Overview
- Progressive Conservative Jeff Beattie won Hamilton East–Stoney Creek and PC Susan Lahey won York–Simcoe, while New Democrat Fatima Shaban held Scarborough Southwest.
- The three contests, which were held on Sept. 3, produced no change in party control at Queen’s Park and kept the legislature’s balance intact.
- Campaigns were dominated by concerns over U.S. tariffs and trade tensions with the United States, an issue analysts say helped the governing PCs frame the vote as a test of economic leadership.
- Elections Ontario’s unofficial totals put voter turnout at just over 25 percent, a low level that political observers say limits how much the results can be read as a broad public mandate.
- The by-elections were triggered by recent resignations of sitting MPPs and featured a procedural note when the Ontario PC Party barred journalists from its candidates’ election-night events.