The Equal Rights Party was a Canadian

Canada

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 political party that nominated two candidates in the 5 March 1891 federal election

Canadian federal election, 1891

The Canadian federal election of 1891 was held on March 5 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 7th Parliament of Canada. It was won by the Conservative Party of Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald....

. Samuel Grandy, running in Durham East

Durham East (provincial electoral district)

Durham East was a provincial electoral district in the Durham Region in Ontario, Canada that elected members to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. It contained parts of the towns of Oshawa, Whitby, Scugog, and Newcastle....

 riding in Ontario

Ontario

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, won 1,685 of the 3,431 votes cast (49.11% of the popular votes), losing narrowly to Conservative Party

Conservative Party of Canada (historical)

The Conservative Party of Canada has gone by a variety of names over the years since Canadian Confederation. Initially known as the "Liberal-Conservative Party", it dropped "Liberal" from its name in 1873, although many of its candidates continued to use this name.As a result of World War I and the...

 candidate Thomas Dixon Craig

Thomas Dixon Craig

Thomas Dixon Craig was an Ontario merchant and political figure. He represented Durham East in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1886 to 1890 and in the Canadian House of Commons from 1891 to 1900 as an Independent Conservative member.He was born in London, England in 1842 and came to Upper...

, 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

Ottawa (City of)

Ottawa was a federal electoral district in the province of Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1935.It was created by the British North America Act of 1867. It consisted of the city of Ottawa...

 riding, which was a two-member constituency.

The Equal Rights party may have been associated with Dalton McCarthy

Dalton McCarthy

Dalton McCarthy , or D'Alton McCarthy, was a Canadian lawyer and parliamentarian. It was his firm, Boulton & McCarthy in Barrie, that was the first incarnation of what is now Canada's largest law firm, McCarthy Tétrault.McCarthy was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1878...

, leader of the McCarthyite

McCarthyite candidates 1896

The McCarthyites were a short-lived anti-Catholic and anti-French-Canadian political movement which contested the 23 June 1896 federal election in Canada.Dalton McCarthy was the only "McCarthyite" to win election, and the movement disbanded in 1898....

s, a group of 10 candidates who ran in the 1896 election

Canadian federal election, 1896

The Canadian federal election of 1896 was held on June 23, 1896 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 8th Parliament of Canada. Though the Conservative Party won a plurality of the popular vote, the Liberal Party, led by Wilfrid Laurier, won the majority of seats to form the...

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Source: Parliament of Canada History of the Federal Electoral Ridings since 1867