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The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario fielded a full slate of 103 candidates in the 2003 Ontario general election . The party, which had been in power since 1995, won twenty-four seats to become the official opposition in the sitting of the legislature that followed.
Riding
Candidate's Name
Occupation
Votes
%
Rank
Notes
Algoma—Manitoulin
Terry McCutcheon
5,168
17.33
3rd
Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Aldershot
Mark Mullins
18,141
37.42
2nd
Ran for the Reform Party in Hamilton—Wentworth in the 1993 Canadian federal election .[ 1]
Barrie—Simcoe—Bradford
Joe Tascona
31,529
51.78
1st
Incumbent
Beaches—East York
Angela Kennedy
Registered Nurse[ 2]
8,157
19.67
3rd
Later chaired the Toronto Catholic District School Board on two occasions.[ 3]
Bramalea—Gore—Malton—Springdale
Raminder Gill
15,549
36.73
2nd
Incumbent
Brampton Centre
Joe Spina
15,656
40.86
2nd
Incumbent
Brampton West—Mississauga
Tony Clement
26,414
42.17
2nd
Incumbent; Minister of Health and Long-Term Care
Brant
Alayne Sokoloski
13,618
30.65
2nd
Ran in the same division in the 1999 Ontario general election .[ 4]
Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound
Bill Murdoch
23,338
52.07
1st
Incumbent
Burlington
Cam Jackson
21,506
46.15
1st
Incumbent; resigned seat on 28 September 2006
Cambridge
Gerry Martiniuk
19,996
42.50
1st
Incumbent
Chatham-Kent—Essex
Dave Wilkinson
11,586
29.82
2nd
Davenport
Tom Smith
1,977
7.46
3rd
Don Valley East
Paul Sutherland
12,027
32.03
2nd
Don Valley West
David Turnbull
17,394
38.95
2nd
Incumbent; Associate Minister of Enterprise, Opportunity and Innovation
Dufferin—Peel—Wellington—Grey
Ernie Eves
29,222
56.64
1st
Incumbent; party leader and Premier of Ontario ; resigned seat on 1 February 2005
Durham
John O'Toole
23,814
47.09
1st
Incumbent
Eglinton—Lawrence
Corinne Korzen
12,402
29.72
2nd
Elgin—Middlesex—London
Bruce Smith
13,149
30.25
2nd
Erie—Lincoln
Tim Hudak
20,348
48.49
1st
Incumbent; Minister of Consumer and Business Services
Essex
Patrick O'Neil
11,234
24.74
3rd
Etobicoke Centre
Rose Andrachuk
17,610
39.43
2nd
Etobicoke—Lakeshore
Morley Kells
14,524
32.59
2nd
Incumbent
Etobicoke North
Baljit Gosal
6,978
22.52
2nd
Glengarry—Prescott—Russell
Albert Bourdeau
10,921
24.88
2nd
Guelph—Wellington
Brenda Elliott
20,735
37.08
2nd
Incumbent; Minister of Community, Family and Social Services
Haldimand—Norfolk—Brant
Toby Barrett
20,109
46.10
1st
Incumbent
Haliburton—Victoria—Brock
Laurie Scott
24,297
47.41
1st
Halton
Ted Chudleigh
33,610
48.20
1st
Incumbent
Hamilton East
Sohail Bhatti
4,033
13.13
3rd
Hamilton Mountain
Shakil Hassan
8,637
19.02
3rd
Hamilton West
Doug Brown
8,185
20.97
3rd
Hastings—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington
Barry Gordon
Auctioneer[ 5]
13,709
33.01
2nd
Member of the Pittsburgh Township council from 1980 to 1988 and reeve from 1989 to 1994.[ 6] Ran for the Progressive Conservative Party in Kingston and the Islands in the 1993 Canadian federal election .[ 7]
Huron—Bruce
Helen Johns
16,594
38.23
2nd
Incumbent; Minister of Agriculture and Food
Kenora—Rainy River
Cathe Hoszowski
3,343
12.83
3rd
Kingston and the Islands
Hans Westenberg
9,640
20.12
2nd
Kitchener Centre
Wayne Wettlaufer
16,120
37.57
2nd
Incumbent
Kitchener—Waterloo
Elizabeth Witmer
23,957
43.08
1st
Incumbent; Deputy Premier of Ontario and Minister of Education
Lambton—Kent—Middlesex
Marcel Beaubien
15,060
36.66
2nd
Incumbent
Lanark—Carleton
Norm Sterling
29,641
48.99
1st
Incumbent; Attorney General and Minister responsible for Native Affairs
Leeds—Grenville
Bob Runciman
21,443
48.70
1st
Incumbent; Minister of Public Safety and Security
London—Fanshawe
Frank Mazzilli
11,777
30.35
3rd
Incumbent
London North Centre
Dianne Cunningham
13,460
28.92
2nd
Incumbent; Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities and Minister responsible for Women's Issues
London West
Bob Wood
15,463
31.11
2nd
Incumbent
Markham
David Tsubouchi
21,257
40.33
2nd
Incumbent; Minister of Culture
Mississauga Centre
Rob Sampson
15,846
40.72
2nd
Incumbent
Mississauga East
Carl DeFaria
13,832
40.35
2nd
Incumbent; Minister of Citizenship and Minister responsible for Senior Citizens
Mississauga South
Margaret Marland
16,977
43.20
2nd
Incumbent
Mississauga West
Nina Tangri
20,406
37.18
2nd
Nepean—Carleton
John Baird
31,662
54.06
1st
Incumbent; Government House Leader and Minister of Energy ; resigned seat on 29 November 2005
Niagara Centre
Ann Gronski
12,526
26.70
3rd
Niagara Falls
Bart Maves
15,353
38.06
2nd
Incumbent
Nickel Belt
Dave Kilgour
4,804
13.49
3rd
Nipissing
Al McDonald
14,978
41.47
2nd
Incumbent
Northumberland
Doug Galt
17,816
39.37
2nd
Incumbent; Chief Government Whip and Minister without Portfolio
Oak Ridges
Frank Klees
32,647
47.27
1st
Incumbent; Minister of Transportation
Oakville
Kurt Franklin
18,991
42.18
2nd
Oshawa
Jerry Ouellette
14,566
37.32
1st
Incumbent; Minister of Natural Resources
Ottawa Centre
Joe Varner
Policy Advisor[ 8]
11,217
22.69
3rd
Spouse of Lisa MacLeod
Ottawa—Orléans
Brian Coburn
20,762
41.32
2nd
Incumbent; Minister of Tourism and Recreation
Ottawa South
Richard Raymond
16,413
34.43
2nd
Ottawa—Vanier
Maurice Lamirande
10,878
26.24
2nd
Ran in the same division in the 1999 Ontario general election .[ 9]
Ottawa West—Nepean
Garry Guzzo
20,277
41.24
2nd
Incumbent
Oxford
Ernie Hardeman
18,656
44.06
1st
Incumbent; Associate Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing with responsibility for Rural Affairs
Parkdale—High Park
Stephen Snell
6,436
16.18
2nd
Parry Sound—Muskoka
Norm Miller
18,776
48.51
1st
Incumbent
Perth—Middlesex
Bert Johnson
15,680
39.36
2nd
Incumbent
Peterborough
Gary Stewart
18,418
33.46
2nd
Incumbent
Pickering—Ajax—Uxbridge
Janet Ecker
23,960
43.91
2nd
Incumbent; Minister of Finance
Prince Edward—Hastings
John Williams
12,800
32.02
2nd
Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke
John Yakabuski
19,274
44.14
1st
Sarnia—Lambton
Henk Vanden Ende
11,852
30.99
2nd
Sault Ste. Marie
Bruce Willson
2,674
7.61
3rd
Scarborough—Agincourt
Yolanda Chan
11,337
30.08
2nd
Scarborough Centre
Marilyn Mushinski
11,686
28.04
2nd
Incumbent
Scarborough East
Steve Gilchrist
14,323
33.84
2nd
Incumbent
Scarborough—Rouge River
Kevin Moore
9,468
25.21
2nd
Scarborough Southwest
Dan Newman
11,826
31.71
2nd
Incumbent; Associate Minister of Health and Long-Term Care
Simcoe—Grey
Jim Wilson
26,114
51.47
1st
Incumbent; Minister of Northern Development and Mines and Minister of Environment
Simcoe North
Garfield Dunlop
23,393
46.13
1st
Incumbent
St. Catharines
Mark Brickell
Regional Councillor[ 10]
12,932
29.34
2nd
St. Paul's
Charis Kelso
11,203
24.65
2nd
Stoney Creek
Brad Clark
19,517
38.58
2nd
Incumbent; Minister of Labour
Stormont—Dundas—Charlottenburgh
Todd Lalonde
13,948
36.50
2nd
Sudbury
Mila Wong
Executive Director[ 11]
5,068
14.19
2nd
Ran in the same division in the 1999 Ontario general election .[ 12] Also ran for the Greater Sudbury municipal council in the 2000 Greater Sudbury municipal election .[ 13]
Thornhill
Tina Molinari
20,623
45.16
2nd
Incumbent; Associate Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing with responsibility for Urban Affairs
Thunder Bay—Atikokan
Brian McKinnon
5,365
17.62
3rd
Thunder Bay—Superior North
Brent Sylvester
2,912
9.62
3rd
Timiskaming—Cochrane
Rick Brassard
6,330
20.38
2nd
Timmins—James Bay
Merv Russell
2,527
8.41
3rd
Toronto Centre—Rosedale
John Adams
9,968
22.04
2nd
Toronto—Danforth
George Sardelis
6,562
16.95
3rd
Trinity—Spadina
Helena Guergis
4,985
12.29
3rd
Vaughan—King—Aurora
Carmine Iacono
21,744
33.06
2nd
Waterloo—Wellington
Ted Arnott
22,550
48.97
1st
Incumbent
Whitby—Ajax
Jim Flaherty
27,240
48.33
1st
Incumbent; Minister of Enterprise, Opportunity and Innovation ; resigned seat in November 2005
Willowdale
David Young
19,957
42.95
2nd
Incumbent; Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing
Windsor—St. Clair
Matt Bufton
Marketing Coordinator[ 14]
4,162
11.61
3rd
Windsor West
Derek Insley
4,187
11.90
3rd
Ran in Ottawa West in 1987 Ontario general election .[ 15]
York Centre
Dan Cullen
7,862
24.83
2nd
York North
Julia Munro
24,517
47.19
1st
Incumbent
York South—Weston
Stephen Halicki
4,930
15.23
3rd
York West
Ted Aver
2,330
10.03
3rd
Candidates in by-elections held between 2003 and 2007 [ edit ]
Date
Riding
Candidate's Name
Occupation
Votes
%
Rank
Notes
2004 05 13
Hamilton East
Tara Crugnale
1,772
7.42
3rd
2005 03 17
Dufferin—Peel—Wellington—Grey
John Tory
15,893
56.67
1st
Party leader
2005 11 25
Scarborough—Rouge River
Cynthia Lai
4,268
25.86
2nd
2006 03 30
Nepean—Carleton
Lisa MacLeod
17,312
57.57
1st
2006 03 30
Scarborough—Rouge River
Georgina Blanas
2,740
10.03
3rd
2006 03 30
Whitby—Ajax
Christine Elliott
15,799
46.21
1st
2006 09 14
Parkdale—High Park
David Hutcheon
4,943
17.33
3rd
2007 02 08
Burlington
Joyce Savoline
11,146
49.00
1st
2007 02 08
Markham
Alex Yuan
6,426
34.89
2nd
2007 02 08
York South—Weston
Pina Martino
1,917
10.18
3rd
Source for election results: Election Results , Elections Ontario, accessed 2 November 2021.
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