Ontario general election, 1945

← 1943

June 4, 1945

1948 →

90 seats in the 22nd Legislative Assembly of Ontario
46 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	George Drew	Mitchell Hepburn
Party	Progressive Conservative	Liberal
Leader since	December 9, 1938	April 2, 1945
Leader's seat	High Park	Elgin (lost re-election)
Last election	38	15
Seats won	66	14
Seat change	+28	-1
Percentage	44.3%	29.8%
Swing	+8.6pp	-1.4pp

	Third party	Fourth party
		LP
Leader	Ted Jolliffe	Leslie Morris
Party	Co-operative Commonwealth	Labor-Progressive
Leader since	April 3, 1942	1945
Leader's seat	York South (lost re-election)	Ran in Bracondale (Lost)
Last election	34	2
Seats won	8	2
Seat change	-26	±0
Percentage	22.4%	2.4%
Swing	-9.3pp

Premier before election

George Drew
Progressive Conservative

Premier-designate

George Drew
Progressive Conservative

The Ontario general election of 1945 was held on June 4, 1945, to elect the 90 members of the 22nd Legislative Assembly of Ontario (Members of Provincial Parliament, or "MPPs") of the Province of Ontario, Canada.

The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, led by George Drew, won a second consecutive term in office, winning a solid majority of seats in the legislature—66, up from 38 in the previous election.

The Ontario Liberal Party, led by former premier Mitchell Hepburn, was returned to the role of official opposition with 11 seats, plus 3 Liberal-Labour seats that it won in coalition with the Labor-Progressive Party (which was, in fact, the Communist Party). The three new Liberal-Labour MPPs were James Newman of Rainy River, Joseph Meinzinger of Waterloo North and Alexander Parent of Essex North.

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