The Liberals in Ontario suffered a disastrous night on Thursday, barely escaping from the party’s minivan status, with their leader Stephen Del Duca losing in his hometown.
CTV News predicts that Del Duca’s Liberals will remain the third party in the 43rd provincial parliament, with Doug Ford winning a second term as prime minister by a significant margin.
The NDP under Andrea Horvat will remain the official opposition to the province, CTV News projects.
The Liberals’ performance is a slight improvement over four years ago, when they won just seven seats and were unable to secure the access and privileges that come with official party status in Queen’s Park.
They currently lead by 10 seats.
Del Duca lost to incumbent PC contender Michael Tibolo in Von Woodbridge, who also defeated Del Duca in the same 2018 race.
Tibolo leads Del Duca with 1,359 votes.
Grits appear to have performed below the average suggested by the latest research.
Del Duca was first elected to a provincial office in 2012 and was Minister of Transport and Economic Development in the Win government between 2014 and 2018.
He became the party’s leader in a race in 2020, quickly overshadowed by the arrival of COVID-19 in Canada.
He said earlier this week that he would remain the leader, whether he won a seat or not.
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