Editing Husting (section)

===Canada===
In pre-[[Canadian Confederation|Confederation]] [[Ontario]], the [[returning officer]] (under an 1849 act) typically administered elections from the hustings. "Nomination day" and "declaration day" were separate. The returning officer took nominations by a [[Show of hands (politics)|show of hands]] to determine if any candidate received a majority; if a losing candidate demanded a vote, this was followed by several days of polling, then a return to the hustings where the returning officer declared the winner. (The polling period was originally six days, but this was reduced to two days with the 1842 and 1849 Election Acts). The [[Voting methods in deliberative assemblies|show of hands]] and hustings declaration were abolished in 1866, and hustings nominations were abolished in 1874 by a Dominion statute.<ref>George Neil Emery, ''Elections in Oxford County, 1837-1875: A Case Study of Democracy in Canada West and Early Ontario'' (University of Toronto Press, 2012), pp. xii, 24, 50.</ref> Historian George Neil Emery writes that after this point, "only in [[Elections in Canada|provincial elections]] did the hustings retain its original meaning: an elevated platform at the place of election from which the returning officer, candidates, and nominators of candidate addressed an assembled of electors before then."<ref>George Neil Emery, ''Elections in Oxford County, 1837-1875: A Case Study of Democracy in Canada West and Early Ontario'' (University of Toronto Press, 2012), p. 24.</ref>