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| Office | Party Leader |
| Type | General Election |
| Filing Deadline | November 30, 1996 - 12:00pm |
| Polls Open | December 01, 1996 - 02:35am |
| Polls Close | December 01, 1996 - 04:00am |
| Term Start | December 01, 1996 - 04:25am |
| Term End | January 25, 2013 - 12:00pm |
| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Modified | mg2685a March 28, 2024 10:36am |
| Data Sources | [Link] |
| Description | Round 1
KENNEDY, Gerard 770
CORDIANO, Joseph 557
DUNCAN, Dwight 464
McGUINTY, Dalton 450
GERRETSEN, John 152
CASTRILLI, Anna-Marie 141
KELLS, Greg 24
-Kells was eliminated from the ballot.
Round 2
KENNEDY, Gerard 775
CORDIANO, Joseph 570
DUNCAN, Dwight 474
McGUINTY, Dalton 440
GERRETSEN, John 124
CASTRILLI, Anna-Marie 122
-Castrilli was eliminated and Gerretsen decided to drop out. Both threw their support to McGuinty.
Round 3
KENNEDY, Gerard 803
CORDIANO, Joseph 601
McGUINTY, Dalton 601
DUNCAN, Dwight 509
-Duncan was eliminated. He threw his support to Kennedy.
Round 4
KENNEDY, Gerard 968
McGUINTY, Dalton 760
CORDIANO, Joseph 696
-Cordiano was eliminated.
In Round 5 of 5. Joe Cordiano proved to be the kingmaker of this leadership convention. Eliminated after the fourth ballot, Cordiano threw his support to Dalton McGuinty, giving him enough support to overcome the frontrunner Kennedy in the early morning hours of December 1st.
Dalton McGuinty's victory was an immense surprise, even after five ballots. He was never the frontrunner in the race but he slowly built a support base from his fourth-place finish on the first ballot. An uncontroversial moderate supported by the business community, McGuinty picked up delegates by simply seeming more reasonable and electable than the very left-wing former Food Bank president Kennedy. Kennedy had led the field from the very moment the leadership was declared open, and won every ballot but the last one. Many correctly predicted that his views on social and economic issues would hurt him in a multi-ballot race.
The McGuinty Liberals would go on to lose the next provincial election (in 1999). However, he claimed a landslide victory in 2003. Gerard Kennedy is now Ontario's Education Minister. |
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COUNTY-LEVEL RESULTS |
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1,205 (53.08%)