Liberal Progressive

The Ontario Liberal-Progressives occupied a distinctive niche in early-twentieth-century provincial politics, demonstrating resilience in a fractured Ontario electorate by converting fewer than half their candidacies into elected seats—a respectable conversion rate that suggests they competed selectively in winnable ridings. Their limitation to a single province and modest candidate pool indicates they functioned as a regional faction rather than a sustained mass movement, likely emerging from the Progressive insurgency of the 1920s as a hybrid vehicle combining Liberal and agrarian-reform constituencies. The party's six-election span suggests a transitional political entity that either eventually merged with a larger formation or failed to establish durable organizational capacity beyond a brief historical moment.

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Election	Seats Contested	Seats Won
ON (Dec 1926)	8	3
ON (Oct 1929)	1	1
ON (Jun 1934)	3	3
ON (Oct 1937)	2	1
ON (Aug 1943)	1	0
ON (Jun 1945)	4	1

First Name	Last Name	District	Election	Votes	Elected
Joseph	Meinzinger	Waterloo North	ON (Jun 1945)	11,104	✅
J	Frank Kelly	Muskoka-Ontario	ON (Jun 1934)	10,590	✅
David	James Taylor	Grey North	ON (Jun 1934)	9,770	✅
Harry	Corwin Nixon	Brant (ON)	ON (Jun 1934)	9,402	✅
Douglas	Munro Campbell	Kent East	ON (Oct 1937)	8,250	✅
Samuel	Carter	Wellington South	ON (Dec 1926)	7,123	❌
David	Monroe Ross	Oxford North	ON (Dec 1926)	6,012	✅
Merton	E Scott	Oxford South	ON (Dec 1926)	5,793	✅
Thomas	Edwin Ross	Simcoe East	ON (Dec 1926)	5,782	❌
Robert	Roy Downie	Lambton East	ON (Jun 1945)	5,607	❌
David	Monroe Ross	Oxford North	ON (Oct 1929)	5,449	✅
S.	Clifton Benson	Victoria (ON)	ON (Jun 1945)	4,634	❌
Frederick	George Sandy	Victoria South	ON (Dec 1926)	4,632	✅
J	Harper Schofield	Waterloo North	ON (Dec 1926)	4,262	❌
Frank	Welch	Victoria (ON)	ON (Aug 1943)	4,042	❌
John	Carty	Renfrew South	ON (Dec 1926)	3,941	❌
Forest	S Caldwell	Carleton (ON)	ON (Dec 1926)	2,997	❌
Harold	Paikin	Hamilton Centre (ON)	ON (Jun 1945)	1,919	❌
Robert	Harding	Dovercourt	ON (Oct 1937)	153	❌


District	Candidates	Elections	Wins
	Brant (ON)	1	1	1
Candidates Harry Corwin Nixon Elections ON (Jun 1934) Wins ON (Jun 1934)
	Carleton (ON)	1	1	0
Candidates Forest S Caldwell Elections ON (Dec 1926)
	Dovercourt	1	1	0
Candidates Robert Harding Elections ON (Oct 1937)
	Grey North	1	1	1
Candidates David James Taylor Elections ON (Jun 1934) Wins ON (Jun 1934)
	Hamilton Centre (ON)	1	1	0
Candidates Harold Paikin Elections ON (Jun 1945)
	Kent East	1	1	1
Candidates Douglas Munro Campbell Elections ON (Oct 1937) Wins ON (Oct 1937)
	Lambton East	1	1	0
Candidates Robert Roy Downie Elections ON (Jun 1945)
	Muskoka-Ontario	1	1	1
Candidates J Frank Kelly Elections ON (Jun 1934) Wins ON (Jun 1934)
	Oxford North	1	2	2
Candidates David Monroe Ross Elections ON (Dec 1926), ON (Oct 1929) Wins ON (Dec 1926), ON (Oct 1929)
	Oxford South	1	1	1
Candidates Merton E Scott Elections ON (Dec 1926) Wins ON (Dec 1926)
	Renfrew South	1	1	0
Candidates John Carty Elections ON (Dec 1926)
	Simcoe East	1	1	0
Candidates Thomas Edwin Ross Elections ON (Dec 1926)
	Victoria (ON)	2	2	0
Candidates Frank Welch, S. Clifton Benson Elections ON (Aug 1943), ON (Jun 1945)
	Victoria South	1	1	1
Candidates Frederick George Sandy Elections ON (Dec 1926) Wins ON (Dec 1926)
	Waterloo North	2	2	1
Candidates J Harper Schofield, Joseph Meinzinger Elections ON (Dec 1926), ON (Jun 1945) Wins ON (Jun 1945)
	Wellington South	1	1	0
Candidates Samuel Carter Elections ON (Dec 1926)

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