2018 Ontario election

Opinion: By winning only seven seats, the Ontario Liberals failed to qualify for official party status—but there’s a case for Doug Ford lending them a hand

The Liberals lost most of their strongholds. They lost to three other parties. And most of the time, it wasn’t even close.

The voter turnout for Thursday’s election reached a nearly 20-year high. But the highest turnout was decades earlier.

The outgoing premier held her first press conference following the Liberals’ election loss.

Opinion: Doug Ford may be the next premier of Ontario, but it’s unclear if Fordism is wedded to the backbone of traditional conservative governing philosophies

PC leader Doug Ford spoke following last night’s victory and the PCs winning a majority government

Opinion: ’One side supports clean water; the other side supports poison. The centrist’s solution is to meet in the middle. Everybody gets poisoned water.’

The poignancy of her speech was crowded out by the reality of crushing electoral defeat. Where do the Liberals go from here?

Paul Wells: Governing is hard. Delivering a new era when you actually weren’t really sure what the new era was going to look like is still harder.

The leader of the Liberal Party of Ontario announced her resignation: “Although I’ve lost this election tonight, I have not in any way lost my passion.”