Not only was Rob Flack re-elected Thursday in the 2025 provincial election, the PC MPP-elect did so in resounding fashion. Flack garnered 28,719 votes which is 55.8% of elegible voters.
The result is a significant improvement over the 2022 vote when Flack received 22,363 votes, however it trails Jeff Yurek’s 29,264 votes in the 2018 provincial election.
Although Liberal candidate Doug Mactavish was a distant second with 12,578 votes, that result is much improved over Liberal candidate Heather Jackson’s 7,615 votes in 2022.
A surprise number was the 4,738 votes for NDP candidate Amanda Zavitz, who indicated she was stepping away from the election after comments she made about wanting to be a black woman to further gain life experience.
Her name was still on the ballot but the result is well below the 7,970 votes that Andy Kroeker received in the previous provincial vote.
None of which compares to the 16,923 votes that NDP candidate Amanda Stratton obtained in 2018.
In fourth place this time around was Green Party candidate Amanda Stark with 2,933 votes. That’s an improvement of almost one thousand votes from her result in 2022.
Brian Figueiredo of the New Blue Party picked up 1,418 votes, down from Matt Millar’s 2,237 total in 2022.
Cooper Labrie of the Ontario Party – a late addition to the ballot – obtained 610 votes.
And, Stephen R. Campbell representing the None of the Above Direct Democracy Party received 469 votes.
The voter turnout in Elgin-Middlesex-London was 49.45% up from 44.6% in 2022.
Hard to imagine the turnout in 2018 was 59% in this riding.
In total, there were 104,065 registered voters.
Written by Ian McCallum
