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CBC
28-02-2025
- Politics
- CBC
Ford's PCs look for historic Ontario election win while NDP, Liberals appear locked in battle for 2nd
Ontario Votes 2025: Join our special broadcast for live results and analysis Live The latest It's election day in Ontario. PC leader Doug Ford is after his third straight majority, which would be the first in the province in more than 65 years. Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie, NDP Leader Marit Stiles and Green Leader Mike Schreiner are campaigning for a change. Polls close across most of Ontario at 9 p.m. ET. We'll have the results here as they come in. CBC News is live now with special coverage of the results. Tune in through the player above. Updates February 28 8 minutes ago Meet the team Rhianna Schmunk As mentioned, we've got the CBC's Dwight Drummond, Rosie Barton, Mike Crawley and David Common bringing you everything you need to know about election results from our broadcast centre in Toronto. They're joined by three expert panellists: Liberal strategist Ashley Csanady, who's been on leave leading communications for Bonnie Crombie, and former NDP strategist Marion Nader. She spent 10 years at Queen's Park as the party's press secretary. Finally, we have Conservative strategist Vivek Prabhu, who was part of the first two Ontario PC campaign war rooms, with a focus on digital content and advertising. 8 minutes ago Riding to watch: Oshawa Lucas Powers This largely blue collar riding with deep ties to the auto manufacturing sector has historically been a battleground between the NDP and PCs. New Democrats have held the seat since 2014, when Jennifer French defeated former longtime PC incumbent Jerry Ouellette. French's 2022 margin of victory over her PC challenger was just 747 votes, and now Ouellette is back on the ballot for the PCs. Both parties have put a lot of resources into the riding, with Stiles making visits and several high profile PC cabinet ministers doorknocking alongside Ouellette. This is a riding where the threat of U.S. tariffs could play a big role in the final outcome. Another factor is the Liberal campaign dropped their candidate in Oshawa over an offensive social media post that led to mounting backlash from the Sikh and LGBT communities. 15 minutes ago Riding to watch: Kitchener Centre Lucas Powers Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner has held his Guelph seat since 2018 and it was only in 2023 that the party picked up its second-ever seat, in Kitchener Centre. Former local councillor Aislinn Clancy won the riding in a byelection in 2023, nabbing it from the NDP in a landslide. The Greens are looking to hold this seat and prove it was not a byelection fluke. Since the early 2000s, this riding has been held by all three parties. 22 minutes ago Riding to watch: Toronto–St. Paul's Lucas Powers This riding was once thought of as a Liberal stronghold, but NDP took it in the great Liberal defeat of 2018. A star Liberal candidate came close in 2022, and the party has another prominent candidate this time around in former news anchor Stephanie Smyth. If the Liberals are to pick up seats this election, this is one of the possibilities. 24 minutes ago Watch our election night special John Rieti Voters, we've got a great election night show ready for your streaming pleasure. The great Dwight Drummond is hosting, with Mike Crawley delivering analysis. We've also got Rosie Barton putting questions to a panel of political insiders. David Common has somehow memorized details from all 124 ridings, so he's in charge of results. Watch live in the player above, on YouTube or CBC Gem. We've also got an ASL version. 28 minutes ago Riding to watch: Haldimand–Norfolk Lucas Powers Bobbi Ann Brady took many political observers by surprise when she won this riding in 2022 as an independent — a feat rarely accomplished in Ontario elections. Her win ended the PC hold on the riding since 1995. Brady actually worked for the former PC representative, Toby Barrett, for 23 years. He backed her bid as an independent against the Tory challenger, upset by the party's move to appoint a candidate — whom he described as a "rival" — rather than hold an open nomination. The PC candidate this time is local mayor Amy Martin, but Brady is popular among local voters. 33 minutes ago Riding to watch: York South–Weston Lucas Powers From now until polls are set to close at 9 p.m., we'll be featuring a number of ridings with particularly interesting races. Most of these snippets were compiled by our colleagues at The Canadian Press, and we've added some additional context here and there. If you want to read about them all in one place, tap here. OK, first up is York South–Weston. The decision by PC Michael Ford, Doug Ford's nephew, to not run again has made this race more competitive. The younger Ford was elected in 2022, unseating New Democrat Faisal Hassan, who is running again this time. In 2022, Hassan lost to Ford by fewer than 1,000 votes. 44 minutes ago Rhianna Schmunk Comparing the promises of Ontario's 4 main party leaders in 4 minutes 4 days ago Duration 3:59 Before casting your ballot on Feb. 27, it's important to know how the four major party leaders compare on hot-button issues. CBC's Julia Knope breaks down some of their key promises. We're almost at the end for voting time, folks. If you're a last-minute, undecided voter looking to compare candidates quickly, you can find our party platform tracker right here. It's a comprehensive look at how the PCs, NDP, Liberals and Greens compare on issues affecting Ontarians' lives. If you prefer, you can watch a four-minute breakdown above. February 27 1 hour ago Biggest mandate? Maybe not so much Rhianna Schmunk Ford says he needs 'strong' mandate from Ontarians to respond to potential U.S. tariff fallout 1 month ago Duration 0:50 Ontario Premier Doug Ford made the comments after two sources close to his government told CBC News he could trigger an early provincial election as soon as next week. As we've said, Ford started this campaign saying he was chasing 'the largest mandate in Ontario's history.' But by the end of the campaign, he struck a different tone. 'I don't look at the numbers,' he said in Windsor on Wednesday, per our colleagues at The Canadian Press. 'I just want to win.' Ford would need to win 95 seats to set the record.
CBC
27-02-2025
- Politics
- CBC
Ontario voters casting ballots as Doug Ford seeks 3rd straight majority win
Power & Politics sets up the Ontario election Started 25 minutes ago Live Host David Cochrane and guests outline what you need to know about the Ontario election and how this vote might affect the looming federal election. The latest Watch Power and Politics live in the player above as host David Cochrane breaks down the Ontario election campaign and what it might mean for the looming federal election Updates February 27 4 minutes ago Will the electorate show up? Lucas Powers How weather is influencing election day 25 minutes ago Duration 4:35 One question hanging over this election is about turnout. It's an unexpected, snap election and it's also February. The last time Ontario had a general election in February was 1883. There have been other winter elections in the province's history, but they are relatively uncommon, for obvious reasons. Readers abroad and elsewhere in Canada have expressed worries about mail-in ballots making it back in time, and some have lingering concerns about accessibility at polling stations given recent snowstorms. The Ontario election in 2022 saw the lowest turnout on record, when just over 44 per cent of eligible voters cast a ballot. Recent provincial byelections have also seen pretty dismal turnout. Low turnout advantages incumbents and is generally perceived as a sign that the electorate is content with the state of affairs under a particular government or MPP. But it also means that a comparatively small portion of eligible voters are electing majority governments. 6 minutes ago We've got reporters at every party's HQ tonight Rhianna Schmunk It's Ontario election day. Tune into CBC for the latest results 6 hours ago Duration 1:19 Ontario is electing its 44th government on Thursday. For the latest results and in-depth analysis, join us on election night for special coverage hosted by Dwight Drummond starting at 8 p.m. ET. The CBC's Lorenda Reddekopp is at the blue-and-white PC base and Dale Manucdoc will be with the NDP. Lane Harrison is following the race from the Liberals' base and Farrah Merali is with the Greens. 20 minutes ago Lucas Powers So, what do Ford's opponents say about the election call? The NDP, Liberal and Green leaders all say Ford used the tariffs as a pretext to campaign on anything but his record on things like health care, housing and education. They also say Ford is trying to outrun the results of the RCMP's ongoing criminal investigation into his government's Greenbelt land swaps scandal (this probe did not stop some of the province's biggest police unions from endorsing Ford). Then, there's also possible fallout from a change in the federal government. Ontario has a long tradition of voting provincially for parties on the opposite side of the political spectrum from whoever holds power in Ottawa. 29 minutes ago Why Doug Ford called this election Lucas Powers If you did venture out into the snow or sleet today to cast a ballot, you may have wondered, 'why, exactly, are we doing this?' And you know what? Fair question. The answer depends on who you ask. Ford called this snap election nearly 16 months early. He said he needs a bigger mandate (read: more seats in the legislature) to weather possible U.S. tariffs. There are a few holes in that logic. One, Ford's PCs already had a commanding majority. They could pass any legislation they wanted, regardless of how the opposition felt about it. Two, Ford first started publicly musing about a possible early election last May, a full six months before Trump made his first tariff threat. Ford also argued that the province's tariff response will require spending tens of billions of dollars, and he can't do that without voters' approval. But Ford has rarely shied away from big spending promises in the past. Last September (again, two months before the tariff threat) he vowed to build a tunnel under Highway 401 through the GTA. That's a project that'd likely cost anywhere between $60 billion and $100 billion, according to experts. No renewed voter mandate required. 2 hours ago It's election day, Ontario. We've got you covered John Rieti Voters, it's here. We've made it to election day, and we've got an exciting night of coverage planned for you. Leave this story open. We'll be updating it until we know who wins and how the race was won. We've got live video in the player above, starting with Power & Politics from 5-5:30 p.m. ET. Our election special starts at 8 p.m. ET, and results (open this results page in another tab) will start rolling in when polls close at 9 p.m. And if you can, please get out there and vote.
