18th General Election: 6 November 1893
Party composition: Liberal 23, Tory 12, Independent 1. Total Assembly membership 36.
Many of the victorious Liberals (and the Independent) had their elections set aside by the Courts. The Premier and his leading supporters were unseated and disqualified from seeking re-election.
The Governor appointed the Tory leader, Augustus F. Goodridge, as Premier in 1894. However as the Liberals kept on winning by-elections Goodridge never had a majority.
In December 1894 the interim Liberal leader, Daniel J. Greene, became Premier. In February 1895 he passed a law to lift the electoral disqualification of Whiteway and then resigned in his favour.
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