2025 Ontario election coverage presented by the Owen Sound & District Chamber of Commerce, advocating for local business since 1881
Audio PlayerOntario voters have handed Premier Doug Ford and the Progressive Conservatives a third straight majority mandate.
Ford and the PCs will return to power at Queen’s Park with control of a majority of the province’s 124 seats in the legislature. The Tories are leading or elected in 80 ridings as of 6 a.m. Friday. They had 79 MPPs at dissolution.
The NDP under Marit Styles will remain the official opposition. They are leading or elected in 27 ridings across Ontario. And the Liberals are on track to win 14 seats, but their party leader Bonnie Crombie won’t sit in one of them.
The former mayor of Mississauga has been defeated in the riding of Mississauga-East-Cooksville, but says she will stay on as head of the Ontario Liberal Party.
Ford, Styles and Green Party leader Mike Schreiner all won their ridings.
PCs Sweep Local Ridings In Grey Bruce
Progressive Conservative and former Meaford councillor Paul Vickers will be heading to Queen’s Park for the first time as the MPP for Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound. He secured 44.1 per cent of the vote in his first run on the ballot for the Tories.
In Huron Bruce, Progressive Conservative Lisa Thompson has been re-elected for a fifth term. She’s served in various ministerial roles in Ford’s cabinet, and was in charge of rural affairs at dissolution.
And in Simcoe-Grey, Progressive Conservative Brian Saunderson has won re-election.
You can see the unofficial results from local ridings below:
