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Number of seats won by major parties at each election
Conservative Liberal NDP Other / Independent

This article provides a summary of results for the general elections to the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador's unicameral legislative body, the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly. The number of seats has varied over time, from a low of twenty-seven for the first election in 1949, to a high of fifty-two during the 1980s and early 1990s. There are currently 40 seats in the house.

The chart on the right shows the information graphically, with the most recent elections on the right. It shows that politics in Newfoundland and Labrador have been dominated by two parties: the Liberal party (red) and the Conservative party (blue). The Liberal party have won ten out of the seventeen elections held.

This article only covers elections since the province became part of the Canadian Confederation in 1949. It was then named Newfoundland, and its official name changed to Newfoundland and Labrador in 2001. Prior to becoming part of Canada, Newfoundland was a British dominion, and the Newfoundland House of Assembly (as it was known before 2001) was first formed in 1832. For elections prior to 1949, see General elections in Newfoundland (pre-Confederation).

Summary

The table below shows the total number of seats won by the major political parties at each election. It also shows the percentage of the vote obtained by the major political parties at each election, if greater than 0.1%. The winning party's totals are shown in bold. To date, there has only been one election (in 1989) where the party that formed the government did not have the largest share of the vote. Full details on any election are linked via the number of the election at the start of the row.

Election Total
seats 		Liberal Conservative[A] NDP[B] Other
Vote (%) Seats Vote (%) Seats Vote (%) Seats Vote (%) Seats Seat-winning party
Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal colspan=2 height=6 | Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives colspan=2 | Template:Canadian politics/party colours/NDP colspan=2 | Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents colspan=3 |
30th May 27, 1949 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal | 28 65.5 22 32.9 5 1.6 1 Independent
31st November 26, 1951 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal | 28 63.6 24 35.6 4 0.8
32nd October 2, 1956 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal | 36 66.3 32 32.0 4 1.7
33rd August 20, 1959 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal | 36 58.0 31 25.3 3 7.2 9.5[C] 2 United Newfoundland
34th November 19, 1962 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal | 42 58.7 34 36.6 7 3.6 1.1 1 Independent
35th September 8, 1966 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal | 42 61.8 39 34.0 3 1.8 2.4
36th October 28, 1971 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives | 42 44.4 20 51.3 21 1.8 2.5[D] 1 Labrador Party
37th March 24, 1972 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives | 42 37.2 9 60.5 33 [E] 2.7[F]
38th September 16, 1975 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives | 51 37.1 16 45.5 30 4.0 13.4[G] 5 Reform Liberal
39th June 18, 1979 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives | 52 40.6 19 50.4 33 7.8 1.2
40th April 6, 1982 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives | 52 34.9 8 61.2 44 3.7 0.2
41st April 2, 1985 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives | 52 36.7 15 48.6 36 14.4 1 0.3
42nd April 20, 1989 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal | 52 47.2 31 47.6 21 4.4 0.8
43rd May 3, 1993 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal | 52 49.1 35 42.1 16 7.4 1 1.4
44th February 22, 1996 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal | 48 55.1 37 38.7 9 4.5 1 1.7 1 Independent
45th February 9, 1999 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal | 48 49.5 32 40.6 14 8.2 2 1.4[H]
46th October 21, 2003 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives width=3 | 48 33.2 12 58.7 34 6.9 2 1.2
47th October 9, 2007 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives width=3 | 48 22.0 3 69.6 44 8.2 1 0.2
48th October 11, 2011 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives width=3 | 48 19.1 6 56.1 37 24.6 5 0.2
49th November 30, 2015 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal width=3 | 40 57.2 31 30.1 7 12.1 2 0.7
50th May 17, 2019 Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal width=3 | 40 43.9 20 42.6 15 6.3 3 4.6 2 Independent

Notes

A Includes results for Progressive Conservatives.
B Includes results for Co-operative Commonwealth Federation prior to 1963.
C Includes 8.2% for the United Newfoundland Party.
D Includes 2.4% for the Labrador Party.
E Captured less than 1% of the vote. Its vote total is included in the "other" vote share.
F Includes 1.2% for the Labrador Party.
G Includes 11.9% for the Reform Liberal Party.
H Includes 1.0% for the Newfoundland and Labrador Party

See also

References

  • "General Election Statistics (1949-1999)". Elections Newfoundland and Labrador. Archived from the original on 2008-09-26. Retrieved 2008-11-07.
  • "Official Count" (PDF). Elections Newfoundland and Labrador. Retrieved 2006-12-08. [dead link] (2003)
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