25th Parliament of Ontario explained

The 25th Legislative Assembly of Ontario was in session from June 9, 1955, until May 4, 1959, just prior to the 1959 general election. The majority party was the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party led by Leslie Frost.

Alfred Wallace Downer served as speaker for the assembly.^[1]

Timeline

25th Legislative Assembly of Ontario - Movement in seats held (1955-1959)
Party		1955	Gain/(loss) due to				1959
Party		1955	Resignation as MPP	Death in office	Byelection gain	Byelection hold	1959
83	(6)	(5)	1	11	84
10					10
3					3
1					1
1		(1)			-
Total		98	(6)	(6)	1	11	98

Changes in seats held (1955-1959)
Seat	Before				Change
Seat	Date	Member	Party	Reason	Date	Member	Party
Renfrew South	October 24, 1955	James Shannon Dempsey		Died in office	January 12, 1956	James Maloney
York West	July 2, 1956	Elmer Brandon		Died in office	October 18, 1956	Leslie Rowntree
Middlesex North	January 10, 1957	Thomas Patrick		Died in office	September 5, 1957	William Atcheson Stewart
Glengarry	May 25, 1957	Osie Villeneuve		Resigned to contest the House of Commons seat of Glengarry—Prescott in the 1957 election	September 5, 1957	Fernand Guindon
Lanark	August 14, 1957	George Henry Doucett		Resigned to contest the House of Commons seat of Lanark in a byelection, upon the death of William Gourlay Blair	October 24, 1957	John Arthur McCue
Lanark	May 26, 1958	John Arthur McCue		Died in office	August 28, 1958	George Gomme
Elgin	November 9, 1957	Fletcher Stewart Thomas		Died in office	January 30, 1958	Ron McNeil
Huron	January 5, 1958	Thomas Pryde		Died in office	May 12, 1958	Charles MacNaughton
Cochrane North	January 22, 1958	Philip Kelly		Resigned from seat, after previously being ordered to resign as Minister of Mines	May 12, 1958	René Brunelle
St. George	January 30, 1958	Dana Porter		Appointed as Chief Justice of the Ontario Court of Appeal	May 12, 1958	Allan Lawrence
Renfrew North	March 1, 1958	Stanley Joseph Hunt		Resigned to contest the House of Commons seat of Renfrew North in the 1958 election	May 12, 1958	Maurice Hamilton
Hastings East	July 30, 1958	Roscoe Robson		Accepted an appointment as Sheriff of Hastings County	August 28, 1958	Lloyd Price

External links

Members in Parliament 25

Notes and References

Web site: Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario . Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2014-08-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140801101335/http://speaker.ontla.on.ca/en/at-the-assembly/speakers/ . 2014-08-01 . dead .