111 seats in the 15th Legislative Assembly of Ontario 56 seats were needed for a majority
First party
Second party
Leader
Ernest C. Drury
Hartley Dewart
Party
United Farmers
Liberal
Leader since
October 1919[a]
June 26, 1919
Leader's seat
-
Toronto Southwest
Last election
pre-creation
24
Seats won
44
27
Seat change
44
3
Percentage
21.0%
25.5%
Swing
21.0pp
12.4pp
Third party
Fourth party
Leader
William Hearst
Walter Rollo
Party
Conservative
Labour
Leader since
1914
-
Leader's seat
Sault Ste. Marie (lost re-election)
Hamilton West
Last election
84
1
Seats won
25
11
Seat change
59
10
Percentage
34.1%
9.1%
Swing
19.8pp
7.8pp
Premier before election
William Hearst
Conservative
Premier after election
Ernest C. Drury
United Farmers
The 1919 Ontario general election, held on October 20, 1919, elected 111 Members of the 15th Legislative Assembly of Ontario ("MLAs"). The United Farmers of Ontario captured the most seats but only a minority of the legislature. They joined with 11 Labour MPPs and three others to form a coalition government, ending the 14-year rule of Ontario's Conservatives.[1] This is one of the few examples of coalition government in Canadian history.
Premier William Howard Hearst had aimed to win a fifth consecutive term for the Conservatives, but instead the party became the first in Ontario history to fall from first to third place.[2] As newspaperman John Willison later remarked, "There could not have been a worse time for a general election."[2]
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