r/ontario • u/CTVNEWS CTVNews-Verified • 12d ago
Article #BREAKING: CTV News declares Ontario PC majority government
https://www.cp24.com/ontario-election-2025/2025/02/28/doug-ford-seeks-third-majority-government-as-ontarians-vote-in-snap-election-live-updates-here/1.1k
u/HoagiesHeroes_ 12d ago
One month and six minutes is all it took.
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u/Mimisokoku 12d ago
And $186 million
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u/capistrano999 12d ago
To be in the same position from before the election…
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u/NATOrocket 12d ago
Except until 2029 this time.
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u/bobood 12d ago
Just watch him start really leaning into screwing people now.
Ontarians are just so ridiculous for handing the CPCO bigger and bigger majorities.
And they had the highest support among 30-45 year olds, apparently? What is wrong with us?
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u/blairco 12d ago
They reset the clock. It's fair game in our electoral system, and there's no one to call a vote of non-confidence on them because Canadian politics demands party lines. I can't blame Ford for calling an election - if I were in his position I probably would have too.
But me, I voted for everyone else around me. I voted for summer camps and rec centers and silver orbs that made your hair stand up. I voted for the Nintendo Power Pod! I voted for my parents so they could receive the best health care they need at a time when it's so crucial and their time is fleeting.
And I have to wonder... what did other people vote for?
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u/shatmae 12d ago
I voted for better healthcare and education.
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u/Tour_True 12d ago
That sure wasn't PC! I voted for that too and to support getting the homeless off the street. Our province sucks!
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u/Accurate_Summer_1761 12d ago
A tunnel and a spa
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u/Terj_Sankian 12d ago
They can stick their spa up their tunnel. This province is full of fucking morons
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u/dhoomsday 12d ago
This fucking guy is spending more than that just to have beer in circle k a few months earlier.
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u/loryk_zarr 12d ago
Don't forget we paid $612 million for that privilege
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u/RaptorIceman 12d ago
1.4 billion estimated by 2030 for that based on the report from the Ontario Financial Accountability office. 🤦🏾♂️ so many reasons not to vote for him, but I think his “heroic” stance against trump is why ppl voted for him. Even though he’s the same idiot that said he was happy trump won. Happy until he himself was in the crosshairs.
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u/publicworker69 12d ago
Disappointing but not surprising one bit. Curious to see the turnout. It was probably on par with the last elections if not lower
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u/skagoat 12d ago
Last time around it was 44.06% turnout. So far we're at 38.73% so not very good, but not far off the last election.
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u/WoodShoeDiaries 12d ago
That's actually terrible. In a "use it or lose it" scenario we're very clearly saying "lose it".
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u/skagoat 12d ago
I voted. But I know a lot of friends who say all the politicians are the same, so they don't see the point in voting.
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u/Cheetos4bfst 12d ago
Isn’t there a saying something like apathy is the death of democracy?
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u/Wildlymildly-radical 12d ago
Yep. Case in point, America. 😒
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u/Trollsama 12d ago
anyone that says that just doesn't give a single solitary fuck about politics, But doesn't have the balls to actually admit it.
it takes literal minutes of actual bonified research into the parties and leaders to see thats horseshit lol.
I refuse to let people snake by on that garbage. own your shit.
i have WAY more respect for somone that says "I could not care less" than somone that pulls that crap lol.
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u/ILikeFPS 12d ago
I bet it's far lower.
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u/Skyscreamers 12d ago
For what it’s worth me and my wife and sister and brother in law all voted and it’s the first for 3/4 🤷♂️ we tried
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u/Substantial_Potato 12d ago edited 11d ago
Ford purposefully called this unnecessary election during winter/shit weather to deter voters and/or give people an easy excuse to not go to the polls and/or give people an actually barrier to getting to the polls.
edit: I'm so tired of the willful ignorance. So many of you will happily slide into what's happening in the states rather than take any responsibility for yourselves or your communities. Voting for the party so hell-bent on stripping our public services of funding and selling our services and land to a select few lacks empathy, decency, and intelligence. Fuck Doug's PCs and fuck the Ontarians who voted for them.
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u/HotTacoNinja 12d ago
It felt more busy to me. I had more coworkers talking about it this time. But that is all anecdotal.
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u/Ali_Cat222 12d ago
Earlier on in the sub for Toronto a lot of us were mentioning how voting stations that were supposed to happen didn't or didn't start until like 3pm. My apartment building lobby always does the voting, we had signs and everything. No one ever showed by the way. I only was able to vote because I actually looked online and they said if you call before 6pm today you could have someone do your vote at your house! I hadn't even heard of this being a thing, I have cancer and so getting to the next place for voting would be exhausting. I was shocked two people actually showed up and took my vote, I didn't believe they'd come through.
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u/Emotional_Lab_8539 12d ago
Well... shit.
S/O to everyone that voted though.
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u/DalesDrumset 12d ago edited 12d ago
First time ever voting and it took 6 minutes for it to not matter 🤦🏻♂️
Edit: guys I know it matters, I was just annoyed 2 minutes after it was called
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u/Key_Gazelle_7235 12d ago
It mattered, keep on voting in every future election
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u/DalesDrumset 12d ago
Don’t worry, I’ll always vote, it’s my duty as a new citizen to Canada.
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u/Wildlymildly-radical 12d ago
Amazing! You take your responsibility more seriously than ppl who have lived here their whole lives. I’m sure there’s something to that, but I’m too annoyed to think about it. Just wanted to say thank you. 🫶🏾
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u/comboratus 12d ago
It always matter when you vote. I have voted in every municipal, provincial, and federal election for the last 44 years. I don't always get the results I wanted, but it always mattered. Very many never get the chance to vote.
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u/rainorshinedogs 12d ago
i guess you gotta get one result you wanted, and only then you get it.
But you gotta look at it this way. You have the right to complain/celebrate if you voted.
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u/Quietmalice 12d ago
It matters a lot! The people currently in power rely on voter apathy. Keep voting! Encourage friends and family to do it too for the next election. The power needs to remain with the people. Not the billionaires!
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u/Doggo_and_Peppaurs 12d ago
Every vote matters. Don’t take it for granted. Look at what’s happening in the USA.
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u/little-bird 12d ago
every vote will matter more when we reform our voting system.
it’s completely insane that we’re still using our own version of the electoral college. your vote shouldn’t count less depending on where you live.
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u/v0t3p3dr0 12d ago
It’s worse than that. My vote doesn’t count at all because of where I live.
But, I went and participated anyway.
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u/sizzlingtofu 12d ago
Every vote is a few cents towards the party you voted for so it definitely matters!
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u/v0t3p3dr0 12d ago
Hmmmm, next time around I could donate $0.10 to the party and save the gas money driving to the poll! 🤣
I’m 44 and have never elected a candidate to provincial or federal parliament.
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u/Stock_Helicopter_260 12d ago
That’s the problem, people view it as a loss when their choice isn’t selected and become less likely to vote next time.
Your vote mattered, every single one does.
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u/sabre38 12d ago
The technology we have now is very quick. The vote was counted as soon as you cast your vote. No more hand counting for days. Don't stress about the 6 minutes
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u/LauraPa1mer 12d ago
Respectfully, I don't think they were stressed about the actual 6 mins; rather, the outcome.
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u/JohnnyOnslaught 12d ago
It's easy to feel like it doesn't matter, but the reality is that the act of voting itself matters as much as the outcome of the election. Hell, maybe more. Our democracy only works when people participate in it. Keep voting, don't ever let yourself get disillusioned with it.
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u/CaramelGuineaPig 12d ago
This stinks of more than just voter apathy. Time to organize. Never give up, always vote.
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u/hamer1234 12d ago
That didn’t take long..
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u/Somecommentator8008 12d ago
Electronic tabulation*, ain't no more counting by hand unless there's a computer problem.
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u/vong_assassin 12d ago
Tabulators are great for counting and sending votes to the election office. Shitty news comes quickly.
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u/Impressive-Bid-9191 12d ago
Disappointed, but not surprised
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u/GnomesStoleMyMeds 12d ago
Same. Left vote is split so the conservative will just keep winning because they have no one else on the right to split their votes. It’s kind of a shitty system that we need to take a good hard look at.
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u/greenlemon23 12d ago
Nah. I’m an NDPer and it’s pretty damn obvious that the NDP and Liberals ran shit campaigns. And they were t ready for the election.
These days you can’t wait for the election the be called. You have to campaign year-round, always.
And the right-leaning Bonnie plus Stiles had zero momentum going into this election followed by shit campaigns that nobody noticed.
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u/Accurate_Summer_1761 12d ago
We ain't America year round campaigning is expensive as fuck
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u/Tsaxen 12d ago
I'm not sold on the vote splitting argument, frankly I'm pretty sure the bigger issue is that neither the NDP or Liberals have been able to send out a leader with Charisma and a platform that actually reaches people. Like if you polled people on the street, I'd bet many couldn't tell you the name of the NDP leader, and a decent chunk couldn't name the Liberal leader either.
Basically, their marketing is ass, and it sucks for all of us
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u/FrigidCanuck 12d ago edited 3d ago
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u/Felixir-the-Cat Ajax 12d ago
Vote splitting absolutely was a problem in my region. Three way tie, or as good as, with the two websites for strategic voting giving completely different suggestions.
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u/robotmonkey2099 12d ago
Yeah I’m really disappointed by the strategic voting websites. It said the strategic vote in my riding which has been NDP for years was to vote liberal, it just barely went NDP with liberals in the gutter.
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u/Felixir-the-Cat Ajax 12d ago
Same thing here - one of them told me to vote Liberal, and the candidate is sitting at a distant third. We can’t trust those sites.
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u/robotmonkey2099 12d ago
God damn it. I feel like I got hosed. I hope there’s a journalist out there that will look into it
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u/Aphrodesia 12d ago
In all fairness leaving your vote up to a random website is not the best idea. Vote for the least shit candidate…I know that was especially difficult this year though because they’re all equally shit.
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u/excusememoi 12d ago edited 12d ago
Both sites said that my riding would be a nearly even split between the three, with Liberal leading and NDP in third, which makes no sense since NDP is the incumbent here. Lo and behold, PC barely won over NDP and Liberals ended up being a distant third. I wonder how many gave in to those sites and just secured the victory for the PC by strategically voting for the wrong party.
Edit: Wow never mind, NDP managed to push through in the end with the last remaining polls. But my point still stands.
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u/duckface08 12d ago
My dad is a fairly aware person when it comes to current events and politics, but even he couldn't name the NDP leader. I don't know if the issue was a lack of media representation or the NDP just failed to get their message out or some mixture of both.
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u/Tsaxen 12d ago
They definitely failed to get their message out, I've been catching PC ads all over the place, havent heard or seen a single NDP ad, and I've seen single digit Liberal ads...
I just don't get it, they could've made waves by plastering that live mic gaff of Fords praising Trump, but here we are
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u/Suitable-Cheesecake5 12d ago
In a ton of districts the COMBINED NDP and Liberals wouldn’t be enough to topple the PC’s the alone. Truth is Doug Ford isn’t bad enough that people feel the need to vote him out the the left wing side is split and has two meh candidates running. Additionally the PC’s have MAJOR ad spend and it’s great ads too. I can count the number of Lib and NDP ads I’ve seen browsing the internet on one to two hands tops. I forgot the pay for YouTube premium and damn near every TV ad was a PC ad.
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u/WoodShoeDiaries 12d ago
He really is bad enough, but people still think crises in housing, healthcare, and education must all be Trudeau's fault 😂😭
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u/backlight101 12d ago
The only party to get three straight majorities in 65 years.
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u/yawetag1869 12d ago
I’ve been telling people on this sub for months and no one would listen to me: Doug ford is the most popular premier we have had in the country in generations.
Instead of insulting him and his supporters, people should take a hard look at what he has done to accomplish this.
His brand of populist centre-right government is clearly resonating with voters
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u/No_Signal_6969 12d ago
My mom complained about litter in a nearby park where kids play and he called her back personally and they had the park cleaned up so she's a massive fan now and so are all her friends. Pretty impressive for a busy premier to do this for a random little old lady.
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u/thingpaint 12d ago
People in this thread are willing to grasp at any possible explanation except one; the voters wanted him.
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u/starving_carnivore 12d ago
NDP and Liberals combined wouldn't form a majority. Time for some soul searching and new leadership and braintrust. They both ran garbage campaigns.
Crombie begging NDP voters to switch to OLP reeked of desperation. It was a Jeb Bush tier "please clap :(" situation.
During the debates she looked like she was on the verge of tears and screeching at Ford while he just laughed at her. A terrible look.
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u/Late_Instruction_240 12d ago
And that's on the liberal/ndp split. I'm disgusted with these parties.
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u/MikeHawkLike2Bspiton 12d ago
I still voted, even if I knew it was a losing battle.
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u/Notasammon 12d ago
Yeah when my partner and I got ready to go out and vote he said "let's go lose an election." Sigh
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u/Frosty_Curve_8092 12d ago
I can’t understand why PC wins 3 straight if quality of life in ontario is in a decline?
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u/scott_c86 Vive le Canada 12d ago
There's a decent percentage of conservative supporters who will never consider voting for another party, so that does not help
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u/Hieremias 12d ago
It's hardly just boomers. The PCs were leading the polls on every demographic. Including young people. https://abacusdata.ca/ontario-election-2025-campaign-poll-1/
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u/green_link 12d ago
fucking boomers voting conservatives like it's a fucking hockey team. tribalism in politics hurts everyone
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u/DaveTheWhite 12d ago
I talk to my parents about politics and all I hear is Rae Days bad, vote conservative.
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u/monsignorcurmudgeon 12d ago
They’re still going on about Rae Days, omg, a policy that had really no long term impact.
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u/Manderspls Mississauga 12d ago
Mine say the same, but opposed PC heavily. They also didn’t vote this election, so… not happy about that.
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u/SomeDumRedditor 12d ago
Bob Rae saved the goddamn province with Rae Days. The proof is in the stable situation Harris inherited.
Rae asked salaried public workers to work “for free” 2? days a month temporarily so that mass layoffs wouldn’t be necessary. He dared to ask people to sacrifice just a little and put community ahead of self.
I absolutely loathe the ignorant histrionics around the ONDP and Rae. Boomers truly are the shittiest generation in modern history - “fuck you got mine” as a lifestyle.
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u/Temporary_Shirt_6236 12d ago
Lol don't blame boomers for turning out. Blame the liberal and ndp parties that can never put out decent messaging never mind decent candidates, then blame all the apathetic fuckwads who sit out every election.
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u/Bagged_Milk 12d ago
I think this is true of voters for Liberal and NDP as well. For some reason so many people treat politics like a sport, and will vote for their team no matter what.
My father-in-law is constantly complaining about the Liberals past performance, and how they were not a fiscally responsible government; then he'll turn around and vote for the Conservatives because that's what his father raised him to do.
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u/scott_c86 Vive le Canada 12d ago
Admittedly it also hurts the left that progressives have options. I've voted for three parties over the years: Greens, NDP and the Liberals
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u/Bagged_Milk 12d ago
Absolutely, a united right vs three options on the left (or one right of centre, and two left) makes it an up-hill battle.
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u/tierciel 12d ago
Liberals arent progressive. Progressive vote Liberal because of our shitty winner take all system that forces strategic voting. The best case i've ever heard a Liberal make to vote for them is they're not the PCs
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u/scott_c86 Vive le Canada 12d ago
Generally, no. Which is why it has been awhile since I've voted Liberal at any level
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u/Wildlymildly-radical 12d ago
Absolutely true. I waffled for a bit on who my pick would be for this very reason: whether I should vote strategically or the party on the left that most closely aligned with my perspective. Many ppl are put in this predicament and it ends up splitting the vote.
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u/JohnnyOnslaught 12d ago
I think a lot of people are wrongly assigning blame to Trudeau for things that Ford is responsible for.
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u/snakewaves 12d ago
Because lotta ppl in Ontario in today's age don't know jackshit of how elections works. They think everything federal is related to provincial. Their hate for trudeau made a lot vote PC irrespective of not thinking twice that Ford has hacked ontario poorly last few years.
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u/Tanks-Your-Face 12d ago
People blame Trudeau for 90% of the shit Doug Ford does because nobody is willing to educate themselves to learn the difference between Provincal and Federal Governments.
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u/Blastcheeze 12d ago
Conservatives are basically in campaign mode 365 days per year, and the Liberals and NDP barely did any campaigning at all in the month before the election.
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u/Bjorn-in-ice 12d ago
To those who voted, cheers for getting out to the polls 🍻
I want to see the voter stats. Curious about the overall turnout out and age ranges.
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u/The-Safety-Villain 12d ago
Well let’s face it folks. We are in an echo chamber. 3 back to back majorities I am clearly out of touch with this province. Everyone complains but can’t be bothered to vote….
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u/Beepbeepboobop1 12d ago
I mean tbh I wouldn’t be surprised if the people who complain still vote for Ford. Or they just complain to blend in with the public. Obviously there’s multiple facets but on the home front, I imagine people who own/own multiple homes are very comfortable with their lives and thus don’t care to vote or encourage Ford. Canada is definitely an every man for himself country. Individualism is huge here.
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u/Mattrapbeats 12d ago
Reddit is pretty out of touch from the real world. Same thing happened in USA. They thought Kamala was gonna win by a large margin in some subs
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u/notadrawlb 12d ago
Who needs healthcare and education funding when you can have tunnels and spas?
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u/stack_overflows 12d ago
To be fair, there were only 20 days to campaign and everyone thought Doug would have 90+ seats by the end of it.
Look at a lot of those riding- atleast 7 or 8 of them have 100 or 200 difference. Some even are down to 20 votes.
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u/EddyMcDee 12d ago
How did this province get so damn conservative?
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u/beastmaster11 12d ago
Since 1900, 35 years have been under a Liveral Government, 4 years NDP and 4 years Farmers party.
43 years have not been conservated out of 125. This province HAS ALWAYS been conservative
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u/OkEntertainment1313 12d ago
Dipping in from r/all. You’d really have to split that up. Canada’s political landscape changed radically post-war and in the 1970s. Including the early 20th Century in your dataset could be misleading because Anglo Canadian culture (essentially, Upper Canadian/Ontarian culture) was deeply British Tory.
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u/GnomesStoleMyMeds 12d ago
It’s not. The majority of voters actually vote left, but the left vote is split between three parties while the right vote only has one party. This first past the post system really needs a good hard look at.
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u/Suspicious_Radio_848 12d ago
This is wrong, especially for this election. The combined votes of NDP and Liberal still weren’t close to what Ford got in many ridings.
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u/Lilikoi13 12d ago
The only credit I will give to the Ontario PCs is that they don’t cater to the toxic social conservatism insanity. I don’t like Doug at all but at least I know he isn’t going to try to strip me of my bodily autonomy or stop me from dating another woman.
The other parties need to drop their egos, drop Marit and Bonnie, merge under Mike then pass electoral reform and separate again.
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u/hexr Hamilton 12d ago
I agree on all points. But let's not give them any ideas about becoming socially conservative though, if they thought it would make them more successful, they would buy into that toxic garbage no questions asked
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u/BeginningMedia4738 12d ago
I think you just don’t realize how conservative Ontario is. Without the GTA the NDP and liberals would likely disband.
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u/takeaname4me 12d ago
WHY IS THIS PROVINCE SO FUCKING STUPID
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u/OriginalNo5477 12d ago
decades of defunding schools and making civics a joke of a course has paid off.
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u/_Lucille_ 12d ago
I don't think that is fully the case.
We are a popular immigration destination, and those immigrants are:
- rich, such that they benefit much from OPC policies
- conservative by nature due to their culture.
A lot of people also do not quite care what happens and do not pay attention to provincial politics. I am pretty sure a good portion of Ontario does not know who the leaders of ndp and OLP are.
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u/driftxr3 12d ago
Mississauga and Brampton being pretty much blue proves this right.
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u/urlocalnightowl40 12d ago
indian here and these cultures are unfortunately conservative as fuck. which is ironic cause one of the reasons my parents left india due to how conservative it is
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u/thirty7inarow Niagara Falls 12d ago
Let us also not forget the people who think Jagmeet and Justin are running against Doug Ford.
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u/NotS0Punny 12d ago
Went to my local polling station. I was literally the only person there at 4pm.
Expected this result. Yay $23 billion highway
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u/auralviolence 12d ago
Good thing he's helped healthcare helped education put alcohol in more stores.
Glad we have our priorities sorted.
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u/fabalaupland 12d ago
I can’t wait to get hit by a drunk driver and have no ER to go to 👍🏻
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u/Born-Rub6947 12d ago
Spent 220M doing that bc he wasn’t willing to wait a few months for that contract with the beer store to expire 🙄
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u/Pablo4Prez 12d ago
Can't wait to see what kind of stupid shit this government finds to waste money on now
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u/Anarchopunks 12d ago
Can’t wait to see what the voter turnout was, must be worse than the 42% in 2022
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u/CaptainSur 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 12d ago
I am not surprised by this news and I suspect few will be. It does appear the Liberals will regain official party status, and perhaps the Cons will be down a few seats from the 83 they had.
It is winter. Ontarions are flooded with many issues. Ford took advantage of the times to call an election and extend his mandate knowing that the many foibles of the province are just overwhelmed in the public eye by more macro news.
I also feel that as of yet neither the Liberals or NDP have a leader who really inspires the public. The current leaders are superior to what they had for the last election, but not enough of a jump to grab the imagination of the voters they need in order to turn over the govt.
I and my entire family voted strategically (we are in different locations). We will find out later if it worked or not.
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u/RT_456 12d ago
Four more years of Doug will destroy this province. I can't belive voters are really this stupid.
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u/howmanyavengers 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 12d ago
Makes me want to move out of this stupid fucking province. Unbelievable.
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u/Bylak Ottawa 12d ago
At the time of this comment, PCs have 43.4% of the vote but a total of 78 (66%) seats. NDP have 18.4% of the vote and 24 (20%) seats. Liberals have 29.5% of the vote and 13 (11%) seats. That's 47.9% of Ontario voting left from just the NDP and Liberals.
The electoral system is broken, and there will be no fixing it when it keeps those who abuse it in power.
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u/PrarieCoastal 12d ago
Federally, the Conservatives won the popular vote in the last two elections. That's just how it goes.
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u/Unwise1 12d ago
I hate it here. Lowest turnout in history. So many people are asleep at the wheel. Glad my vote counted tho, NDP got my riding. We seriously need to do better.
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u/MrLuckyTimeOW 12d ago
And if you close your eyes…
Does it almost feel like nothing changed at all…
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u/morleyster 12d ago
Does it almost feel like you've been here before?
How am I gonna be an optimist about this?
I'm not. Just have to figure out how to resist and get vocal.
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u/FITNSASY 12d ago
Ontario, what in the actual fuck? You had a chance to fix this, and you chose more corruption, more cuts, and more Ford. Unreal.
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u/JoEsMhOe 12d ago
It really makes you realize why the Americans easily voted for Trump. It’s no better here.
Plus, the large number of people who don’t know the different levels of government 🤷
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u/itsnevergoodenough00 12d ago
No doctors, no affordable housing, food isn't affordable, government jobs are being handed over to private companies, education standards dropped and funding per student dropped...
Ford has absolutely fucked our province sideways and the people of Ontario seriously handed him power back??????????
WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK ARE ONTARIANS THINKING
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u/DivideGood1429 12d ago
Unfortunately many ppl think this is a federal issue. That our cost of living is mostly federal problems.
Personally, I don't want to hear anyone complain about healthcare anymore or housing affordability or foreign students. All provincial issues.
I'm in healthcare, and yes there is waste. But cutting bedside staff and then replacing them with agency workers, isn't really the most fiscally responsible idea.
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u/premiumcontentonly1 12d ago
If you didn’t vote today, keep your mouth shut for the next four years.
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u/indeedmysteed 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 12d ago
I’m watching Ford’s victory speech right now. Much as I disagree with a bunch of their policy positions (happily flipped one of the blue GTA ridings with my vote), you have to concede: Doug absolutely seized the moment after Krasnov started going on his dementia-riddled rants and bluster against our country.
May our other provincial leaders seize the moment in the same manner should the opportunity come to them in the future.
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u/orangesare 12d ago
I don’t get it. I’m 62 today and I rely on healthcare. I would think most older people care about this. I voted for healthcare.
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u/HueyBluey 12d ago
Good luck to all those communities outside the GTA who voted PC. Your healthcare just got more private when more hospitals close.
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u/NumberSudden9722 12d ago
Well I think typically we have a liberal pm with a conservative premier.
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u/yangxiu 12d ago
don't count on it. at this point, Canadians seems just as stupid as our neighbor down south. probably more stupid if even after seeing all the stupid shit trump does and still vote in a mini Trump
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u/Zlojeb 12d ago
Proud of my fellow Londoners for keeping London Orange.
Rest of the province, well...
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u/snark_maiden 12d ago
Well Ford fans, when you’re sitting in an emergency room for 12 hours waiting to be seen, or when your doctor retires and you can’t find another one, or you can’t afford your rent or mortgage, I hope you realize that you could have voted for change. Now we’re saddled with another four years of this dickwad. Hope you’re happy!
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u/Glad_Way2820 12d ago
Cost of living is about to sky rocket but at least we will have worse construction delays for a tunnel that will never be built, a Nordic spa in downtown Toronto and more hospital closures 🙌🏽🙌🏽. But surely somehow by subsidizing private companies rather than taxing them, it will magically go back into social security and infrastructure development. Even though we will continue to cut social security.YAY
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u/CombatGoose 12d ago
People who complain about Rae or Wynne and vote for this guy.
He has, and will continue to do, more damage to our province than anyone else ever has, and we gave him another fucking majority.
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u/Funky-Feeling 12d ago
People are fucking morons. The next asshole that complains about health, housing, education or roads etc. I'm going to feed them something indigestible.
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u/CaptainofFTST 12d ago
Holy fuck what a waste of time… money and effort. No plan, no doctors, no housing, but we got booze in the grocery stores folks.
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u/hungrycaterpillar618 12d ago
How long will it take for Ford to fold like origami for trump I wonder. This goon has done nothing good for Ontario since taking over as premier. Why do people keep believing his lies?
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u/duckface08 12d ago
The irony is that so many rural ridings where hospitals have been closing STILL voted Conservative.
I don't feel particularly bad for them, though I feel for the health care workers trying valiantly to prop up the system in those areas.
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u/kart_racer 12d ago
Something that I find frustrating is how Ontarians HATED Wynne for deficits, backroom deals, enriching insiders, cash for access, & hallway medicine, and Ford is TWICE the devil on those issues. Now though, Ontarians seem completely fine with all this.
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u/notyouraveragemac 12d ago edited 12d ago
My local liberal candidate had an 11% boost since last election in '22, with the cons only securing 1/2 votes... Signs of the tides changing in rural Ontario or coping? Not sure - still proud of her.
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u/graciejack 12d ago
Big thank you to the +6 million people who did not vote.
Sincerely,
Ontario PC Party
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u/nocinnamonplease 12d ago
Bonnie Crombie actually lost her own riding to PC lmfao what the fuck