This page lists the results of leadership elections

Leadership convention

In Canadian politics, a leadership convention is held by a political party when the party needs to choose a leader due to a vacancy or a challenge to the incumbent leader.- Overview :...

 within the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario , is a right-of-centre political party in Ontario, Canada. The party was known for many years as "Ontario's natural governing party." It has ruled the province for 80 of the years since Confederation, including an uninterrupted run from 1943 to 1985...

 (known as the Conservative Party of Ontario before 1942).

Before 1920, leaders of the Conservative Party were usually chosen by caucus. In 1914, William Hearst was selected at a meeting of the province's executive council (or cabinet) as James Whitney

James Whitney

Sir James Pliny Whitney, KCMG was a politician in the Canadian province of Ontario. Whitney was a lawyer in eastern Ontario, Conservative member for Dundas from 1888 to 1914, and the sixth Premier of Ontario from 1905 to 1914.- Early life :Whitney was born in Williamsburgh Township in 1843 and...

, the previous leader, had died while holding the office of Premier

Premier

Premier is a title for the head of government in some countries and states.-Examples by country:In many nations, "premier" is used interchangeably with "prime minister"...

.

All of the party's leadership races before 1990 were determined by delegated conventions. The leadership races of 1990, 2002 and 2004 were determined by a weighted vote of all party members, with each constituency contributing an equal number of "votes" to the total. The 1990 race was decided in one round, while the 2002 race took two. For the 2004 election, the party introduced a preferential balloting system, such that party members would only be required to vote one time.

1920 Conservative Party leadership convention

(Held on December 2, 1920.)

• FERGUSON, George
  Howard Ferguson
  George Howard Ferguson, PC was a Conservative politician and the ninth Premier of Ontario, Canada, from 1923 to 1930.-Background:He was the son of Charles Frederick Ferguson who served in the Canadian House of Commons...
  
  won on first ballot
• LAWSON, Earl
  Earl Lawson
  James Earl Lawson, PC was a Canadian politician and lawyer.James Earl Lawson was twice a candidate for the leadership of the Ontario Conservative Party, despite never being a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and once as a candidate for the federal Tory leadership.His first run for...
  
  
• HENRY, George

(Note: The vote totals were not announced.)

When Ferguson resigned as Premier in 1930, he selected George Henry as his replacement. Henry was subsequently confirmed as party leader at a special Meeting on June 24, 1931.

1936 Conservative Party leadership convention

(Held on May 28, 1936 at the Royal York Hotel

Fairmont Royal York

The Fairmont Royal York Hotel, formerly the Royal York Hotel and still often so called, is a large and historic hotel in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at 100 Front Street West. Opened on June 11, 1929, the Royal York was designed by Ross and Macdonald and built by the Canadian Pacific Railway...

 in Toronto.)

First ballot:

• ROWE, Earl 782
• DREW, George 480
• STEWART, William James
  William James Stewart
  William James Stewart was a Canadian politician. Stewart also owned and operated the Bates and Dodds Funeral Home on Queen Street West in Toronto.- Mayor of Toronto :...
  
   157
• MACAULAY, Leopold
  Leopold Macaulay
  Leopold Macaulay was a Canadian politician and lawyer. Born in Peterborough, Ontario, MacaulayMacaulay was a Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. He was first elected as Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Toronto area riding of York South in 1926...
  
   90
• HEIGHINGTON, Wilfrid
  Wilfrid Heighington
  Wilfrid Heighington was a Canadian soldier, writer, lawyer and politician. For King and Empire Canada's Soldiers in the Great War...
  
   70
• ACRES, Adam
  Adam Acres
  Adam Holland Acres was an Ontario farmer and political figure. He represented Carleton in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1923 to 1948 as a Conservative and then Progressive Conservative member....
  
   47
• ELLIS, Arthur
  Arthur Ellis (politician)
  Arthur Ellis was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He was mayor of Ottawa from 1928 until 1929....
  
   10

Second ballot:

• ROWE, Earl 1005
• DREW, George 660

See also: Conservative Party of Ontario leadership convention, 1936

Conservative Party of Ontario leadership convention, 1936

A Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election was held the week of May 25, 1936 at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto culminating in a ballot for leader on May 28, 1936 to replace retiring Conservative leader and former premier George S...

1938 Conservative Party leadership convention

(Held on December 9, 1938 at the Royal York Hotel

Fairmont Royal York

The Fairmont Royal York Hotel, formerly the Royal York Hotel and still often so called, is a large and historic hotel in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at 100 Front Street West. Opened on June 11, 1929, the Royal York was designed by Ross and Macdonald and built by the Canadian Pacific Railway...

 in Toronto.)

• DREW, George 796
• LAWSON, Earl
  Earl Lawson
  James Earl Lawson, PC was a Canadian politician and lawyer.James Earl Lawson was twice a candidate for the leadership of the Ontario Conservative Party, despite never being a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and once as a candidate for the federal Tory leadership.His first run for...
  
   413
• HEIGHINGTON, Wilfrid
  Wilfrid Heighington
  Wilfrid Heighington was a Canadian soldier, writer, lawyer and politician. For King and Empire Canada's Soldiers in the Great War...
  
   41
• RAWSON, Norman
  Norman Rawson
  Reverend Norman Rawson was a World War I veteran, attaining the rank of captain, and minister at Centenary Church in Hamilton, Ontario from 1937 until 1954. In 1938, he was a candidate in the 1938 Conservative Party of Ontario leadership convention receiving 22 votes and coming in last of four...
  
   22

See also: Conservative Party of Ontario leadership convention, 1938

Conservative Party of Ontario leadership convention, 1938

A Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election was on December 9, 1938 at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto to replace retiring Conservative leader Earl Rowe, who had resigned after his party lost the 1937 provincial election to Mitchell Hepburn's Liberals.Colonel George A...

1949 Progressive Conservative leadership convention

(Held on April 27, 1949.)

• FROST, Leslie
  Leslie Frost
  Leslie Miscampbell Frost, was a politician in Ontario, Canada, who served as the 16th Premier from May 4, 1949 to November 8, 1961. Due to his lengthy tenure, he gained the nickname "Old Man Ontario".-Early years:...
  
  842
• BLACKWELL, Leslie
  Leslie Blackwell
  Leslie Egerton Blackwell was a Canadian politician.A graduate of Osgoode Law School, Blackwell was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 1943 election that brought George Drew's Ontario Progressive Conservative Party to power with a minority government...
  
   442
• ROBERTS, Kelso
  Kelso Roberts
  Archibald Kelso Roberts was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as the Member of Provincial Parliament for the Toronto riding of St...
  
   121
• PORTER, Dana
  Dana Porter
  Dana Harris Porter was a Canadian politician and jurist.After graduating from the University of Toronto in 1921, Porter went to England to continue his studies at Balliol College, Oxford from which he graduated with a Master's degree in 1923...
  
   65

1961 Progressive Conservative leadership convention

(Held on October 25, 1961.)

First ballot:

• ROBERTS, Kelso
  Kelso Roberts
  Archibald Kelso Roberts was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as the Member of Provincial Parliament for the Toronto riding of St...
  
   352
• ROBARTS, John
  John Robarts
  John Parmenter Robarts, PC, CC, QC was a Canadian lawyer and statesman, and the 17th Premier of Ontario.-Early life:...
  
   345
• MACAULAY, Robert
  Robert Macaulay
  Robert William Macaulay was a Canadian politician.Robert William Macaulay was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as the Progressive Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament for the Toronto riding of Riverdale in the 1951 Ontario election...
  
   339
• ALLAN, James
  James Allan
  James Noble Allan was a Canadian politician.After serving as mayor of Dunnville and warden of Haldimand County along with various other municipal posts, Allan was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 1951 provincial election as the Progressive Conservative Member of...
  
   332
• DOWNER, A.W. 149
• DYMOND, Matthew
  Matthew Dymond
  Dr. Matthew Bulloch Dymond was a Canadian politician and physician.He began practicing medicine in Port Perry, Ontario in 1942 before leaving for the duration of World War II to serve in the Canadian Army's medical corps...
  
   148
• WARDROPE, George
  George Wardrope
  George Calvin Wardrope was a politician in Ontario, Canada.He was born in Montreal, the son of John W. Wardrope and educated at the University of Toronto. Wardrope operated an insurance and real estate agency in Port Arthur. He was also president of the Steep Rock Lumber Company and served on the...
  
   45

Second ballot:

• ROBARTS, John
  John Robarts
  John Parmenter Robarts, PC, CC, QC was a Canadian lawyer and statesman, and the 17th Premier of Ontario.-Early life:...
  
   423
• ROBERTS, Kelso
  Kelso Roberts
  Archibald Kelso Roberts was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as the Member of Provincial Parliament for the Toronto riding of St...
  
   385
• MACAULAY, Robert
  Robert Macaulay
  Robert William Macaulay was a Canadian politician.Robert William Macaulay was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as the Progressive Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament for the Toronto riding of Riverdale in the 1951 Ontario election...
  
   363
• ALLAN, James
  James Allan
  James Noble Allan was a Canadian politician.After serving as mayor of Dunnville and warden of Haldimand County along with various other municipal posts, Allan was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 1951 provincial election as the Progressive Conservative Member of...
  
   324
• DOWNER, A.W. 104
• DYMOND, Matthew
  Matthew Dymond
  Dr. Matthew Bulloch Dymond was a Canadian politician and physician.He began practicing medicine in Port Perry, Ontario in 1942 before leaving for the duration of World War II to serve in the Canadian Army's medical corps...
  
   93

Third ballot:

• ROBARTS, John
  John Robarts
  John Parmenter Robarts, PC, CC, QC was a Canadian lawyer and statesman, and the 17th Premier of Ontario.-Early life:...
  
   498
• ROBERTS, Kelso
  Kelso Roberts
  Archibald Kelso Roberts was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as the Member of Provincial Parliament for the Toronto riding of St...
  
   380
• MACAULAY, Robert
  Robert Macaulay
  Robert William Macaulay was a Canadian politician.Robert William Macaulay was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as the Progressive Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament for the Toronto riding of Riverdale in the 1951 Ontario election...
  
   372
• ALLAN, James
  James Allan
  James Noble Allan was a Canadian politician.After serving as mayor of Dunnville and warden of Haldimand County along with various other municipal posts, Allan was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 1951 provincial election as the Progressive Conservative Member of...
  
   344
• DOWNER, A.W. 93

Fourth ballot:

• ROBARTS, John
  John Robarts
  John Parmenter Robarts, PC, CC, QC was a Canadian lawyer and statesman, and the 17th Premier of Ontario.-Early life:...
  
   533
• ROBERTS, Kelso
  Kelso Roberts
  Archibald Kelso Roberts was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as the Member of Provincial Parliament for the Toronto riding of St...
  
   419
• MACAULAY, Robert
  Robert Macaulay
  Robert William Macaulay was a Canadian politician.Robert William Macaulay was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as the Progressive Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament for the Toronto riding of Riverdale in the 1951 Ontario election...
  
   377
• ALLAN, James
  James Allan
  James Noble Allan was a Canadian politician.After serving as mayor of Dunnville and warden of Haldimand County along with various other municipal posts, Allan was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 1951 provincial election as the Progressive Conservative Member of...
  
   336

Fifth ballot:

• ROBARTS, John
  John Robarts
  John Parmenter Robarts, PC, CC, QC was a Canadian lawyer and statesman, and the 17th Premier of Ontario.-Early life:...
  
   746
• ROBERTS, Kelso
  Kelso Roberts
  Archibald Kelso Roberts was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as the Member of Provincial Parliament for the Toronto riding of St...
  
   479
• MACAULAY, Robert
  Robert Macaulay
  Robert William Macaulay was a Canadian politician.Robert William Macaulay was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as the Progressive Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament for the Toronto riding of Riverdale in the 1951 Ontario election...
  
   438

Sixth ballot:

• ROBARTS, John
  John Robarts
  John Parmenter Robarts, PC, CC, QC was a Canadian lawyer and statesman, and the 17th Premier of Ontario.-Early life:...
  
  976
• ROBERTS, Kelso
  Kelso Roberts
  Archibald Kelso Roberts was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as the Member of Provincial Parliament for the Toronto riding of St...
  
   633

1971 Progressive Conservative leadership convention

(Held on February 12, 1971.)

First ballot:

• DAVIS, Bill
  Bill Davis
  William Grenville "Bill" Davis, was the 18th Premier of Ontario, Canada, from 1971 to 1985. Davis was first elected as the MPP for Peel in the 1959 provincial election where he was a backbencher in Leslie Frost's government. Under John Robarts, he was a cabinet minister overseeing the education...
  
   548
• LAWRENCE, Allan 431
• MCKEOUGH, Darcy
  Darcy McKeough
  William Darcy McKeough, is a Canadian businessman and former politician. He is a member of the board of Hydro One and is chairman of McKeough Investments and McKeough Supply, and former CEO of Union Gas....
  
   273
• WELCH, Bob 270
• LAWRENCE, Bert
  Bert Lawrence
  Albert Benjamin Rutter Lawrence MC was a Canadian politician and lawyer.-Education:Born in Calgary, Alberta, Lawrence grew up in Ottawa, Ontario and was educated at Ashbury College in Ottawa, Ontario and at Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario.-Career:During World War II,...
  
   128
• PHARAND, Robert
  Robert Pharand
  Robert Pharand was a francophone activist and candidate for the leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party in 1971...
  
   7

Pharand eliminated; Bert Lawrence withdrew.

Second ballot:

• DAVIS, Bill
  Bill Davis
  William Grenville "Bill" Davis, was the 18th Premier of Ontario, Canada, from 1971 to 1985. Davis was first elected as the MPP for Peel in the 1959 provincial election where he was a backbencher in Leslie Frost's government. Under John Robarts, he was a cabinet minister overseeing the education...
  
   595
• LAWRENCE, Allan 498
• MCKEOUGH, Darcy
  Darcy McKeough
  William Darcy McKeough, is a Canadian businessman and former politician. He is a member of the board of Hydro One and is chairman of McKeough Investments and McKeough Supply, and former CEO of Union Gas....
  
   288
• WELCH, Bob 271

Welch eliminated.

Third ballot:

• DAVIS, Bill
  Bill Davis
  William Grenville "Bill" Davis, was the 18th Premier of Ontario, Canada, from 1971 to 1985. Davis was first elected as the MPP for Peel in the 1959 provincial election where he was a backbencher in Leslie Frost's government. Under John Robarts, he was a cabinet minister overseeing the education...
  
   669
• LAWRENCE, Allan 606
• MCKEOUGH, Darcy
  Darcy McKeough
  William Darcy McKeough, is a Canadian businessman and former politician. He is a member of the board of Hydro One and is chairman of McKeough Investments and McKeough Supply, and former CEO of Union Gas....
  
   346

McKeough eliminated.

Fourth ballot:

• DAVIS, Bill
  Bill Davis
  William Grenville "Bill" Davis, was the 18th Premier of Ontario, Canada, from 1971 to 1985. Davis was first elected as the MPP for Peel in the 1959 provincial election where he was a backbencher in Leslie Frost's government. Under John Robarts, he was a cabinet minister overseeing the education...
  
  812
• LAWRENCE, Allan 768

January 1985 Progressive Conservative leadership convention

(Held in Toronto on January 26, 1985.)

First ballot:

• MILLER, Frank
  Frank Miller (politician)
  Frank Stuart Miller, was a Canadian politician, who served as the 19th Premier of Ontario for four months in 1985.-Early life and political career:...
  
   591
• TIMBRELL, Dennis
  Dennis Timbrell
  Dennis Roy Timbrell is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1971 to 1987, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of William Davis and Frank Miller.-Early life and career:...
  
   421
• GROSSMAN, Larry
  Larry Grossman
  Lawrence "Larry" Sheldon Grossman was a politician in Ontario, Canada.-Early years:Born in Toronto, Grossman was the son of Allan Grossman, who had represented a downtown Toronto riding in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for twenty years after defeating Ontario's last Communist Member of...
  
   378
• MCMURTRY, Roy
  Roy McMurtry
  Roland "Roy" McMurtry, OC, OOnt is a judge and former politician in Ontario, Canada and the current Chancellor of York University.-Early life:McMurtry was born in Toronto and educated at St. Andrew's College, graduating in 1950...
  
   300

Second ballot (McMurtry supports Grossman):

• MILLER, Frank
  Frank Miller (politician)
  Frank Stuart Miller, was a Canadian politician, who served as the 19th Premier of Ontario for four months in 1985.-Early life and political career:...
  
   659
• GROSSMAN, Larry
  Larry Grossman
  Lawrence "Larry" Sheldon Grossman was a politician in Ontario, Canada.-Early years:Born in Toronto, Grossman was the son of Allan Grossman, who had represented a downtown Toronto riding in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for twenty years after defeating Ontario's last Communist Member of...
  
   514
• TIMBRELL, Dennis
  Dennis Timbrell
  Dennis Roy Timbrell is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1971 to 1987, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of William Davis and Frank Miller.-Early life and career:...
  
   508

(Note: These figures were confirmed by a recount.)

Third ballot (Timbrell supports Grossman):

• MILLER, Frank
  Frank Miller (politician)
  Frank Stuart Miller, was a Canadian politician, who served as the 19th Premier of Ontario for four months in 1985.-Early life and political career:...
  
  869
• GROSSMAN, Larry
  Larry Grossman
  Lawrence "Larry" Sheldon Grossman was a politician in Ontario, Canada.-Early years:Born in Toronto, Grossman was the son of Allan Grossman, who had represented a downtown Toronto riding in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for twenty years after defeating Ontario's last Communist Member of...
  
   792

November 1985 Progressive Conservative leadership convention

(Held on November 16, 1985.)

First ballot:

• GROSSMAN, Larry
  Larry Grossman
  Lawrence "Larry" Sheldon Grossman was a politician in Ontario, Canada.-Early years:Born in Toronto, Grossman was the son of Allan Grossman, who had represented a downtown Toronto riding in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for twenty years after defeating Ontario's last Communist Member of...
  
   752
• TIMBRELL, Dennis
  Dennis Timbrell
  Dennis Roy Timbrell is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1971 to 1987, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of William Davis and Frank Miller.-Early life and career:...
  
   661
• POPE, Alan
  Alan Pope
  Alan William Pope is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1977 to 1990, and served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Bill Davis and Frank Miller.-Early years:Pope was raised in Northern Ontario, and...
  
   271

Second ballot:

• GROSSMAN, Larry
  Larry Grossman
  Lawrence "Larry" Sheldon Grossman was a politician in Ontario, Canada.-Early years:Born in Toronto, Grossman was the son of Allan Grossman, who had represented a downtown Toronto riding in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for twenty years after defeating Ontario's last Communist Member of...
  
  848
• TIMBRELL, Dennis
  Dennis Timbrell
  Dennis Roy Timbrell is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1971 to 1987, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of William Davis and Frank Miller.-Early life and career:...
  
   829

1990 Progressive Conservative leadership convention

(Held on May 12, 1990.)

• HARRIS, Michael
  Mike Harris
  Michael Deane "Mike" Harris was the 22nd Premier of Ontario from June 26, 1995 to April 15, 2002. He is most noted for the "Common Sense Revolution", his Progressive Conservative government's program of deficit reduction in combination with lower taxes and cuts to government...
  
  7175
• CUNNINGHAM, Dianne
  Dianne Cunningham
  Dianne Cunningham is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1988 to 2003, and a cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves....
  
   5825

(the non-weighted vote totals were: Harris 8661, Cunningham 7189)

The 1990 vote was the first held on the basis of one member one vote with votes weighted so that each riding had equal weight.

See also: Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, 1990

Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, 1990

The 1990 Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership election was a leadership election held in May 1990 to elect a permanent leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party to succeed Larry Grossman who the night of the 1987 provincial election in which he lost his seat and saw his party,...

2002 Progressive Conservative leadership convention

(Held on March 23, 2002.)

First ballot:

• EVES, Ernie
  Ernie Eves
  Ernest Lawrence "Ernie" Eves was the 23rd Premier of the province of Ontario, Canada, from April 15, 2002, to October 23, 2003.-Beginnings:...
  
   4257
• FLAHERTY, Jim
  Jim Flaherty
  James Michael "Jim" Flaherty, PC, MP is Canada's Minister of Finance and he has also served as Ontario's Minister of Finance. From 1995 until 2005, he was the Member of Provincial Parliament for Whitby—Ajax, and a member of the Progressive Conservative Party caucus...
  
   3031
• CLEMENT, Tony
  Tony Clement
  Tony Peter Clement, PC, MP is a Canadian federal politician, President of the Treasury Board, Minister for the Federal Economic Initiative for Northern Ontario and member of the Conservative Party of Canada....
  
   1354
• WITMER, Elizabeth
  Elizabeth Witmer
  Elizabeth Witmer is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She has been a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1990, originally representing Waterloo North and later Kitchener—Waterloo for the Progressive Conservative Party.Witmer moved with her family to Ontario at a young age...
  
   1197
• STOCKWELL, Chris
  Chris Stockwell
  Chris Stockwell is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 2003, and served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves. Before entering provincial politics, he had been a...
  
   448

(Note: After the first ballot, Clement and Witmer both withdrew from the contest and supported Ernie Eves. Their names remained on the ballot for at least a part of the second round, however.)

Second ballot:

• EVES, Ernie
  Ernie Eves
  Ernest Lawrence "Ernie" Eves was the 23rd Premier of the province of Ontario, Canada, from April 15, 2002, to October 23, 2003.-Beginnings:...
  
  5623
• FLAHERTY, Jim
  Jim Flaherty
  James Michael "Jim" Flaherty, PC, MP is Canada's Minister of Finance and he has also served as Ontario's Minister of Finance. From 1995 until 2005, he was the Member of Provincial Parliament for Whitby—Ajax, and a member of the Progressive Conservative Party caucus...
  
   3898
• CLEMENT, Tony
  Tony Clement
  Tony Peter Clement, PC, MP is a Canadian federal politician, President of the Treasury Board, Minister for the Federal Economic Initiative for Northern Ontario and member of the Conservative Party of Canada....
  
   561
• WITMER, Elizabeth
  Elizabeth Witmer
  Elizabeth Witmer is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She has been a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1990, originally representing Waterloo North and later Kitchener—Waterloo for the Progressive Conservative Party.Witmer moved with her family to Ontario at a young age...
  
   216

(It is not clear if the non-weighted vote totals were released to the public. 44188 party members voted on the first ballot, 34608 on the second.)

2004 Progressive Conservative leadership convention

(Held on September 18, 2004.)

First ballot:

• TORY, John
  John Tory
  John Howard Tory is a Canadian businessman, political activist, former leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, former Member of Provincial Parliament and broadcaster...
  
   4535.13 (45%)
• FLAHERTY, Jim
  Jim Flaherty
  James Michael "Jim" Flaherty, PC, MP is Canada's Minister of Finance and he has also served as Ontario's Minister of Finance. From 1995 until 2005, he was the Member of Provincial Parliament for Whitby—Ajax, and a member of the Progressive Conservative Party caucus...
  
   3274.92 (33%)
• KLEES, Frank
  Frank Klees
  Frank Klees is a Canadian politician and the Progressive Conservative member of Provincial Parliament for the riding of Newmarket—Aurora north of Toronto. He was a candidate in the 2009 Progressive Conservative leadership election placing second behind victor Tim Hudak.-Early life:Klees was born...
  
   2265.96 (22%)

5039 electoral votes needed to win

(the non-weighted vote totals were Tory 12,132, Flaherty 7,951, Klees 5,240)

Second ballot:

• TORY, John
  John Tory
  John Howard Tory is a Canadian businessman, political activist, former leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, former Member of Provincial Parliament and broadcaster...
  
   5390.86 (54%)
• FLAHERTY, Jim
  Jim Flaherty
  James Michael "Jim" Flaherty, PC, MP is Canada's Minister of Finance and he has also served as Ontario's Minister of Finance. From 1995 until 2005, he was the Member of Provincial Parliament for Whitby—Ajax, and a member of the Progressive Conservative Party caucus...
  
  4664.14 (46%)

5028 electoral votes needed to win

(the non-weighted vote totals were Tory 18,037, Flaherty 14,353)

2009 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership convention

(Held on June 27, 2009 in Markham, Ontario)
First Ballot>

Candidate	Weighted Votes (sum of percentages in each riding)	Percentage
Tim Hudak	3,511.873	33.9
Frank Klees	3,093.770	29.9
Christine Elliott	2,728.664	26.4
Randy Hillier	1,013.694	9.8
Total	10,348	100

Movement: Hillier eliminated and endorses Hudak; prior to balloting Hillier asked his supporters to make Hudak their second choice.
Second Ballot>

6.0

1.9

1.6

Candidate	Weighted Votes (sum of percentages in each riding)	Percentage	+/-
Tim Hudak	4,128.570	39.95
Frank Klees	3,299.809	31.94
Christine Elliott	2,903.621	28.10
Total	10,332	100.0

Does not include votes that were spoiled because no second choice was indicated.

Movement: Elliott eliminated
Third Ballot>

13.0

Candidate	Weighted Votes (sum of percentages in each riding)	Percentage	+/-
Tim Hudak	5,606	54.25	+14.3
Frank Klees	4,644	44.94
Total	10,332	100.0

Does not include votes that were spoiled because no second or third choice was indicated.