Crombie falls in Mississauga, but Ford’s rivals rack up wins in Toronto

February 27, 2025 Canuck

Ontario Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie vowed to flip every Peel Region seat from PC blue to Liberal red when she won her party’s leadership at the end of 2023

Fast forward to her first provincial election — in fairness, one that took place more than a year earlier than anticipated — and she couldn’t capture her own riding of Mississauga-East Cooksville.

“I know tonight isn’t exactly the result we were looking for, but you should be very, very proud of what we did tonight,” Crombie told the crowd at Liberal headquarters.

Crombie’s stunning defeat was one of several close races in the Greater Toronto Area on Thursday night. CBC News won’t be able to call at least three ridings because the margins are too narrow and there are still mail-in ballots to count.

Those six ridings that will take more time are:

Mississauga-Erin Mills, where the PCs lead by 20 votes.
Ajax, where the Liberals lead by 331 votes.
York South-Weston, where the PCs lead by 144.
Humber River-Black Creek, where the NDP candidate leads by 198.
Eglinton-Lawrence, where 1,942 vote-by-mail kits were sent out.
Burlington, where the PC candidate leads by 40 votes.

Leaders romp, PCs win big in 905

Premier Doug Ford cruised to victory in his riding of Etobicoke North.

NDP Leader Marit Stiles also won her riding of Davenport and was clearly delighted that her party will again serve as the official Opposition.

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While acknowledging that supporters “might be disappointed” with the Ontario election results, NDP Leader Marit Stiles congratulated Doug Ford on his victory and promised to hold his government to account on key issues like affordability and health care.

The PCs dominated in the 905 for a second-straight election, sweeping the Brampton seats and easily holding Vaughan (Stephen Lecce captured 64.2 per cent of the vote in King-Vaughan) and other ridings north of Highway 401.

But the denser the city, the better Ford’s rivals fared.

In Etobicoke-Lakeshore, the Liberals upset the PC incumbent, Christine Hogarth — who had been an outspoken critic against the Bloor Street bike lane, which the Ford government has vowed to tear up.

The NDP continued its dominance in Toronto’s downtown core, re-electing Kristyn Wong-Tam, Chris Glover, Jessica Bell and Peter Tabuns.

However, the party did see seats fall to the Liberals. In Toronto-St. Paul’s, former CP24 broadcaster Stephanie Smythe won the seat for the Liberals.

Nearby Don Valley remained a Liberal stomping ground, with Stephanie Bowman, Adil Shamji and Jonathan Tsao scoring wins.

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