ONTARIO ELECTIONS
DEFEAT OF PROHIBITION CANDIDATES
Ottawa, December 2. The result, of the Ontario election brings nine-tenths of the area and population of Canada under the Government sale of liquor from stores. Prohibition still reigns only in the small maritime provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince • Edward Island. Out of a membership of 112 in the House, 80 of those elected will. support Government control of liquor. These are composed of 75 straight Conservative followers of the Premier, Mr. Ferguson, and five “wet’ Independents. The Opposition consists of the Liberals and Progressive*. of 30 candidates who entered the battle as straight prohibition candidates, not one was elected. Mr. Raney, the Liberal leader and the “dry” leader was elected by a narrow majority, while Mr. Nickle, the former Attorney-General, who deserted Mr. Ferguson over the latter’s liquor proposals, was badly beaten.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 60, 4 December 1926, Page 9
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142ONTARIO ELECTIONS Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 60, 4 December 1926, Page 9
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