Ontario general election, 1951

1948 ←

November 22, 1951

→ 1955

90 seats in the 24th Legislative Assembly of Ontario 46 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Leslie Frost	Walter Thomson	Ted Jolliffe
Party	Progressive Conservative	Liberal	Co-operative Commonwealth
Leader since	April 27, 1949	November 10, 1950	April 3, 1942
Leader's seat	Victoria	Ran in Ontario (Lost)	York South (lost re-election)
Last election	53	14	21
Seats won	79	8	2
Seat change	+26	-6	-19
Percentage	48.5%	31.5%	19.1%
Swing	+7.0pp	+1.7pp	-3.3pp

Premier before election

Leslie Frost
Progressive Conservative

Premier-designate

Leslie Frost
Progressive Conservative

The Ontario general election of 1951 was held on November 22, 1951, to elect the 90 members of the 24th Legislative Assembly of Ontario (Members of Provincial Parliament, or "MPPs") of the Province of Ontario, Canada.

The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, led by Leslie Frost, won a fourth consecutive term in office, increasing its caucus in the legislature from 53 in the previous election to 79—a solid majority.

The Ontario Liberal Party, led by Walter Thomson, lost six seats, but regained the role of official opposition because of the collapse of the CCF vote. Albert Wren was elected as a Liberal-Labour candidate and sat with the Liberal caucus.

The social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), led by Ted Jolliffe, lost all but two of its previous 21 seats with Jolliffe himself being defeated in the riding of York South.

One seat was won by J.B. Salsberg of the Labor-Progressive Party (which was the Communist Party of Ontario). LPP leader A.A. MacLeod lost his downtown Toronto seat of Bellwoods in this election and three other LPP candidates were also defeated.

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