Stephenville-Port Au Port
Stephenville-Port au Port is a provincial electoral district in Newfoundland and Labrador, which is represented by one member in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly. It was contested for the first time in the 2015 provincial election. The district encompasses the town of Stephenville and the Port au Port Peninsula. The district is represented by PC leader Tony Wakeham. Members of the House of Assembly The district A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ... has elected the following members of the House of Assembly: Election results References Newfoundland and Labrador provincial electoral districts Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador {{Canada-constituency-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Port Au Port Peninsula
The Port au Port Peninsula (; ) is a peninsula in the Canada, Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Roughly triangular in shape, it is located on the west coast of the island of Newfoundland (island), Newfoundland. Geography The peninsula extends into the Gulf of St. Lawrence and is joined to Newfoundland by a narrow isthmus connecting at the town of Port au Port, Newfoundland and Labrador, Port au Port. It is bounded on the south by St. George's Bay (Newfoundland and Labrador), Bay St. George, on the western side by the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and on the northwestern side by Port au Port Bay. With a rocky shoreline measuring approximately 130 km in length, the peninsula extends approximately 40 km west from its isthmus to Cape St. George, Newfoundland and Labrador, Cape St. George and northwest 50 km to the fingerlike Long Point which by itself is approximately 25 km in length. The eastern shore of the peninsula is irregular, jutting into Port au ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Elections Newfoundland And Labrador
Elections Newfoundland & Labrador is the non-partisan agency in Newfoundland & Labrador, of the legislative assembly charged with running provincial elections. References External links * Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoundland and Labrador is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region of Labrador, having a total size of . As of 2025 the populatio ... Politics of Newfoundland and Labrador {{Newfoundland-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tony Cornect
Tony Cornect is a Canadian politician from Newfoundland and Labrador, who represented the district of Port au Port in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 2007 to 2015. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party, and served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Tourism, Culture and Recreation and Minister of Service NL. He was defeated in the 2015 provincial election, in which he ran in the new district of Stephenville-Port au Port."Full list of winners in Newfoundland and Labrador election" , November 30, 2015. Cornect previously served as a town councillor and mayor in [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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50th General Assembly Of Newfoundland And Labrador
The 50th General Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador was elected at the 2021 Newfoundland and Labrador general election and sworn-in April 12, 2021. Seating Plan ''Current as of June 2025'' List of members Members as of June 2025 By-elections * 2024 Conception Bay East–Bell Island provincial by-election, Conception Bay East–Bell Island, January 30, 2024, won by Liberal Fred Hutton. * 2024 Fogo Island-Cape Freels provincial by-election, Fogo Island-Cape Freels, April 15, 2024, won by Progressive Conservative (PC) Jim McKenna (politician), Jim McKenna * 2024 Baie Verte-Green Bay provincial by-election, Baie Verte-Green Bay, May 27, 2024, won by Progressive Conservative (PC) Lin Paddock * 2024 Waterford Valley provincial by-election, Waterford Valley, August 22, 2024, won by Liberal Jamie Korab Notes References {{General Assemblies of Newfoundland and Labrador Terms of the General Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador 2021 in Canadian politics, Newfoundland a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Progressive Conservative Party Of Newfoundland And Labrador
The Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador is a provincial political party in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The party was founded in 1949 and most recently formed the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador from the 2003 Newfoundland and Labrador general election, 2003 general election until the 2015 Newfoundland and Labrador general election, 2015 general election. The party has served as the official opposition to the government of Newfoundland and Labrador since 14 December 2015. On October 14, 2023, MHA Tony Wakeham was elected leader. History Origins The party originated before Newfoundland's Canadian Confederation, confederation with Canada as the Responsible Government League (RGL). The RGL campaigned for responsible government to return to Dominion of Newfoundland, Newfoundland, after being suspended in 1934. In the 1948 Newfoundland referendums, 1948 referendum, Newfoundland narrowly voted to join Canada as its tenth province. Following the ref ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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49th General Assembly Of Newfoundland And Labrador
The 49th General Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador was elected on May 16, 2019. Members of the House of Assembly were sworn in on June 10, 2019. The Assembly was dissolved on January 15, 2021 after premier Andrew Furey Andrew John Furey (born July 2, 1975) is a Canadian politician and surgeon who was the 14th premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, from 2020 to 2025. A member of the Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador Liberal ... called a snap election held on February 13. Seating plan List of current members Notes References {{reflist 47 2019 establishments in Newfoundland and Labrador 2019 in Newfoundland and Labrador 2020 in Newfoundland and Labrador 2019 in Canadian politics 2020 in Canadian politics Minority governments ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Liberal Party Of Newfoundland And Labrador
The Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador is a political party in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is one of the three parties currently represented in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly, and one of two that had continual representation since Newfoundland became a province of Canada. It has formed the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador for over 60% of time period since Newfoundland joined the Canadian confederation as its tenth provinces in 1949 and produced eight of the province's fifteen premiers, including incumbent Premier John Hogan. Prior to 2017, the party and its sister parties in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island were formally the provincial branch of the Liberal Party of Canada. The party became an independent and completely autonomous political party when the national party ended its confederated organizational model in 2016 and severed formal governance relationship with all provincial liberal parties. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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John Finn (politician)
John Finn is a Canadian politician, who represented Stephenville-Port au Port in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 2015 until 2019 as a member of the Liberal Party. Finn was elected in the 2015 provincial election."Full list of winners in Newfoundland and Labrador election" CBC News
CBC News is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC ... , November 30, 2015. He ran for re-election i ...
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48th General Assembly Of Newfoundland And Labrador
The 48th Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly was elected on November 30, 2015. Members of the House of Assembly were sworn in December 14, 2015. The Liberals under Dwight Ball had a majority government A majority government is a government by one or more governing parties that hold an absolute majority of seats in a legislature. Such a government can consist of one party that holds a majority on its own, or be a coalition government of multi ... during this parliament which lasted until the 2019 provincial election. Members Seating plan Standings changes in the 48th Assembly Notes References {{Newfoundland and Labrador politics 47 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Electoral District (Canada)
An electoral district in Canada is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based. It is officially known in Canadian French as a ''circonscription'' but frequently called a ''comté'' (county). In Canadian English it is also colloquially, and more commonly known as a Riding (division), riding or ''constituency''. Each federal electoral district returns one Member of Parliament (Canada), Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of Canada; each Provinces and territories of Canada, provincial or territorial electoral district returns one representative—called, depending on the province or territory, Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA), National Assembly of Quebec, Member of the National Assembly (MNA), Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario), Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) or Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly, Member of the House of Assembly (MHA)—to the provincial or territorial legislature. Beginning with t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2015 Newfoundland And Labrador General Election
The 2015 Newfoundland and Labrador general election, held on November 30, 2015, elected members of the 48th General Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador. The Progressive Conservative Party which had governed since 2003 election, was defeated by the Liberal Party, which won a majority in the new assembly. The election had been scheduled for October 13, 2015, under Newfoundland and Labrador's House of Assembly Act, mandating a fixed election day on the second Tuesday in October in the fourth calendar year after the previous election. However, the House of Assembly amended the act in June 2015, to delay the election until November 30, 2015, so that the election campaign would not overlap with the federal election scheduled on October 19, 2015. Following the result of the election no party with the word "Conservative" in its name formed the government in either a provincial or federal jurisdiction in Canada for the first time since 1943. At the time (with 55.2% of eligible vote ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |