1999 Ontario general election

The 1999 Ontario general election was held on June 3, 1999, to elect members of the 37th Legislative Assembly of the Canadian province Ontario.

1999 Ontario general election
June 3, 1999
103 seats in the 37th Legislative Assembly of Ontario
52 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Mike Harris Dalton McGuinty Howard Hampton
Party Progressive Conservative Liberal New Democratic
Leader since May 12, 1990 December 1, 1996 June 22, 1996
Leader's seat Nipissing Ottawa South Kenora—Rainy River
Last election 82 30 17
Seats won 59 35 9
Seat change 23 5 8
Popular vote 1,978,059 1,751,472 551,009
Percentage 45.1% 39.9% 12.6%
Swing 0.3pp 8.8pp 8.0pp
Popular vote by riding. As this is an FPTP election, seat totals are not determined by popular vote, but instead via results by each riding.
Premier before election

Mike Harris
Progressive Conservative

 Premier after election

Mike Harris
Progressive Conservative

The governing Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, led by Premier Mike Harris, was re-elected to a second majority government.

The last time the Legislative Assembly of Ontario had experienced a reduced number of seats heading into an election was in 1934. Previously, the province's riding boundaries were different from those used in federal elections. In the 1999 election, as a consequence of an Act passed in 1996, provincial riding boundaries were redrawn to precisely match federal ridings, resulting in 27 fewer seats in the legislature. Notably, in a number of ridings this resulted in incumbent MPPs directly facing each other in the new seats; in a few ridings, incumbent MPPs from the same party even had to compete against each other for their own party's nomination.

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