Green Party of Ontario
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The Green Party of Ontario (GPO; French: Parti vert de l'Ontario) is a political party in Ontario, Canada. The party is led by Mike Schreiner. In 2018, Schreiner was elected as the party's first member of the Ontario Legislative Assembly. In the past, the party did see significant gains in the 2007 provincial election, earning 8% of the popular vote with some candidates placing second and third in their ridings. A milestone was reached in the 2018 provincial election, when Schreiner was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the riding of Guelph.[4][5]
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Green Party of Ontario Parti vert de l'Ontario | |
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Active provincial party | |
Leader | Mike Schreiner |
President | Ard Van Leeuwen |
Deputy leaders | Aislinn Clancy Matt Richter[1] |
Founded | 1983; 41 years ago (1983) |
Headquarters | Suite 035, 67 Mowat Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada[2] |
Ideology | Green politics |
Political position | Centre-left[3] |
Colours | Green |
Seats in the Legislature | 2 / 124 |
Website | |
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Elections Ontario records that in the 1999 provincial election, the GPO fielded 58 candidates, and became the fourth largest party in the province. In 2003, the party fielded its first nearly full slate, 102 out of 103 candidates, and received 2.8% of the vote. In 2007, in what many consider the breakthrough election for the GPO, the party fielded a full slate of 107 candidates, receiving over 8.0% and nearly 355,000 votes.[6] The GPO had gained the most in the 2007 election and was one of only two parties that gained a significant amount of support. The rise in its political fortunes coincided with the national rise in support for the Green Party of Canada during the same period. Subsequently, the party's popularity declined in the 2011 and 2014 elections during tightly contested races between the Progressive Conservatives and ruling Liberals. Their popularity and vote share have increased since, and in the 2022 election, the party received 5.96% of the vote.