Andrea Horvat’s time as leader of the New Democratic Party of Ontario is coming to an end.
Horvat has announced he is stepping down from a 13-year-old speech during his concession speech in Hamilton on Thursday night after another defeat in the provincial election.
CTV News predicts that the Croatian NDP will take second place in opinion polls, which means that her party will once again form the official opposition. Doug Ford will be re-elected Prime Minister of Ontario, with his Progressive Conservative Party expected to win a government by a second majority.
Thursday’s election results came as no surprise, as some polls predicted a similar result.
For NDP and Horwath the results are average.
The 2022 election is the fourth for Croatia as party leader. Entering the election campaign, the NDP was in a strong position with dozens of incumbents and a well-stocked party coffers.
However, the NDP failed to gain momentum during the four-week campaign, in which Horwath received a positive test for COVID-19 at one point, prompting it to briefly move its policy online. Polls have predicted that the party is not fighting for a government, but instead is fighting for second place with the Liberals.
And while it looked like it won this battle on Thursday, the NDP will return to Queen’s Park with fewer seats than it had at the time of the dissolution. CTV News predicts that the Grits will have third party status in Queen’s Park.
In 2018, the New Democrats won 40 of the 124 seats in the provincial parliament, the largest since 1990, when Bob Ray’s NDP formed a majority government. Unofficial results at 10 pm show that the party was chosen or leading in 29 rides.
Many political experts believe that this year’s election is Croatia’s last chance to become prime minister, and any result other than that could lead to the end of her time as NDP leader.
The 59-year-old became the party’s first female leader when she was elected in 2009. Although she fell behind in third place in her first two NDP elections, Horvat survived leadership scrutiny. It was attributed to growing party support, which culminated in 2018 when the NDP received more than 1.9 million votes.
Horvat is expected to win her ride at the Hamilton Center, which she has represented since 2007.
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