List of political parties in Ontario

The following is a list of political parties in Ontario, Canada.

Parties represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

	Founded	Ideology	Leader	MPPs
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario Parti progressiste-conservateur de l'Ontario	1854	Conservatism	Doug Ford	69
Ontario New Democratic Party Nouveau Parti démocratique de l'Ontario	1961	Social democracy	Andrea Horwath	40
Ontario Liberal Party Parti libéral de l'Ontario	1857	Liberalism	Steven Del Duca	8
Green Party of Ontario Parti vert de l’Ontario	1983	Green politics	Mike Schreiner	1
New Blue Party of Ontario Nouveau Parti Bleu de l'Ontario	2020	Right-wing populism	Jim Karahalios	1

Other parties registered with Elections Ontario

	Founded	Ideology	Leader	Notes
Canadians' Choice Party Le Parti du choix des Canadiens et Canadiennes	2011	Direct democracy, Right-wing populism, far-right politics	Bahman Yazdanfar
Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) Parti communiste du Canada (Ontario)	1940	Communism	Drew Garvie	Known as the Labor-Progressive Party from 1941 to 1949. Had two MPPs from 1943 to 1951, and one from 1951 to 1955.
Freedom Party of Ontario Parti de la Liberté - Ontario	1984	Libertarianism, Objectivism	Paul McKeever
Go Vegan	2011	Environmentalism, animal rights[1]	Paul Figueiras	Formerly the Vegan Environmental Party (2011-2018)
Multicultural Party of Ontario Parti Multiculturel de l'Ontario	2018	Single-issue politics	Wasyl Luczkiw
None of the Above Direct Democracy Party Aucune de ces Réponses Démocratie Directe Parti	2014	Direct democracy	Greg Vezina
Northern Ontario Party Parti de l'Ontario Nord	1977	Regionalism	Trevor Holliday	Known as Northern Ontario Heritage Party from 1977-1985, 2010-2016, Disbanded in 1985, Revived in 2010, Separatist from 2016-2018
Ontario Alliance Alliance de l'Ontario	2017	Social Conservatism, Right-wing populism[2]	Joshua E. Eriksen	Known as Reform Party of Ontario from 1989-2015
Ontario Libertarian Party Parti libertarien de l'Ontario	1975	Libertarianism	Keith Komar
Ontario Moderate Party	2014	Centrism	Yuri Duboisky
Ontario Party Parti de l'Ontario	2018	Social conservatism, right-wing populism	Derek Sloan
Ontario Provincial Confederation of Regions Party	1989	Conservatism, Canadian nationalism, anti-bilingualism	Murray Reid
Party for People with Special Needs Parti pour les gens qui ont des besoins spéciaux	2007	Disability Rights activism, Single-issue politics	Hilton Milan
Pauper Party of Ontario Parti Pauvre de l'Ontario	2011	Social credit, libertarianism[1]	John C. Turmel
Stop Climate Change Arrêtons le Changement Climatique	2018	Environmentalism,[1] Single-issue politics	Ken Ranney
Stop the New Sex-Ed Agenda	2016	Social Conservatism,[1] Single-issue politics	Queenie Yu
The Peoples Political Party	2011	Left-wing populism	Kevin Clarke
Trillium Party of Ontario Parti Trillium de l’Ontario	2014	Social conservatism, right-wing populism	Bob Yaciuk	Briefly held one seat in the legislature from 2017-2018 after PC MPP Jack MacLaren crossed the floor to the party.

Parties listed in the order they are alphabetized by Elections Ontario.[3]

Unregistered parties

Historical parties that held seats in the Legislative Assembly

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (first election 1934) 1932–1961
(Independent) Labour 1874-1937
Labor-Progressive Party 1941-1959
Liberal-Labour 1943-1970s
Liberal-Progressive 1934-1940
Soldier 1919-1923
Patrons of Industry 1894
Protestant Protective Association 1894
United Farmers of Ontario 1918-1940

Pre-Confederation parties

Clear Grits pre-Confederation
Reform Party pre-Confederation
Family Compact (pre-1837 ruling clique)

Other historical parties

Name	Period	Ideology	Notes
Canadian Economic Party	2018-2019	Basic income advocacy, Single-issue politics[4]
Consensus Ontario	2017-2018	Populism, Non-partisan consensus government[4]
Cultural Action Party of Ontario	2016-2018		Known as Canadian Constituents' Party from 2016-2017
Equal Parenting Party	2014-2018	Father's rights
Natural Law Party of Ontario	1993-2000	pro-Transcendental Meditation
New Reform Party of Ontario	1987-2016		Known as Family Coalition Party of Ontario from 1987-2015
Ontario Social Reform Party	2018-2019	Populism[4]
Parliamentary Freedom Party	2018-2019
Party for Human Rights in Ontario	2011
Party of Objective Truth	2018-2019	Meritocratic social democracy[4]
People First Republican Party of Ontario	2007-2019	Big Tent, Grassroots democracy, Republicanism
Reform Party of Ontario	1989-2015	Right-wing populism, social conservatism	Known as Ontario Alliance in 2017
Representative Party of Ontario	2005	Right-wing populism, social conservatism	A faction of the Reform Party that existed in 2005
Social Credit Party of Ontario/Union of Electors	1945-1985	Social credit, social conservatism
The New People's Choice Party of Ontario	2017-2019	Left-wing populism[4]
Unparty	1980-1983	Objectivism	Succeeded by Freedom Party of Ontario

Toronto municipal parties

Name	Period
Toronto Party	2007
Civic Action (CIVAC)	1969
Metro New Democratic Party	1969-1990s
Civic Liberals	1969

References

Crawford, Blair. "Here is every political party running in Ontario's June 7 election," Ottawa Citizen, May 22, 2018.
Paikin, Steve (19 July 2017). "It's the best of times and the worst of times for Ontario Tories". TVO. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
"Registered Political Parties". Retrieved June 18, 2021.
Draaisma, Muriel (June 3, 2018). "9 new political parties vying for seats in Ontario election". CBC Toronto.

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[Crawford_May_22-1] Crawford, Blair. "Here is every political party running in Ontario's June 7 election," Ottawa Citizen, May 22, 2018.

[2] Paikin, Steve (19 July 2017). "It's the best of times and the worst of times for Ontario Tories". TVO. Retrieved 6 October 2020.

[3] "Registered Political Parties". Retrieved June 18, 2021.

[Ontario2018Parties-4] Draaisma, Muriel (June 3, 2018). "9 new political parties vying for seats in Ontario election". CBC Toronto.

Politics of Ontario
Crown in Ontario	Elizabeth II
Lieutenant Governor	Elizabeth Dowdeswell Former Lieutenant Governors
Premier	Doug Ford List of Premiers List of Premiers by time in office
Opposition Leader	Andrea Horwath Former Opposition Leaders Ontario Shadow Cabinet
Speaker of the Assembly	Ted Arnott Former Speakers
Legislature	Current assembly Former legislatures Cabinet
Political parties	Progressive Conservative New Democratic Liberal Green New Blue Alliance Canadians' Choice Communist Consensus Confederation of Regions Cultural Action Equal Parenting Freedom Go Vegan Libertarian Moderate Ontario None of the Above Northern Ontario Pauper People with Special Needs P.O.T. Stop the New Sex-Ed Agenda The People Trillium
Elections	2018 Ontario general election Past elections Ontario electoral districts
Current issues	Equalization payments
Other Canadian politics	Federal AB BC MB NB NL NS ON PE QC SK NT NU YU

Provincial political parties in Ontario
Legislative Assembly	Progressive Conservative (69) New Democratic (40) Liberal (7) Independent (4) Green (1) New Blue (1) Ontario First (1)
Other recognized parties	Alliance Canadians' Choice Communist Consensus Confederation of Regions Cultural Action Freedom Go Vegan Libertarian Moderate Ontario None of the Above Northern Ontario Pauper People with Special Needs P.O.T. Stop the New Sex-Ed Agenda The People Trillium
Historical parties represented in the legislature	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Labour (Independent) Labor-Progressive Liberal-Labour Liberal-Progressive Patrons of Industry Protestant Protective Association Soldier United Farmers
Pre-confederation parties	Clear Grits Family Compact Reform (Mackenzie) Reform (Baldwinite)

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