2009 Ontario New Democratic Party leadership election

2009 Ontario New Democratic Party leadership election

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Candidate Andrea Horwath Peter Tabuns Riding Hamilton Centre Toronto—Danforth Final ballot 6,732.34 (60.36%) 4,420.66 (39.64%) First ballot 4,625.29 (37.13%) 3,437.93 (27.60%)   Candidate Gilles Bisson Michael Prue Riding Timmins—James Bay Beaches—East York Final ballot Eliminated Eliminated First ballot 2,954.23 (23.72%) 1,438.44 (11.55%)

Leader before election Howard Hampton Elected Leader Andrea Horwath

The 2009 Ontario New Democratic Party leadership election was held in Hamilton, from March 6 to 8, 2009 to elect a successor to Howard Hampton as leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP). On June 15, 2008, Hampton informed the party's provincial council that he would not stand for re-election as leader at the next party convention in a year's time.^[2][3] While a leadership vote was held at each biennial convention of the Ontario NDP until and including the last regular convention in 2007, there is normally not a contested vote unless there is a vacancy, therefore, the 2009 vote was the party's first leadership convention since Hampton was elected in 1996 to succeed Bob Rae.

With the support of high-profile party members such as the left-wing MPP Peter Kormos and Sid Ryan, the President of CUPE Ontario, Andrea Horwath, the MPP for Hamilton Centre, won the leadership contest with 60.4% of the vote on the final ballot. As of 2022, it remains the last leadership election held by the Ontario New Democratic Party.