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The 51st Newfoundland and Labrador general election will elect members to the 50th general assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador. Under the province's fixed election date law, the vote is tentatively scheduled for October 10, 2023, however a caveat in the law mandates that an election must be held within one year of a new Premier assuming office. Therefore, the election is expected to be held within one year of Premier Andrew Furey's swearing-in on August 19, 2020.
The following MHAs had announced that they would not be running in this provincial election:
Liberal
Progressive Conservative
Seat | Before | Change | |||||
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Date | Member | Party | Reason | Date | Member | Party | |
Humber-Gros Morne | September 7, 2020 [4] | Dwight Ball | █ Liberal | Resignation | October 6, 2020 [5] | Andrew Furey | █ Liberal |
Lake Melville | November 10, 2020 [6] | Perry Trimper | █ Liberal | Resigned from caucus [lower-alpha 1] | █ Independent |
2019
2020
Electoral District | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
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Liberal | PC | NDP | Other | |||||||
Mount Scio | Sarah Stoodley [26] | Damian Follett [27] [lower-alpha 1] | Andrea Newbury (NL Alliance) [28] | Sarah Stoodley | ||||||
St. John's Centre | Robyn LeGrow [29] | Jim Dinn [30] | Jim Dinn | |||||||
St. John's East-Quidi Vidi | John Abbott or Lynn Hammond [31] [32] [lower-alpha 2] | Alison Coffin [30] | Alison Coffin | |||||||
St. John's West | Siobhan Coady [33] | [lower-alpha 1] | Brenda Walsh [34] | Siobhan Coady | ||||||
Virginia Waters-Pleasantville | Bernard Davis [33] | Victor Lawlor [35] | Jenn Deon [34] | Bernard Davis | ||||||
Waterford Valley | Tom Osborne [36] | [lower-alpha 3] | Tom Osborne | |||||||
Windsor Lake | Ches Crosbie [37] | Ches Crosbie |
Electoral District | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
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Liberal | PC | NDP | Other | |||||||
Cape St. Francis | Chris Andrews or Joedy Wall [38] | Kevin Parsons† | ||||||||
Conception Bay East – Bell Island | David Brazil [39] | Gavin Will [40] | David Brazil | |||||||
Conception Bay South | Shelley Moores [41] | Barry Petten [42] | Barry Petten | |||||||
Mount Pearl North | David Burrows [43] | Jim Lester [44] | William Neville (NL Alliance) [45] | Jim Lester | ||||||
Mount Pearl-Southlands | Paul Lane | |||||||||
Topsail-Paradise | Paul Dinn [46] | Paul Dinn |
Electoral District | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
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Liberal | PC | NDP | ||||||
Carbonear-Trinity-Bay de Verde | Steve Crocker [33] | Frank Butt [47] | Steve Crocker | |||||
Ferryland | Loyola O'Driscoll [48] | [lower-alpha 4] | Loyola O'Driscoll | |||||
Harbour Grace-Port de Grave | Pam Parsons [49] | [lower-alpha 1] | Pam Parsons | |||||
Harbour Main | Helen Conway-Ottenheimer [50] | Helen Conway-Ottenheimer | ||||||
Placentia-St. Mary's | Sherry Gambin-Walsh [51] | [lower-alpha 1] | Sherry Gambin-Walsh |
Electoral District | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
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Liberal | PC | NDP | ||||||
Bonavista | Craig Pardy [42] | Craig Pardy | ||||||
Burin-Grand Bank | Fred Dodge [52] | Carol Anne Haley† | ||||||
Placentia West-Bellevue | Sam Synard [53] | Jeff Dwyer [44] | Jeff Dwyer | |||||
Terra Nova | Steve Denty [38] [53] | Lloyd Parrott [54] | [lower-alpha 5] | Lloyd Parrott |
Electoral District | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
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Liberal | PC | NDP | ||||||
Baie Verte-Green Bay | Brian Warr [53] | Brian Warr | ||||||
Exploits | Doug Kelly or Kirk McDonald or Rodney Mercer [55] [lower-alpha 6] | Pleaman Forsey [56] | Pleaman Forsey | |||||
Fogo Island-Cape Freels | Derrick Bragg [57] | Sue Collins [35] | Derrick Bragg | |||||
Fortune Bay-Cape La Hune | Elvis Loveless [58] | Noel Joe [40] | Elvis Loveless | |||||
Gander | John Haggie [59] | John Haggie | ||||||
Grand Falls-Windsor-Buchans | [lower-alpha 7] | Chris Tibbs | ||||||
Lewisporte-Twillingate | Derek Bennett [49] | Derek Bennett |
Electoral District | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
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Liberal | PC | NDP | Other | |||||||
Burgeo-La Poile | Andrew Parsons [33] | Andrew Parsons | ||||||||
Corner Brook | Gerry Byrne [60] | Tom Stewart [61] | Graham Downey-Sutton [34] | Gerry Byrne | ||||||
Humber-Gros Morne | Graydon Pelley (NL Alliance) [62] | Andrew Furey | ||||||||
Humber-Bay of Islands | Eddie Joyce | |||||||||
St. Barbe-L'Anse aux Meadows | Chris Mitchelmore† | |||||||||
St. George's-Humber | Scott Reid [49] | Gary Bishop or Tom O'Brien [47] | [lower-alpha 5] | Scott Reid | ||||||
Stephenville-Port au Port | Tony Wakeham [46] | Tony Wakeham |
Electoral District | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||
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Liberal | PC | NDP | Other | |||||||
Cartwright-L'Anse au Clair | Lisa Dempster [33] | Lisa Dempster | ||||||||
Labrador West | Wayne Button [63] | Nick McGrath [64] | Jordan Brown [30] | Jordan Brown | ||||||
Lake Melville | [lower-alpha 8] | Shannon Tobin [65] | Perry Trimper (Independent) [6] | Perry Trimper | ||||||
Torngat Mountains | [lower-alpha 9] | Lela Evans |
Polling Firm | Final Day of Polling | Link | Liberal | PC | NDP | NLA |
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Narrative Research | December 3, 2020 | [66] | 58 | 26 | 13 | – |
Angus Reid | November 30, 2020 | [67] | 50 | 39 | 8 | – |
MQO Research | September 2, 2020 | [68] | 53 | 33 | 11 | 1 |
Narrative Research | August 18, 2020 | [69] | 61 | 21 | 15 | – |
Angus Reid | June 8, 2020 | [70] | 48 | 35 | 12 | – |
Narrative Research | May 26, 2020 | [71] | 60 | 26 | 13 | – |
Narrative Research | February 23, 2020 | [72] | 37 | 35 | 26 | – |
Narrative Research | November 22, 2019 | [73] | 42 | 33 | 24 | – |
Narrative Research | August 25, 2019 | [74] | 42 | 32 | 24 | – |
MQO Research | July 31, 2019 | [75] | 50 | 34 | 13 | 1 |
Election 2019 | May 16, 2019 | – | 43.9 | 42.6 | 6.3 | 2.4 |
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