1890 Ontario general election

The 1890 Ontario general election was the seventh general election held in the Province of Ontario, Canada. It was held on June 5, 1890, to elect the 91 members of the 7th Legislative Assembly of Ontario ("MLAs").

The Assembly had been increased from 90 members after the passage of an Act in 1889 creating Nipissing as a riding.

The election was a victory for the Ontario Liberal Party, led by Oliver Mowat. The party won a sixth consecutive term in government, despite losing a small number of seats in the Legislature.

The Ontario Conservative Party, led by William Ralph Meredith won two additional seats.

This election was held partially using the Limited voting system where each Toronto voter had two votes for the three MPPs in the district. This produced mixed representation in that district and thus a degree of minority representation.

A key issue in the election was the segregation of schools for Catholic and Protestant students, with the Liberal Party supporting the segregation and the Conservatives opposing it.

An 1887 Act had renamed the riding of Cornwall and Stormont as Stormont.

Results
! colspan=2 rowspan=2 | Political party ! rowspan=2 | Party leader ! colspan=5 | MPPs ! colspan=3 | Votes ! Candidates !1886 ! Dissol. !1890 !± !# !% ! ± (pp)


 * style="text-align:left;"|Oliver Mowat
 * 87
 * 57
 * 53
 * 4
 * 162,118
 * 49.63%
 * 1.22
 * 1.22


 * style="text-align:left;"|William Ralph Meredith
 * 74
 * 32
 * 34
 * 2
 * 130,289
 * 39.88%
 * 7.14
 * 7.14


 * style="text-align:left;"|Conservative-Equal Rights
 * style="text-align:left;"|
 * 14
 * 2
 * 2
 * 26,154
 * 8.01%
 * New
 * 8.01%
 * New


 * style="text-align:left;"|Liberal-Equal Rights
 * style="text-align:left;"|
 * 2
 * 2
 * 2
 * 3,352
 * 1.03%
 * New
 * 1.03%
 * New


 * style="text-align:left;"|
 * 1
 * 1
 * 1
 * 7
 * 0.68
 * 7
 * 0.68
 * 0.68


 * style="text-align:left;"|
 * 7
 * 3,131
 * 0.96%
 * New
 * 3,131
 * 0.96%
 * New
 * New


 * style="text-align:left;"|
 * 1
 * 1,620
 * 0.50%
 * New
 * 1,620
 * 0.50%
 * New
 * New


 * style="text-align:left;"|
 * colspan="3"|Did not campaign
 * colspan="3"|Did not campaign
 * colspan="3"|Did not campaign
 * colspan="3"|Did not campaign
 * colspan="3"|Did not campaign
 * colspan="3"|Did not campaign


 * style="text-align:left;"|
 * colspan="3"|Did not campaign
 * colspan="3"|Did not campaign
 * colspan="3"|Did not campaign
 * colspan="3"|Did not campaign
 * colspan="3"|Did not campaign
 * colspan="3"|Did not campaign


 * colspan="3"|
 * colspan="5"|
 * -style="background:#E9E9E9;"
 * colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Total
 * 186
 * 90
 * 90
 * 91
 * 326,671
 * 100.00%
 * colspan="8" style="text-align:left;"|Blank and invalid ballots
 * align="right"|3,110
 * style="background:#E9E9E9;" colspan="2"|
 * -style="background:#E9E9E9;"
 * colspan="8" style="text-align:left;"|Registered voters / turnout
 * 473,853
 * 69.60%
 * 0.09
 * }
 * 473,853
 * 69.60%
 * 0.09
 * }

Synopsis of results

 * = open seat
 * = turnout is above provincial average
 * = winning candidate was in previous Legislature
 * = incumbent had switched allegiance
 * = previously incumbent in another riding
 * = not incumbent; was previously elected to the Legislature
 * = incumbency arose from byelection gain
 * = incumbency arose from prior election result being overturned by the court
 * = other incumbents renominated
 * = joint Conservative/Equal Rights candidate
 * = joint Liberal/Equal Rights candidate
 * = previously an MP in the House of Commons of Canada
 * = multiple candidates

! colspan=2 | Political party ! Candidate ! Votes ! % ! Elected ! Incumbent


 * style="text-align:left;"|Edward Frederick Clarke
 * 5,862 ||18.81
 * style="text-align:center;"|✅
 * style="text-align:center;"|✅


 * style="text-align:left;"|Henry Edward Clarke
 * 5,542 ||17.78
 * style="text-align:center;"|✅
 * style="text-align:center;"|✅


 * style="text-align:left;"|Joseph Tait
 * 5,359 ||17.20
 * style="text-align:center;"|✅

!colspan="3" style="text-align:right;"|Majority !colspan="3" style="text-align:right;"|Turnout !colspan="3" style="text-align:right;"|Registered voters
 * style="text-align:left;"|Alfred McDougall
 * 5,197 ||16.68
 * style="background-color:#B8BFFE;"|
 * style="text-align:left;"|Conservative/Equal Rights
 * style="text-align:left;"|E.D. Armour
 * 4,502 ||14.45
 * style="background-color:#B8BFFE;"|
 * style="text-align:left;"|Conservative/Equal Rights
 * style="text-align:left;"|Robert Bell
 * 4,001 ||12.84
 * style="background-color:#FF8000;"|
 * style="text-align:left;"|Equal Rights
 * style="text-align:left;"|Frank Moses
 * 703 ||2.26
 * style="text-align:left;"|Equal Rights
 * style="text-align:left;"|Frank Moses
 * 703 ||2.26
 * 162 ||0.52
 * 31,287 ||72.31
 * 43,265
 * }

MLAs elected by region and riding
Party designations are as follows:

{{legend|#EA6D6A|Liberal}} {{legend|#9999FF|Conservative}} {{legend|#B8BFFE|Conservative/Equal Rights}} {{legend|#EEAAEE|Liberal/Equal Rights}}


 * Northern Ontario
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Algoma East: Alexander Franklin Campbell}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Algoma West: James Conmee}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Nipissing: John Loughrin}}


 * Ottawa Valley
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Carleton: George William Monk}}
 * {{legend|#EEAAEE|Lanark North: William Clyde Caldwell}}
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Lanark South: Nathaniel McLenaghan}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Ottawa: Erskine Henry Bronson}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Prescott: Alfred Évanturel}}
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Renfrew North: Arunah Dunlop}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Renfrew South: John Francis Dowling}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Russell: Alexander Robillard}}


 * Saint Lawrence Valley
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Brockville: Christopher Finlay Fraser}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Cornwall and Stormont: William Mack}}
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Dundas: James Pliny Whitney}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Glengarry: James Rayside}}
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Grenville: Orlando Bush}}
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Kingston: James Henry Metcalfe}}
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Leeds: Robert Henry Preston}}


 * Central Ontario
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Addington: James Reid}}
 * {{legend|#B8BFFE|Durham East: George Campbell}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Durham West: William Thomas Lockhart}}
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Frontenac: Hugh Smith}}
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Hastings East: William Parker Hudson}}
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Hastings North: Alpheus Field Wood}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Hastings West: William Hodgins Biggar}}
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Lennox: Walter William Meacham}}
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Northumberland East: William Arnson Willoughby}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Northumberland West: Corelli Collard Field}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Peterborough East: Thomas Blezard}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Peterborough West: James Robert Stratton}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Prince Edward: John Allison Sprague}}
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Victoria East: John Fell}}
 * {{legend|#EEAAEE|Victoria West: John McKay}}


 * Georgian Bay
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Bruce North: John George}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Grey North: James Cleland}}
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Muskoka: George Frederick Marter}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Parry Sound: James Sharpe}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Simcoe Centre: Robert Paton}}
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Simcoe East: Andrew Miscampbell}}
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Simcoe West: Thomas Wylie}}


 * Wentworth/Halton/Niagara
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Halton: William Kerns}}
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Hamilton: Thomas Stinson}}
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Lincoln: James Hiscott}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Monck: Richard Harcourt}}
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Welland: William McCleary}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Wentworth North: James McMahon}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Wentworth South: Nicholas Awrey}}


 * Midwestern Ontario
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Brant North: William Bruce Wood}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Brant South: Arthur Sturgis Hardy}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Bruce Centre: Walter MacMorris Dack}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Bruce South: Hamilton Parke O'Connor}}
 * {{legend|#B8BFFE|Dufferin: John Barr}}
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Grey Centre: Joseph Rorke}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Grey South: James Hill Hunter}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Haldimand: Jacob Baxter}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Huron East: Thomas Gibson}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Huron South: Archibald Bishop}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Huron West: James Thompson Garrow}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Norfolk North: John Bailey Freeman}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Norfolk South: William Andrew Charlton}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Oxford North: Oliver Mowat}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Oxford South: Angus McKay}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Perth North: Alfred Emanuel Ahrens}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Perth South: Thomas Ballantyne}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Waterloo North: Elias Weber Bingeman Snider}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Waterloo South: John Douglas Moore}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Wellington East: Charles Clarke}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Wellington South: Donald Guthrie}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Wellington West: Absalom Shade Allan}}


 * Southwestern Ontario
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Elgin East: Henry Thomas Godwin}}
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Elgin West: Dugald McColl}}
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Essex North: Solomon White}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Essex South: William Douglas Balfour}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Kent East: Robert Ferguson}}
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Kent West: James Clancy}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Lambton East: Hugh McKenzie}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Lambton West: Charles MacKenzie}}
 * {{legend|#9999FF|London: William Ralph Meredith}}
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Middlesex East: Richard Tooley}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Middlesex North: John Waters}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Middlesex West: George William Ross}}


 * Peel/York/Ontario
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Cardwell: William Henry Hammell}}
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Ontario North: James Glendinning}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Ontario South: John Dryden}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Peel: Kenneth Chisholm}}
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Toronto: Edward Frederick Clarke}}
 * {{legend|#9999FF|Toronto: Henry Edward Clarke}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|Toronto: Joseph Tait}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|York East: George Byron Smith}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|York North: Elihu James Davis}}
 * {{legend|#EA6D6A|York West: John Taylor Gilmour}}

Seats that changed hands
In its first election, Nipissing returned the Liberal candidate John Loughrin as its MLA.

In the election, 20 seats changed their allegiance.


 * Liberal to Conservative
 * Algoma East
 * Dundas
 * Elgin East
 * Essex North
 * Hamilton
 * Lincoln
 * Ontario North
 * Renfrew North
 * Simcoe East
 * Welland


 * Liberal to Liberal-Equal Rights
 * Lanark North


 * Conservative to Liberal
 * Grey North
 * Grey South
 * Hastings West
 * Norfolk South
 * Perth North


 * Conservative to Conservative-Equal Rights
 * Dufferin
 * Durham East


 * Conservative to Liberal-Equal Rights
 * Victoria West


 * Independent to Liberal
 * Parry Sound