Mother-in-law of Brampton Mayor Brown defeats former Mississauga Mayor Crombie for MPP seat [Video]

From left to right: Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown, mother-in-law and newly-elected Mississauga MPP Silvia Gualtieri, and wife Genevieve on Ontario election night, Feb. 27, 2025. (Photo: Patrick Brown on X)

Voters in a Mississauga riding have chosen Silvia Gualtieri, the mother of Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown, as their MPP over former Mayor Bonnie Crombie.

Crombie stepped down as Mississauga mayor last year to lead the Ontario Liberal Party without holding a seat in Queen’s Park, and selected Mississauga East—Cooksville as her riding for the Feb. 27 snap election.

But despite name recognition and leading Mississauga for nine years, Crombie has lost the race to PC Party of Ontario candidate Silvia Gualtieri.

Data from Elections Ontario shows Gualtieri winning the riding with 16,763 votes to Crombie’s 16,536 for a difference of 1,227.

Over 41 per cent of the riding’s 87,521 registered voters turned out to cast ballots with Gualtieri taking in …