Green Party of Ontario

Green Party of Ontario
Parti vert de l'Ontario
Active provincial party
LeaderMike Schreiner
PresidentArd Van Leeuwen
Deputy leadersAislinn Clancy
Matt Richter[1]
Founded1983; 41 years ago (1983)
HeadquartersSuite 232, 67 Mowat Avenue,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada[2]
IdeologyGreen politics
Political positionCentre-left[3]
Colours  Green
Seats in the Legislature
2 / 124
Website
gpo.ca

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. Schreiner was elected as MPP for the riding of Guelph in 2018, making him the party's first member of the Ontario Legislative Assembly.[4] In 2023, Aislinn Clancy became the party's second elected member following her win in the Kitchener Centre byelection.[5]

The Greens became an officially registered political party in 1983.[6] It fielded 58 candidates in the 1999 provincial election, becoming the fourth-largest party in the province.[7] In 2003, the party fielded its first nearly full slate, 102 out of 103 candidates, and received 2.8% of the vote. In 2007, the party fielded a full slate of 107 candidates, receiving over 8.0% and nearly 355,000 votes.[7] Subsequently, the party's popularity declined in the 2011 and 2014 elections during tightly contested races between the Progressive Conservatives and ruling Liberals. Its popularity and vote share have increased since, and in the 2022 election, the party received 5.96% of the vote.[8]

  1. ^ "Green Team". Green Party of Ontario. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
  2. ^ "Contact". Toronto: Green Party of Ontario. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
  3. ^ Dunn, Christopher (January 2016). Provinces: Canadian Provincial Politics, Third Edition. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9781442633995.
  4. ^ "Historic win for Green Leader Mike Schreiner in Guelph". CBC News. 7 June 2018.
  5. ^ Bueckert, Kate (30 November 2023). "Green candidate Aislinn Clancy wins Kitchener Centre byelection". CBC News. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference :5 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ a b "STATISTICAL SUMMARY" (PDF). Toronto: Elections Ontario. 10 October 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 May 2017. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  8. ^ "Graphics and charts". Elections Ontario. 6 June 2022. Retrieved 12 June 2024.