• Markham-Stouffville MPP Paul Calandra secured a majority victory in Ontario’s 2025 snap election
  • Voter turnout in the riding was 43.35%, a slight decline from the 44.51% recorded in the 2022 election.
  • Though they lost three seats from 2022, Premier Doug Ford and the Progressive Conservatives won a third consecutive majority government.
  • The Ontario Liberals picked up six new seats to regain official party status, and the NDP saw their seat count drop from 31 to 27.
  • Calandra criticized Liberal challenger Kelly Dunn during his victory speech, calling her concession call “the most ungracious” he has received.
  • Dunn defended her remarks, stating she was relaying voter concerns about his accessibility.

 

Markham-Stouffville MPP and Progressive Conservative Paul Calandra has secured a majority victory in Ontario’s 2025 snap election. Unofficial results from Elections Ontario show 43.35% of the riding’s 103,662 registered electors cast ballots, a slight decline from the 2022 turnout rate of 44.51%.

With all but six of the province’s 8,079 polls reporting at the time of publishing, voter turnout stood at 45.4% of Ontario’s 11,065,813 registered voters.

Calandra won with 50.64% of the vote, defeating Liberal challenger Kelly Dunn by a margin of 4,133 votes. His 22,757 votes marked an increase from his 2022 win, when he secured just over 48% of the riding’s support with 21,176 votes.

In her second campaign, Dunn improved on her 2022 performance, capturing 41.44% of the vote with 18,624 ballots cast in her favor—3,112 more than her previous 35.5% finish.

New Democrat candidate Gregory Hines received 2,050 votes (4.56%), Green Party candidate Myles O’Brien took 1,018 votes (2.27%), and New Blue Party candidate Brendan Sorenson obtained 491 votes (1.09%).

Calandra did not respond to a Bullet Point News request for comment on his victory and plans for Stouffville and the riding over the next four years. However, as reported by Simon Martin for YorkRegion.com, he took aim at Dunn during his victory speech Thursday night.

“We will be absolutely relentless. I was more encouraged when I got that call from the Liberal tonight to double down my effort to make sure that we do everything in our power to take that kind of ideology, that kind of ungraciousness, and stuff it down their throats,” Calandra said.

“I would say it was the most ungracious call I ever had, and it has motivated me even more to make sure that we defeat Liberals every single opportunity that we get,” he added.

Dunn addressed Calandra’s remarks in a social media post Friday morning, stating, “I was honest and told him what I had heard at the doors over the course of two elections, but evidently that makes me ungracious.”

“I started the call by congratulating him,” Dunn said in additional comments to Bullet Point News. “But I told him I had heard from a lot of people that he isn’t accessible and doesn’t get back to people when they reach out.”

“The people of Ontario have entrusted you with some of the most important parts of their lives: their health, their safety, and their education,” Dunn added in her post. “Don’t take that trust for granted. Do better. You owe us, not the other way around.”

Calandra will return to Queen’s Park for a third consecutive term. Since first being elected to the Ontario Legislature in 2018, he has served as House Leader, Minister of Long-Term Care, and Minister of Legislative Affairs. Before the January election call and dissolution of Parliament, he was Ontario’s Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing.

Premier Doug Ford, alongside Calandra and his fellow Progressive Conservatives, has secured a third majority. It marks the first time a party leader has delivered three consecutive majority governments since Leslie Frost in 1959.

Although the balance of power remains largely unchanged following Ford’s call for a renewed mandate, the PCs lost three seats over 2022, bringing their total to 80.

While maintaining their status as the official Opposition, Ontario’s New Democratic Party saw its seat count drop from 31 to 27. NDP Leader Marit Styles won her riding of Davenport with a decisive 57.21% majority vote.

Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie failed to win her riding, but the Liberals gained six seats to reestablish their official party status. Fourteen Liberal members will join the 44th Ontario Parliament, and Crombie has committed to staying on as leader.

Green Party Leader and Guelph MPP Mike Schreiner was reelected for a third term. Kitchener Centre MPP Aislinn Clancy’s victory ensured the Greens retained their two seats, which they have held since Clancy’s 2023 byelection win.

Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Bobbi Ann Brady, Ontario’s lone Independent representative, was reelected with nearly 64% of the vote.

All noted 2025 election results were sourced from Elections Ontario and remain unofficial.