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The Ontario Legislature is sometimes referred to as the "Ontario Provincial Parliament". Members of the assembly refer to themselves as "Members of the Provincial Parliament" MPPs as opposed to "Members of the Legislative Assembly" (MLAs) as in many other provinces. Ontario is the only province to do so, in accordance with a resolution passed ...
Each province's legislative assembly, along with the province's lieutenant governor, form the province's legislature (which is called a parliament or general assembly in some provinces). Historically, several provinces had bicameral legislatures , but they all eventually dissolved their upper house or merged it with their lower house, so that ...
The Legislative Assembly has existed since 1867 when the British North America Act, 1867 severed the Province of Canada into two new provinces, with the portion then called Canada West becoming Ontario. For the Parliaments prior to Confederation, see Parliament of the Province of Canada (1841 to 1867) and Parliament of Upper Canada (1791 to 1841).
Map of Southern Ontario with the ridings shaded based on how they voted in the 2006 federal election. Ontario's federal political trends vary despite the fact that the federal Liberals dominated the province from 1993 to 2004 against a "divided right" between the centrist Progressive Conservative Party and strongly conservative Canadian Alliance.
First Ontario Parliament Buildings, Toronto, Upper Canada (1832–1841), United Province of Canada (intermittently 1849–1859), Ontario (1867–1893) Navy Hall, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Upper Canada (1792–1796) Episcopal Palace, Quebec City, Province of Quebec (1777–1791), Lower Canada (1791–1840), United Province of Canada (1850–1853)
The Ontario provincial electoral districts each elect one representative to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. [1] They are MPPs, Members of Provincial Parliament. Before 2025, these districts were coterminous with the federal electoral districts, based on the 2013 Representation Order as defined by Elections Canada .
The Ontario Legislative Building (French: L'édifice de l'Assemblée législative de l'Ontario) is a structure in central Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It houses the Legislative Assembly of Ontario , and the viceregal suite of the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and offices for members of the provincial parliament (MPPs).
Map of Scarborough Centre Scarborough Centre from 2003 to 2018. Scarborough Centre is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1963. It consists of the part of the Scarborough district of the City of Toronto bounded: on the west by Victoria Park Avenue, on the north ...