1999 Ontario general election

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1999 Ontario general election

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103 seats in the 37th Legislative Assembly of Ontario 52 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Mike Harris Dalton McGuinty Howard Hampton Party Progressive Conservative Liberal New Democratic Leader since May 12, 1990 December 1, 1996 June 22, 1996 Leader's seat Nipissing Ottawa South Kenora—Rainy River Last election 82 30 17 Seats won 59 35 9 Seat change 23 5 8 Popular vote 1,978,059 1,751,472 551,009 Percentage 45.1% 39.9% 12.6% Swing 0.3pp 8.8pp 8.0pp
Popular vote by riding. As this is an FPTP election, seat totals are not determined by popular vote, but instead via results by each riding.
Premier before election Mike Harris Progressive Conservative Premier after election Mike Harris Progressive Conservative

The 1999 Ontario general election was held on June 3, 1999, to elect members of the 37th Legislative Assembly of the Canadian province Ontario.

The governing Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, led by Premier Mike Harris, was re-elected to a second majority government.

The last time the Legislative Assembly of Ontario had experienced a reduced number of seats heading into an election was in 1934. Previously, the province's riding boundaries were different from those used in federal elections. In the 1999 election, as a consequence of an Act passed in 1996,^[1] provincial riding boundaries were redrawn to precisely match federal ridings, resulting in 27 fewer seats in the legislature. Notably, in a number of ridings this resulted in incumbent MPPs directly facing each other in the new seats; in a few ridings, incumbent MPPs from the same party even had to compete against each other for their own party's nomination.