Riding profile

Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound

Provincial riding — ON · Rural · on sw

The question

Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound: a safe seat for the PC Party?

Editorial read

Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound, a rural riding in Ontario, elected a member with the PC Party in the previous cycle, with a 15-point margin. The Vote-Scope model projects the PC Party ahead at 43% vote share, against 31% for the Ontario Liberals, and the probability of a close race is negligible.

Sitting member

Paul Vickers

Sits with PC

Parliament
44th

Current forecast

PC

Safe

Probability
100%
Mean margin (pts)
11.5
P(close race)
0%

Projected vote share

Projection by party

  • PC 42.8%
  • OLP 31.2%
  • GP 12.0%
  • NDP 9.4%
  • OTH 4.6%

In context

How this riding stacks up

PC OLP GP NDP
HereBruce—Grey—Owen Sound 42.8%31.2%12.0%9.4%
Provincial averageOntario 40.2% +2.5 33.4% −2.1 3.9% +8.1 20.3% −10.8

Provincial averages computed across the 124 riding-level projections (unweighted mean).

Projection track

How the projection has moved

Previous election · ON 2025

Won by
PC
Margin
14.7 pts
Turnout
50.0%
Margin shift vs current projection
-3.2 pts

Detailed result · ON 2025

Candidates and votes

Candidate Party Votes % Occupation
PAUL VICKERS Elected PC 20,158 44.1
SELWYN J. HICKS OLP 13,445 29.4
JOEL LOUGHEAD GP 5,693 12.5
JAMES HARRIS NDP 3,611 7.9
ANN GILLIES OTH 1,006 2.2
VINCENT GRIMALDI OTH 930 2.0
MICHAEL BUTT OTH 681 1.5
MATT FRITZ OTH 148 0.3
Last model run
Cycle
on_2029