The 1934 Ontario general election was the 19th general election held in the Province of Ontario, Canada. It was held on June 19, 1934, to elect the

19th Legislative Assembly of Ontario The 19th Legislative Assembly of Ontario was in session from June 19, 1934, until August 25, 1937, just prior to the 1937 general election. The Ontario Liberal Party led by Mitchell Hepburn came to power with a majority government. Norman Otto Hip ...

("MLAs"). The Ontario Liberal Party, led by Mitchell Hepburn, defeated the governing Ontario Conservative Party, led by George Stewart Henry. Hepburn was assisted by Harry Nixon's

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bloc of MLAs who ran in this election as Liberal-Progressives on the understanding that they would support a Hepburn led government. Nixon, himself, became a senior

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minister in the Hepburn government. The Liberals won a

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, in its first provincial election, ran 37 candidates and won a seat in the Ontario Legislature for the first time with the election of Samuel Lawrence in Hamilton East. The United Farmers of Ontario had affiliated with the CCF but disaffiliated immediately prior to the 1934 election due to a row over suspected

Communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...

infiltration of the party. Accordingly, two UFO nominated candidates, incumbent MLA Farquhar Oliver ( Grey South) and Leslie Warner Oke, former MLA for Lambton East, ran as UFO candidates rather than with the CCF. Oliver was re-elected and later supported the Hepburn government. Earl Hutchinson of

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was re-elected as a Labour MLA but resigned a month later to allow Peter Heenan, a former Labour MLA in the riding, to contest Kenora in a by-election as a Liberal so that he could be appointed to Cabinet. Hutchinson was then appointed vice-chairman of the

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Redistribution and reduction of ridings

The Legislative Assembly was reduced from 112 seats to 90 as a result of an Act passed in 1933: A subsequent Act in 1934 modified the limits of several Toronto ridings.

Results

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1929 This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic ...

! Dissol. !1934 !± !# !% ! ± (pp) , style="text-align:left;", Mitchell Hepburn , 83 , 13 , 16 , 65 , 52 , 735,531 , 47.09% , 14.86 , style="text-align:left;", George Stewart Henry , 90 , 90 , 88 , 17 , 73 , 621,212 , 39.77% , 16.89 , style="text-align:left;", Harry Nixon , 4 , 1 , 1 , 4 , 3 , 38,161 , 2.44% , 1.90 , style="text-align:left;", John Mitchell
(party president) , 37 , – , – , 1 , 1 , 108,961 , 6.98% , , style="text-align:left;", , 15 , – , – , 1 , 1 , 17,462 , 1.12% , 1.06 , style="text-align:left;", Farquhar Oliver , 2 , 1 , 1 , 1 , , 8,648 , 0.55% , 0.71 , , 2 , 1 , 1 , 1 , , 6,411 , 0.41% , 0.58 , style="text-align:left;", , – , 4 , 3 , – , 4 , colspan="3", ''Did not campaign'' , style="text-align:left;", , 2 , 2 , 2 , – , 2 , 344 , 0.02% , 2.14 , style="text-align:left;", , 5 , – , – , – , , 12,984 , 0.83% , , style="text-align:left;", , 14 , – , – , – , , 9,774 , 0.63% , 0.48 , style="text-align:left;", Socialist-Labour , style="text-align:left;", , 5 , – , – , – , , 1,607 , 0.10% , , style="text-align:left;", , 1 , – , – , – , , 608 , 0.04% , , style="text-align:left;", Workers , style="text-align:left;", , 1 , – , – , – , , 158 , 0.01% , , style="text-align:left;", , – , – , – , – , , colspan="3", ''Did not campaign'' , colspan="3", , , colspan="5", , -style="background:#E9E9E9;" , colspan="3" style="text-align:left;", Total , 236 , 112 , 112 , 90 , , 1,561,861 , 100.00% , , - , colspan="8" style="text-align:left;", Blank and invalid ballots , align="right", 17,305 , style="background:#E9E9E9;" colspan="2", , -style="background:#E9E9E9;" , colspan="8" style="text-align:left;", Registered voters / turnout , 2,098,776 , 75.24% , 18.61

Reorganization of ridings

Seats that changed hands

Of the unaltered seats, there were 47 that changed allegiance in the election: ;Conservative to Liberal * Bellwoods *

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* Cochrane South * Eglinton * Essex North *

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* Fort William * Hamilton Centre * Hamilton—Wentworth * Hastings West * Kent West * Lambton East *

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* Niagara Falls * Northumberland *

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* Parry Sound *

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* Port Arthur *

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* Riverdale *

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* Simcoe East *

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* Stormont *

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* Timiskaming * Waterloo South * Welland * Wellington South * Windsor—Sandwich * Windsor—Walkerville * York North * York West ;Conservative to Liberal-Progressive * Kent East ;Conservative to CCF * Hamilton East ;Conservative to Independent * Brantford ;Progressive to Liberal * Huron ;Progressive to Liberal-Progressive * Brant * Grey North ;Independent-Conservative to Liberal * Prescott * Rainy River

Redistribution and reduction of ridings

Results

Reorganization of ridings

Seats that changed hands

See also

Notes

References

Further reading