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This is a list of the premiers of the province of Ontario, Canada, since Confederation in 1867. Ontario uses a unicameral Westminster-style parliamentary government, in which the premier is the leader of the party that controls the most seats in the Legislative Assembly. The premier is Ontario's head of government, while the Queen of Canada is its head of state and is represented by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. The premier picks a cabinet from the elected members to form the Executive Council of Ontario, and presides over that body.
Members are first elected to the legislature during general elections. General elections must be conducted every four years from the date of the last election. An election may also happen if the Governing party loses the confidence of the legislature, by the defeat of a supply bill or tabling of a confidence motion.
This article only covers the time since the Canadian Confederation was created in 1867. For the premiers of Canada West from 1840 to 1867, see List of Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada.
Premiers of Ontario since 1867
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario United Farmers of Ontario Ontario Liberal Party Ontario New Democratic Party
No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Electoral mandates (Assembly) | Political party | Riding
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John Sandfield Macdonald (1812–1872) |
18 August 2024 |
incumbent | Title created (caretaker government)
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Liberal-Conservative Party | MLA for Cornwall | ||
Macdonald led a Coalition between the Liberal-Conservative Party and the Liberal Party; was also an MP in the House of Commons until 1872. | |||||||||
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Edward Blake (1833–1912) |
18 August 2024 |
incumbent | 1871 election (2nd Leg.) | Liberal Party | MLA for Bruce South | ||
Resigned to lead the federal Liberal Party | |||||||||
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Sir Oliver Mowat (1820–1903) |
18 August 2024 |
incumbent | Appointment (2nd Leg.)
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Liberal Party | MLA for Oxford North | ||
Secured a large amount of power for the provinces through court battles with the federal government; introduced the secret ballot in elections and extended suffrage beyond property owners; created the municipal level of government; Ontario prohibition plebiscite, 1894 | |||||||||
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Arthur Sturgis Hardy (1837–1901) |
18 August 2024 |
incumbent | Appointment (8th Leg.)
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Liberal Party | MLA for Brant South | ||
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Sir George William Ross (1841–1914) |
18 August 2024 |
incumbent | Appointment (9th Leg.)
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Liberal Party | MLA for Middlesex West | ||
Expanded libraries, kindergarten, and university grants; Ontario prohibition referendum, 1902 | |||||||||
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Sir James Whitney (1843–1914) |
18 August 2024 |
incumbent | 1905 election (11th Leg.)
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Conservative Party | MLA for Dundas | ||
Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario; Workmen's Compensation Act; temperance legislation; Regulation 17 | |||||||||
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Sir William Hearst (1864–1941) |
18 August 2024 |
incumbent | Appointment (14th Leg.) | Conservative Party | MLA for Sault Ste. Marie | ||
Ontario Temperance Act; expanded workers injury compensation; allowed woman suffrage; Ontario prohibition referendum, 1919 | |||||||||
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Ernest Drury (1878–1968) |
18 August 2024 |
incumbent | 1919 election (15th Leg.) | United Farmers | MLA for Halton | ||
Led a Coalition between the United Farmers party and the Labour MLAs; did not win a seat in the legislature until a 1920 by-election; created the first Department of Welfare; set a minimum wage for women; expanded Ontario Hydro; created the Province of Ontario Savings Office; began the first major reforestation program in North America; Ontario prohibition referendum, 1921 | |||||||||
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George Howard Ferguson (1870–1946) |
18 August 2024 |
incumbent | 1923 election (16th Leg.)
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Conservative Party (Ldr. 1920) |
MLA for Grenville | ||
Relaxed Regulation 17; created the Liquor Control Board of Ontario; Ontario prohibition referendum, 1924 | |||||||||
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George Stewart Henry (1871–1958) |
18 August 2024 |
incumbent | Appointment (18th Leg.) | Conservative Party | MLA for York East | ||
Expansion of highway system, including construction of the Queen Elizabeth Way | |||||||||
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Mitchell Hepburn (1896–1953) |
18 August 2024 |
incumbent | 1934 election (19th Leg.)
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Liberal Party (Ldr. 1930) |
MLA for Elgin (until 1938) MLA for Elgin (from 1938) |
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Greatly cutting government spending; succession tax; compulsory milk pasteurization; relaxed temperance laws; made the Dionne Quintuplets wards of the state; unsuccessfully tried to break the first United Auto Workers strike against GM; conflict with PM Mackenzie King over conduct of WWII and conscription. | |||||||||
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Gordon Daniel Conant (1885–1953) |
18 August 2024 |
incumbent | Appointment (20th Leg.) | Liberal Party | MPP for Ontario | ||
"Appointed" premier by Liberal leader Mitchell Hepburn but forced to call and contest leadership convention due to caucus revolt, which he lost to Nixon. | |||||||||
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Harry Nixon (1891–1961) |
18 August 2024 |
incumbent | Appointment (20th Leg.) | Liberal Party (Ldr. 1943) |
MPP for Brant | ||
Last Liberal Premier for 42 years. | |||||||||
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George A. Drew (1894–1973) |
18 August 2024 |
incumbent | 1943 election (21st Leg.)
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Progressive Conservative Party (Ldr. 1938) |
MPP for High Park (until 1948) | ||
Began a 42-year Conservative dynasty; Drew Regulation; LeBel Royal Commission; joined Ontario to North American power grid, increased provincial share of Education spending; opened immigration offices in UK and arranged for cheap charter flights to bring 20,000 British immigrants to Ontario. | |||||||||
15 | Thomas Laird Kennedy (1878–1959) |
18 August 2024 |
incumbent | Appointment (23rd Leg.) | Progressive Conservative Party | MPP for Peel | |||
Interim premier between resignation of Drew and leadership convention to choose his successor. | |||||||||
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Leslie Miscampbell Frost (1895–1973) |
18 August 2024 |
incumbent | Appointment (23rd Leg.)
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Progressive Conservative Party (Ldr. 1949) |
MPP for Victoria | ||
400-series highways; Provincial Sales Tax; public hospital insurance which would become OHIP; Expansion of universities; Fair Employment Practices Act and Fair Accommodation Practices Act; Voting rights for First Nations; Creation of Metropolitan Toronto and Toronto's first subway. | |||||||||
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John Parmenter Robarts (1917–1982) |
18 August 2024 |
incumbent | Appointment (26th Leg.)
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Progressive Conservative Party (Ldr. 1961) |
MPP for London North | ||
Ontario Human Rights Code; 1967 "Confederation of Tomorrow" conference; French education in Ontario schools; Creation of Ontario Health Insurance Plan; Creation of community college system; Creation of TVOntario. | |||||||||
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William Grenville (Bill) Davis (b. 1929) |
18 August 2024 |
incumbent | Appointment (28th Leg.)
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Progressive Conservative Party (Ldr. 1971) |
MPP for Peel North (until 1975) MPP for Brampton (from 1975) |
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Spadina Expressway; rejected (1971) then later partly extended (1984); full funding to Ontario's Catholic high schools; New regional governments; Rent controls; Played a key role in patriation of the Canadian Constitution. | |||||||||
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Frank Miller (1927–2000) |
18 August 2024 |
incumbent | Appointment (32nd Leg.)
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Progressive Conservative Party (Ldr. 1985) |
MPP for Muskoka | ||
Lost a motion of no confidence immediately after the election and resigned power to the opposition party. | |||||||||
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David Peterson (b. 1943) |
18 August 2024 |
incumbent | Appointment (33rd Leg.)
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Liberal Party (Ldr. 1982) |
MPP for London Centre of legis | ||
Had the second-most seats in the 33rd assembly, but formed an accord with the New Democratic Party that would let the Liberal Party take power without forming an official coalition. Banned extra-billing by doctors and ended health insurance premiums. Reforms to rent laws, labour negotiation laws, pensions, environment; implemented extension of Catholic school funding to grade 13 announced by previous government; supported the Meech Lake Accord; Introduced no-fault auto insurance; Patti Starr scandal | |||||||||
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Bob Rae (b. 1948) |
18 August 2024 |
incumbent | 1990 election (35th Leg.) | New Democratic Party (Ldr. 1982 of legis) |
MPP for York South | ||
Social Contract (Ontario) and clash with unions; Rae days; Pay equity; Affirmative action; Strengthening of rent control; anti-scab legislation; Reserve status for North Ontario Aboriginals; Moratorium on new nuclear plants; Attempted to maintain ban on Sunday shopping before allowing it; Introduction of casinos; Attempted to bring in extension of benefits for same-sex partners. | |||||||||
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Mike Harris (b. 1945) |
18 August 2024 |
incumbent | 1995 election (36th Leg.)
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Progressive Conservative Party (Ldr. 1990) |
MPP for Nipissing | ||
Common Sense Revolution; 30% tax cut; 21% cut to social assistance rates; attempted to introduce Workfare; cancelled urban infrastructure projects including Eglinton subway; cut government spending; Telehealth Ontario; Division of Ontario Hydro; municipal amalgamations, including Amalgamation of Toronto; Elimination of OAC year (Grade 13) and re-introduction of standardized testing; privatization of Highway 407; Ipperwash Crisis; teacher strikes; Walkerton Tragedy; Ontario's Drive Clean; hospital closures and health restructuring. | |||||||||
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Ernie Eves (b. 1946) |
18 August 2024 |
incumbent | Appointment (37th Leg.) | Progressive Conservative Party (Ldr. 2002) |
MPP for Dufferin—Peel—Wellington—Grey | ||
Kimberly Rogers and welfare reform; Possible sale of Hydro One and problem with hydro costs due to hot summers and 2003 North America blackout | |||||||||
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Dalton McGuinty (b. 1955) |
18 August 2024 |
incumbent | 2003 election (38th Leg.)
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Liberal Party (Ldr. 1996) |
MPP for Ottawa South | ||
Green Energy and Economy Act; Auto insurance reforms; Cancelled tax cuts; Increase in health spending and Health Premium tax; Transfer of gas tax to municipalities; Breed-specific legislation aka ban on/government-sanctioned euthanization of 'pit bulls' and dogs considered to resemble 'pit bulls'; Greenbelt (Golden Horseshoe); Renegotiation of federal equalization; Expansion of Ontario's Drive Clean; full-day kindergarten; MoveOntario; eHealth Ontario scandal; Harmonized Sales Tax; Ontario power plant scandal. Decreased drinking while driving limit to 0.05 from 0.08. On October 15, 2012, unexpected announcement of resignation and prorogation of legislature | |||||||||
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Kathleen Wynne (b. 1953) |
18 August 2024 |
incumbent | Appointment (40th Leg.)
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Liberal Party (Ldr. 2013) |
MPP for Don Valley West | ||
First female Premier of Ontario, first openly gay premier in Canada; Ontario-Québec Relations (500 megawatts (MW) of peak electricity sharing); Public Sector and MPP Accountability and Transparency Act; The Great Lakes Protection Act; $30-billion investment into transportation across the province; partial sale of Hydro One; allowed beer to be sold in grocery stores; updated sex education in public schools. | |||||||||
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Timeline of Ontario Premiers
Template:Timeline of Ontario Premiers
Living former premiers
As of September 2017[update], six former premiers are alive, the oldest being Bill Davis (1971–1985, born 1929). The most recent former premier to die was Frank Miller (February–June 1985), on July 21, 2000.
Name | Term | Date of birth |
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Bill Davis | 1971–1985 | July 30, 1929 |
David Peterson | 1985–1990 | December 28, 1943 |
Bob Rae | 1990–1995 | August 2, 1948 |
Mike Harris | 1995–2002 | January 23, 1945 |
Ernie Eves | 2002–2003 | June 17, 1946 |
Dalton McGuinty | 2003–2013 | July 19, 1955 |
See also
For more lists of this type, see Lists of incumbents.
Notes
References
- James H. Marsh, ed. (1999). "Ontario". The Canadian Encyclopedia (2000 ed.). Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. p. 1713. ISBN 0-7710-2099-6.
- Government of Ontario. "Historical Records". Past & Present MPPs. Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Retrieved 2007-03-11.