The cities of Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa and Windsor – areas where the ruling Conservative Party drew most of their support – voted overwhelmingly in favour of Question 2.
[4] Four months later, the party's throne speech announced intentions to begin debate on permitting the sale of a beer with a maximum alcohol content of 4.4%, which gained the nicknamed "Fergie's Foam" after Premier George Howard Ferguson.
[4] In the subsequent 1926 election the Conservatives ran on a platform of repealing the Ontario Temperance Act, and maintained a majority while increasing their share of the popular vote by 7%.
The Conservatives took the results as justification to repeal prohibition, and in 1927 passed the Liquor Licence Act.
[4] While some communities would pressure local governments to limit the sale of liquor until as late as the 1990s, notably portions of west Toronto as a result of efforts by William Horace Temple,[6] for all intents and purposes ended official temperance in Ontario had ended.