With 70 of 70 polls reporting, incumbent Lisa Gretzky, of the Ontario New Democratic Party, is projected to be re-elected in Windsor West. Gretzky has 19,392 of 37,204 (52.12%) votes cast. Gretzky has represented the riding since 2014.

Willow McLellan, Deepak Kaushik Melissa Harries spoke with CBC News at their Windsor, Ont., polling station on Thursday.

All four Windsor-Essex ridings in the Ontario election were decided within the first half hour of polls closing — and the winning candidates have familiar faces. In Windsor-Tecumseh, PC candidate Andrew Dowie won with 21,285 votes, or 48 per cent, beating the NDP’s Gemma Grey-Hall, who came second with 13,721 votes, or 31 per cent.

Ontario voters are set to head to the polls Thursday after a snap election campaign in which Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford has focused on battling U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats, while the opposition prioritized health care, housing and the rising cost of living.

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In the 2022 provincial election, 32,039 of 95,295 registered voters (33.6 per cent) cast ballots, one of the worst turnouts across Ontario. Gretzky won with 42 per cent of the vote, followed by PC candidate John Leontowicz (35 per cent) and Liberal Linda McCurdy (13 per cent).

Windsor west is a provincial riding located in Southwest Ontario. This riding is currently represented by Ontario NDP MPP Lisa Gretzky who first took office in 2014. Gretzky collected 13,395 votes, winning 42.

Doug Ford's Progressive Conservatives won't have long to sit back and bask in the glow of winning a third majority government with an imminent tariff threat around the corner.