How the PC win in Ontario snap vote stacks up against elections past [Video]

Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford votes in the Ontario provincial election, at Westmount Junior School in Etobicoke, Ont., on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Laura Proctor

The Progressive Conservatives have won a third consecutive majority government in Thursday’s snap vote — a feat accomplished for the first time in more than 50 years of Ontario elections.

The last time a party pulled off three or more consecutive majorities in Ontario was a string of eight mandates the PCs won between 1945 and 1971.

Here is a brief history of the past 25 years of Ontario votes, based on reporting by The Canadian Press.

2025: Progressive Conservative majority

Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives chugged to their third majority propelled by his visible crusade against economic uncertainty emanating from the United States.

Ford kicked off the campaign by urging voters to hand him “the largest mandate in Ontario’s history” in order to convincingly push back against …