The latest Ipsos Reid poll suggests that McGuinty might possibly be headed for a third consecutive majority government. While this doesn’t happen often, it’s not unprecedented – McGuinty has a long way to go before he catches up to some of Canada’s most majority-winning premiers.
Here are some of them:
Ontario:
Ontario has had a couple of three-peats. PC premier Leslie Frost led his party to three majorities in the 1950s. Three more Tory majorities followed, under two different premiers, John Robarts and Bill Davis. Among the Liberals, Oliver Mowat, one of the Fathers of Confederation and Ontario’s third premier, won six consecutive majorities from 1871-1894.
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New Brunswick:
Frank McKenna, a Liberal, won three successive majority governments, beginning in 1987.
Quebec:
Maurice Duplessis, of the Union Nationale, won four consecutive majority governments starting in 1944 and died in office in 1959. Liberal Lomer Gouin won four majority governments in 1908, 1912, 1916 and 1919. Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Gouin’s replacement, also won four majorities, in 1923, 1927, 1931 and 1935.
Nova Scotia:
George Murray, a Liberal, was designated premier in 1896 and won six consecutive majorities from 1897 to 1920. He resigned in 1923 as Canada’s longest-serving provincial premier.
Alberta:
Ernest Manning, a member of the Social Credit Party, won seven consecutive majorities between 1944 and 1967, with very little opposition in most elections.
Newfoundland:
Joey Smallwood, a Liberal, was the first premier of the new Province of Newfoundland and Labrador. He won six majorities, beginning in 1949.
With files from the Canadian Press
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