The Equal Rights Party was a Canadian political party that ran candidates in elections in Ontario in 1890 and 1891.
4-671: Equal Rights Party may refer to: Equal Rights Party (Canada) Equal Rights (Latvia) Liberia Equal Rights Party National Equal Rights Party , a women's rights party in the United States in the 19th century Locofocos , originally named the Equal Rights Party, active during the 1830s and 1840s in the United States See also [ edit ] Equal rights (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
8-524: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Equal Rights Party (Canada) It ran a joint Liberal-Equal Rights candidate in the 1890 Ontario general election . The party nominated two candidates in the 5 March 1891 federal election . Samuel Grandy, running in Durham East riding in Ontario , won 1,685 of the 3,431 votes cast (49.11% of
12-469: The popular votes), losing narrowly to Conservative Party candidate Thomas Dixon Craig , who collected 1,746 votes. The other Equal Rights Party candidate, W.H. Lewis, was less successful, collecting only 770 of the 9,450 votes cast (8.15% of the popular vote) in the City of Ottawa riding, which was a two-member constituency. The Equal Rights party may have been associated with Dalton McCarthy , leader of
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