Ontario CCF/NDP leadership elections
The Ontario New Democratic Party elects its leaders by secret ballot of the party members and/or their delegates at leadership elections, as did its predecessor, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (Ontario Section). The party leader can be challenged for the leadership at the party's biennial convention. The Ontario New Democratic Party is a social democratic political party in Ontario, Canada.
Contents
- 1 Ontario CCF leadership convention, 1942
- 2 Ontario CCF leadership challenge, 1946
- 3 Ontario CCF leadership convention, 1953
- 4 Ontario NDP leadership convention, 1961
- 5 Ontario NDP leadership challenge, 1968
- 6 Ontario NDP leadership convention, 1970
- 7 Ontario NDP leadership challenge, 1972
- 8 Ontario NDP leadership convention, 1978
- 9 Ontario NDP leadership convention, 1982
- 10 Ontario NDP leadership challenge, 1986
- 11 Ontario NDP leadership convention, 1996
- 12 Ontario NDP leadership election, 2009
Ontario CCF leadership convention, 1942
(Held on April 3, 1942.)
(Note: The vote totals do not appear to have been announced.)
Ontario CCF leadership challenge, 1946
(Held November 23, 1946)
Ontario CCF leadership convention, 1953
(Held on November 21, 1953.)
First Ballot
Candidate | Votes | Percentage |
---|---|---|
Fred Young | 154 | 43.2 |
Donald C. MacDonald | 127 | 35.6 |
Andrew Brewin | 75 | 21.0 |
Total | 356 | 100 |
Second Ballot
Candidate | Votes | Percentage | +/- |
---|---|---|---|
Donald C. MacDonald | 181 | 50.8 | +15.2 |
Fred Young | 175 | 49.2 | +6.0 |
Total | 356 | 100 |
(Note: These totals are taken from an interview with Donald C. MacDonald several years after the convention. They do not appear to have been announced at the convention itself.)
Ontario NDP leadership convention, 1961
(Held on October 8, 1961.)
- MACDONALD, Donald C. acclaimed
Ontario NDP leadership challenge, 1968
(Held on November 17, 1968 in Kitchener, Ontario.)
Candidate | Votes | Percentage |
---|---|---|
Donald C. MacDonald | 859 | 69.9 |
James Alexander Renwick | 370 | 30.1 |
Total | 1,229 | 100 |
Ontario NDP leadership convention, 1970
(Held on October 4, 1970.)
Candidate | Votes | Percentage |
---|---|---|
Stephen Lewis | 1,188 | 64.1 |
Walter Pitman | 642 | 34.7 |
Douglas Campbell | 21 | 1.1 |
Total | 1,851 | 100 |
Ontario NDP leadership challenge, 1972
(Held on December 10, 1972 in Toronto, Ontario.)
Candidate | Votes | Percentage |
---|---|---|
Stephen Lewis | 752 | 85.8 |
Douglas Campbell | 124 | 14.1 |
Total | 876 | 100 |
An additional 137 ballots were spoiled. If the spoiled votes are factored in then Lewis received 74.2% support overall
Ontario NDP leadership convention, 1978
(Held on February 5, 1978.)
First Ballot
Candidate | Votes | Percentage |
---|---|---|
Michael Cassidy | 675 | 37.6 |
Ian Deans | 623 | 34.7 |
Michael Breaugh | 499 | 27.8 |
Total | 1,797 | 100 |
Breaugh eliminated, goes to Cassidy
Second Ballot
Candidate | Votes | Percentage | +/- |
---|---|---|---|
Michael Cassidy | 980 | 54.8 | +17.2 |
Ian Deans | 809 | 45.2 | +10.6 |
Total | 1,789 | 100 |
Ontario NDP leadership convention, 1982
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(Held on February 7, 1982.)
Candidate | Votes | Percentage |
---|---|---|
Bob Rae | 1,356 | 64.6 |
Richard Johnston | 512 | 24.4 |
Jim Foulds | 232 | 11.0 |
Total | 2,100 | 100 |
Ontario NDP leadership challenge, 1986
(Held on June 22, 1986 in Hamilton, Ontario.)
Candidate | Votes | Percentage |
---|---|---|
Bob Rae | 776 | 95.3 |
Ian Orenstein | 38 | 4.7 |
Total | 814 | 100 |
Ontario NDP leadership convention, 1996
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(Held on June 22, 1996 in Hamilton, Ontario.)
After the first ballot, Silipo was eliminated and he endorsed Hampton. After the 2nd ballot, Kormos was eliminated but he endorsed noone and released his delegates. There were eighty spoiled ballots on the final count, mostly from disgruntled supporters of Kormos.
Ballot results
Candidate | 1st ballot | 2nd ballot | 3rd ballot | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Name | Votes cast | % | Votes cast | % | Votes cast | % |
Howard Hampton | 649 | 33.7 | 806 | 43.4 | 971 | 55.0 |
Frances Lankin | 611 | 31.7 | 691 | 36.3 | 793 | 45.0 |
Peter Kormos | 434 | 22.5 | 402 | 21.1 | ||
Tony Silipo | 232 | 12.0 | ||||
Total | 1,926 | 100.0 | 1,899 | 100.0 | 1,764 | 100.0 |
Ontario NDP leadership election, 2009
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(Held on March 7, 2009, in Hamilton, Ontario)
First Ballot
Candidate | Weighted Votes | Percentage |
---|---|---|
Andrea Horwath | 4,625.29 | 37.1 |
Peter Tabuns | 3,437.93 | 27.6 |
Gilles Bisson | 2,954.23 | 23.7 |
Michael Prue | 1,438.44 | 11.5 |
Total | 12,455.89 | 100 |
Prue eliminated, endorses Bisson
Second Ballot
Candidate | Weighted Votes | Percentage | +/- |
---|---|---|---|
Andrea Horwath | 5,259.06 | 43.6 | +6.5 |
Peter Tabuns | 3,819.82 | 31.7 | +4.1 |
Gilles Bisson | 2,988.12 | 24.8 | +1.1 |
Total | 12,067 | 100.0 |
Bisson eliminated, endorses Horwath
Third Ballot
Candidate | Weighted Votes | Percentage | +/- |
---|---|---|---|
Andrea Horwath | 6,732.34 | 60.4 | +16.8 |
Peter Tabuns | 4,420.66 | 39.6 | +7.9 |
Total | 11,152.9 | 100.0 |
Starting with the 2009 leadership election, the Ontario NDP instituted a modified one member one vote system in which the vote is calculated so that ballots cast by labour delegates have 25% weight in the total result, while votes cast by party members have a weight of 75% in the overall result.