Election links and resources

Check out these links to find the information you need.

Elections Ontario

The non-partisan Elections Ontario site at http://www.electionsontario.on.ca  is a treasure chest of electoral information:

· Find your riding. Click below to find the riding you live in, a riding map, and contact information for your current MPP.

http://www.electionsontario.on.ca/SearchbyCity.asp?sMenu
ID=46&flag=E&layout=G  

· View the election calendar. Click below to see the steps involved in a typical 28-day election campaign.

http://www.electionsontario.on.ca/en/cp_calendar_28day_en.shtml   

· What happened last time? For riding by riding results and stats from past elections, click below .

http://www.electionsontario.on.ca/en/Results
_and_Stats_en.shtml?nocache=true

Contact the players

Contact your MPP. Click below for an alphabetical list of Ontario MPPs and how to find them

http://www.ontla.on.ca/Members/all_con/index.htm  

Visit the parties’ web sites.

Ontario NDP: http://www.publicpower.ca/  

Ontario Liberal Party: http://www.ontarioliberal.com/  

Ontario Progressive Conservative Party: http://www.ontariopc.com  

Office of the Provincial Auditor

For an unbiased assessment of the Tory government’s performance since 1995, especially in the public service, look no further than the Office of the Provincial Auditor at www.gov.on.ca/opa . Auditor Erik Peters has been the source of factual information on issues like the Andersen Consulting fiasco in the (former) Ministry of Community and Social Services; the failed privatization of highway maintenance; and the failure of 355,000 Ontario corporations (over half of those in the province) to file tax returns.

Other vote links

Download a copy of the Ontario Federation of Labour’s “Women Vote ’03” election kit at www.ofl-fto.on.ca/campaigns/WOMENVOTE.pdf.  

A group of teachers’ unions and educators’ groups sponsors “Student Vote 2003” at http://www.kidsvotingcanada.com  to encourage young people to vote. Voter turnout in the last Ontario election was just 58.3 per cent of those eligible.

Ontario’s Building and Construction Trades are spearheading their own campaign to defeat the Ontario Tories. The site at www.workingfamilies.ca  lists “95 reasons to vote against the Tories” and features clips of their TV ads.

Make your predictions

A gathering place for political junkies, the site at www.electionprediction.com  began in 1999 as a non-partisan project of Milton Chan, a political science student at the University of Waterloo. It is now a joint project of several political scientists and students. The site allows readers to upload their comments about specific ridings and then uses the comments to predict outcomes. The comments range from knowledgeable to blatantly partisan to just plain wacky. The site provides a useful demographic profile of each Ontario riding plus past election results. NOTE: OPSEU does not endorse the content of the site or its predictions. Strictly for fun.