1938 Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election

Canadian election August 2026 September 2023 January 2023 Conservative Party of Ontario ON Conservative 1938 December 9, 1938 Royal York Hotel,Toronto George Drew Earl Rowe 4 1 A Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election (formally the convention of the Liberal-Conservative Association of Ontario) was on December 9, 1938, at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto.August 2026 It was held to replace retiring Conservative leader Earl Rowe, who had resigned after his party lost the 1937 provincial election to Mitchell Hepburn's Liberals.12 November 2022 Jim Culbert POSTCARD MEMORIES: Remembering Earl Rowe https://www.bradfordtoday.ca/postcard-memories/postcard-memories-remembering-earl-rowe-6079664 17 August 2026 Colonel George A. Drew was considered the front-runner leading into the convention and stared down a challenge by "old guard" candidate Earl Lawson, a former MP, who had declared his candidacy the week prior to the convention. Drew's candidacy was considered controversial by some Conservatives as he had quit the party and run as an Independent Conservative in the 1937 provincial election in protest of the pro-labour stance of leader Earl Rowe during the Ontario government's conflict with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in Oshawa. First ballot: DREW, George 796 LAWSON, Earl 413 HEIGHINGTON, Wilfrid 41 RAWSON, Norman 22 See also Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership conventions References 1938 Category:1938 elections in Canada Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election