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(Members of Provincial Parliament, or "MPPs") of the Province of

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. The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, led by

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, who had replaced

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as PC leader and premier in 1961, won a seventh consecutive term in office, and maintained its majority in the legislature, increasing its caucus from the 71 members elected in the previous election to 77 members in an enlarged legislature. The

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, led by John Wintermeyer, increased its caucus from 22 to 24 members, although Wintermeyer lost his seat of Waterloo North. He resigned as party leader but the Liberals continued in their role of official opposition. Robert Gibson of

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was re-elected as a Liberal-Labour MPP sitting with the Liberal caucus. The social democratic

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was formally dissolved and succeeded by the

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in 1961. The newly conglomerated party was still led by Donald C. MacDonald, and won two additional seats, for a total of seven.

Expansion of Legislative Assembly

The size of the Legislative Assembly was increased from 98 to 108 members, through the reorganization of Toronto's suburban ridings:

Results

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, 108 , 71 , , 77 , 6 , 1,052,740 , 48.61% , 2.46 , style="text-align:left;", John Wintermeyer , 107 , 21 , , 23 , 2 , 754,032 , 34.82% , 1.44 Successor to the CCF , style="text-align:left;", Donald C. MacDonald , 97 , 5 , , 7 , 2 , 340,208 , 15.71% , 0.96 , style="text-align:left;", , 1 , 1 , , 1 , , 6,774 , 0.31% , 0.04 , style="text-align:left;", , 1 , – , – , – , , 5,190 , 0.24% , 0.13 , style="text-align:left;", , 7 , – , – , – , , 2,759 , 0.13% , 0.09 , style="text-align:left;", , 9 , – , – , – , , 2,313 , 0.11% , 0.02 Successor to Labor-Progressive , style="text-align:left;", , 6 , – , – , – , , 1,654 , 0.08% , 0.15 , style="text-align:left;", Socialist-Labour , style="text-align:left;", , 1 , – , – , – , , 103 , – , , style="text-align:left;", , , – , – , – , , colspan="3", ''Did not campaign'' , style="text-align:left;", , , – , – , – , , colspan="3", ''Did not campaign'' , colspan="3", , , colspan="5", , -style="background:#E9E9E9;" , colspan="3" style="text-align:left;", Total , 337 , 98 , 98 , 108 , , 2,165,773 , 100.00% , , - , colspan="8" style="text-align:left;", Blank and invalid ballots , align="right", 18,028 , style="background:#E9E9E9;" colspan="2", , -style="background:#E9E9E9;" , colspan="8" style="text-align:left;", Registered voters / turnout , 3,435,745 , 59.72% , 3.84

Reorganization of ridings

The reorganized ridings returned the following MPPs:

Seats that changed hands

There were 12 seats that changed allegiance in the election. ; PC to Liberal * Algoma—Manitoulin *

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* Ottawa East *

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; Liberal to PC *

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* Stormont * Waterloo North * Wentworth ; Liberal to NDP * Fort William ; NDP to PC *

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Expansion of Legislative Assembly

Results

Reorganization of ridings

Seats that changed hands

See also

References

Further reading