Jill Dunlop is a Canadian politician who has been the Ontario Minister of Education since August 16, 2024.[1] She represents the riding of Simcoe North in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party since 2018[2] and was also the Associate Minister of Children and Women's Issues.[3][self-published source?] She was Ontario Minister of Colleges and Universities from June 18, 2021 until August 16, 2024.
She was born and raised in the rural town of Coldwater, Ontario. She is the daughter of Jane Dunlop, former Deputy Mayor of Township of Severn, ON and Garfield Dunlop, who represented the same electoral district from 1999 to 2015.[citation needed]
Electoral record
| 2025 Ontario general election: Simcoe North | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ** Preliminary results — Not yet official ** | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Jill Dunlop | 25,020 | 51.7 | +1.9 | ||||
| Liberal | Walter Alvarez-Bardales | 13,268 | 27.4 | +10.0 | ||||
| New Democratic | Jordi Malcolm | 4,790 | 9.9 | –7.8 | ||||
| Green | Chris Carr | 3,177 | 6.6 | –2.2 | ||||
| New Blue | Dave Brunelle | 1,562 | 3.2 | +0.1 | ||||
| Libertarian | William Joslin | 578 | 1.2 | +0.5 | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | ||||||||
| Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots | ||||||||
| Turnout | 46.2 | ±0.0 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 104,695 | |||||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | –4.1 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Ontario[4] | ||||||||
| 2022 Ontario general election: Simcoe North | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Jill Dunlop | 23,041 | 49.80 | +2.89 | ||||
| New Democratic | Elizabeth Van Houtte | 8,208 | 17.74 | −10.29 | ||||
| Liberal | Aaron Cayden Hiltz | 8,070 | 17.44 | −0.26 | ||||
| Green | Krystal Brooks | 4,071 | 8.80 | +2.05 | ||||
| New Blue | Mark Douris | 1,438 | 3.11 | |||||
| Ontario Party | Aaron MacDonald | 1,119 | 2.42 | |||||
| Libertarian | William Joslin | 318 | 0.69 | +0.09 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 46,265 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots | 228 | |||||||
| Turnout | 46,493 | 46.24 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 101,053 | |||||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | +6.59 | ||||||
Source(s)
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| 2018 Ontario general election: Simcoe North | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Jill Dunlop | 25,236 | 46.92 | +2.98 | ||||
| New Democratic | Elizabeth Van Houtte | 15,078 | 28.03 | +12.48 | ||||
| Liberal | Gerry Marshall | 9,523 | 17.70 | -14.82 | ||||
| Green | Valerie Powell | 3,632 | 6.75 | -1.24 | ||||
| Libertarian | Cynthia Sneath | 320 | 0.59 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 53,789 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Progressive Conservative gain from Independent | Swing | -8.97 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Ontario[5] | ||||||||
Notes
References
- ^ "Jill Dunlop named Ontario's new education minister after Todd Smith resigns". CTV News. August 16, 2024. Retrieved August 16, 2024.
- ^ "Jill Dunlop elected in Simcoe North". CTV Barrie. June 7, 2018.
- ^ "Jill Dunlop | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
- ^ "Simcoe North Unofficial Election Results". Elections Ontario. 28 February 2025. Retrieved 28 February 2025.
- ^ "Summary of Valid Votes Cast for each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 28, 2018.
