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The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (French: Parti progressiste-conservateur de l'Ontario), often shortened to the Ontario PC Party or simply the PCs, colloquially known as the Tories, is a centre to centre-right political party in Ontario, Canada.
All party members are eligible to cast votes by preferential ballot using electronic balloting, provided that they are members in good standing by February 16, 2018. To be eligible, one must be at least 14 years of age, a resident of Ontario, and pay a $10 membership fee with personal funds (i.e. no corporation or union funds may be used).
The party's 76,587 members [1] were eligible to cast votes by preferential ballot.The vote will be weighted so that each of the province's 107 ridings that has more than 100 votes cast are allocated 100 electoral votes; [2] ridings in which fewer than 100 party members vote will not be weighted, but will instead have the votes counted as individual votes. [3]
This was in part due to the party's last-minute abandoning of the official party platform, set off by a sudden change in leadership several months before the election due to the resignation of PC leader Patrick Brown, and the subsequent nomination battle which saw Ford elected Premier, by a narrow margin. [37]
The President of the OYPC concurrently serves on the executive of the Ontario PC Party. [1] In 2019, the Ontario PC Youth Association (founded in 1954) merged with the Ontario PC Campus Association, which was the body responsible for conservative student clubs at Ontario universities, forming the Ontario Young PCs. [2]
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Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (3 C, 11 P, 5 F) Pages in category "Provincial political parties in Ontario" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
From the outset of his campaign, Brown positioned himself as an outsider, challenging the leadership of the PC Party, which had been defeated in the last four provincial elections. In the most recent election campaign, in 2014, the party election platform included a commitment to cut 100,000 public service jobs over 4 years through attrition. [25]