Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, 1949

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Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, 1949
Date April 27, 1949
Resigning leader George Drew
Won by Leslie Frost
Ballots 1
Candidates 4
Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership conventions 1920, 1936, 1938, 1949, 1961, 1971, 1985, 1990, 2002, 2004, 2009, 2015

A leadership election was held by the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario on April 27, 1949 to replace retiring leader and premier George Drew who had resigned after losing his seat in the 1948 provincial election and deciding to enter federal politics. The interim leader of the party (and interim premier) was Thomas Laird Kennedy. The party selected Leslie Frost on the first ballot.

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