Ontario general election, 1934

Ontario general election, 1934

← 1929 June 19, 1934 1937 →
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90 seats in the 19th Legislative Assembly of Ontario 46 seats were needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Mitchell Hepburn George S. Henry John Mitchell as party president Party Liberal Conservative Co-operative Commonwealth Leader since December 17, 1930 1930 April 14, 1934 Leader's seat Elgin York East Ran in Wentworth (Lost) Last election 13 90 n.a. Seats won 65 17 1 Seat change +52 -73 +1 Percentage 50.4% 39.8% 7.0% Swing +17.6% -19.0% +7.0%
Premier before election George S. Henry Conservative Premier-designate Mitchell Hepburn Liberal

George S. Henry
Conservative

Mitchell Hepburn
Liberal

The Ontario general election, 1934 was the 19th general election held in the Province of Ontario, Canada. It was held on June 19, 1934, to elect the 90 Members of the 19th Legislative Assembly of Ontario ("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 Progressive 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 cabinet minister in the Hepburn government.

The Liberals won a majority in the Legislature, while the Conservatives lost four out of every five seats that they had won in the previous election.

The legislature shrunk in size after the election of 1934 from 112 seats to 90.

The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, 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.

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