Here’s the latest on the Ontario provincial election [Video]

Doug Ford’s PC Party is projected to form a majority government. (X / @fordnation)

Voters in Ontario have cast their ballots after a 28-day snap winter election campaign.

Here are the latest developments. All times eastern.

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11:15 p.m.

The early election may have caught Ontarians by surprise, but more of them appear to have voted than last time.

Elections Ontario’s early results show slightly more than 45 per cent of registered voters cast a ballot — up from 2022’s record low of 44 per cent.

Observers had predicted the timing of the election — the first winter vote in Ontario in more than four decades — and the snap timing of the campaign could lower voter participation.

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10:55 p.m.

Cheers erupted as NDP Leader Marit Stiles told a crowd of supporters in Toronto that her party is on track to …