The 1926 Ontario general election was the 17th general election held in the Province of Ontario, Canada. It was held on December 1, 1926, to elect the 112 Members of the 17th Legislative Assembly of Ontario ("MLAs"). Background The United Farmers of Ontario decided to withdraw from electoral politics after having been defeated in the 1923 election, and most of its MPPs redesignated themselves as Progressives with former UFO Attorney-General William Edgar Raney becoming party leader. Nevertheless, several MPPs, including Raney himself, continued to run as candidates endorsed by local UFO associations. Leslie Oke and Beniah Bowman were opposed to Raney's leadership as he was not a farmer. They were also opposed to the creation of a new Progressive Party which would not focus exclusively on farmers' issues, so they chose to remain as UFO MPPs. Bowman later resigned from the legislature before the election. The fracture of the UFO, together with a large number of resignations from MPPs who chose to run federally in the elections of 1925 and 1926, significantly changed the composition of the Assembly: Redistribution of seats A 1925 Act provided for the redistribution of the Legislative Assembly into 112 ridings for the election. The dual-member ridings in the City of Toronto, in effect since the 1914 election, were abolished and replaced by single-member seats: Beaches was drawn out from York East, and High Park from York West. There were other changes made to ridings elsewhere in the Province: Brant and Brant South were reorganized into Brant County and Brantford Bruce West was divided between Bruce North and Bruce South Durham East and Durham West were combined to form Durham Frontenac and Lennox became Frontenac—Lennox Grey Centre wasa divided between Grey North and Grey South Hamilton Centre was created from parts of Hamilton East and Hamilton West Huron Centre was split between Huron North and Huron South London was split into London North and London South Middlesex East was split between Middlesex North and Middlesex West Norfolk North and Norfolk South merged to form Norfolk Northumberland East and Northumberland West became Northumberland Ottawa West was divided to form Ottawa North and Ottawa South Peterborough East and Peterborough West were reorganized to form Peterborough City and Peterborough County Wellington East and Wellington West merged to form Wellington Northeast Windsor was divided to form Windsor East and Windsor West York South was carved out from York West A