Communist Party of Canada (Ontario)
Year of election Leader # of candidates # of seats won # of votes % of popular vote
1943 n/a 6 / 90 2 / 90 n/a n/a
1945 Leslie Morris 31 / 90 2 / 90 n/a 2.4%
1948 A . A. MacLeod 2 / 90 2 / 90 n/a 1.0%
1951 Stewart Smith 6 / 90 1 / 90 n/a n/a
1955 Stewart Smith 23 / 98 0 / 98 n/a n/a
1959 Bruce Magnuson 9 / 98 0 / 98 n/a n/a
1963 Bruce Magnuson 6 / 108 0 / 108 n/a n/a
1967 Bruce Magnuson 2 / 117 0 / 117 n/a n/a
1971 William Stewart 5 / 117 0 / 117 n/a n/a
1975 William Stewart 33 / 125 0 / 125 n/a n/a
1977 William Stewart 32 / 125 0 / 125 7,995 0.24%
1981 Mel Doig 17 / 125 0 / 125 5,296 0.16%
1985 Gordon Massie 10 / 125 0 / 125 3,696 0.1%
1987 Gordon Massie 9 / 130 0 / 130 3,422 0.09%
1990 Elizabeth Rowley 4 / 130 0 / 130 1,139 0.03%
1995 Darrell Rankin 5 / 130 0 / 130 1,015 0.03%
1999 Hassan Husseini 4 / 103 0 / 103 814 0.02%
2003 Elizabeth Rowley 6 / 103 0 / 103 2,187 0.05%
2007 Elizabeth Rowley 8 / 107 0 / 107 1,715 0.04%
2011 Elizabeth Rowley 9 / 107 0 / 107 1,163 0.03%
Election results
The Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) () is the Ontario provincial wing of the Communist Party of Canada. Using the name Labor-Progressive Party from 1943 until 1959, the group won two seats in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario: A.A. MacLeod and J.B. Salsberg were elected in the 1943 provincial election as Labour candidates but took their seats as members of the Labor-Progressive Party, which the banned Communist Party launched as its public face in a convention held on August 21 and 22, 1943, shortly after both the August 4th provincial election and the August 7th election of Communist Fred Rose to the House of Commons in a Montreal by-election. MacLeod and Salsberg served as Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) from 1943 until 1951 and 1955 respectively. The party has not been able to win any seats at the provincial level since then. The party continued to run under the Labor-Progressive banner up to the 1959 provincial election, after which it again identified itself as the Communist Party. Individual members of the party have been elected to school boards in the past few decades, but have done so as independents rather than as Communist Party candidates. The party is led by Dave McKee.