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1923 Ontario general election
Canadian provincial election
Canadian provincial election
| Field | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| election_name | 1923 Ontario general election | |
| country | Ontario | |
| flag_year | 1921 | |
| type | parliamentary | |
| ongoing | no | |
| party_colour | no | |
| party_name | no | |
| previous_election | 1919 Ontario general election | |
| previous_year | 1919 | |
| next_election | 1926 Ontario general election | |
| next_year | 1926 | |
| seats_for_election | 111 seats in the [16th Legislative Assembly of Ontario](16th-legislative-assembly-of-ontario) | |
| 56 seats were needed for a majority | ||
| election_date | June 25, 1923 | |
| image1 | [[File:Howard Ferguson.jpg | 150x150px]] |
| colour1 | ||
| leader1 | Howard Ferguson | |
| leader_since1 | December 2, 1920 | |
| party1 | Conservative | |
| leaders_seat1 | Grenville | |
| last_election1 | 25 | |
| seats1 | 75 | |
| seat_change1 | 50 | |
| percentage1 | 49.8% | |
| swing1 | 14.9pp | |
| image2 | [[File:EC Drury Photo B (HS85-10-36997).jpg | 150x150px]] |
| colour2 | ||
| leader2 | Ernest C. Drury | |
| leader_since2 | 1920 | |
| party2 | ||
| leaders_seat2 | Halton *(lost re-election)* | |
| last_election2 | 44 | |
| seats2 | 17 | |
| seat_change2 | 27 | |
| percentage2 | 21.1% | |
| swing2 | 0.1pp | |
| image3 | **LIB** | |
| colour3 | ||
| leader3 | Wellington Hay | |
| leader_since3 | 1921 | |
| party3 | ||
| leaders_seat3 | Perth North *(lost* *re-election)* | |
| last_election3 | 27 | |
| seats3 | 14 | |
| seat_change3 | 13 | |
| percentage3 | 21.8% | |
| swing3 | 5.1pp | |
| image4 | [[Image:Walter_Rollo_1919.png | 150x150px]] |
| colour4 | ||
| leader4 | Walter Rollo | |
| leader_since4 | 1919 | |
| party4 | ||
| leaders_seat4 | Hamilton West *(lost* *re-election)* | |
| last_election4 | 11 | |
| seats4 | 4 | |
| seat_change4 | 7 | |
| percentage4 | 4.8% | |
| swing4 | 4.3pp | |
| title | Premier | |
| posttitle | Premier after election | |
| before_election | Ernest Charles Drury | |
| before_party | ||
| after_election | Howard Ferguson | |
| after_party | Conservative | |
| elected_members | [elected members](16th-legislative-assembly-of-ontario) | |
| outgoing_members | [outgoing members](15th-legislative-assembly-of-ontario) |
56 seats were needed for a majority |}} The 1923 Ontario general election was the 16th general election held in the province of Ontario, Canada. It was held on June 25, 1923, to elect the 111 Members of the 16th Legislative Assembly of Ontario ("MLAs").
The Ontario Conservative Party, led by George Howard Ferguson, was elected to power with a majority in the Legislature (although taking less than half the votes cast).
This election ended the rule of the United Farmers of Ontario-Labour coalition government of Ernest C. Drury.
Campaign
| Candidates nominated | Ridings | Party | Totals | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align="center" | **Con** | align="center" | **UFO** | align="center" | **Lib** | align="center" | **Lab** |
| Acclamation | 2 | 1 | |||||
| 2 | 50 | 43 | 34 | ||||
| 3 | 49 | 48 | 34 | ||||
| 4 | 8 | 8 | 2 | ||||
| 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 6 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| **Total** | 111 | 103 | 71 |
Electoral system
Most seats filled using first past the post voting in single-member districts.
The eight Toronto MPPs were elected in four two-seat districts where the seats were filled in separate first past the post contests.
Voter turnout
The election saw a voter turnout of just 54.7%, the lowest voter turnout in Ontario history until the 2007 election.
The low election turn-out was in part caused by the worst wind, rain and lightning storm in years inundating the western part of the province. The electrical storm and hurricane began shortly after the polls closed, resulting in massive disruption of telegraph and telephone communications, which hampered the reporting of results.
Results
The 1923 election was plagued by low turn-out, and all the parties took fewer voters than they had in 1919.
The UFO actually took a larger proportion of the vote than it had in 1919 but took just a fraction of the seats it had taken in 1919 due to much of the anti-UFO vote concentrating behind Conservative Party candidates. The UFO had held power by virtue of a coalition with Labour and three other MLAs. Together they had received 34 percent of the votes cast in 1919. The Conservatives after the 1923 election took majority government based on taking 34 percent of the vote by that one party alone.
The Ontario Liberal Party, led by Wellington Hay, lost close to half its caucus in the Conservative landslide. Labour (the Independent Labour Party) too lost most of its MLAs in this turn-around election.
The Conservative party was the most popular, taking 34 percent of the vote. Its candidate was the leading one in a large proportion of the districts, giving it a large majority of seats in the legislature (more than its due proportionally) under the First past the post system in use at the time.
In the election, the UFO again did not run candidates where a Labour candidate was running - and also not in 20 other districts as well. The UFO received the third-most number of votes overall but only ran in about two-thirds of the districts so its vote count likely does not measure its actual support. Together Labour and the UFO ran in 93 seats so the two did not cover all the districts in the province.
The UFO did not receive as many votes as it had in 1919 but still got fairly good numbers considering it did not run candidates in a third of the districts. As the 1923 election was plagued by low turn-out, the UFO received a higher percentage of votes cast than it had received in 1919.
Prior to the election, the UFO government had introduced bills to re-distribute the ridings, and to introduce proportional representation and the single transferable vote, but withdrew them after vehement opposition from the Conservative MLAs, and it was found that even some government members were ambivalent.
Under First past the post, the UFO received about a third of the seats that it was due proportionally overall. Looking at the 71 districts where the UFO ran candidates, it received about half the votes there so was due 35 of those seats but received only eight. In many districts, Conservative candidates took rural seats away from incumbent UFO MLAs by taking just a few hundred more votes than them in each district. In Prince Edward, Conservative candidate Horace Stanley Colliver took just 17 more votes than his closest contender to win the seat.
Ferguson was the only party leader to hold his seat in the election. Drury, Hay and Rollo all lost their seats to their Conservative opponents.
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! colspan=2 rowspan=2 | Political party
! rowspan=2 | Party leader
! colspan=5 | MPPs
! colspan=3 | Votes
|-
! Candidates
!Dissol.
!1923
!±
!#
!%
! ± (pp)
|103
|25
|24
|75
|50
|473,819
|49.77%
|15.68
|71
|44
|44
|17
|27
|199,393
|20.94%
|0.03
|78
|27
|27
|14
|13
|203,079
|21.33%
|4.18
|23
|11
|11
|4
|7
|45,213
|4.75%
|4.34
|12
|–
|–
|1
|1
|15,426
|1.62%
|2.45
|2
|1
|1
|–
|1
|5,041
|0.53%
|0.08
|3
|–
|–
|–
|–
|10,122
|1.06%
|
|–
|1
|1
|–
|1
|–
|1
|1
|–
|1
|–
|1
|1
|–
|1
|1
|-style="background:#E9E9E9;"
|292
|111
|111
|111
|
|952,093
|100.00%
|
|-
|-style="background:#E9E9E9;"
|1,655,312
|58.34%
|27.19
|}
Vote and seat summaries
|File:Ternary ON1919.svg |1919 |File:Ternary ON1923.svg |1923
Synopsis of results
| Riding | Region | Winning party | Turnout | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| including spoilt ballots | Votes | [1919](1919-ontario-general-election) → 1923 | Votes | Share | Margin | |||||||||||||
| # | Margin | |||||||||||||||||
| % | Con | UFO | Lib | Lab | Ind | I-Lib | Prog | Total | ||||||||||
| Addington | EAS | Con | 3,110 | 70.83% | 1,829 | 41.65% | 61.33% | 3,110 | – | 1,281 | – | – | – | – | 4,391 | |||
| Algoma | NOR | Lib | 2,365 | 36.06% | 14 | 0.21% | 67.57% | 2,351 | 1,842 | 2,365 | – | – | – | – | 6,558 | |||
| Brant North | MWO | UFO | 3,617 | 50.36% | 52 | 0.72% | 61.19% | 3,565 | 3,617 | – | – | – | – | – | 7,182 | |||
| Brant South | MWO | Lab | 5,678 | 53.26% | 695 | 6.52% | 59.09% | – | – | 4,983 | 5,678 | – | – | – | 10,661 | |||
| Brockville | EAS | → | Con | 4,182 | 59.12% | 1,290 | 18.24% | 62.26% | 4,182 | – | 2,892 | – | – | – | – | 7,074 | ||
| Bruce North | MWO | UFO | 2,557 | 39.97% | 311 | 4.86% | 75.68% | 2,246 | 2,557 | 1,595 | – | – | – | – | 6,398 | |||
| Bruce South | MWO | → | UFO | 1,942 | 35.83% | 49 | 0.90% | 67.10% | 1,893 | 1,942 | 1,585 | – | – | – | – | 5,420 | ||
| Bruce West | MWO | Lib | 2,582 | 38.73% | 38 | 0.57% | 68.07% | 1,541 | 2,544 | 2,582 | – | – | – | – | 6,667 | |||
| Carleton | EAS | → | Con | 4,813 | 61.22% | 1,764 | 22.44% | 64.13% | 4,813 | 3,049 | – | – | – | – | – | 7,862 | ||
| Cochrane | NOR | Lib | 3,138 | 39.54% | 627 | 7.90% | 42.39% | 2,172 | – | 3,138 | 2,511 | 116 | – | – | 7,937 | |||
| Dufferin | MWO | → | Con | 3,898 | 51.47% | 223 | 2.94% | 72.03% | 3,898 | 3,675 | – | – | – | – | – | 7,573 | ||
| Dundas | EAS | → | Con | 3,773 | 54.07% | 568 | 8.14% | 65.52% | 3,773 | 3,205 | – | – | – | – | – | 6,978 | ||
| Durham East | CEN | → | Con | 3,040 | 60.25% | 1,034 | 20.49% | 63.35% | 3,040 | 2,006 | – | – | – | – | – | 5,046 | ||
| Durham West | CEN | Lib | 2,295 | 42.31% | 181 | 3.34% | 67.51% | 2,114 | 1,015 | 2,295 | – | – | – | – | 5,424 | |||
| Elgin East | SWO | → | Con | 2,968 | 44.34% | 1,050 | 15.69% | 61.37% | 2,968 | 1,807 | 1,918 | – | – | – | – | 6,693 | ||
| Elgin West | SWO | → | Con | 5,289 | 50.07% | 1,709 | 14.68% | 58.24% | 5,289 | 2,773 | 3,580 | – | – | – | – | 11,642 | ||
| Essex North | SWO | → | Lib | 4,282 | 62.15% | 1,674 | 24.30% | 49.08% | – | 2,608 | 4,282 | – | – | – | – | 6,890 | ||
| Essex South | SWO | → | Con | 2,652 | 35.43% | 60 | 0.80% | 57.08% | 2,652 | 2,592 | 2,241 | – | – | – | – | 7,485 | ||
| Fort William | NOR | → | Con | 2,866 | 39.94% | 208 | 2.90% | 57.97% | 2,866 | – | 1,152 | 2,658 | – | 500 | – | 7,176 | ||
| Frontenac | EAS | Con | 3,529 | 57.56% | 927 | 15.12% | 70.59% | 3,529 | 2,602 | – | – | – | – | – | 6,131 | |||
| Glengarry | EAS | → | Lib | 3,313 | 54.53% | 550 | 9.05% | 54.27% | – | 2,763 | 3,313 | – | – | – | – | 6,076 | ||
| Grenville | EAS | Con | 4,374 | 66.56% | 2,176 | 33.11% | 60.17% | 4,374 | 2,198 | – | – | – | – | – | 6,572 | |||
| Grey Centre | MWO | UFO | 3,636 | 50.52% | 75 | 1.04% | 65.32% | 3,561 | 3,636 | – | – | – | – | – | 7,197 | |||
| Grey NorthIncumbent was elected as Farmer-Liberal in 1919 | MWO | → | UFO | 3,873 | 40.50% | 60 | 0.63% | 68.46% | 3,813 | 3,873 | 1,877 | – | – | – | – | 9,563 | ||
| Grey South | MWO | → | Con | 4,553 | 51.77% | 312 | 3.55% | 65.93% | 4,553 | 4,241 | – | – | – | – | – | 8,794 | ||
| Haldimand | MWO | → | Con | 4,297 | 47.56% | 644 | 7.13% | 65.96% | 4,297 | 3,653 | 1,085 | – | – | – | – | 9,035 | ||
| Halton | HAM | → | Con | 5,186 | 45.43% | 716 | 6.27% | 68.60% | 5,186 | 4,470 | 1,760 | – | – | – | – | 11,416 | ||
| Hamilton East | HAM | → | Con | 11,064 | 55.07% | 5,932 | 29.53% | 41.12% | 11,064 | – | 5,132 | 3,894 | – | – | – | 20,090 | ||
| Hamilton West | HAM | → | Con | 5,784 | 52.42% | 2,731 | 24.75% | 46.80% | 5,784 | – | 3,053 | 2,198 | – | – | – | 11,035 | ||
| Hastings East | EAS | → | Con | 3,741 | 62.40% | 1,487 | 24.80% | 64.10% | 3,741 | 2,254 | – | – | – | – | – | 5,995 | ||
| Hastings North | EAS | Con | 4,356 | 71.77% | 2,643 | 43.55% | 58.15% | 4,356 | 1,713 | – | – | – | – | – | 6,069 | |||
| Hastings West | EAS | Con | 4,846 | 60.05% | 1,622 | 20.10% | 51.08% | 4,846 | – | 3,224 | – | – | – | – | 8,070 | |||
| Huron Centre | MWO | → | Con | 3,133 | 41.58% | 724 | 9.61% | 66.47% | 3,133 | 1,992 | – | 2,409 | – | – | – | 7,534 | ||
| Huron North | MWO | Con | 2,896 | 44.44% | 398 | 6.11% | 68.11% | 2,896 | 2,498 | 1,122 | – | – | – | – | 6,516 | |||
| Huron South | MWO | → | Con | 2,800 | 40.11% | 437 | 6.26% | 69.29% | 2,800 | 2,363 | 1,818 | – | – | – | – | 6,981 | ||
| KenoraIncumbent returned | NOR | Con | *acclaimed* | |||||||||||||||
| Kent East | SWO | UFO | 4,024 | 54.75% | 698 | 9.50% | 57.65% | 3,326 | 4,024 | – | – | – | – | – | 7,350 | |||
| Kent West | SWO | Lib | 6,153 | 59.80% | 2,017 | 19.60% | 47.73% | – | 4,136 | 6,153 | – | – | – | – | 10,289 | |||
| Kingston | EAS | Con | *acclaimed* | |||||||||||||||
| Lambton East | SWO | UFO | 3,224 | 44.28% | 458 | 6.29% | 66.68% | 2,766 | 3,224 | 1,291 | – | – | – | – | 7,281 | |||
| Lambton West | SWO | → | Con | 6,022 | 45.96% | 2,119 | 16.17% | 60.18% | 6,022 | 3,903 | 3,179 | – | – | – | – | 13,104 | ||
| Lanark North | EAS | → | Con | 3,339 | 54.32% | 531 | 8.64% | 65.14% | 3,339 | 2,808 | – | – | – | – | – | 6,147 | ||
| Lanark South | EAS | → | Con | 3,874 | 57.27% | 983 | 14.53% | 59.71% | 3,874 | 2,891 | – | – | – | – | – | 6,765 | ||
| Leeds | EAS | Con | 3,779 | 57.34% | 968 | 14.69% | 60.65% | 3,779 | 2,811 | – | – | – | – | – | 6,590 | |||
| Lennox | EAS | → | Lib | 2,767 | 51.22% | 132 | 2.44% | 69.44% | 2,635 | – | 2,767 | – | – | – | – | 5,402 | ||
| Lincoln | HAM | → | UFO | 2,360 | 35.05% | 43 | 0.64% | 58.34% | 2,057 | 2,360 | 2,317 | – | – | – | – | 6,734 | ||
| London | SWO | → | Con | 9,865 | 64.85% | 7,611 | 50.03% | 46.16% | 9,865 | – | 1,851 | 2,254 | 1,243 | – | – | 15,213 | ||
| Manitoulin | NOR | UFO | 2,407 | 57.64% | 638 | 15.28% | 66.69% | 1,769 | 2,407 | – | – | – | – | – | 4,176 | |||
| Middlesex East | SWO | UFO | 3,568 | 47.76% | 377 | 5.05% | 34.24% | 3,191 | 3,568 | 711 | – | – | – | – | 7,470 | |||
| Middlesex North | SWO | → | Con | 3,319 | 52.52% | 318 | 5.03% | 67.10% | 3,319 | 3,001 | – | – | – | – | – | 6,320 | ||
| Middlesex West | SWO | UFO | 2,642 | 52.03% | 206 | 4.06% | 66.37% | – | 2,642 | 2,436 | – | – | – | – | 5,078 | |||
| Muskoka | CEN | Con | 4,186 | 64.45% | 1,877 | 28.90% | 4,186 | – | 2,309 | – | – | – | – | 6,495 | ||||
| Niagara Falls | HAM | → | Con | 4,922 | 51.97% | 2,518 | 26.59% | 47.04% | 4,922 | – | 2,145 | 2,404 | – | – | – | 9,471 | ||
| Nipissing | NOR | → | Con | 3,238 | 48.83% | 268 | 4.04% | 52.46% | 3,238 | – | 2,970 | 423 | – | – | – | 6,631 | ||
| Norfolk North | MWO | UFO | 3,068 | 51.87% | 221 | 3.74% | 61.16% | 2,847 | 3,068 | – | – | – | – | – | 5,915 | |||
| Norfolk South | MWO | → | Con | 3,070 | 55.84% | 642 | 11.68% | 73.34% | 3,070 | 2,428 | – | – | – | – | – | 5,498 | ||
| Northumberland East | CEN | → | Con | 4,434 | 52.09% | 356 | 4.18% | 71.02% | 4,434 | 4,078 | – | – | – | – | – | 8,512 | ||
| Northumberland West | CEN | Lib | 2,810 | 51.44% | 157 | 2.87% | 69.94% | 2,653 | – | 2,810 | – | – | – | – | 5,463 | |||
| Ontario North | CEN | UFO | 3,330 | 50.61% | 80 | 1.22% | 68.75% | 3,250 | 3,330 | – | – | – | – | – | 6,580 | |||
| Ontario South | CEN | Lib | 4,212 | 39.72% | 197 | 1.86% | 58.35% | 4,015 | 2,376 | 4,212 | – | – | – | – | 10,603 | |||
| Ottawa East | OTT | Lib | 4,635 | 59.35% | 1,460 | 18.69% | 36.23% | – | – | 7,810 | – | – | – | – | 7,810 | |||
| Ottawa West | OTT | → | Lib | 7,362 | 40.15% | 892 | 4.87% | 41.55% | 7,624 | – | 7,362 | 2,086 | 1,263 | – | – | 18,335 | ||
| Oxford North | MWO | → | UFO | 4,019 | 40.29% | 826 | 8.28% | 64.65% | 3,193 | 4,019 | 2,762 | – | – | – | – | 9,974 | ||
| Oxford South | MWO | → | Con | 3,889 | 39.20% | 755 | 7.61% | 69.74% | 3,889 | 3,134 | 2,898 | – | – | – | – | 9,921 | ||
| Parkdale | TOR | Con | 6,050 | 79.76% | 4,515 | 59.53% | 30.68% | 6,050 | – | 1,535 | – | – | – | – | 7,585 | |||
| Parry Sound | NOR | → | Con | 4,876 | 56.10% | 2,579 | 29.67% | 61.07% | 4,876 | 1,519 | 2,297 | – | – | – | – | 8,692 | ||
| Peel | CEN | Con | 6,087 | 56.34% | 1,369 | 12.67% | 6,087 | 4,718 | – | – | – | – | – | 10,805 | ||||
| Perth North | MWO | → | Con | 6,289 | 51.68% | 410 | 3.37% | 59.60% | 6,289 | – | 5,879 | – | – | – | – | 12,168 | ||
| Perth South | MWO | → | Con | 3,454 | 50.34% | 46 | 0.67% | 63.51% | 3,454 | 3,408 | – | – | – | – | – | 6,862 | ||
| Peterborough East | CEN | → | Con | 2,550 | 52.35% | 229 | 4.70% | 2,550 | 2,321 | – | – | – | – | – | 4,871 | |||
| Peterborough West | CEN | → | Con | 4,278 | 44.37% | 904 | 9.38% | 57.87% | 4,278 | – | 3,374 | 1,990 | – | – | – | 9,642 | ||
| Port Arthur | NOR | Con | 2,331 | 40.27% | 727 | 12.56% | 58.19% | 2,331 | 1,346 | 1,604 | – | 508 | – | – | 5,789 | |||
| Prescott | EAS | → | Ind | 3,608 | 52.87% | 740 | 10.84% | 58.92% | – | – | 2,868 | 348 | 3,608 | – | – | 6,824 | ||
| Prince Edward | EAS | → | Con | 4,039 | 50.12% | 19 | 0.24% | 71.12% | 4,039 | – | 4,020 | – | – | – | – | 8,059 | ||
| Rainy River | NOR | → | Lab | 1,738 | 42.72% | 148 | 3.64% | 65.94% | 1,590 | – | 740 | 1,738 | – | – | – | 4,068 | ||
| Renfrew North | EAS | → | Con | 4,235 | 50.65% | 108 | 1.29% | 63.48% | 4,235 | 4,127 | – | – | – | – | – | 8,362 | ||
| Renfrew South | EAS | UFO | 3,653 | 37.41% | 585 | 5.99% | 67.45% | 3,044 | 3,653 | 3,068 | – | – | – | – | 9,765 | |||
| Riverdale | TOR | → | Con | 11,074 | 79.05% | 9,309 | 66.45% | 35.56% | 11,074 | – | 1,765 | 1,169 | – | – | – | 14,008 | ||
| Russell | EAS | Lib | 4,648 | 72.94% | 2,924 | 45.89% | 35.35% | – | 1,724 | 4,648 | – | – | – | – | 6,372 | |||
| St. Catharines | HAM | → | Con | 5,364 | 55.81% | 2,490 | 25.91% | 49.90% | 5,364 | – | 2,874 | 1,374 | – | – | – | 9,612 | ||
| Sault Ste. Marie | NOR | → | Con | 2,839 | 43.27% | 444 | 6.77% | 43.28% | 2,839 | – | 2,395 | 1,327 | – | – | – | 6,561 | ||
| Simcoe Centre | CEN | → | Con | 3,535 | 39.84% | 529 | 5.96% | 65.77% | 3,535 | 3,006 | 2,332 | – | – | – | – | 8,873 | ||
| Simcoe East | CEN | → | Con | 5,692 | 57.57% | 1,498 | 15.15% | 57.55% | 5,692 | 4,194 | – | – | – | – | – | 9,886 | ||
| Simcoe South | CEN | → | Con | 3,016 | 55.88% | 635 | 11.77% | 72.26% | 3,016 | 2,381 | – | – | – | – | – | 5,397 | ||
| Simcoe West | CEN | Con | 3,610 | 56.78% | 1,580 | 24.85% | 57.05% | 3,610 | 2,030 | 634 | – | 84 | – | – | 6,358 | |||
| Stormont | EAS | → | Con | 3,661 | 44.04% | 1,050 | 12.63% | 56.13% | 3,661 | 2,041 | 2,611 | – | – | – | – | 8,313 | ||
| Sturgeon Falls | NOR | Lib | 2,671 | 62.32% | 1,670 | 38.96% | 614 | 1,001 | 2,671 | – | – | – | – | 4,286 | ||||
| Sudbury | NOR | Con | 5,816 | 58.65% | 1,816 | 17.31% | 60.80% | 5,816 | – | 4,100 | – | – | – | – | 9,916 | |||
| Timiskaming | NOR | Con | 3,160 | 44.12% | 1,008 | 14.07% | 58.76% | 3,160 | 2,152 | 1,850 | – | – | – | – | 7,162 | |||
| Toronto NE - A | TOR | Con | 13,049 | 71.46% | 10,205 | 55.88% | 34.78% | 13,049 | – | 2,844 | – | – | – | 2,368 | 18,261 | |||
| Toronto NE - B | TOR | Con | 13,952 | 77.58% | 9,919 | 55.15% | 34.61% | 13,952 | – | – | – | – | – | 4,033 | 17,985 | |||
| Toronto NW - A | TOR | Con | 17,255 | 85.34% | 14,291 | 70.68% | 34.17% | 17,255 | – | 2,964 | – | – | – | – | 20,219 | |||
| Toronto NW - B | TOR | → | Con | 14,703 | 70.46% | 10,982 | 52.63% | 34.34% | 14,703 | – | – | – | – | 2,443 | 3,721 | 20,867 | ||
| Toronto SE - A | TOR | → | Con | 7,730 | 81.56% | 7,019 | 74.06% | 31.85% | 7,730 | – | 1,037 | 711 | – | – | – | 9,478 | ||
| Toronto SE - B | TOR | → | Con | 7,216 | 77.13% | 5,986 | 63.98% | 31.60% | 7,216 | – | 1,230 | 910 | – | – | – | 9,356 | ||
| Toronto SW - A | TOR | → | Con | 8,233 | 56.71% | 4,761 | 37.39% | 50.78% | 8,233 | – | 3,472 | 2,812 | – | – | – | 14,517 | ||
| Toronto SW - B | TOR | → | Con | 7,756 | 52.54% | 5,158 | 37.48% | 48.28% | 7,756 | – | 2,198 | 2,211 | – | 2,598 | – | 14,763 | ||
| Victoria North | CEN | → | Con | 2,711 | 47.00% | 358 | 6.21% | 66.72% | 2,711 | 2,353 | 704 | – | – | – | – | 5,768 | ||
| Victoria South | CEN | → | Con | 3,880 | 42.64% | 526 | 5.78% | 75.56% | 3,880 | 3,354 | 1,865 | – | – | – | – | 9,099 | ||
| Waterloo North | MWO | → | Con | 5,370 | 50.35% | 2,237 | 20.98% | 47.96% | 5,370 | – | 3,133 | 309 | 1,853 | – | – | 10,665 | ||
| Waterloo SouthIncumbent was elected as Farmer-Labour in 1919 | MWO | → | Lab | 5,006 | 50.08% | 15 | 0.15% | 47.29% | 4,991 | – | – | 5,006 | – | – | – | 9,997 | ||
| Welland | HAM | → | Con | 4,941 | 52.19% | 1,239 | 13.09% | 59.17% | 4,941 | 824 | 3,702 | – | – | – | – | 9,467 | ||
| Wellington East | MWO | UFO | 3,628 | 61.64% | 1,370 | 23.28% | 61.32% | 2,258 | 3,628 | – | – | – | – | – | 5,886 | |||
| Wellington South | MWO | Con | 5,444 | 52.04% | 2,424 | 23.17% | 60.12% | 5,444 | 3,020 | 1,997 | – | – | – | – | 10,461 | |||
| Wellington West | MWO | → | Con | 2,685 | 50.41% | 576 | 10.81% | 65.13% | 2,685 | 2,109 | 532 | – | – | – | – | 5,326 | ||
| Wentworth North | HAM | UFO | 3,397 | 58.02% | 939 | 16.04% | 65.80% | 2,458 | 3,397 | – | – | – | – | – | 5,855 | |||
| Wentworth South | HAM | → | Con | 3,348 | 46.38% | 889 | 12.32% | 49.57% | 3,348 | 2,459 | 1,411 | – | – | – | – | 7,218 | ||
| Windsor | SWO | → | Con | 5,424 | 53.29% | 1,871 | 18.38% | 34.99% | 5,424 | – | 3,553 | 1,202 | – | – | – | 10,179 | ||
| York East | CEN | Con | 11,863 | 71.36% | 8,783 | 52.84% | 32.85% | 11,863 | 3,080 | 976 | – | 704 | – | – | 16,623 | |||
| York North | CEN | Con | 4,341 | 44.65% | 811 | 8.34% | 69.77% | 4,341 | 1,852 | 3,530 | – | – | – | – | 9,723 | |||
| York West | CEN | Con | 14,338 | 72.10% | 8,791 | 44.21% | 33.00% | 14,338 | – | – | – | 5,547 | – | – | 19,885 |
: = turnout is above provincial average : = incumbent re-elected under the same party banner : = returned by acclamation : = incumbency arose from byelection gain : = incumbent switched allegiance for 1923 nomination : = other incumbents renominated : = multiple candidates
Regional analysis
| Region | Candidates | Seats | Vote share (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align="center" | **Con** | align="center" | **UFO** | align="center" | **Lib** | align="center" | **Lab** |
| Central Ontario | 19 | 12 | 12 | ||||
| Eastern Ontario | 14 | 12 | 9 | ||||
| Hamilton, Halton and Niagara | 9 | 5 | 8 | ||||
| Midwestern Ontario | 20 | 17 | 12 | ||||
| Northeastern Ontario | 9 | 5 | 8 | ||||
| Northwest Ontario | 3 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Southwestern Ontario | 13 | 14 | 14 | ||||
| Toronto | 10 | – | 9 | ||||
| York, Peel and Ontario | 6 | 5 | 3 | ||||
| **Total** | 103 | 71 | 78 |
MLAs elected
Italicized names indicate members returned by acclamation. Two-tone colour boxes indicate ridings that turned over from the 1919 election, e.g.,
Central Ontario
Eastern Ontario
Hamilton/Halton/Niagara
Midwestern Ontario
Northeastern Ontario
Northwest Ontario
Southwestern Ontario
Toronto
York/Peel/Ontario
Detailed analysis
| Party | Seats | Votes | Change (pp) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| {{bartable | 15.47 | |||
| {{bartable | 0.14 | |||
| {{bartable | -4.15 | |||
| {{bartable | -4.33 | |||
| {{bartable | -2.45 | |||
| {{bartable | -4.68 |
| Party | Acc | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 74 | 22 | 5 | 1 | ||
| 17 | 43 | 11 | ||||
| 14 | 35 | 27 | 2 | |||
| 1 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 1 | ||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | ||
| 2 | 1 | |||||
| 1 | 1 | |||||
| **Totals** | 2 | 109 | 109 | 59 | 10 | 2 |
| Party in 1st place | Con | UFO | Lib | Lab | Ind | Pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 29 | 4 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 14 | 3 | |||||
| 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 2 | 1 | |||||
| 1 | ||||||
| **Totals** | 22 | 43 | 35 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| Parties | Seats |
|---|---|
| **Total** | 109 |
Incumbents not running for reelection
Sixteen MLAs chose not to stand for re-election:
| Riding | Incumbent at dissolution and subsequent nominee | New MLA | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algoma | Kenneth Spencer Stover | ||
| Elgin East | Malcolm MacVicar | ||
| Essex South | Milton C. Fox | ||
| Huron South | Andrew Hicks | ||
| Lennox | Reginald Amherst Fowler | ||
| Middlesex North | James C. Brown | ||
| Ottawa West | Hammett Pinhey Hill | ||
| Oxford South | Albert Thomas Walker | ||
| Port Arthur | Donald McDonald Hogarth | ||
| Riverdale | Joseph McNamara | ||
| Russell | Alfred Goulet | ||
| Simcoe West | William Torrance Allen | ||
| Timiskaming | Thomas Magladery | ||
| Toronto Southeast - B | James Walter Curry | ||
| Wellington South | Caleb Henry Buckland | ||
| York North | Thomas Herbert Lennox |
Seats that changed hands
| Party | 1919 | Gain from (loss to) | 1923 | Con | UFO | Lib | Lab | Ind | I-Lib | F-Lab | F-Lib | Sol |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 29 | 13 | (2) | 9 | (1) | 1 | ||||||
| 44 | (29) | 3 | (2) | |||||||||
| 27 | 2 | (13) | 2 | (3) | (1) | |||||||
| 11 | 1 | (9) | ||||||||||
| – | 1 | |||||||||||
| 1 | (1) | |||||||||||
| 1 | (1) | |||||||||||
| 1 | (1) | |||||||||||
| 1 | (1) | |||||||||||
| **Total** | 111 | 3 | (53) | 31 | (4) | 17 | (4) | 9 | (2) | – | (1) | 1 |
There were 64 seats that changed allegiance in the election.
UFO to Conservative
- Carleton
- Dufferin
- Dundas
- Durham East
- Elgin East
- Elgin West
- Essex South
- Grey South
- Haldimand
- Halton
- Hastings East
- Huron South
- Lambton West
- Lanark North
- Lanark South
- Middlesex North
- Norfolk South
- Northumberland East
- Oxford South
- Perth South
- Peterborough East
- Renfrew North
- Simcoe Centre
- Simcoe East
- Simcoe South
- Victoria North
- Victoria South
- Wellington West
- Wentworth South
UFO to Liberal
- Essex North
- Glengarry
Liberal to Conservative
- Brockville
- Nipissing
- Parry Sound
- Perth North
- Prince Edward
- Stormont
- Toronto Northwest - B
- Toronto Southeast - A
- Toronto Southeast - B
- Toronto Southwest - A
- Toronto Southwest - B
- Welland
- Windsor
Liberal to UFO
- Bruce South
- Lincoln
- Oxford North
Liberal to Independent
- Prescott
Labour to Conservative
- Fort William
- Hamilton East
- Hamilton West
- Huron Centre
- London
- Niagara Falls
- Peterborough West
- Sault Ste. Marie
- St. Catharines
Independent-Liberal to Conservative
- Waterloo North
Farmer-Labour to Labour
- Waterloo South
Farmer-Liberal to UFO
- Grey North
Soldier to Conservative
- Riverdale
Conservative to Liberal
- Lennox
- Ottawa West
Conservative to Labour
- Rainy River
| Source | Party | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align="center" | **Con** | align="center" | **UFO** | align="center" | **Lib** |
| Seats retained | Incumbents returned | 16 | |||
| Open seats held | 5 | ||||
| Acclamation | 1 | ||||
| Seats changing hands | Incumbents defeated | 45 | |||
| Open seats gained | 7 | ||||
| Byelection gain held | 1 | 1 | |||
| Change in affiliation | 1 | ||||
| **Total** | 75 | 17 |
Notable groups of candidates
| Riding | Candidate | Votes | Placed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort William | Mrs B.O. Allen | 1,152 | |
| Toronto Northeast - B | Mrs Mary E. Becker | 4,033 | |
| Toronto Northwest - B | Edith L. Groves | 3,721 |
| Riding | Party | Candidate |
|---|---|---|
| Kenora | Peter Heenan | |
| Kingston | William Folger Nickle |
| Riding | Candidate | Votes | Placed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ottawa East | Joseph Albert Pinard | 4,635 | |
| J. Wilfred Gauvreau | 3,175 | 2nd | |
| Ottawa West | Albert Edwin Honeywell | 6,470 | |
| Arthur Ellis | 1,154 | 4th | |
| Toronto Southeast - A | Frederick Hogg | 656 | |
| Alfred Burgess | 381 | 4th |
Notes
References
References
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- . (April 12, 1923). ["Bill 178 - An Act to provide for the Election of Members to the Assembly on the System of Proportional Representation"](https://archive.org/details/ontariobills1923ontauoft/page/n1155/mode/2up). *[[Legislative Assembly of Ontario]]*.
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- Edmonton Bulletin, April 20, 1923
- Edmonton Bulletin, June 26, 1923
- Canadian Parliamentary Guide 1925
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