Windsor—Tecumseh

Windsor—Tecumseh, spanning the eastern portion of the City of Windsor and the adjacent Town of Tecumseh, entered the 2025 provincial election with a first-term Progressive Conservative incumbent seeking to solidify a historic victory. Andrew Dowie's 2022 win had made him the first Conservative MPP to represent the area in 93 years, breaking a long tradition of NDP representation. During the 2022–2025 term, Dowie served as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, and subsequently as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks.

The riding sits at the centre of Ontario's electric vehicle manufacturing transformation, and the progress of the NextStar Energy battery plant—the massive joint venture between Stellantis and LG Energy Solution—was the defining economic story of the term. The contest was a rematch between Dowie and the NDP's Gemma Grey-Hall, who had placed second in 2022.

Candidates

Andrew Dowie (Progressive Conservative) — A licensed professional engineer, Dowie is the only engineer currently serving in the Ontario Legislature. He worked as Senior Engineer and Drainage Superintendent for the City of Windsor and served as a Tecumseh town councillor for Ward 1 from 2014 to 2022. He was recognized as one of Leadership Windsor-Essex's 40 Leaders Under 40 in 2018.

Gemma Grey-Hall (NDP) — An executive, entrepreneur, and community leader, Grey-Hall serves as Director of Women's Enterprise Skills Training and Director of Black Women of Forward Action. She has also served as Treasurer of the Victorian Order of Nurses Windsor-Essex and has lived in the Windsor-Tecumseh area for more than 20 years.

Connor Logan (Liberal) — A 23-year-old political science graduate from the University of Windsor, Logan previously worked in the constituency office of federal Liberal MP Irek Kusmierczyk. This was his first run for provincial office.

Other candidates included Roxanne Tellier (Green Party), Steven Gifford (Ontario Party), Sophia Sevo (New Blue Party), and Kyle Ford (Communist).

Local Issues

The NextStar Energy electric vehicle battery plant was the dominant economic story in Windsor—Tecumseh during the 2022–2025 term. The 4.23-million-square-foot facility, built by a crew of 950 Canadian construction workers, celebrated a structural steel completion milestone in December 2023 and began battery module production in October 2024, using lithium-ion cells imported from an LG Energy Solution plant in Poland. The plant, backed by up to $15 billion in combined provincial and federal production subsidies, was designed to create an estimated 2,500 direct jobs. However, a pivot from electric vehicle batteries to battery storage products amid a weakening EV market raised questions about the facility's long-term trajectory.

The planned new acute care hospital for Windsor-Essex remained a major local priority. The $2-billion facility, to be built on a site at County Road 42, moved through planning stages during the term, with recruitment of project directors accelerating in 2024 and a tendering process for the design-builder set to begin in 2025. Dowie identified the hospital as his top priority for the next mandate. The project carried particular weight in a riding where residents had long advocated for modern healthcare infrastructure to replace aging facilities.

Infrastructure investment to support the economic transformation of the Windsor region was also a key concern. Residents and candidates debated the adequacy of roads, utilities, and transit to accommodate the influx of workers and growth generated by the battery plant and related industrial development.