Ontario general election, 1977

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June 9, 1977

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125 seats in the 31st Legislative Assembly of Ontario 63 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party
		LIB
Leader	Bill Davis	Stuart Smith	Stephen Lewis
Party	Progressive Conservative	Liberal	New Democratic
Leader since	February 12, 1971	January 25, 1976	October 4, 1970
Leader's seat	Brampton	Hamilton West	Scarborough West
Last election	51	35	38
Seats won	58	34	33
Seat change	7	1	5
Percentage	39.7%	31.5%	28.0%
Swing	3.6pp	2.8pp	0.9pp

Premier before election

Bill Davis
Progressive Conservative

Premier-designate

Bill Davis
Progressive Conservative

The Ontario general election of 1977 was held on June 9, 1977, to elect the 125 members of the 31st Legislative Assembly of Ontario (Members of Provincial Parliament, or "MPPs") of the Province of Ontario, Canada.

The Progressive Conservative Party, led by Premier Bill Davis, was re-elected for an eleventh consecutive term in office, again with a minority in the legislature. The PCs won an additional seven seats, but were not able to win a majority.

The Liberal Party, led by Dr. Stuart Smith, lost one seat compared to its result in the previous election, but formed the Official Opposition because the NDP lost more seats.

The New Democratic Party, led by Stephen Lewis, lost five seats, and therefore lost the position of "Official Opposition" to the Liberals.

Sheila Copps, future federal cabinet minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, made make her political debut in this election finishing second in the riding of Hamilton Centre.

This was the first election in which Jim Bradley, the longest-serving current MPP in Ontario, was elected.

¹ Includes T. Patrick Reid, a Liberal MPP who is re-elected in 1977 as a Liberal-Labour candidate (he had previously been elected as Liberal-Labour in 1967 but was re-elected in 1971 and 1975 as a straight Liberal).

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