Ontario Liberal Leadership Conventions

This is a list of results of leadership elections for the Ontario Liberal Party, a political party in Ontario, Canada.

Note: Before 1919, the leaders of the Ontario Liberal Party were chosen by the its elected Members of the Legislative Assembly. There were calls for a more open process as early as 1907.

(Held on June 26, 1919 at the Foresters' Hall, 22 College Street, Toronto.)

First ballot:

Second ballot:

Charles Martin Bowman, MPP for Bruce North; W.T.R. Preston, editor of the Port Hope Evening Guide, Rev. W. G. Charlton of Aylmer, and A. J. Young of Toronto were nominated but declined. Frederick Forsyth Pardee, Member of Parliament for Lambton West was to be nominated but sent a message to the convention declining.

(Held on March 3, 1922 at the Foresters' Hall, 22 College Street, Toronto.)

(Note: The vote totals do not appear to have been announced.)

(Held on December 16–17, 1930 at the King Edward Hotel in Toronto.)

W.E.N. Sinclair and Sydney Tweed both withdrew from the race before balloting.

(Held on April 30, 1943 at the King Edward Hotel in Toronto.)

There were 8 spoiled ballots. Premier Gordon Conant had also been a candidate but collapsed the morning of the leadershp vote and withdrew.

(Held on April 2, 1945 at the King Edward Hotel in Toronto.)

Harry Nixon resigned as Liberal leader on December 10, 1944 and nominated Hepburn to succeed him as parliamentary leader until a leadership convention could be held. Following the defeat of George Drew's Conservative government in a non-confidence motion, Hepburn was elected Acting Leader on April 2, 1945, at a joint meeting held at the King Edward Hotel of Ontario Liberal MPPs, federal Ontario Liberal MPs the party executive and other party officials in order to lead the party into the election. The move was to be affirmed by a party convention to be held on May 1, but this was cancelled due to the 1945 provincial election being underway. Hepburn was defeated in the 1945 provincial election, and Farquhar Oliver was chosen as the Ontario Liberal Party's parliamentary leader on July 4, 1945.

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