The 1996 Newfoundland general election was held on February 22, 1996, to elect members of the 43rd
General Assembly of Newfoundland
The General Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador (known as the General Assembly of Newfoundland until 6 December 2001) is the legislature of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Today, the legislature is made of two elements: the li ...
. It was won by the
Liberal Party
The Liberal Party is any of many political parties around the world.
The meaning of ''liberal'' varies around the world, ranging from liberal conservatism on the right to social liberalism on the left. For example, while the political systems ...
under new leader
Brian Tobin
Brian Vincent Tobin (born October 21, 1954) is a Canadian businessman and former politician. Tobin served as the sixth premier of Newfoundland from 1996 to 2000. Tobin was also a prominent Member of Parliament and served as a cabinet ministe ...
*Names in boldface type represent party leaders.
*† represents that the incumbent is not running again.
*‡ represents that the incumbent is running in a different district.
St. John's
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, bgcolor=whitesmoke, Kilbride 77.50% turnout
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, Gerry Glavine 3,118 46.67%
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, Ed Byrne 3,185 47.67%
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, Mary Snow 378 5.66%
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, Ed Byrne
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, bgcolor=whitesmoke, St. John's Centre 74.31% turnout
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, Joan Aylward 2,579 43.05%
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, Paul Brown 2,254 37.62%
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, Wayne Lucas 1,158 19.33%
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Hubert Kitchen
Hubert William Kitchen (September 16, 1928 – July 18, 2020) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly as a member of the Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador. He also served in cabinet as Min ...
Hubert Kitchen
Hubert William Kitchen (September 16, 1928 – July 18, 2020) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly as a member of the Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador. He also served in cabinet as Min ...
2,340 38.20%
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John Ottenheimer
John Ottenheimer (born in 1953) is a Canadian lawyer and politician in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Ottenheimer is a former Cabinet minister in the government of Danny Williams and represented the district of St. John's East for the Pr ...
2,989 48.80%
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, Sean Murray 796 13.00%
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, Jack Harris‡ (ran in Signal Hill-Quidi Vidi)
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, bgcolor=whitesmoke, St. John's North 73.95% turnout
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, Lloyd Matthews 2,789 56.37%
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, Ian Carter 1,649 33.33%
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, Raj Sharan 510 10.31%
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, Lloyd Matthews
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, bgcolor=whitesmoke, St. John's South 70.73% turnout
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, Tom Murphy 2,417 40.62%
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Tom Osborne
Thomas William Osborne (born February 23, 1937) is an American former football player, coach, college athletics administrator, and politician from Nebraska. He served as head football coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers from 1973 to 1997 (25 sea ...
2,521 42.36%
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, Sue Skipton 858 14.42%
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, Bill Maddigan (Independent) 155 2.60%
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, Tom Murphy
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St. John's West St. John's West could refer to:
* St. John's West (federal electoral district)
* St. John's West (provincial electoral district)
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74.82% turnout
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, Rex Gibbons 4,152 64.36%
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, Bren Kelly 1,648 25.55%
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, Pat Lynch 651 10.09%
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, Rex Gibbons
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, bgcolor=whitesmoke, Signal Hill-Quidi Vidi 79.89% turnout
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, Joan Cook 1,661 30.29%
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, Cy Mills 902 16.45%
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, Jack Harris 2,800 51.07%
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, Jason Crummey (Independent) 120 2.19%
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, ''New district''
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Virginia Waters
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73.88% turnout
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Walter Noel
Walter Noel is a Canadian politician. He was first elected to Newfoundland's House of Assembly as the Member of the House of Assembly (MHA) for Pleasantville in 1989, and re-elected in 1993. Noel was re-elected with the assistance of local Nfld ...
Conception Bay South
Conception Bay South is a town in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The town is commonly called CBS.
The town is located on the Avalon Peninsula which forms part of the southern shore of Conception Bay which is in turn part of ...
75.51% turnout
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, Bill Dawe 2,628 43.50%
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, Bob French 3,051 50.50%
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, Harvey Taylor 363 6.00%
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, Pat Cowan†
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Mount Pearl
Mount Pearl is the fourth-largest municipality and second-largest city in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The city is located southwest of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, on the eastern tip of the Avalon Peninsula on the isla ...
Neil Windsor
Hunter Neil Windsor (July 8, 1945 – March 28, 2021) was a Canadian engineer and politician. He represented the electoral district of Mount Pearl in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly
The Newfoundland and Labrador House of Asse ...
2,927 42.49%
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, Sam Kelly 275 3.99%
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, Neil Windsor
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Topsail
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Square rig
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Waterford Valley
Waterford Valley 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. It wa ...
Bellevue Bellevue means "beautiful view" in French.
Bellevue or Belle Vue may refer to:
Places
Australia
* Bellevue, Queensland
* Bellevue, Western Australia
* Bellevue Hill, New South Wales
Canada
* Bellevue, Alberta
* Bellevue, Newfoundlan ...
Nick Careen
Nick Careen is a Newfoundland and Labrador politician. He was elected to Newfoundland and Labrador's provincial House of Assembly in the 1993 Newfoundland general election as a Progressive Conservative. He represented Placentia District from 1993 ...
Burin-Placentia West
Burin-Placentia West was a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The district was known as Placentia West prior to 1975. As of 2011 there were 7,673 eligible voters living within the distric ...
79.71% turnout
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Mary Hodder
Mary J. Hodder (April 5, 1945 – January 26, 2025) was a Canadian politician. She represented the riding of Burin-Placentia West in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1996 to 2003 as a member of the Liberal Party.
Glenn Tobin
Glenn G. Tobin (born November 19, 1950) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Burin-Placentia West in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1982 to 1996. He was a member of the Progressive Conservativ ...
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Carbonear-Harbour Grace
Carbonear-Harbour Grace is a defunct provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. In 2011 there were 9,205 eligible voters living within the district.
Being a regional services centre heavily infl ...
75.63% turnout
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Art Reid
Arthur D. Reid (born October 17, 1947) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Carbonear and Carbonear-Harbour Grace in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1989 to 1998. He was a member of the Liberal ...
Art Reid
Arthur D. Reid (born October 17, 1947) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Carbonear and Carbonear-Harbour Grace in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1989 to 1998. He was a member of the Liberal ...
Carbonear
Carbonear is a town on the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It overlooks the west side of Conception Bay and had a history long tied to fishing and shipbuilding. Since the late 20th century, its economy has changed to empha ...
Harbour Grace
Harbour Grace is a town in Conception Bay on the Avalon Peninsula in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. With roots dating back to the 16th century, it is one of the oldest towns in North America.
It is located about northwest of ...
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Ferryland
Ferryland is a town in Newfoundland and Labrador on the Avalon Peninsula. According to the 2021 Statistics Canada census, its population is 371.
Seventeenth century settlement
Ferryland was originally established as a station for migratory fi ...
85.33% turnout
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, Tom Best 2,237 31.64%
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Loyola Sullivan
Loyola Sullivan (born April 3, 1949) served as Canada, Canada's Ambassador for Fisheries Conservation from 2007 until 2011 and is a former Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly, Member of the House of Assembly in Newfoundland and Labrador. ...
Grand Bank
Grand Bank or 'Grand Banc' as the first French settlers pronounced it, is a small rural town in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, with a population of 2,580. It is located on the southern tip or "toe" of the Burin Peninsula (al ...
76.86% turnout
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Judy Foote
Judy May Foote ( Crowley; born June 23, 1952) is a former Canadian politician who served as the 14th lieutenant governor of Newfoundland and Labrador from 2018 to 2023. She was the first woman to hold the position.
Prior to her appointment as ...
Bill Matthews
William Matthews (born July 22, 1947) is a Canadian politician.
Political career
Matthews was a Progressive Conservative member of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1982 to 1996. During this time, he was a cabinet minister ...
Harbour Main
Harbour Main, formerly Harbour Main-Whitbourne and Harbour Main-Bell Island, is a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Prior to 1975, the district elected two MHAs.
Between 1972 and the y ...
Anthony Sparrow
Anthony Sparrow (May 1612-19 May 1685) was prominent as both a theologian and academic at the University of Cambridge and as a cleric in the Church of England. He was President of Queens' College, Cambridge, Vice-Chancellor of the University o ...
3,601 51.38%
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Fabian Manning
Fabian Manning (born May 21, 1964) is a politician in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Manning served as a Progressive Conservative and later as the independent Member of the House of Assembly for the district of Placentia and St. Mary’s ...
3,407 48.62%
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, Nick Careen‡ Placentia (ran in
Bellevue Bellevue means "beautiful view" in French.
Bellevue or Belle Vue may refer to:
Places
Australia
* Bellevue, Queensland
* Bellevue, Western Australia
* Bellevue Hill, New South Wales
Canada
* Bellevue, Alberta
* Bellevue, Newfoundlan ...
St. Mary's-The Capes
Placentia—St. Mary's is a provinces and territories of Canada, provincial electoral district (Canada), electoral district for the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly, House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. As of 2011, th ...
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Port de Grave
Port de Grave is a peninsula on Conception Bay (CB) in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The peninsula contains the communities of Bareneed, Black Duck Pond, Otterbury, Ship Cove, Blow Me Down, Newfoundland and Labrador, Blow Me Down, Hibb's Co ...
76.98% turnout
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John Efford
Ruben John Efford (January 6, 1944 – January 2, 2022) was a Canadian politician. He first served as a member of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly (MHA) from 1985 to 2001, representing Port de Grave electoral district and also s ...
Paul Shelley
Paul Shelley (born Paul Matthews; 15 May 1942) is an English actor.
Shelley was born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, and trained at RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art). Since then he has mainly worked in the theatre as a classical actor. ...
3,578 60.05%
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, Paul Shelley Baie Verte-White Bay
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Bonavista North
Bonavista North was a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It existed from when Newfoundland joined confederation in 1949 until 2015.
As of 2011 the district had 6,956 eligible voters.
Wh ...
73.74% turnout
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Beaton Tulk
Reginald Beaton Tulk (May 22, 1944 – May 23, 2019) was a Canadian educator, civil servant and politician. He served as the seventh premier of Newfoundland from 2000 to 2001 as a member of the Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador. To dat ...
3,594 56.69%
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, Sam Winsor 2,463 38.85%
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, Wayne Davis (Independent) 283 4.46%
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, Tom Lush‡ (ran in Terra Nova)
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Bonavista South
Bonavista South is a former provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. As of 2011 the district had 6,843 eligible voters.
It contains the communities of: Bonavista, Spillars Cove, Birchy Cove ...
78.29% turnout
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Kay Young
Caroline Kate (Kay) Young (born January 30, 1944) is a former Canadian politician. She represented the riding of Terra Nova in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1993 to 1996 as a member of the Liberal Party.
The daughter of ...
2,474 34.10%
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Roger Fitzgerald
Roger Fitzgerald (born 5 May 1947) is a Canadian politician in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. He represented the district of Bonavista South from 1993 to 2011 and served as Speaker of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly.
Before ...
Roger Grimes
Roger D. Grimes (born May 2, 1950) is a Canadian politician from Newfoundland and Labrador. Grimes was born and raised in the central Newfoundland town of Grand Falls-Windsor.
Grimes is a former leader of the province's Liberal Party and was it ...
Sandra Kelly
Sandra Kelly (born April 13, 1949) is a Canadian former elected official. She sat in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1996 to 2003 as a member of the Liberals. She served as the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Recreation and ...
3,585 55.80%
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Dan Crummell
Dan Crummell is a Canadian politician in 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 ...
2,840 44.20%
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Gary Vey
Gary Vey was a Canadian politician, who sat in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1995 to 1996 as a member of the Liberals. He represented the electoral district of Gander.Grand Falls-Buchans 78.82% turnout
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, Anna Thistle 3,441 50.24%
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, Mike Mackey 2,321 33.89%
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, Joe Tremblett 1,087 15.87%
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, Mike Mackey Grand Falls
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Lewisporte
Lewisporte is a town in central Newfoundland, Canada, with a population of 3,288. It is situated in Burnt Bay which opens on to the Bay of Exploits. Lewisporte has a deep water port and related facilities that serve many communities in the re ...
70.00% turnout
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Melvin Penney
Melvin Lorne Penney (born 1946) is a pharmacist and former politician in Newfoundland. He represented Lewisporte in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1989 to 1999.
The son of Arthur Penney and Hazel Coish, he was born in Indian Islands and ...
3,252 55.59%
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, Rex Freake 2,598 44.41%
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, Melvin Penney
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, bgcolor=whitesmoke, Terra Nova 69.75% turnout
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, Tom Lush 4,049 66.31%
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, Glenn Greening 2,057 33.69%
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, Kay Lush‡ (ran in
Bonavista South
Bonavista South is a former provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. As of 2011 the district had 6,843 eligible voters.
It contains the communities of: Bonavista, Spillars Cove, Birchy Cove ...
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Trinity North
Trinity North was a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. As of 2011, there were 8,278 eligible voters living within the district.
The riding was abolished in 2015 into Terra Nova and Bon ...
Gerry Reid
Gerry Reid (born June 18, 1954) was a Canadian politician and the leader of the Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador. He served as interim leader from 2005 to 2006, until Jim Bennett replaced him in February 2006. Reid was reelected as ...
3,885 63.85%
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, rowspan=3, Terry Reid 1,689 27.76%
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, rowspan=3, Wayne Greenham 511 8.40%
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, Walter C. Carter†
Twillingate
Twillingate is a town of 2,121 people located on the Twillingate Islands ("Toulinquet") in Notre Dame Bay, off the north eastern shore of the island of Newfoundland in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The town is about north ...
Bonavista North
Bonavista North was a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It existed from when Newfoundland joined confederation in 1949 until 2015.
As of 2011 the district had 6,956 eligible voters.
Wh ...
Bay of Islands
The Bay of Islands is an area on the east coast of the Far North District of the North Island of New Zealand. It is one of the most popular fishing, sailing and tourist destinations in the country, and has been renowned internationally for ...
75.77% turnout
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Brian Tobin
Brian Vincent Tobin (born October 21, 1954) is a Canadian businessman and former politician. Tobin served as the sixth premier of Newfoundland from 1996 to 2000. Tobin was also a prominent Member of Parliament and served as a cabinet ministe ...
La Poile
La Poile is a local service district and designated place in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is on La Poile Bay. The community is inaccessible by road and is served by a ferry via a port in Rose Blanche.
The town mainly w ...
Oliver Langdon
Oliver Langdon is an educator and former political figure in Newfoundland and Labrador. He represented Fortune Bay-Cape La Hune in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1989 to 2007 as a Progressive Conservative and then Libera ...
4,046 74.73%
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, Kay Blake 1,368 25.27%
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, Oliver Langdon Fortune-Hermitage
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, bgcolor=whitesmoke, Humber East 80.76% turnout
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, Bob Mercer 3,424 50.05%
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, Lynn Verge 3,417 49.95%
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, Lynn Verge
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, bgcolor=whitesmoke, Humber Valley 71.27% turnout
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, Rick Woodford 4,109 74.91%
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, Evelyn Organ 1,376 25.09%
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, Rick Woodford
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, bgcolor=whitesmoke, Humber West 72.49% turnout
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Paul Dicks
Paul D. Dicks (born 1950) is a lawyer and former politician in Newfoundland and Labrador. He represented Humber West in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1989 to 2001 as a Liberal.
He was born in Corner Brook, Newfoundland ...
4,215 73.86%
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, Pat Callahan 1,492 26.14%
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, Paul Dicks
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, bgcolor=whitesmoke, Port au Port 71.05% turnout
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, Gerald Smith 4,011 67.93%
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, Scott Hurley 1,894 32.07%
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, Gerald Smith
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, bgcolor=whitesmoke, St. Barbe 74.17% turnout
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Chuck Furey
Charles "Chuck" Furey (born March 6, 1954) is a former Canadian politician who represented the electoral district of St. Barbe in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1985 to 2000.
The son of Leo Furey and Mary Bruce, he was b ...
Kevin Aylward
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3,505 61.68%
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, rowspan=3, Cec Stein 1,640 28.86%
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, rowspan=3, Roy Spencer (Independent) 538 9.47%
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, Bud Hulan‡ St. George's (ran in Baie Verte)
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, Kevin Aylward Stephenville
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, bgcolor=whitesmoke, The Straits & White Bay North 63.98% turnout
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, Chris Decker 2,581 49.27%
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, Conan Coates 999 19.07%
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, Dennis Coates (Independent) 1,659 31.67%
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, Chris Decker
Strait of Belle Isle
The Strait of Belle Isle ( ; ) is a waterway in eastern Canada, that separates Labrador from the island of Newfoundland (island), Newfoundland, in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Location
The strait is located in the southeast of the ...
Labrador
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Cartwright-L'Anse au Clair
Cartwright-L'Anse au Clair is a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. As of 2011, there are 3,131 eligible voters living within the district.
The district covers remote communities in South ...
86.69% turnout
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Danny Dumaresque
Danny Wade Dumaresque (born November 6, 1959) is a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Eagle River in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1989 to 1996 as a member of the Liberal Party. Dumaresque has been a Direc ...
1,233 41.94%
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, Berkley Bursey 42 1.43%
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Yvonne Jones
Yvonne Jean Jones (born March 15, 1968) is a Canadian politician in Newfoundland and Labrador, who served in the House of Commons of Canada from 2013 to 2025. She represented the district of Labrador as a member of the Liberal Party caucus. On ...
(Independent) 1,665 56.63%
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, Danny Dumaresque Eagle River
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, bgcolor=whitesmoke, Labrador West 82.46% turnout
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Perry Canning
Perry Canning is a Canadian politician from Newfoundland and Labrador. He was the member of the House of Assembly (MHA) for Labrador West from 1996 to 1999.
Politics
Canning is from Happy Valley-Goose Bay in Labrador. He ran as the Liberal ...
3,547 63.37%
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Alec Snow
Alec Snow (born May 26, 1945) is a businessperson and former politician in Labrador. He represented Menihek in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1989 to 1996.
He was born in Millertown Junction, was educated in Grand Falls and moved to ...
Lake Melville
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Torngat Mountains
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Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
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From Canadian Confederation in 1867 unti ...
Liberal Party of Canada
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New Democratic Party
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General election
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