Editing Legislative Assembly of Ontario (section)

==History==
{{See also|List of Ontario general elections|List of Ontario Legislative Assemblies}}
[[File:Parliament of Ontario 1871.jpg|thumb|[[Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario)|Members]] of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario convene in 1871.]]

The Legislative Assembly was established by the [[Constitution Act, 1867|British North America Act, 1867]] (later re-titled ''Constitution Act, 1867''), which dissolved the [[Province of Canada]] into two new provinces, with the portion then called [[Canada West]] becoming Ontario.

As such, the 1st Parliament of Ontario was one of the three legislative bodies succeeding the [[Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada]]'s [[8th Parliament of the Province of Canada|8th Parliament]].

The [[1867 Ontario general election|first election in 1867]] produced a tie between [[Conservative Party of Ontario|Conservatives]] led by [[John Sandfield Macdonald]] and the [[Ontario Liberal Party|Liberals]] led by [[Archibald McKellar]]. Macdonald led a [[coalition government]] with the support of moderate Liberals. [[John Stevenson (Ontario politician)|John Stevenson]] served as the first speaker for the assembly.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://speaker.ontla.on.ca/en/at-the-assembly/speakers/|title=Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario|publisher=Legislative Assembly of Ontario|access-date=February 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140801101335/http://speaker.ontla.on.ca/en/at-the-assembly/speakers/|archive-date=August 1, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> Its first session ran from September 3, 1867, until February 25, 1871, just prior to the [[1871 Ontario general election|1871 general election]].

The Legislature has been [[unicameral]] since its inception, with the Assembly currently having 124 seats (increased from 107 as of the [[42nd Ontario general election]]) representing [[Electoral district (Canada)|electoral districts]] ("ridings") elected through a [[first-past-the-post]] electoral system across the province.

In 1938, the title of Member of the Legislative Assembly was officially changed to Member of Provincial Parliament. Previously, multiple terms were unofficially used in the media and in the Legislature.<ref name="origins"/>

[[Ontario]] uses the same boundaries as those at the federal level for its Legislative Assembly in [[Southern Ontario]], while seats in [[Northern Ontario]] correspond to the federal districts that were in place before the 2004 adjustment. Ontario had separate provincial electoral districts prior to 1999.

Members had the option to address the Speaker and conduct official debates in either English or French, until March 2024, when members were allowed to "to also address the Speaker in an Indigenous language spoken in Canada", in addition to French and English. They are asked to let the clerk know in advance, to allow for translation and interpretation services to prepare.<ref> {{cite news |last= Law|first=Sarah |date=March 27, 2024 |title=Ontario MPPs can now speak their own Indigenous languages at Queen's Park |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/ontario-queens-park-anishinaabemowin-1.7156130 |work=CBC |location= |publisher= |access-date=April 3, 2025}}</ref> The first person to do so was [[Sol Mamakwa]], MPP for [[Kiiwetinoong]], speaking in [[Anishininiimowin]], also known as Oji-Cree, on May 28th that year.<ref> {{cite news |last=Cecco |first=Leyland |date=May 28, 2024 |title=In historic first, Canada lawmaker addresses legislature in Indigenous language |url= https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/canada-sol-mamakwa-speech-first-nation-language|work=The Guardian |location= |publisher= |access-date=April 3, 2025}}</ref>

===Timeline of the 44th Parliament of Ontario===
The following notable events occurred during the 2025–present period: 
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====Summary of seat changes====
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