Past Speakers

Ontario’s MPPs have elected their Speakers by secret ballot since 1990. Speakers before 1990 were appointed by the governing party.

Ted Arnott, MPP for Wellington-Halton Hills, was elected Speaker on July 11, 2018, and was re-elected on August 8, 2022. He is the 42nd Speaker since 1867.

Name Start date End date
Dave Levac November 21, 2011 July 11, 2018
Steve Peters November 28, 2007 November 21, 2011
Michael A. Brown October 11, 2005 November 28, 2007
Alvin Curling November 19, 2003 August 19, 2005
Gary Carr October 20, 1999 November 19, 2003
Christopher M. Stockwell October 3, 1996 June 16, 1999
Edward A. Doyle September 26, 1996 October 3, 1996
Allan K. McLean September 26, 1995 September 26, 1996
David William Warner November 19, 1990 September 26, 1995
Hugh Alden Edighoffer June 4, 1985 November 19, 1990
John Melville Turner April 21, 1981 June 4, 1985
John Edward Stokes October 17, 1977 April 21, 1981
Russell Daniel Rowe October 22, 1974 October 17, 1977
Allan Edward Reuter December 13, 1971 October 22, 1974
Frederick McIntosh Cass February 14, 1968 July 28, 1971
Donald Hugo Morrow October 29, 1963 June 15, 1967
William Murdoch January 6, 1960 April 26, 1963
Alfred Wallace Downer September 8, 1955 March 26, 1959
Myrddyn Cooke Davies February 10, 1949 March 31, 1955
James de Congalton Hepburn March 24, 1947 April 16, 1948
William James Stewart February 22, 1944 March 21, 1947
James Howard Clark March 8, 1939 April 14, 1943
Norman Otto Hipel February 20, 1935 September 2, 1938
Thomas Ashmore Kidd February 5, 1930 April 18, 1933
William David Black February 2, 1927 March 28, 1929
Joseph Elijah Thompson February 6, 1924 April 8, 1926
Nelson Parliament March 9, 1920 May 8, 1923
David Jamieson February 16, 1915 April 24, 1919
William Henry Hoyle February 7, 1912 May 1, 1914
Thomas Crawford April 8, 1907 March 24, 1911
Joseph Wesley St. John March 22, 1905 April 7, 1907
William Andrew Charlton March 10, 1903 April 26, 1904
François Eugène Alfred Évanturel February 10, 1897 March 17, 1902
William Douglas Balfour February 21, 1895 July 14, 1896
Thomas Ballantyne February 11, 1891 May 5, 1894
Jacob Baxter February 10, 1887 April 7, 1890
Charles Clarke January 7, 1880 March 25, 1886
Rupert Mearse Wells January 7, 1874 March 11, 1879
James George Currie December 21, 1871 March 29, 1873
Richard William Scott December 7, 1871 December 21, 1871
John Stevenson December 27, 1867 February 15, 1871