PC Vote result for York South-Weston

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The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario has published results of its recent leadership vote, broken down by riding and there are some interesting details. The vote was done through a process known as ranked balloting. Voters ranked each candidate in order of preference. Once all the first choices were counted, the last place candidate was eliminated. Voters whose candidate was eliminated in the first round had their second choice vote added to the remaining candidates’ tallies.

The online ballot used in the PC leadership vote.

Incidentally, although the PCs, Liberals and NDP use ranked balloting when choosing a leader, most of the right-leaning members of council (including our own) voted against studying ranked balloting for the 2022 civic election. The federal Liberals have backed off also.

First Round: York South-Weston

  • NAME                                         VOTES     %
  • ALLEN, Tanya Granic                23     11%
  • ELLIOTT, Christine                    46    22%
  • FORD, Doug                                  133    63.6%
  • MULRONEY, Caroline                   7      3.3%
  • 209 total votes

Second Round

  • NAME                                         VOTES     %
  • ELLIOTT, Christine                    49    23.7%
  • FORD, Doug                                  151    63.6%
  • MULRONEY, Caroline                   7      3.3%
  • 207 total votes

4th place (in Ontario) Tanya Granic Allen, was eliminated and as expected, most of her votes provincially and in YSW went to Ford.

Third Round

  • NAME                                         VOTES     %
  • ELLIOTT, Christine                    55    26.7%
  • FORD, Doug                                  151    73.3%
  • 206 total votes

All vote percentages have been rounded to the nearest tenth for clarity.

The riding with the most eligible votes cast (from those who joined the PC Party and paid $10) was Don Valley West with 1334; the least: Kiiwetinoong (a huge new northern Ontario riding that comes into play this year) with only 34. York South-Weston had 209 people voting.

The fact that only 209 people voted does not bode well for the PCs in York South Weston. On the other hand, the local strength of Doug Ford should give PC nominee Mark DeMontis some comfort in a riding that has been solidly Liberal with a brief exception (Paul Ferreira for the NDP between February and October of 2007) since its formation in 1999.

  1. I don’t think we can draw any conclusions yet about how many votes Mark DeMontis might get based on the 209 votes cast for the PC leadership election. Any number of valid voters who don’t care to be a PC member can vote for Mark this June. Certainly a higher membership count in a particular riding would seem to point to the obvious but weirder things have happened.