Reform Party of Ontario
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Reform Party of Ontario
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| Unregistered provincial party | |
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| Leader | Bradley J. Harness |
| President | Joshua E. Eriksen |
| Founded | 1989 |
| Dissolved | 2015 |
| Headquarters | 415 Scott St. E. Strathroy, Ontario N7G 3Y8 |
| Ideology |
Populism Right-wing populism Conservatism Fiscal conservatism Social conservatism Libertarian conservatism Libertarianism, Grassroots Democracy, Localism |
| Colours | Purple Blue Green |
| Seats in Legislature |
0 / 107
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| Official website | |
The Reform Party of Ontario (RPO) (PRO; French: Parti Réformiste de l'Ontario) is a deregisteredpolitical party in Ontario, Canada. Until the 1999 provincial election, the party ran one candidate each election in order to keep the party's name in the possession of supporters of the Reform Party of Canada.
Although a small group of candidates laid claim to the name, they had to run under the 'Independent Reform' label. After the federal Reform Party became defunct, several independent Reformers revived the RPO name, and the party ran two candidates in the 2007 provincial election and four in the 2011 provincial election.
The Reform Party of Ontario is not to be confused with the pre-Confederation Reform Party, which later became the Ontario Liberal Party, with the leftist progressive United Reform party of the 1940s, nor the defunct populist social conservative New Reform Party of Ontario (formally the Family Coalition Party of Ontario before it was renamed and rebranded in 2015).
Supporters of the federal Reform Party registered the "Reform Party of Ontario" name in 1989, and re-registered it in 1994. This registration was made to prevent anyone else from using the 'Reform' name in Ontario politics; the party nominated one paper candidate in each election and did not campaign actively. Ken Kalopsis, the co-president of the Canadian Alliance, ran for the RPO in the 1999 provincial election in Davenport, as its first candidate to maintain registration and control the rights to the party name. Kalopsis won 174 votes without campaigning.
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