1914 Ontario general election
The 1914 Ontario general election was the 14th general election held in the Province of Ontario, Canada. It was held on June 29, 1914, to elect the 111 Members of the 14th Legislative Assembly of Ontario (MLAs).[1]
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The Ontario Conservative Party, led by Sir James P. Whitney, won a fourth consecutive term in government. Whitney died three months after the election and was succeeded by William Howard Hearst.
The Ontario Liberal Party, led by Newton Rowell, formed the official opposition.
Independent Labour MLA Allan Studholme was re-elected in Hamilton East. He had held the seat since a 1906 by-election.
Expansion of the Legislative Assembly
Toronto ridings, as constituted in 1914
An Act passed prior to the election expanded the number of members from 106 to 111, and the number of ridings from 103 to 107.[2] The following changes were made:
- Windsor was spun off from Essex North
- Monck was merged with Lincoln, and St. Catharines was withdrawn
- Cochrane was carved out from Timiskaming
- In Bruce County, the three ridings were reorganized:
- The Township of Kinloss was withdrawn from Bruce South
- Bruce North gained the Township of Elderslie, while those of Bruce and Saugeen were withdrawn
- As a consequence, Bruce Centre was reconstituted as Bruce West
- In Victoria County, Victoria East and Victoria West were reorganized into Victoria North and Victoria South
- In Toronto, the ridings of Toronto East, Toronto North, Toronto South and Toronto West were replaced:
- Toronto Northeast, Toronto Northwest, Toronto Southeast and Toronto Southwest were constituted as two-member constituencies
- Parkdale and Riverdale were created as single-member constituencies
The Patricia Portion acquired in 1912 was divided between Cochrane and Kenora.
Results
| Political party | Party leader | MPPs | Votes | |||||||
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| Candidates | 1911 | Dissol. | 1914 | ± | # | % | ± (pp) | |||
| Conservative | James P. Whitney | 111 | 82 | 84 | 2 |
262,329 | 53.87% | 1.72 | ||
| Liberal | Newton Rowell | 90 | 22 | 24 | 2 |
184,660 | 37.92% | 0.59 | ||
| Labour | 4 | 1 | 1 |  |
6,535 | 1.34% | 1.09 | |||
| Independent-Liberal | 2 | – | – | 1 | 1 |
2,236 | 0.46% | New | ||
| Liberal-Temperance | 1 | – | – | 1 | 1 |
2,733 | 0.56% | New | ||
| Liberal–Conservative | 1 | – | 1 |
Did not campaign | ||||||
| Temperance | 9 | – | – | – | 13,064 | 2.68% | New | |||
| Independent | 5 | – | – | – | 4,807 | 0.99% | 0.09 | |||
| Socialist | 12 | – | – | – | 4,496 | 0.92% | 0.05 | |||
| Conservative-Temperance | 2 | – | – | – | 2,222 | 0.46% | 0.03 | |||
| Independent-Conservative | 2 | – | – | – | 1,887 | 0.39% | 0.58 | |||
| Prohibitionist | 1 | – | – | – | 1,302 | 0.27% | New | |||
| Liberal-Anti-Temperance | 1 | – | – | – | 691 | 0.14% | New | |||
| Vacant | ||||||||||
| Total | 240 | 106 | 106 | 111 | 486,962 | 100.00% | ||||
| Blank and invalid ballots | 7,255 | |||||||||
| Registered voters / turnout | 767,115 | 64.43% | 0.17 | |||||||
| Party | Seats | Votes | Change (pp) | |||
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| Conservative | 84 / 111 | 53.87% | -1.72 | |||
| Liberal | 24 / 111 | 37.92% | -0.59 | |||
| Temperance factions | 1 / 111 | 3.97% | 3.54 | |||
| Other | 2 / 111 | 4.24% | -1.23 | |||
Reorganization of ridings
The newly created ridings returned the following MLAs:
| 1911 | 1914 | |||
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| Riding | Party | Riding | Party | |
| Essex North | █ Conservative | Essex North | █ Liberal | |
| Windsor | █ Liberal | |||
| Monck | █ Liberal | Lincoln | █ Liberal | |
| Lincoln | █ Conservative | |||
| Withdrawn from Lincoln | St. Catharines | █ Conservative | ||
| Timiskaming | █ Conservative | Timiskaming | █ Conservative | |
| Cochrane | █ Liberal | |||
| Bruce Centre | █ Liberal | Bruce West | █ Liberal | |
| Toronto ridings: | █ Conservative (8 MLAs) |
Parkdale | █ Conservative | |
| Riverdale | █ Conservative | |||
| Toronto Northeast | A | █ Conservative | ||
| B | █ Conservative | |||
| Toronto Northwest | A | █ Conservative | ||
| B | █ Conservative | |||
| Toronto Southeast | A | █ Conservative | ||
| B | █ Conservative | |||
| Toronto Southwest | A | █ Conservative | ||
| B | █ Conservative | |||
Seats that changed hands
| Party | 1911 | Gain from (loss to) | 1914 | ||||||||||||
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| Con | Lib | Lab | I-Lib | L-Tmp | L-Con | ||||||||||
| Conservative | 71 | 8 | (8) | (1) | 1 | 71 | |||||||||
| Liberal | 20 | 8 | (8) | (1) | 19 | ||||||||||
| Labour | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Independent-Liberal[a 1] | – | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Liberal-Temperance | – | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Liberal–Conservative[a 2] | 1 | (1) | – | ||||||||||||
| Total | 93 | 9 | (9) | 9 | (9) | – | – | – | (1) | – | (1) | 1 | – | 93 | |
- Gustave Évanturel (Prescott) was originally elected as a Liberal in 1911.
- James Arthur Mathieu (Rainy River) campaigned as a Conservative and won.
There were 20 seats that changed allegiance in the election:
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See also
References
- "1914 General Election". Elections Ontario. Elections Ontario. Retrieved January 3, 2021.
- The Representation Act, S.O. 1914, c. 4
Further reading
- Hopkins, J. Castell (1915). The Canadian Annual Review of Public Affairs, 1914. Toronto: The Annual Review Publishing Company.
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