The 38th Parliament of Ontario opened on November 19, 2003 at 3 p.m. Eastern Time with a Throne Speech in which the McGuinty government laid out their agenda. Student vote High school students in every riding in Ontario were allowed to cast ballots in their classrooms as part of a student vote, although their numbers did not count in the official election. 93 ridings favoured the Liberals in the student vote, nine favoured the New Democrats, and one favoured the Greens, while the Conservatives were shut out. There was also a vote for elementary students. Provincial results Notes: 1 "Before" refers to the party standings in the Legislature at the end of the legislative session, and not to the standings at the previous election. 2 Richard Butson was the sole candidate for the Confederation of Regions Party. 3Ten candidates ran as "Independent Renewal" candidates. This was the Marxist-Leninist Party under another name. 4Candidates from the Independent Reform Party and Communist League also ran as independents. 5Costas Manios ran as an "Independent Liberal" candidate after being denied the opportunity to run for the Liberal Party nomination in Scarborough Centre. Outgoing MPP Claudette Boyer had sat in the house as an "Independent Liberal" from 2001 to 2003. It is possible that some other candidates listed on the ballot as independents ran for unregistered parties.The following table gives the number of seats each party won, and the number of ridings in which each party came second, third, and fourth: Riding results Ottawa |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Nepean—Carleton | |Rod Vanier 20,878 (35.65%) || |John Baird 31,662 (54.06%) | |Liam McCarthy 3,828 (6.54%) | |Matt Takach 2,200 (3.76%) | | || |John Baird |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Ottawa Centre || |Richard Patten 22,295 (45.1%) | |Joe Varner 11,217 (22.69%) | |Jeff Atkinson 11,362 (22.98%) | |Chris Bradshaw 3,821 (7.73%) | |Stuart Ryan (Comm)306 (0.62%)Matt Szymanowicz (F)218 (0.44%)Fakhry Guirguis (Ind)214 (0.43%) || |Richard Patten |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Ottawa—Orléans || |Phil McNeely 25,300 (50.36%) | |Brian Coburn 20,762 (41.32%) | |Ric Dagenais 2,778 (5.53%) | |Melanie Ransom1,402 (2.79%) | | || |Brian Coburn |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Ottawa South || |Dalton McGuinty 24,647 (51.7%) | |Richard Raymond 16,413 (34.43%) | |James McLaren 4,306 (9.03%) | |David Chernushenko1,741 (3.65%) | |John Pacheco (FCP)562 (1.18%) || |Dalton McGuinty |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Ottawa—Vanier || |Madeleine Meilleur 22,188 (53.53%) | |Maurice Lamirande 10,878 (26.24%) | |Joseph Zebrowski 6,507 (15.7%) | |Raphael Thierrin1,876 (4.53%) | | || |Claudette Boyer † |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Ottawa West—Nepean ||