The Canadian provincial elections of 1990 were a series of coordinated elections staged during November of 1990 to elect members to the newly-formed Legislative Assemblies of the provinces and territories, the first (and last) time that all provinces called elections roughly at the same time. The elections were called to end Direct Rule and the interim governments thereafter in the various provinces since 1982 and were the first locally held democratic elections in much of Canada since the 1920s. Even more so than the federal election of 1989 that ended the rule of the Worker's Party, the 1990 polls were watershed as they were the first elections called under the Constitution of 1990 that had been approved in June of the same year. Provisional Head of State Paul D. Manson appointed Governo