[1] The Ontario Conservative Party, led by Sir James P. Whitney, won a fourth consecutive term in government.
[2] However, dissension within the Tory ranks resulted in a significant number of them campaigning as either independent or temperance candidates.
The campaign was seen to turn more significantly on the matter of Regulation 17 (which limited instruction in French-language Catholic separate schools), in comparison to temperance issues, and that worked against the Liberals,[3] who placed Prohibition of sales in bars and clubs as a main plank in their platform.
[8] Forbes Godfrey (York West) was acclaimed because the Liberal candidate was held to have missed the deadline by one minute.
[2] In Wellington East, the Liberals opted not to press a similar case against the Conservative candidate, whose nomination papers were filed 90 minutes after the deadline.