likely does not measure its actual support. Together Labour and the UFO ran in 93 seats so the two did not cover all the districts in the province. The UFO did not receive as many votes as it had in 1919 but still got fairly good numbers considering it did not run candidates in a third of the districts. As the 1923 election was plagued by low turn-out, the UFO received a higher percentage of votes cast than it had received in 1919. Prior to the election, the UFO government had introduced bills to re-distribute the ridings, and to introduce proportional representation and the single transferable vote, but withdrew them after vehement opposition from the Conservative MLAs, and it was found that even some government members were ambivalent. Under First past the post, the UFO received about a third of the seats that it was due proportionally overall. Looking at the 71 districts where the UFO ran candidates, it received about half the votes there so was due 35 of those seats but received only eight. In many districts, Conservative candidates took rural seats away from incumbent UFO MLAs by taking just a few hundred more votes than them in each district. In Prince Edward, Conservative candidate Horace Stanley Colliver took just 17 more votes than his closest contender to win the seat. |- ! colspan=2 rowspan=2 | Political party ! rowspan=2 | Party leader ! colspan=5 | MPPs ! colspan=3 | Votes |- ! Candidates !1919 !Dissol. !1923 !± !# !% ! ± (pp) |style="text-align:left;"|Howard Ferguson |103 |25 |24 |75 |50 |471,196 |49.56% |15.47 |style="text-align:left;"|E.C. Drury |71 |44 |44 |17 |27 |200,762 |21.11% |0.14 |style="text-align:left;"|Wellington Hay |78 |27 |27 |14 |13 |203,079 |21.36% |4.15 |style="text-align:left;"|Walter Rollo |23 |11 |11 |4 |7 |45,213 |4.76% |4.33 |style="text-align:left;"| |12 |– |– |1 |1 |15,426 |1.62% |2.45 |style="text-align:left;"| |2 |1 |1 |– |1 |5,041 |0.53% |0.08 |style="text-align:left;"| |3 |– |– |– |– |10,122 |1.06% | |style="text-align:left;"| |– |1 |1 |– |1 |colspan="3"|Did not campaign |style="text-align:left;"| |– |1 |1 |– |1 |colspan="3"|Did not campaign |style="text-align:left;"| |– |1 |1 |– |1 |colspan="3"|Did not campaign |colspan="3"| |1 |colspan="5"| |-style="background:#E9E9E9;" |colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Total |292 |111 |111 |111 | |950,839 |100.00% | |- |colspan="8" style="text-align:left;"|Blank and invalid ballots |align="right"|8,886 |style="background:#E9E9E9;" colspan="2"| |-style="background:#E9E9E9;" |colspan="8" style="text-align:left;"|Registered voters / turnout |1,662,160 |57.74% |27.79 |} Detailed analysis Incumbents not running for reelection Sixteen MLAs chose not to stand for re-election: Seats that changed