| 1985 Ontario general election: Peterborough | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | John Melville Turner | 16,878 | 43.03 | |||||
| New Democratic | Linda Slavin | 11,941 | 30.44 | |||||
| Liberal | Bill Ayotte | 9,734 | 24.82 | |||||
| Libertarian | John Conlin | 461 | 1.18 | |||||
| Green | George Kerr | 212 | 0.54 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 39,226 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots | 233 | |||||||
| Turnout | 39,459 | 60.25 | ||||||
| Electors on the lists | 65,493 | |||||||
