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Results of the 2003 Ontario general election by riding

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ120488064 ↗
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The following riding results occurred during the 2003 Ontario general election held on October 2, 2003.

Ottawa

Eastern Ontario

Central Ontario

Southern Durham & York

Downtown Toronto

Suburban Toronto

Brampton, Mississauga & Oakville

Hamilton, Burlington & Niagara

Midwestern Ontario

Southwestern Ontario

Northern Ontario

By-elections

Ten by-elections were held between the 2003 and 2007 elections.

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This entry incorporates text from “Results of the 2003 Ontario general election by riding” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.