Steve Pinsonneault
Steve Pinsonneault | |
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Pinsonneault in 2024 | |
| Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament for Lambton—Kent—Middlesex | |
| Assumed office May 2, 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Monte McNaughton |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Progressive Conservative |
Steve Pinsonneault MPP is a Canadian politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in a by-election on May 2, 2024.[1] He represents the electoral district of Lambton—Kent—Middlesex as a member of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party.[2]
Prior to his election to the legislature, he was a municipal councillor in Chatham-Kent.[2]
Pinsonneault was reelected in the 2025 general election. In May 2025, he stated his opposition to his own party's omnibus bill to cancel an environmental assessment of a proposed 30-fold expansion of a landfill in Dresden, Ontario in his riding. During his byelection win in 2024, he had campaigned on securing such an assessment.[3]
Electoral record
| Ontario provincial by-election, May 2, 2024: Lambton—Kent—Middlesex Resignation of Monte McNaughton | ||||||||
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| ** Preliminary results — Not yet official ** | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Steve Pinsonneault | 15,649 | 56.85 | -1.96 | ||||
| Liberal | Cathy Burghardt-Jesson | 6,208 | 22.55 | +12.97 | ||||
| New Democratic | Kathryn Shailer | 2,973 | 10.80 | -8.04 | ||||
| New Blue | Keith Benn | 1,513 | 5.50 | -0.87 | ||||
| Green | Andraena Tilgner | 429 | 1.56 | -2.42 | ||||
| None of the Above | Stephen R. Campbell | 360 | 1.31 | +0.60 | ||||
| Ontario Party | Cynthia Workman | 310 | 1.13 | -0.59 | ||||
| Family Rights | Hilda Walton | 87 | 0.23 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 27,529 | |||||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||||
| Turnout | 30.25 | -17.08 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 90,993 | |||||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | -7.46 | ||||||
References
- ^ "Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives easily win both Ontario by-elections". The Globe and Mail, May 3, 2024.
- ^ a b Andrew Lupton, "Lambton-Kent-Middlesex stays PC blue as Pinsonneault cruises to win". CBC News London, May 2, 2024.
- ^ Jones, Allison; Omstead, Jordan (May 21, 2025). "Ontario PC caucus member opposed to government's landfill plan in Dresden". Global News. Retrieved May 21, 2025.