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The Ontario PC Party's constitution requires that the party hold a leadership review vote at the first party convention after an election defeat. [ 9 ] From the election day until the 2008 General Meeting, party members were divided into two "camps": those who supported John Tory's position as party leader and those who opposed his leadership.
The 2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election was held on March 10, 2018, [1] [2] due to the resignation of party leader Patrick Brown on January 25, 2018, following allegations of sexual misconduct. [3] Winner Doug Ford narrowly defeated runner-up Christine Elliott on the third ballot with 50.6% of allocated points.
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]
The Ontario Party was founded in May 2018, during the 2018 Ontario general election, by members of the Ontario Alliance leadership who left that party, claiming that the CFO and president of the Alliance were not complying with the constitution of the party or the decisions made by the board of directors.
Progressive Conservative Party prominently refers to a group of Canadian political parties that are distinct and on the centre-right of the political spectrum: National [ edit ]
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.