Newfoundland and Labrador general election, 2003

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Newfoundland and Labrador general election, 2003
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  1999 October 21, 2003 2007  

48 seats of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly
25 seats were needed for a majority

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  Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams.jpg Roger Grimes cropped.jpg Jack Harris.jpg
Leader Danny Williams Roger Grimes Jack Harris
Party Progressive Conservative Liberal New Democratic
Leader since 2001 2001 1992
Leader's seat Humber West Exploits Signal Hill-Quidi Vidi
Last election 14 32 2
Seats won 34 12 2
Seat changeIncrease2.svg20Decrease2.svg20 0
Popular vote 162,949 91,729 19,048
Percentage 58.71% 33.05% 6.86%
SwingIncrease2.svg17.94%Decrease2.svg16.57%Decrease2.svg1.37%

Newfoundland and Labrador 2003 election - Results by Riding.svg

Popular vote by riding. As this is an FPTP election, seat totals are not determined by popular vote, but instead via results by each riding. Click the map for more details.

Premier before election

Roger Grimes
Liberal

Premier-designate

Danny Williams
Progressive Conservative

The 46th Newfoundland and Labrador general election was held on October 21, 2003, to elect the 48 members of the 45th General Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, the 17th general election for the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The election was called on September 29 by Premier Roger Grimes of the Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador.

45th General Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador

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This election marked only the third change of government in the 54 years since the province joined Canada. The Liberals, led by Roger Grimes, were soundly defeated by the Danny Williams-led Progressive Conservative Party, who took almost three-quarters of the seats in the House of Assembly and well over half of the popular vote. The Liberals lost seven of their 17 Cabinet ministers, along with the Speaker of the House, from the preceding government. Jack Harris and the New Democrats hopes to increase their seat total from two were frustrated, although their incumbents were re-elected.

Roger Grimes Canadian politician

Roger D. Grimes is a Canadian politician from Newfoundland and Labrador. Grimes was born and raised in the central Newfoundland town of Grand Falls-Windsor.

Danny Williams (politician) Canadian politician

Daniel E. "Danny" Williams, is a Canadian politician, businessman and lawyer who served as the ninth Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador between November 6, 2003, and December 3, 2010. Williams was born and raised in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Before entering politics Williams was a highly successful lawyer and businessman. After becoming Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2001, he was elected to the House of Assembly in a by-election for the district of Humber West in Corner Brook.

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Results by party

e    d  Summary of the Legislative Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador election results
PartyParty leaderCandidatesSeatsPopular vote
1999 Dissol. 2003Change#%Change
Progressive Conservative Danny Williams 48141934+78.9%162,94958.71%+17.94%
Liberal Roger Grimes 48322712-55.6%91,72933.05%-16.57%
New Democratic Jack Harris 34222-19,0486.86%-1.37%
  Independent and no affiliation 13----3,8121.38%-%
Total143484848 -277,538100.00% 

Results by region

Party name St. John's Avalon/Burin Central/Southern Western Labrador Total
Parties winning seats in the legislature:
  Progressive Conservative Seats:13587134
  Popular vote: 67.73%57.61%54.02%57.48%30.52%58.71%
  Liberal Seats:-451212
  Popular vote: 19.43%38.17%42.78%40.16%29.93%33.05%
     New Democratic Seats:1---12
     Popular vote: 12.59%4.20%2.62%1.61%21.65%6.86%
Parties not winning seats in the legislature:
    Other Popular vote: 0.25%0.02%0.58%0.75%17.90%1.38%
Total seats: 149138448

Results by riding

St. John's

Electoral DistrictCandidates Incumbent
 PC Liberal NDP Other
Kilbride Ed Byrne
5,315
Joe Wadden
1,071
David Reynolds
404
Ed Byrne
Signal Hill—Quidi Vidi Karen Carroll
2,221
Ray O'Neill
391
Jack Harris
2,456
Jack Harris
St. John's Centre Shawn Skinner
3,349
Joan Marie Aylward
1,763
Carol Cantwell
956
Joan Marie Aylward
St. John's East John Ottenheimer
4,151
George Murphy
862
Bruce Clark
841
Steve Durant (Ind.)
66
John Ottenheimer
St. John's North Bob Ridgley
3,107
Jeff Brace
1,433
Liam Walsh
820
Lloyd Mathews
St. John's South Tom Osborne
4,532
Dennis O'Keefe (Not to be confused with the St. John's Mayor)
756
Tom McGinnis
676
Tom Osborne
St. John's West Sheila Osborne
4,557
Tom Hann
1,292
Raj Sharan
460
Sheila Osborne
Virginia Waters Kathy Dunderdale
4,193
Walter Noel
2,358
Dave Sullivan
666
Walter Noel

St. John's suburbs

Electoral DistrictCandidates Incumbent
 PC Liberal NDP Other
Cape St. Francis Jack Byrne
5,604
Bill Tapper
1,294
Ralph Tapper
980
Jack Byrne
Conception Bay East and Bell Island Dianne Whalen
4,147
Jim Walsh
1,870
Ken Kavanaugh
1,180
Doug Cole (Ind.)
171
Jim Walsh
Conception Bay South Terry French
5,606
Sheina Lerman
372
Andy Lewis
768
Terry French
Mount Pearl Dave Denine
5,662
Wayne Ralph
798
Roy Locke
504
Julie Bettney
Topsail Elizabeth Marshall
5,354
Ralph Wiseman
2,354
Michael Kehoe
472
Ralph Wiseman
Waterford Valley Harvey Hodder
4,569
Averill Baker
1,277
Justin Locke
410
Harvey Hodder

Avalon and Burin peninsulas

Electoral DistrictCandidates Incumbent
 PC Liberal NDP Other
Bellevue Joan Cleary
2,523
Percy Barrett
2,623
Michael Fahey
299
Percy Barrett
Burin—Placentia West Clyde Jackman
3,450
Sam Synard
2,133
Wayne Butler
684
Mary Hodder
Carbonear—Harbour Grace John Babb
3,165
George Sweeney
3,699
George Sweeney
Ferryland Loyola Sullivan
5,167
Andrea Kavanagh
504
Lois Martin
309
Pilar Riego-Hickey (Ind.)
11
Loyola Sullivan
Grand Bank Darin King
3,058
Judy Foote
3,101
Bill Wakeley
136
Judy Foote
Harbour Main—Whitbourne Tom Hedderson
4,769
Fred Akerman
1,482
Eugene Conway
493
Tom Hedderson
Placentia and St. Mary's Fabian Manning
3,746
Kevin Power
1,812
Janet Stringer
152
Fabian Manning
Port de Grave Clarence Gosse
2,374
Roland Butler
3,983
Roland Butler
Trinity—Bay de Verde Charlene Johnson
4,091
Lloyd Snow
2,095
Victoria Harnum
287
Lloyd Snow

Central Newfoundland

Electoral DistrictCandidates Incumbent
 PC Liberal NDP Other
Baie Verte Paul Shelley
3,045
Maurice Budgell
927
William Day (Ind.)
114
Paul Shelley
Bonavista North Harry Harding
3,384
Churence Rogers
2,301
Howard E. Parsons
116
Harry Harding
Bonavista South Roger Fitzgerald
4,354
Betty Fitzgerald
938
Sam Kelly
179
Roger Fitzgerald
Exploits Clayton Forsey
2,346
Roger Grimes
3,218
John L. Whelan
168
Roger Grimes
Gander Kevin O'Brien
3,621
Dianne Crewe
1,930
Steve Johnson
348
Sandra Kelly
Grand Falls—Buchans Paula Flood
2,331
Anna Thistle
3,921
Gerry Tobin
370
Anna Thistle
Lewisporte Tom Rideout
3,504
Todd Manuel
1,275
Garry Vatcher (Ind.)
159
Tom Rideout
Terra Nova Paul Oram
3,114
Tom Lush
2,614
Herbert Ralph
218
Tom Lush
Trinity North Ross Wiseman
4,126
Kathryn Small
1,640
Howard W. Duffett
340
Ross Wiseman
Twillingate and Fogo Derrick Dalley
2,334
Gerry Reid
2,941
Gerry Reid
Windsor—Springdale Ray Hunter
3,488
Barry J. Oake
1,826
Clar Jacobs
138
Elmer Anthony (Ind.)
145
Ray Hunter

Western and Southern Newfoundland

Electoral DistrictCandidates Incumbent
 PC Liberal NDP Other
Bay of Islands Mike Monaghan
2,760
Eddie Joyce
2,907
Dave Quigley
214
Eddie Joyce
Burgeo and La Poile Stephen MacKenzie
1,008
Kelvin Parsons
4,233
Kelvin Parsons
Fortune Bay—Cape La Hune Andrew Colford
2,044
Oliver Langdon
2,880
Oliver Langdon
Humber East Tom Marshall
3,976
Bob Mercer
2,624
Bob Mercer
Humber Valley Kathy Goudie
2,796
Dwight Ball
2,507
Rick Woodford
Humber West Danny Williams
3,823
Edward Buckle
1,533
Matthew Robbins
207
Danny Williams
Port au Port Jim Hodder
3,101
Gerald Smith
2,378
Frederick G. Ollerhead (Ind.)
84
Gerald Smith
St. Barbe Wallace Young
2,948
Ralph Payne
1,577
Holly Patey
293
Wallace Young
St. George's—Stephenville East Joan Burke
2,927
Ron Dawe
2,464
Nancy Critchley (Ind.)
170
Kevin Aylward
The Straits - White Bay North Trevor Taylor
3,133
Don McDonald
1,802
Ford Michelmore (Ind.)
78
Trevor Taylor

Labrador

Electoral DistrictCandidates Incumbent
 PC Liberal NDP Other
Cartwright—L'Anse au Clair Dennis Normore
804
Yvonne Jones
1,514
Frank Pye (Lab.)
206
Yvonne Jones
Labrador West Graham Letto
1,142
Doris Sacrey
423
Randy Collins
2,762
Ern Condon (Lab.)
631
Randy Collins
Lake Melville John Hickey
1,778
Ken Anthony
1,126
Barbara Stickley
129
Brandon Pardy (Lab.)
1,485
Ernie McLean
Torngat Mountains Winston White
352
Wally Andersen
934
Lucy Jararuse (Lab.)
69
Wally Andersen

By-elections since the general election

Exploits (resignation of Roger Grimes), June 23, 2005:

Exploits (electoral district) provincial electoral district of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Exploits is a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

By-election: Exploits
PartyCandidateVotes%±
  PC Clayton Forsey 2,60555.2
  Liberal George Saunders1,95841.5
     NDP John Whelan1593.4
Total4,722100%

Placentia and St. Mary's (resignation of Fabian Manning), February 21, 2006:

Fabian Manning Canadian politician

Fabian Manning 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 from 1999 to 2005. From 2006 to 2008 he was the Conservative Party of Canada Member of Parliament for the riding of Avalon. After his defeat in the 2008 federal election Manning was appointed to the Senate of Canada on January 2, 2009, he resigned his Senate seat on March 28, 2011, to run for election in his former riding of Avalon in the 2011 federal election, but was unsuccessful. Prime Minister Stephen Harper re-appointed Manning to the Senate on May 25, 2011.

By-election: Placentia and St. Mary's
PartyCandidateVotes%±
  PC Felix Collins 2,24746.3
     Independent Nick Careen1,64133.8
  Liberal Kevin Power93119.2
Newfoundland and Labrador First Tom Hickey 31 0.6
Total4,850

Signal Hill-Quidi Vidi (resignation of Jack Harris), November 1, 2006:

Signal Hill-Quidi Vidi

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John James "Jack" Harris is a Canadian lawyer and politician from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Harris served as the New Democratic Party (NDP) Member of Parliament for St. John's East from 1987 to 1988 and again from 2008 to 2015. He is also a former leader of the Newfoundland and Labrador New Democratic Party.

By-election: Signal Hill—Quidi Vidi
PartyCandidateVotes%±
     NDP Lorraine Michael 1,96855.23+6.77
  PC Jerome Kennedy1,59544.77+0.95
Total3,563100%

Ferryland (resignation of Loyola Sullivan), February 8, 2007:

Ferryland (electoral district) provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Ferryland is a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. As of 2011, there are 8,571 eligible voters living within the district.

Loyola Sullivan Canadian politician

Loyola Sullivan served as Canada's Ambassador for Fisheries Conservation from 2007 until 2011 and is a former Member of the House of Assembly in Newfoundland and Labrador. Sullivan represented the district of Ferryland from 1992 till 2006.

By-election: Ferryland
PartyCandidateVotes%±
  PC Keith Hutchings 2,77075.52-10.73
  Liberal Kevin Bennett71519.49+11.08
     NDP Rick Boland 1834.99-0.17
Total3,668100%

Kilbride (resignation of Ed Byrne), February 8, 2007:

By-election: Kilbride
PartyCandidateVotes%±
  PC John Dinn 2,74478.83+0.55
  Liberal Bob Clarke50814.59-1.18
     NDP Gemma Schlamp-Hickey2296.58+0.63
Total3,481100%

Port au Port (resignation of Jim Hodder), February 8, 2007:

By-election: Port au Port
PartyCandidateVotes%±
  PC Tony Cornect 2,70161.99+6.25
  Liberal Mark Felix1,52134.91-7.84
     NDP Paul O'Keefe1353.90*
Total4,357100%

Humber Valley (resignation of Kathy Goudie), February 13, 2007:

By-election: Humber Valley
PartyCandidateVotes%±
  Liberal Dwight Ball 2,15348.70+1.26
  PC Darryl Kelly2,14648.54-4.02
     NDP Shelley Senior1222.76*
Total4,421100%
Newfoundland and Labrador provincial by-election, February 13, 2007: Labrador West (electoral district)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative Jim Baker 1,666 41.62 +18.59
New Democratic Darrell Brenton 1,240 30.98 −24.73
Labrador Ron Barron 670 16.74 +4.01
Liberal Karen Oldford 427 10.66
Total 4,451 100% +2.13
Called upon the resignation of Randy Collins.

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