Ontario voters head to the polls today (June 2) to elect a new provincial government.
Polls open at 9 a.m. and close at 9 p.m. If you don’t know your polling location, enter your postal code at the Elections Ontario website.
To vote, bring your voter information card that you received in the mail and a piece of identification showing your name (photo ID is not required). Your ID can be shown on a mobile device.
If you didn’t receive your voter information card, you can still vote by bringing one piece of ID showing both your name and your current residential address.
Below are the candidates in each riding in the greater Kawarthas region.
They are listed in priority according to the number of seats their party held in the Ontario legislature after the last election or, for parties that did not win seats, by the longevity of their party. On the ballot, candidates are listed alphabetically by their surname.
Peterborough-Kawartha
- Dave Smith – Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (incumbent)
- Jen Deck – New Democratic Party of Ontario
- Greg Dempsey – Liberal Party of Ontario
- Robert Gibson – Green Party of Ontario
- Dylan Smith – None of the Above Party
- Tom Marazzo – Ontario Party
- Rebecca Quinnell – New Blue Party
Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock
- Laurie Scott – Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (incumbent)
- Barbara Doyle – New Democratic Party of Ontario
- Don McBey – Liberal Party of Ontario
- Tom Regina – Green Party of Ontario
- Gene Balfour – Ontario Libertarian Party
- Kelly Kerstin – Ontario Party
- Ben Prentice – New Blue Party
Northumberland-Peterborough South
- David Piccini – Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (incumbent)
- Kim McArthur-Jackson – New Democratic Party of Ontario
- Jeff Kawzenuk – Liberal Party of Ontario
- Lisa Francis – Green Party of Ontario
- Vanessa Head – Ontario Party
- Joshua Chalhoub – New Blue Party
Hastings-Lennox and Addington
- Ric Bresee – Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario *
- Eric Depoe – New Democratic Party of Ontario
- Ted Darby – Liberal Party of Ontario
- Christina Wilson – Green Party of Ontario
- Derek Sloan – Ontario Party (leader)
- Joyce Reid – New Blue Party
* Conservative incumbent Daryl Kramp announced his retirement from politics in February 2022.
In the last provincial election in 2018, the Progressive Conservatives were elected to a majority government with 76 seats, with the NDP becoming the official opposition with 40 seats and the Liberals losing their official party status with seven seats.
The Green Party of Ontario also made history by electing its first-ever MPP, with party leader Mike Schreiner winning in Guelph.
In the greater Kawarthas region, the Progressive Conservatives swept all four ridings, with both incumbent Liberals in Peterborough-Kawartha and Northumberland-Peterborough South losing their seats to neophyte PC candidates.
