- Source: 1908 Ontario general election
The 1908 Ontario general election was the 12th general election held in the Province of Ontario, Canada. It was held on June 8, 1908, to elect the 106 Members of the 12th Legislative Assembly of Ontario ("MLAs").
The Ontario Conservative Party, led by Sir James P. Whitney, was elected for a second term in government, increasing its majority in the Legislature significantly.
The Ontario Liberal Party, led by Alexander Grant MacKay, continued to lose seats.
Allan Studholme became the province's first Labour MLA as the result of a 1906 Hamilton East by-election. He was re-elected in the 1908 general election and would remain in the legislature until his death in 1919.
The four Toronto districts each elected two members in this election. Each seat was contested separately, with each voter in the district allowed to vote for a candidate in each contest.
Expansion of the Legislative Assembly
The number of electoral districts was increased from 97 to 102, under an Act passed in 1902, returning a total of 106 MLAs. The following electoral changes were made:
Fort William and Lake of the Woods was split into Fort William and Kenora
Port Arthur and Rainy River was split into Port Arthur and Rainy River
Nipissing East was divided into Nipissing and Timiskaming
Nipissing West was divided into Sudbury and Sturgeon Falls
Cardwell was renamed Simcoe South, after the transfer of Albion and Bolton to Peel
The three ridings of Huron County were reorganized:
Huron South gained from Huron West the remainder of the Township of Goderich not previously included in it, in exchange for Seaforth
Huron East and Huron West were reorganized into Huron North and Huron Centre respectively
Ottawa was divided into Ottawa East and Ottawa West
Toronto East, Toronto North, Toronto South and Toronto West now returned two MLAs each, elected separately in seats labelled A and B in each district.
Electoral system
The eight Toronto MPPs were elected in two-seat districts. Plurality block voting was used in these districts.
The other 94 MPPs were elected through First-past-the-post voting in single-member districts.
Results
= Synopsis of results
== open seat
= turnout is above provincial average
= winning candidate was in previous Legislature
= incumbent had switched allegiance
= previously incumbent in another riding
= not incumbent; was previously elected to the Legislature
= incumbency arose from byelection gain
= incumbency arose from prior election result being overturned by the court
= other incumbents renominated
= previously an MP in the House of Commons of Canada
= multiple candidates
= Analysis
== MLAs elected by region and riding
=Party designations are as follows:
= Division and reorganization of ridings
=The newly created ridings returned the following MLAs:
= Seats that changed hands
=Of the unaltered seats, there were 24 that changed allegiance in the election:
See also
Politics of Ontario
List of Ontario political parties
Premier of Ontario
Leader of the Opposition (Ontario)
Notes and references
= Notes
== References
=Further reading
Hopkins, J. Castell (1909). The Canadian Annual Review of Public Affairs, 1908. Toronto: The Annual Review Publishing Company.
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