Ontario PC 2009 Leadership Convention: Regional Strenth Breakdown

As part of our continued coverage of the Ontario PC Leadership convention today, here is a breakdown who won what ridings, with special attention to where each candidate had the most strength. Thanks to United & Strong for sharing these results.

Randy Hillier (4th Place)

Randy only won three ridings, all of them in eastern Ontario, all of them rural and including his own Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington.

Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington
Carleton-Missippi Mills
Glengarry-Prescott-Russell

Christine Elliott (3rd Place)

Like Hillier, Christine Elliott also took her home riding of Whitby-Oshawa, and much of the surrounding area with ridings like Ajax Pickering, Oshawa and Pickering-Scarborough East. Moving outside the eastern GTA, Elliott interestingly picked up some rural ridings like Essex, Wellington-Halton Hills and Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry, which probably has a lot to do with the fact that former DraftALeader head Nick Kouvalis has strong ties in those areas. Elliott did well in the 416, taking some of the most desolate ridings (in terms of PC Ontario performance/organization), and was able to pick up a riding in each of Ottawa, Kitchener-Waterloo, Oakville and Kingston, giving her a win in a total of 24 ridings.

Ajax Pickering
Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound
Dufferin-Caledon
Durham
Eglington Lawrence
Essex
Kingston and the Islands
Kitchener Waterloo
Northumberland-Quinte West
Oakville
Oshawa
Ottawa Vanier
Peterborough
Pickering-Scarborough East
St Paul’s
Sault Ste Marie
Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry
Toronto Centre
Toronto Danforth
Wellington-Halton Hills
Whitby-Oshawa
Windsor West
York South Weston
York West

Frank Klees (2nd Place)

Suspicions that the infamous “immigrant letter” from this week might have initiated in the Klees camp is lent credibility by the results here. Klees won in the GTA ridings with high immigrant political pariticpation and population numbers, including most of Peel and York regions (the latter being Klees’ home turf). Observers might find it curious then to see much of Waterloo region, and Lambton Kent Middlesex included here, however Klees also had Charles McVety and the Campaign Life Coalition working pretty heavily for him according to the buzz surrounding the last two months, which would explain those ridings falling under the Klees column. Klees won 33 ridings.

Beaches-East York
Bramalea-Gore-Malton
Brampton Springdale
Brampton West
Cambridge
Don Valley East
Elgin Middlesex London
Etobicoke Centre
Etobicoke Lakeshore
Huron Bruce
Kitchener Centre
Kitchener Conestoga
Lambton Kent Middlesex
Markham-Unionville
Mississauga-Brampton South
Mississauga East Cooksville
Mississauga Erindale
Mississauga South
Newmarket Aurora
Nickel Belt
Oak Ridges-Markham
Parkdale-High Park
Richmond Hill
Scarborough Centre
Scarborough Guildwood
Scarborough Rouge River
Scarborough Southwest
Sudbury
Thornhill
Thunder Bay-Atikokan
Willowdale
York Centre
York Simcoe

Tim Hudak (1st Place)

Hudak did very well in his home turf of southeastern Ontario, taking all of Hamilton, Burlington, and Niagara Region. He also won most of the seats in places like London, Oxford Region, Ottawa, and Guelph. Respectable results in the rural areas of northern Ontario (thanks to Mike Harris, no doubt) and southern Ontario (thanks to the HRC issue), as well as both Toronto proper and the GTA give Hudak a nice, well-spread 46 riding victory threshold going into B2!

Ajax Pickering
Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound
Dufferin-Caledon
Durham
Eglington Lawrence
Essex
Kingston and the Islands
Kitchener Waterloo
Northumberland-Quinte West
Oakville
Oshawa
Ottawa Vanier
Peterborough
Pickering-Scarborough East
St Paul’s
Sault Ste Marie
Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry
Toronto Centre
Toronto Danforth
Wellington-Halton Hills
Whitby-Oshawa
Windsor West
York South Weston
York West
Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington
Carleton-Missippi Mills
Glengarry-Prescott-Russell
Algoma Manitoulin
Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale
Barrie
Brant
Burlington
Chatham Kent Essex
Don Valley West
Etobicoke North
Guelph
Haldimand-Norfolk
Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock
Halton
Hamilton Centre
Hamilton East-Stoney Creek
Hamilton Mountain
Kenora-Rainy River
Leeds-Grenville
London-Fanshawe
London North Centre
London West
Mississauga Streetsville
Nepean Carleton
Niagara Falls
Niagara West Glanbrook
Nipissing
Ottawa Centre
Ottawa-Orleans
Ottawa South
Ottawa West Nepean
Oxford
Parry Sound-Muskoka
Perth-Wellington
Prince Edward-Hastings
Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke
St Catharines
Sarnia-Lambton
Scarborough-Agincourt
Simcoe-Grey
Simcoe-North
Thunder Bay-Superior North
Timiskaming-Cochrane
Timmins-James Bay
Trinity Spadina
Vaughan
Welland
Windsor-Tecumseh

TIE

Likely due to being a small riding, organization-wise, Toronto riding Davenport was split between Hudak, Klees and Elliott!