further Act in 1926 merged Simcoe South and Simcoe West into Simcoe Southwest, and divided Cochrane into Cochrane North and Cochrane South. Summary The Ontario Conservative Party, led by Howard Ferguson, was re-elected for a second term in government. The principal issue of the campaign was the government's proposal to repeal the Ontario Temperance Act, replacing prohibition with government control of liquor sales. The Liberal and Progressive parties both campaigned against repeal, and one of Ferguson's ministers, William Folger Nickle, resigned from the cabinet and ran for re-election against the government as a Prohibitionist candidate. The Ontario Liberal Party, led by W.E.N. Sinclair, maintained its 14 seats, while the Progressives won 10. Four Liberal-Progressive candidates were also elected, along with several independents. Oke was the only UFO MPP who was re-elected as such, and he was joined by Thomas Farquhar from Manitoulin and Farquhar Oliver from Grey South. The latter won with the assistance of federal MP Agnes MacPhail. Karl Homuth of Waterloo South was the only Labour MPP returned. Results |- ! colspan=2 rowspan=2 | Political party ! rowspan=2 | Party leader ! colspan=5 | MPPs ! colspan=3 | Votes |- ! Candidates !1923 !Dissol. !1926 !± !# !% ! ± (pp) |style="text-align:left;"|Howard Ferguson |112 |75 |74 |72 |3 |634,635 |55.36% |5.80 |style="text-align:left;"|W.E.N. Sinclair |49 |14 |11 |14 | |197,623 |17.24% |4.12 |style="text-align:left;"|William Raney |17 |– |11 |10 |10 |72,445 |6.32% | | |9 |– |– |4 |4 |45,733 |3.99% | |style="text-align:left;"|Leslie Oke |3 |17 |1 |3 |14 |15,417 |1.34% |19.77 | |3 |4 |3 |1 |3 |14,794 |1.29% |3.47 |style="text-align:left;"| |7 |– |1 |4 |4 |21,002 |1.83% | |style="text-align:left;"| |6 |– |– |2 |2 |19,198 |1.67% | |style="text-align:left;"| |1 |– |– |1 |1 |5,861 |0.51% | |style="text-align:left;"|Liberal-Prohibitionist |style="text-align:left;"| |2 |– |– |1 |1 |9,115 |0.80% | |style="text-align:left;"| |1 |1 |– |– |1 |2,912 |0.25% |1.37 |style="text-align:left;"| |27 |– |– |– | |96,868 |8.45% | |style="text-align:left;"|Liberal-Labour |style="text-align:left;"| |2 |– |– |– | |4,633 |0.40% | |style="text-align:left;"|Progressive-Liberal |style="text-align:left;"| |1 |– |– |– | |3,941 |0.34% | |style="text-align:left;"|Liberal-Labour-Prohibitionist |style="text-align:left;"| |1 |– |– |– | |2,298 |0.20% | |colspan="3"| |10 |colspan="5"| |-style="background:#E9E9E9;" |colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Total |241 |111 |111 |112 | |1,146,475 |100.00% | |- |colspan="8" style="text-align:left;"|Blank and invalid ballots |align="right"|6,717 |style="background:#E9E9E9;" colspan="2"| |-style="background:#E9E9E9;" |colspan="8" style="text-align:left;"|Registered voters / turnout |1,805,061 |63.89% |6.15 |} Notes References See also Politics of Ontario List of Ontario political parties Premier of Ontario Leader of the Opposition (Ontario) Further