One week before nominations close, the riding of Simcoe-Grey is seeing a rematch from the June 2022 provincial election.
There are three official candidates representing three of the four main parties in Ontario for the 2025 election, and all of them were on the ballot in 2022.
Progressive Conservative candidate Brian Saunderson is running for re-election, having been elected MPP in 2022, following a shortened term as mayor of Collingwood, which he left to run for a provincial seat.
Saunderson won the 2022 election with 51.2 per cent of the votes in the riding.
Ted Crysler, a Collingwood-based lawyer and tech entrepreneur is running again for the Ontario Liberal Party. Crysler ran in his first election in 2022, but said politics has been a lifelong interest for him.
Crysler won 22.1 per cent of the Simcoe-Grey votes in the 2022 election.
Allan Kuhn, who won nine per cent of the 2022 votes for Simcoe-Grey, will also return to the ballot in 2025.
An Angus resident, Kuhn has spent his career in social farming and working in the non-profit sector to help adults with developmental disabilities develop gardening skills.
In the Grey-Bruce-Owen Sound riding there are candidates declared for the Greens, Liberals and the PC Party, as well as candidates for the Libertarian party (Michael Butt), the Stop the New Sex-Ed Agenda party (Ann Gillies), and the New Blue Party (Vince Grimaldi).
There is no incumbent in the Grey-Bruce riding as Rick Byers, the PC MPP elected last election, is not running again.
In his place will be Paul Vickers, a dairy farmer who manages his family's third-generation farm near Meaford, and a former Meaford town councillor.
For the Liberals, Selwyn Hicks, former deputy mayor of Hanover and three-term warden of Grey County, will stand again as the local candidate. Hicks was on the ballot for the Liberals in the last provincial election.
Joel Loughead, a councillor for Grey Highlands and formerly a full-time wine and cider maker is also going to be on the provincial ballot a second time, this time for the Green Party of Ontario. In the last election he ran for the None of the Above Direct Democratic Party.
The New Democratic Party hasn't announced a candidate for Bruce-Grey yet. Last election, Karen Gventer was on the ballot for the NDP.
Nominations close Feb. 13 and the election is Feb. 27.
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