Several ridings across the GTA represent important seats for all four main political parties.

The Liberals failed to pick up key seats and restore their party status while the PCs maintained their stronghold of the suburbs in the GTA.

Polls closed at 9 p.m., however, some polling locations have had their hours extended, affecting when the vote count can start in 19 ridings. 

Here are the results of key GTA ridings (data provided by Elections Ontario):

Ajax

PC: Patrice Barnes ELECTED – 15,336 (40.69 per cent)
Liberal: Amber Bowen – 13,561 (35.98 per cent)
NDP: Christine Santos – 6,291 (16.69 per cent)
Green Party: Neil Runnalls – 1,305 (3.46 per cent)

Despite Former MPP and Ford cabinet member Rod Phillips leaving his Ajax seat up for grabs, candidate Patrice Barnes was able to hold the seat for the Progressive Conservatives.

Beaches-East York

PC: Angela Kennedy – 7,536 (18.54 per cent)
Liberal: Mary-Margaret McMahon ELECTED – 14,398 (35.42 per cent)
NDP: Kate Dupuis – 13,500 (33.21 per cent)
Green Party: Abhijeet Manay – 4,154 (10.22 per cent)

Former Toronto city councillor and Liberal candidate Mary-Margaret McMahon has captured a key seat left empty in Toronto.

Brampton Centre

PC: Charmaine Williams ELECTED – 10,120 (41.36 per cent)
Liberal: Safdar Hussain – 6,119 (25.01 per cent)
NDP: Sara Singh (incumbent) – 6,524 (26.67 per cent)
Green: Karitsa Tye – 882 (3.61 per cent)

The PC have picked up a key seat in Brampton Centre with a win for Charmaine Williams, beating out the incumbent, NDP’s Sara Singh. who is currently one of the New Democrats’ deputy leaders and is the opposition critic for long-term care and the attorney general.

Brampton West

PC: Amarjot Sandhu (incumbent) ELECTED – 14,544 (47.97 per cent)
Liberal: Rimmy Jhajj – 7,904 (26.07 per cent)
NDP: Navjit Kaur – 6,290 (20.75 per cent)
Green: Pauline Thornham – 837 (2.76 per cent)

Incumbent Amarjot Sandhu has held on to the seat won by just 490 votes over the NDP candidate in 2018, but by a much larger margain in 2022.

Don Valley West

PC: Mark Saunders – 13,985 (38.74 per cent
Liberal: Stephanie Bowman ELECTED – 15,849 (43.90 per cent)
NDP: Irwin Elman – 3,322 (9.20 per cent)
Green: Sheena Sharp – 1,996 (5.53 per cent)

Despite a high profile candidate for the PCs in former Toronto police chief, Mark Saunders, the Liberals were able to hold on to Don Valley West with candidate Stephanie Bowman.

Eglinton-Lawrence

PC: Robin Martin (incumbent) ELECTED – 16,805 (42.59 per cent)
Liberal: Arlena Hebert – 16,083 (40.76 per cent)
NDP: Natasha Doyle – 3,801 (9.63 per cent)
Green Party: Leah Tysoe – 1,512 (3.83 per cent)

Progressive Conservative incumbent candidate Robin Martin was able to claim victory after a very tight race against Liberal candidate Arlena Herbert, capturing the seat by only 722 votes.

Etobicoke Centre

PC: Kinga Surma (incumbent) ELECTED – 21,999 (48.61 per cent)
Liberal: Noel Semple – 15,403 (34.04 per cent)
NDP: Heather Vickers-Wong – 3,886 (8.59 per cent)
Green Party: Brian MacLean – 2,033 (4.49 per cent)

PC incumbent Kinga Surma has held on to her Etobicoke Centre seat handidly against Liberal challenger Noel Semple.

Mississauga Centre

PC: Natalia Kusendova (incumbent) ELECTED – 14,719 (43.60 per cent)
Liberal: Sumira Malik – 12,260 (36.32 per cent)
NDP: Sarah Walji – 4,148 (12.29 per cent)
Green Party: Adriane Franklin – 1,188 (3.52 per cent)

The incumbent candidate Natalia Kusendova has captured Mississauga Centre as apart of a sweep of Mississauga for the Progressive Conservatives.

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Newmarket-Aurora

PC: Dawn Murphy-Gallagher ELECTED – 18,649 (44.90 per cent)
Liberal: Sylvain Roy – 13,048 (31.41 per cent)
NDP: Denis Heng – 5,295 (12.75 per cent)
Green Party: Carolina Rodriguez – 2,332 (5.61 per cent)

The seat left empty by former Health Minister Christine Elliott has stayed in the hands of the Progressive Conservatives with Dawn Murphy-Gallagher with a decisive victory.

Scarborough-Guildwood

PC: Alicia Vianga – 8,484 (31.70 per cent)
Liberal: Mitzie Hunter (incumbent) ELECTED – 12,271 (45.85 per cent)
NDP: Veronica Javier – 4,523 (16.90 per cent)
Green: Dean Boulding – 745 (2.78 per cent)

Scarborough-Guildwood has been a Liberal stronghold since its creation in 2007 and that did not change in 2022 when Mitzie Hunter maintained her seat in one of the few ridings held by the Liberals

Toronto Centre

PC: Jess Goddard – 4,245 (12.16 per cent)
Liberal: David Morris – 12,816 (36.71 per cent)
NDP: Kristyn Wong-Tam ELECTED – 15,277 (43.76 per cent)
Green Party: Nicki Ward – 1,784 (5.11 per cent)

With departing NDP incumbent Suze Morrison leaving the Toronto-Centre seat open, the party recruited a high-profile candidate in former Toronto city councillor Krystin Wong-Tam and it paid off as the NDP is projected to hold onto the seat.

Vaughan-Woodbridge

PC: Michael Tibollo ELECTED – 19,340 (53.78 per cent)
Liberal: Steven Del Duca – 12,615 (35.08 per cent)
NDP: Will McCarty – 1,927 (5.36 per cent)
Green Party: Philip James Piluris – 694 (1.93 per cent)

Liberal leader Steven Del Duca has been left without a seat in the Ontario legislature after losing the election to PC incumbent Michael Tibolo in Vaughan-Woodbridge.

Del Duca has indicated he will remain as leader should he fail to secure a seat at Queen’s Park.

York-South Weston

PC: Michael Ford ELECTED – 11,138 (36.61 per cent)
Liberal: Nadia Guerrera – 7,371 ( 33.99 per cent)
NDP: Faisal Hassan (incumbent) – 10,342 (33.99 per cent)
Green: Ignacio Mongrell Gonzalez – 770 (2.53 per cent)

A PC candidate with a high degree of name recognition has taken the York-South Weston seat from NDP incumbent candidate, Faisal Hassan. Michael Ford, Toronto city councillor and nephew of PC leader Doug Ford, wins the riding.

Key ridings outside the GTA

Barrie Springwater-Oro-Medonte

PC: Doug Downey (incumbent) ELECTED – 16,114 (42.45 per cent)
Liberal: Jeff Lehman – 15,505 (40.85 per cent)
NDP: Beverley Patchell – 2,974 (7.83 per cent)
Green Party: Elyse Robinson – 1,652 (4.35 per cent)

A close race in Barrie-Springwater-Or-Medonte, but the riding has stayed in the hands of PC Attorney General and incumbent Doug Downey, despite stiff competition from the former mayor of Barrie, Jeff Lehman, who ran for the Liberals.

Parry Sound-Muskoka

PC: Graydon Smith ELECTED – 20,216 (45.41 per cent)
Liberal: (No Liberal running)
NDP: Erin Horvath – 3,391 (7.62 per cent)
Green Party: Matt Richter – 18,102 (40.66 per cent)

While it was close, the Green Party failed to pick up a second seat in Parry Sound-Muskoka after former Bracebridge Mayor and PC candidate Graydon Smith beat Green Party’s Matt Richter.