2015 Newfoundland and Labrador general election

The 2015 Newfoundland and Labrador general election, held on November 30, 2015, elected members of the 48th General Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador. The Progressive Conservative Party which had governed since 2003 election, was defeated by the Liberal Party, which won a majority in the new assembly.

2015 Newfoundland and Labrador general election
November 30, 2015
All 40 seats in the 48th General Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador
21 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout55.2%
  First party Second party Third party
 
NDP
Leader Dwight Ball Paul Davis Earle McCurdy
Party Liberal Progressive Conservative New Democratic
Leader since November 17, 2013 September 13, 2014 March 7, 2015
Leader's seat Humber - Gros Morne Topsail-Paradise ran in
St. John's West (lost)
Last election 6 seats, 19.1% 37 seats, 56.1% 5 seats, 24.6%
Seats before 16 29 3
Seats won 31 7 2
Seat change 15 22 1
Popular vote 114,271 60,413 23,906
Percentage 57.2% 30.1% 12.0%
Swing 38.1pp 25.9pp 12.6pp
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.
Premier before election

Paul Davis
Progressive Conservative

 Premier after election

Dwight Ball
Liberal

The election had been scheduled for October 13, 2015, under Newfoundland and Labrador's House of Assembly Act, mandating a fixed election day on the second Tuesday in October in the fourth calendar year after the previous election. However, the House of Assembly amended the act in June 2015, to delay the election until November 30, 2015, so that the election campaign would not overlap with the federal election scheduled on October 19, 2015.

Following the result of the election no party with the word "Conservative" in its name formed the government in either a provincial or federal jurisdiction in Canada for the first time since 1943.

At the time --with 55.2% of eligible voters casting a ballot -- this election had the lowest turnout of any provincial election since confederation. This record was broken in 2021 when only 48.24% of eligible voters cast a ballot.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.