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- ↑ "Seating Plan". Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly. Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly. 30 March 2022. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
- ↑ "Newfoundland and Labrador cabinet minister Bragg dies at 59 after cancer diagnosis". halifax.citynews.ca. Retrieved 2024-01-23.
- ↑ "Preliminary By-Election Results for Conception Bay East-Bell Island". gov.nl. Office of the Chief Electoral Officer. January 30, 2024.
- ↑ Bay of Islands (First Elected as a Liberal)
- ↑ Bay of Islands (Re-elected as Liberal)
- ↑ First Elected as a Progressive Conservative and Re-elected as Liberal
- ↑ First Elected as a Progressive Conservative