111 seats in the 14th Legislative Assembly of Ontario 56 seats were needed for a majority
First party
Second party
Leader
James P. Whitney
Newton Rowell
Party
Conservative
Liberal
Leader since
1896
1911
Leader's seat
Dundas
Oxford North
Last election
83
22
Seats won
84
24
Seat change
1
2
Percentage
55.3%
38.6%
Swing
0.3pp
0.1pp
Premier before election
James P. Whitney
Conservative
Premier after election
James P. Whitney
Conservative
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]
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 Conservatives contested 109 of the 111 ridings, deciding not to have candidates stand in Glengarry (where the Liberal Hugh Munro was acclaimed) and Norfolk North (where the Liberal incumbent Thomas Robert Atkinson was up against a Liberal anti-Temperance candidate).[2] However, dissension within the Tory ranks resulted in a significant number of them campaigning as either independent or temperance candidates.[2]
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.
The campaign was seen to turn more significantly on the matter of Regulation 17 (which limited instruction in French-language Catholic separate schools), in comparison to temperance issues, and that worked against the Liberals,[3] who placed Prohibition of sales in bars and clubs as a main plank in their platform.[4]
^"1914 General Election". Elections Ontario. Elections Ontario. Retrieved January 3, 2021.
^ ab"The Ontario Campaign is Hotly Contested". The Daily British Whig. Kingston. June 23, 1914. p. 8.
^"Sir James' Triumph". The Toronto World. June 30, 1914. p. 6.
^Hopkins 1915, p. 440.
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