# 32nd Parliament of Ontario

The 32nd Legislative Assembly of Ontario was in session from March 19, 1981, until March 25, 1985, just prior to the 1985 general election. The majority party was the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party led by Bill Davis.
In 1985, Davis retired as party leader and Frank Miller was chosen as party leader in a leadership convention held in January 1985.
John Melville Turner served as speaker for the assembly.

## Members

| Riding | Member | Party | First elected / previously elected | Notes |
| Algoma | Charles Jackson Wildman | New Democratic Party | 1975 | |
| Algoma—Manitoulin | John Gordon Lane | Progressive Conservative | 1971 | |
| Armourdale | Bruce Robert McCaffrey | Progressive Conservative | 1977 | |
| Beaches—Woodbine | Marion Helen Bryden | New Democratic Party | 1975 | |
| Bellwoods | Ross A. McClellan | New Democratic Party | 1975 | |
| Brampton | William Grenville Davis | Progressive Conservative | 1959 | Premier and Party Leader |
| Brant—Oxford—Norfolk | Robert Fletcher Nixon | Liberal | 1962 | Party Leader |
| Brantford | Philip Andrew Gillies | Progressive Conservative | 1981 | |
| Brock | Robert Stanley Welch | Progressive Conservative | 1963 | |
| Burlington South | George Albert Kerr | Progressive Conservative | 1963 | |
| Cambridge | William Walter Barlow | Progressive Conservative | 1981 | |
| Carleton | Robert C. Mitchell | Progressive Conservative | 1980 | |
| Carleton East | Robert W. MacQuarrie | Progressive Conservative | 1981 | |
| Carleton-Grenville | Norm Sterling | Progressive Conservative | 1977 | |
| Chatham—Kent | Andrew Naismith Watson | Progressive Conservative | 1978 | |
| Cochrane North | René L. Piché | Progressive Conservative | 1981 | |
| Cochrane South | Alan William Pope | Progressive Conservative | 1977 | |
| Cornwall | George Samis | New Democratic Party | 1974 | |
| Don Mills | Dennis Roy Timbrell | Progressive Conservative | 1971 | |
| Dovercourt | Antonio Lupusella | New Democratic Party | 1975 | |
| Downsview | Odoardo Di Santo | New Democratic Party | 1975 | |
| Dufferin—Simcoe | George R. McCague | Progressive Conservative | 1975 | |
| Durham East | Sammy Lawrence Cureatz | Progressive Conservative | 1977 | |
| Durham West | George Ashe | Progressive Conservative | 1977 | |
| Durham—York | Kenneth Ross Stevenson | Progressive Conservative | 1981 | |
| Eglinton | Roland McMurtry | Progressive Conservative | 1975 | |
| Elgin | Ronald Keith McNeil | Progressive Conservative | 1958 | |
| Erie | Raymond Louis Haggerty | Liberal | 1967 | |
| Essex North | Dick Ruston | Liberal | 1967 | |
| Essex South | Remo J. Mancini | Liberal | 1975 | |
| Etobicoke | Ed Thomas Philip | New Democratic Party | 1975 | |
| Fort William | Michael Patrick Hennessy | Progressive Conservative | 1977 | |
| Frontenac—Addington | Joseph Earl McEwen | Liberal | 1975 | Join the Progressive Conservatives in 1984 |
| Frontenac—Addington | Joseph Earl McEwen | Progressive Conservative | 1975 | Join the Progressive Conservatives in 1984 |
| Grey | Robert Carson McKessock | Liberal | 1975 | |
| Grey—Bruce | Edward Carson Sargent | Liberal | 1963 | |
| Haldimand—Norfolk | Gordon Irvin Miller | Liberal | 1975 | |
| Halton—Burlington | Julian Alexander Arnott Reed | Liberal | 1975 | |
| Hamilton Centre | Sheila Maureen Copps | Liberal | 1981 | Resigned in 1984 |
| Hamilton Centre | Michael Norman Davison (1984) | New Democratic Party | 1975, 1984 | |
| Hamilton East | Bob Warren Mackenzie | New Democratic Party | 1975 | |
| Hamilton Mountain | Brian Albert Charlton | New Democratic Party | 1977 | |
| Hamilton West | Stuart Lyon Smith | Liberal | 1975 | Party Leader |
| Hamilton West | Richard Alexander Allen (1982) | New Democratic Party | 1982 | |
| Hastings—Peterborough | James Pollock | Progressive Conservative | 1981 | |
| High Park—Swansea | Yuri Shymko | Progressive Conservative | 1981 | |
| Humber | Morley Kells | Progressive Conservative | 1981 | |
| Huron—Bruce | Murray John Elston | Liberal | 1981 | |
| Huron—Middlesex | John Keith Riddell | Liberal | 1973 | |
| Kenora | Leo Edward Bernier | Progressive Conservative | 1966 | |
| Kent—Elgin | James Fitzgerald McGuigan | Liberal | 1977 | |
| Kingston and the Islands | Keith Calder Norton | Progressive Conservative | 1975 | |
| Kitchener | James Roos Breithaupt | Liberal | 1967 | |
| Kitchener—Wilmot | John Sweeney | Liberal | 1975 | |
| Lake Nipigon | John Edward Stokes | New Democratic Party | 1967 | |
| Lakeshore | Albert Kolyn | Progressive Conservative | 1981 | |
| Lambton | Lorne Charles Henderson | Progressive Conservative | 1963 | |
| Lanark | Douglas Jack Wiseman | Progressive Conservative | 1971 | |
| Leeds | Robert W. Runciman | Progressive Conservative | 1981 | |
| Lincoln | Philip W. Andrewes | Progressive Conservative | 1981 | |
| London Centre | David Robertson Peterson | Liberal | 1975 | Party Leader |
| London North | Ronald George Van Horne | Liberal | 1977 | |
| London South | Gordon Wayne Walker | Progressive Conservative | 1971, 1977 | |
| Middlesex | Robert Gordon Eaton | Progressive Conservative | 1971 | |
| Mississauga East | Milton Edward Charles Gregory | Progressive Conservative | 1975 | |
| Mississauga North | Terry David Jones | Progressive Conservative | 1975 | |
| Mississauga South | Robert Douglas Kennedy | Progressive Conservative | 1967 | |
| Muskoka | Frank Stuart Miller | Progressive Conservative | 1971 | Premier and Party Leader |
| Niagara Falls | Vincent George Kerrio | Liberal | 1975 | |
| Nickel Belt | Floyd Laughren | New Democratic Party | 1971 | |
| Nipissing | Michael Harris | Progressive Conservative | 1981 | |
| Northumberland | Howard Nicholas Sheppard | Progressive Conservative | 1981 | |
| Oakville | James Wilfred Snow | Progressive Conservative | 1967 | |
| Oakwood | Anthony William Grande | New Democratic Party | 1975 | |
| Oriole | John Reesor Williams | Progressive Conservative | 1975 | |
| Oshawa | Michael James Breaugh | New Democratic Party | 1975 | |
| Ottawa Centre | Michael Morris Cassidy | New Democratic Party | 1971 | Party Leader |
| Ottawa Centre | Evelyn Adelaide Gigantes (1984) | New Democratic Party | 1975, 1984 |
| Ottawa East | Albert J. Roy | Liberal | 1971 | Resigned seat in 1984 |
| Ottawa East | Bernard C. Grandmaître (1984) | Liberal | 1984 | Elected in by-election in 1984 |
| Ottawa South | Claude Frederick Bennett | Progressive Conservative | 1971 | |
| Ottawa West | Reuben Conrad Baetz | Progressive Conservative | 1977 | |
| Oxford | Richard L. Treleaven | Progressive Conservative | 1981 | |
| Parkdale | Tony Ruprecht | Liberal | 1981 | |
| Parry Sound | Ernie Eves | Progressive Conservative | 1981 | |
| Perth | Hugh Alden Edighoffer | Liberal | 1967 | |
| Peterborough | John Melville Turner | Progressive Conservative | 1971, 1977 | |
| Port Arthur | James Francis Foulds | New Democratic Party | 1971 | |
| Prescott and Russell | Don Boudria | Liberal | 1981 | Resigned in 1984 |
| Prescott and Russell | Jean Poirier (1984) | Liberal | 1984 | Elected in by-election in 1984 |
| Prince Edward—Lennox | James A. Taylor | Progressive Conservative | 1971 | |
| Quinte | Hugh Patrick O'Neil | Liberal | 1975 | |
| Rainy River | T. Patrick Reid | Liberal-Labour | 1967 | |
| Renfrew North | Sean Conway | Liberal | 1975 | |
| Renfrew South | Paul Joseph Yakabuski | Progressive Conservative | 1963 | |
| Riverdale | Jim Renwick | New Democratic Party | 1964 | Died in 1984 |
| Sarnia | Andy Brandt | Progressive Conservative | 1981 | |
| Sault Ste. Marie | Russell Harold Ramsay | Progressive Conservative | 1978 | |
| Scarborough Centre | James Francis Drea | Progressive Conservative | 1971 | |
| Scarborough East | Margaret Birch | Progressive Conservative | 1971 | |
| Scarborough North | Thomas Leonard Wells | Progressive Conservative | 1963 | |
| Scarborough West | Richard Frank Johnston | New Democratic Party | 1979 | |
| Scarborough—Ellesmere | Alan Robinson | Progressive Conservative | 1981 | |
| Simcoe Centre | George William Taylor | Progressive Conservative | 1977 | |
| Simcoe East | Allan Kenneth McLean | Progressive Conservative | 1981 | |
| St. Andrew—St. Patrick | Lawrence Sheldon Grossman | Progressive Conservative | 1975 | |
| St. Catharines | Jim Bradley | Liberal | 1977 | |
| St. David | Margaret Scrivener | Progressive Conservative | 1971 | |
| St. George | Susan A. Fish | Progressive Conservative | 1981 | |
| Stormont—Dundas—Glengarry | Osie Villeneuve | Progressive Conservative | 1948, 1963 | Died in 1983 |
| Stormont—Dundas—Glengarry | Noble Villeneuve (1983) | Progressive Conservative | 1983 | Elected in by-election in 1983 |
| Sudbury | Jim Gordon | Progressive Conservative | 1981 | |
| Sudbury East | Elie Walter Martel | New Democratic Party | 1967 | |
| Timiskaming | Edward Michael Havrot | Progressive Conservative | 1971, 1977 | |
| Victoria—Haliburton | John F. Eakins | Liberal | 1975 | |
| Waterloo North | Herbert Arnold Epp | Liberal | 1977 | |
| Welland—Thorold | Mel Swart | New Democratic Party | 1975 | |
| Wellington South | Harry A. Worton | Liberal | 1955 | |
| Wellington—Dufferin—Peel | John McLellan Johnson | Progressive Conservative | 1975 | |
| Wentworth | Gordon Howlett Dean | Progressive Conservative | 1981 | |
| Wentworth North | Eric Gordon Cunningham | Liberal | 1975 | Resigned seat in 1984 |
| Wentworth North | Ann Sloat (1984) | Progressive Conservative | 1984 | Elected in by-election in 1984 |
| Wilson Heights | David Rotenberg | Progressive Conservative | 1977 | |
| Windsor—Riverside | Dave Cooke | New Democratic Party | 1977 | |
| Windsor—Sandwich | William Munro Wrye | Liberal | 1981 | |
| Windsor—Walkerville | Bernard Newman | Liberal | 1959 | |
| York Centre | W. Donald Cousens | Progressive Conservative | 1981 | |
| York East | Robert Goldwin Elgie | Progressive Conservative | 1977 | |
| York Mills | Bette Stephenson | Progressive Conservative | 1975 | |
| York North | William Marshall Chamberlain Hodgson | Progressive Conservative | 1967 | |
| York South | Donald Cameron MacDonald | New Democratic Party | 1955 | Resigned seat in 1982 |
| York South | Bob Keith Rae (1982) | New Democratic Party | 1982 | Elected in by-election in 1982, Party Leader |
| York West | Nicholas Georges Leluk | Progressive Conservative | 1971 | |
| Yorkview | Michael A. Spensieri | Liberal | 1981 | |

## Post-election changes

Hamilton West: Stuart Smith resigned his legislative seat on January 25, 1982, and a by-election was called for June 17, 1982.
* Richard Allen (NDP) 8,915
* Bob McMurrich (PC) 7,066
* Joe Barbera (L) 6,952
* John Turmel 174
York South: Donald C. MacDonald resigned his legislative seat in 1982, and a by-election was called for November 4, 1982.
* Bob Rae (NDP) 11,212
* John Nunziata (L) 8,595
* Barbara Jafelice (PC) 4,376
* Myron Petriw (Lbt) 234
* John Turmel 66
Stormont—Dundas and Glengarry: Osie Villeneuve died in 1983, and a by-election has called on December 15, 1983:
* Noble Villeneuve (PC) 12,197
* Johnny Whitteker (L) 8,062
* Rudi Derstroff (NDP) 627
* John Turmel 97
Frontenac—Addington: Liberal MPP J. Earl McEwen crossed the floor to join the Progressive Conservatives in 1984.
Hamilton Centre: Sheila Copps resigned her legislative seat in 1984, and a by-election was held on December 13, 1984:
* Mike Davison (NDP) 5308
* Lily Oddie Munro (L) 5,253
* Sandi Bell (PC) 3,314
* Kerry Wilson (Comm) 124
Ottawa Centre: Michael Cassidy resigned his legislative seat in 1984, and a by-election was held on December 13, 1984.
* Evelyn Gigantes (NDP) 8,165
* Graham Bird (PC) 5,870
* Lowell Green (L) 5,202
* Greg Vezina (G) 130
* Ray Joseph Cormier 94
* John Turmel 90
Ottawa East: Albert J. Roy resigned his legislative seat in 1984, and a by-election was held on December 13, 1984:
* Bernard Grandmaître (L) 7,754
* Richard Boudreau (PC) 1,934
* Jean Gilbert (NDP) 1,531
* Serge Girard 122
Prescott and Russell: Don Boudria resigned his legislative seat in 1984, and a by-election was held on December 13, 1984:
* Jean Poirier (L) 10,182
* Gaston Patenaude (PC) 8,347
* Rheo Lalonde (NDP) 1,791
Wentworth North: Eric Cunningham resigned his legislative seat in 1984, and a by-election was held on December 13, 1984:
* Ann Sloat (PC) 8,524
* Chris Ward (L) 8,355
* Lynn Spencer (NDP) 3,115
* George Graham (Lbt) 162
Riverdale: Jim Renwick died in 1984.
Kitchener: Jim Breithaupt resigned in 1984.
Rainy River: T. Patrick Reid resigned in 1984.
Eglinton: Roy McMurtry resigned his seat in 1985 to take a government position in the United Kingdom.