bruce Magnuson | 2 || – || – || – || 592 || 1,062 || 0.02% || 0.06

| || 1 || – || – || – || 287 || 184 || 0.01% || 0.01 |- ! colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total |366||108 ! " colspan="2"|117 ! " colspan="2"|2,419,710 ! " colspan="2"| 100.00% |- | colspan="7" style="text-align:left;" | Rejected ballots | 19,528 | 1.223 | colspan="2"| |- | colspan="7" style="text-align:left;" | Voter turnout | 2,439,238 | 255,160 | 66.18 | 2.65 |- | colspan="7" style="text-align:left;" | Registered electors | 3,685,755 | 247,921 | colspan="2"|

Vote and seat summaries

Synopsis of results

= open seat
= turnout is above provincial average
= winning candidate was in previous Legislature
= not incumbent; was previously elected to the Legislature
= incumbent had switched allegiance
= incumbency arose from byelection gain
= previously incumbent in another riding
= other incumbents renominated
= previously an MP in the House of Commons of Canada
= Liberal-Labour candidate
= multiple candidates

Analysis

Incumbents standing in other ridings

Eleven MPPs lost their seats in the current redistribution and sought reelection elsewhere. A further four chose to campaign in another riding.

See also

References

Further reading