List of Newfoundland and Labrador general elections

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.

Number of seats won by major parties at each election

Conservative

Liberal

NDP

Other / Independent

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
30th	May 27, 1949		28	65.5	22	32.9	5			1.6	1	Independent
31st	November 26, 1951		28	63.6	24	35.6	4			0.8
32nd	October 2, 1956		36	66.3	32	32.0	4			1.7
33rd	August 20, 1959		36	58.0	31	25.3	3	7.2		9.5[C]	2	United Newfoundland
34th	November 19, 1962		42	58.7	34	36.6	7	3.6		1.1	1	Independent
35th	September 8, 1966		42	61.8	39	34.0	3	1.8		2.4
36th	October 28, 1971		42	44.4	20	51.3	21	1.8		2.5[D]	1	Labrador Party
37th	March 24, 1972		42	37.2	9	60.5	33	[E]		2.7[F]
38th	September 16, 1975		51	37.1	16	45.5	30	4.0		13.4[G]	5	Reform Liberal
39th	June 18, 1979		52	40.6	19	50.4	33	7.8		1.2
40th	April 6, 1982		52	34.9	8	61.2	44	3.7		0.2
41st	April 2, 1985		52	36.7	15	48.6	36	14.4	1	0.3
42nd	April 20, 1989		52	47.2	31	47.6	21	4.4		0.8
43rd	May 3, 1993		52	49.1	35	42.1	16	7.4	1	1.4
44th	February 22, 1996		48	55.1	37	38.7	9	4.5	1	1.7	1	Independent
45th	February 9, 1999		48	49.5	32	40.6	14	8.2	2	1.4[H]
46th	October 21, 2003		48	33.2	12	58.7	34	6.9	2	1.2
47th	October 9, 2007		48	22.0	3	69.6	44	8.2	1	0.2
48th	October 11, 2011		48	19.1	6	56.1	37	24.6	5	0.2
49th	November 30, 2015		40	57.2	31	30.1	7	12.1	2	0.7
50th	May 17, 2019		40	43.9	20	42.6	15	6.3	3	4.6	2	Independent
51st	March 25, 2021		40	48.2	22	38.8	13	8.0	2	4.6	3	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)