List of Newfoundland and Labrador general elections

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

• List of political parties in Newfoundland and Labrador
• General elections in Newfoundland (pre-Confederation)

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. (2003)