24th Parliament of Ontario

The 24th Legislative Assembly of Ontario was in session from November 22, 1951, until May 2, 1955, just prior to the 1955 general election. The majority party was the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party led by Leslie Frost.

M.C. Davies served as speaker for the assembly.^[1]

Members of the Assembly

	Riding	Member	Party	First elected / previously elected
	Addington	John Abbott Pringle	Progressive Conservative	1943
	Algoma—Manitoulin	John Arthur Fullerton	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Beaches	William Henry Collings	Progressive Conservative	1951
	Bellwoods	John Yaremko	Progressive Conservative	1951
	Bracondale	Arthur George Frost	Progressive Conservative	1951
	Brant	Harry Corwin Nixon	Liberal	1919
	Brantford	George Thomas Gordon	Liberal	1948
	Bruce	John Philemon Johnstone	Progressive Conservative	1945, 1951
	Carleton	Donald Hugo Morrow	Progressive Conservative	1948
	Cochrane North	Philip Kelly	Progressive Conservative	1951
	Cochrane South	Bill Grummett	Co-operative Commonwealth	1943
	Dovercourt	David Kerr	Progressive Conservative	1951
	Dufferin—Simcoe	Alfred Wallace Downer	Progressive Conservative	1937
	Durham	John Weir Foote	Progressive Conservative	1948
	Eglinton	William James Dunlop	Progressive Conservative	1951
	Elgin	Fletcher Stewart Thomas	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Essex North	Arthur John Reaume	Liberal	1951
	Essex South	William Murdoch	Progressive Conservative	1943
	Fort William	Clare Edgar Mapledoram	Progressive Conservative	1951
	Glengarry	Osie Villeneuve	Progressive Conservative	1948
	Grenville—Dundas	George Holmes Challies	Progressive Conservative	1929
	Grey North	Mackinnon Phillips	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Grey South	Farquhar Robert Oliver	Liberal	1926[a]
	Haldimand—Norfolk	James Noble Allan	Progressive Conservative	1951
	Halton	Stanley Leroy Hall	Progressive Conservative	1943
	Hamilton Centre	William Kenneth Warrender	Progressive Conservative	1951
	Hamilton East	Robert Ellsworth Elliott	Progressive Conservative	1945, 1951
	Hamilton—Wentworth	Thomas Ray Connell	Progressive Conservative	1951
	Hastings East	Roscoe Robson	Progressive Conservative	1943
	Hastings West	Elmer Sandercock	Progressive Conservative	1948
	High Park	Alfred Hozack Cowling	Progressive Conservative	1951
	Huron	Thomas Pryde	Progressive Conservative	1948
	Huron—Bruce	John William Hanna	Progressive Conservative	1943
	Kenora	Albert Wren	Liberal-Labour	1951
	Kent East	Andrew Thomas Ward	Progressive Conservative	1951
	Kent West	George William Parry	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Kingston	William McAdam Nickle	Progressive Conservative	1951
	Lambton East	Charles Eusibius Janes	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Lambton West	Bryan Lewis Cathcart	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Lanark	George Henry Doucett	Progressive Conservative	1937
	Leeds	Charles Gordon MacOdrum	Progressive Conservative	1951
	James Auld (1954)	Progressive Conservative	1954
	Lincoln	Charles Daley	Progressive Conservative	1943
	London	John Parmenter Robarts	Progressive Conservative	1951
	Middlesex North	Thomas L. Patrick	Progressive Conservative	1943
	Middlesex South	Harry Marshall Allen	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Muskoka—Ontario	George Arthur Welsh	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Niagara Falls	William Houck[b]	Liberal	1934, 1948
	Arthur Connaught Jolley (1953)	Progressive Conservative	1953
	Nipissing	William Bruce Harvey	Progressive Conservative	1948
	Jean Marc Chaput (1954)	Progressive Conservative	1954
	Northumberland	William Arthur Goodfellow	Progressive Conservative	1943
	Ontario	T.D. Thomas	Co-operative Commonwealth	1948
	Ottawa East	Aurele Chartrand	Liberal	1948
	Ottawa South	George Harrison Dunbar	Progressive Conservative	1937
	Oxford	Thomas Roy Dent	Progressive Conservative	1943
	Parkdale	William James Stewart	Progressive Conservative	1938, 1951
	Parry Sound	Allister Johnston	Progressive Conservative	1948
	Peel	Thomas Laird Kennedy	Progressive Conservative	1919, 1937
	Perth	James Frederick Edwards	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Peterborough	Harold Robinson Scott	Progressive Conservative	1943
	Port Arthur	George Calvin Wardrope	Progressive Conservative	1951
	Prescott	Louis-Pierre Cécile	Progressive Conservative	1948
	Prince Edward—Lennox	Norris Eldon Howe Whitney	Progressive Conservative	1951
	Rainy River	William George Noden	Progressive Conservative	1951
	Renfrew North	Stanley Joseph Hunt	Progressive Conservative	1943
	Renfrew South	James Shannon Dempsey	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Riverdale	Robert William Macaulay	Progressive Conservative	1951
	Russell	Joseph Daniel Nault[c]	Progressive Conservative	1948
	Gordon Lavergne (1954)	Progressive Conservative	1954
	Sault Ste. Marie	Harry Lyons	Progressive Conservative	1951
	Simcoe Centre	George Graham Johnston	Progressive Conservative	1943
	Simcoe East	John Duncan McPhee	Progressive Conservative	1943
	Lloyd Averall Letherby (1954)	Progressive Conservative	1954
	St. Andrew	Joseph Baruch Salsberg	Labour-Progressive	1943
	St. David	Everett Weaver	Progressive Conservative	1951
	St. George	Dana Harris Porter	Progressive Conservative	1943
	St. Patrick	Archibald Kelso Roberts	Progressive Conservative	1943, 1951
	Stormont	Peter Thomas Manley	Liberal	1951
	Sudbury	Welland Stewart Gemmell	Progressive Conservative	1948
	Timiskaming	Alexander Robert Herbert	Progressive Conservative	1951
	Victoria	Leslie Miscampbell Frost	Progressive Conservative	1937
	Waterloo North	Stanley Francis Leavine	Progressive Conservative	1951
	Waterloo South	Raymond Munro Myers	Progressive Conservative	1951
	Welland	Ellis Price Morningstar	Progressive Conservative	1951
	Wellington North	John Henry Haines Root	Progressive Conservative	1951
	Wellington South	William Ernest Hamilton	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Wentworth	Arthur John Child	Progressive Conservative	1951
	Windsor—Sandwich	William Griesinger	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Windsor—Walkerville	M.C. Davies	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Woodbine	Harold Ferguson Fishleigh	Progressive Conservative	1951
	York East	Hollis Edward Beckett	Progressive Conservative	1951
	York North	Addison Alexander MacKenzie	Progressive Conservative	1945
	York South	William George Beech	Progressive Conservative	1951
	York West	W. Elmer Brandon	Progressive Conservative	1951

Timeline

24th Legislative Assembly of Ontario - Movement in seats held (1951-1955)

Party		1951	Gain/(loss) due to				1955
			Resignation as MPP	Death in office	Byelection gain	Byelection hold
	Progressive Conservative	79		(4)	1	4	80
	Liberal	7	(1)				6
	Co-operative Commonwealth	2					2
	Labor–Progressive	1					1
	Liberal–Labour	1					1
Total		90	(1)	(4)	1	4	90

Changes in seats held (1951–1955)

Seat	Before				Change
	Date	Member	Party	Reason	Date	Member	Party
Niagara Falls	July 22, 1953	William Houck	█ Liberal	Chose to stand in Niagara Falls in the 1953 federal election	October 26, 1953	Arthur Connaught Jolley	█ PC
Simcoe East	December 2, 1953	John Duncan McPhee	█ PC	Died in office	February 8, 1954	Lloyd Letherby	█ PC
Nipissing	March 1, 1954	William Bruce Harvey	█ PC	Died in office	September 16, 1954	Jean Marc Chaput	█ PC
Leeds	March 15, 1954	Charles MacOdrum	█ PC	Died in office	September 16, 1954	James Auld	█ PC
Russell	March 18, 1954	Joseph Daniel Nault	█ PC	Died in office	September 16, 1954	Gordon Lavergne	█ PC

Notes

1. First elected as United Farmers
2. elected to federal seat
3. died in 1954