Ted McMeekin of Waterdown is the new agriculture minister in Ontario following the election election defeat of both women who held the post under Premier Dalton McGuinty.McMeekin represents the mainly urban riding of Ancaster, Dundas, Flamborough and Westdale near Hamilton.
Carol Mitchell of Clinton was defeated in her riding north and west of London and Leona Dombrowsky of Tweed, who moved from agriculture to education minister, was defeated in her riding north and east of Oshawa.
The Progressive Conservative Party candidates won in all the rural ridings and the Liberals fell one seat short of a minority by holding downtown urban ridings in Toronto, Ottawa, Windsor, Hamilton, Kitchener and Guelph.
