2003 Newfoundland and Labrador general election

The 2003 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 election was called on September 29 by Premier Roger Grimes of the Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Opinion polls

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;font-size:85%;line-height:14px;" align="center"

|+ Evolution of voting intentions at provincial level

! rowspan="2" | Polling firm

! rowspan="2" |Last day of survey

! rowspan="2" | Source

! class="unsortable" style="width:40px;"| PCNL

! class="unsortable" style="width:40px;"| LPNL

! class="unsortable" style="width:40px;"| NLNDP

! class="unsortable" style="width:40px;"| Other

! rowspan="2" |

! rowspan="2" | Sample

|- style="line-height:5px;"

! style="background:;" data-sort-type="number"|

| style="background:#ffd;" |Election 2003

| style="background:#ffd;" |October 21, 2003

| style="background:#ffd;" |

| style="background:#ffd;" |58.71

| style="background:#ffd;" |33.05

| style="background:#ffd;" |6.86

| style="background:#ffd;" |1.38

| style="background:#ffd;" |

|Corporate Research Associates Inc.

|October 2003

|style="background:#9999FF"|57

|33

|Corporate Research Associates Inc.

|August 2003

|style="background:#9999FF"|54

|36

| style="background:#ffd;" |Election 1999

| style="background:#ffd;" |February 9, 1999

| style="background:#ffd;" |

| style="background:#ffd;" |40.77

| style="background:#ffd;" |49.62

| style="background:#ffd;" |8.23

| style="background:#ffd;" |1.38

| style="background:#ffd;" |

Results

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.

Results by party

!rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |Party

!rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |Party leader

!rowspan="2"|Candidates

!colspan="4" style="text-align:center;" |Seats

!colspan="3" style="text-align:center;" |Popular vote

!1999

!Dissol.

!2003

!Change

|Danny Williams

| style="text-align:right;" |48

| style="text-align:right;" |14

| style="text-align:right;" |19

! style="text-align:right;" |34

| style="text-align:right;" |+78.9%

| style="text-align:right;" |162,949

| style="text-align:right;" |58.71%

| style="text-align:right;" |+17.94%

| style="text-align:left;" |Roger Grimes

| style="text-align:right;" |48

| style="text-align:right;" |32

| style="text-align:right;" |27

! style="text-align:right;" |12

| style="text-align:right;" |-55.6%

| style="text-align:right;" |91,729

| style="text-align:right;" |33.05%

| style="text-align:right;" |-16.57%

| style="text-align:left;" |Jack Harris

| style="text-align:right;" |34

| style="text-align:right;" |2

! style="text-align:right;" |2

| style="text-align:right;" |-

| style="text-align:right;" |19,048

| style="text-align:right;" |6.86%

| style="text-align:right;" |-1.37%

| colspan=2 style="text-align:left;" |Independent and no affiliation

| style="text-align:right;" |13

| style="text-align:right;" |-

! style="text-align:right;" |-

| style="text-align:right;" |-

| style="text-align:right;" |3,812

| style="text-align:right;" |1.38%

| style="text-align:right;" |-%

! style="text-align:left;" colspan=3 |Total

! style="text-align:right;" |143

! style="text-align:right;" |48

! style="text-align:right;" |  -

! style="text-align:right;" |277,538

! style="text-align:right;" |100.00%

! style="text-align:right;" |  

Results by region

{| class="wikitable"

! align="center" colspan="3"|Party name

! align="center" width="48"|St. John's

! align="center" width="48"|Avalon/Burin

! align="center" width="48"|Central/Southern

! align="center" width="48"|Western

! align="center" width="48"|Labrador

! align="center" width="48"|Total

|colspan=10|Parties winning seats in the legislature:

| rowspan="2"|Progressive Conservative

| Seats:

| align="right"|13

| align="right"|5

| align="right"|8

| align="right"|7

| align="right"|1

| align="right"|34

| Popular vote:

| align="right"|67.73%

| align="right"|57.61%

| align="right"|54.02%

| align="right"|57.48%

| align="right"|30.52%

| align="right"|58.71%

| rowspan="2"|Liberal

| Seats:

| align="right"|-

| align="right"|4

| align="right"|5

| align="right"|1

| align="right"|2

| align="right"|12

| Popular vote:

| align="right"|19.43%

| align="right"|38.17%

| align="right"|42.78%

| align="right"|40.16%

| align="right"|29.93%

| align="right"|33.05%

| rowspan="2"|New Democratic

| Seats:

| align="right"|1

| align="right"|-

| align="right"|1

| align="right"|2

| Popular vote:

| align="right"|12.59%

| align="right"|4.20%

| align="right"|2.62%

| align="right"|1.61%

| align="right"|21.65%

| align="right"|6.86%

|colspan=10|Parties not winning seats in the legislature:

| rowspan="1"|Other

| Popular vote:

| align="right"|0.25%

| align="right"|0.02%

| align="right"|0.58%

| align="right"|0.75%

| align="right"|17.90%

| align="right"|1.38%

! colspan=3|Total seats:

! align="right"|14

! align="right"|9

! align="right"|13

! align="right"|8

! align="right"|4

! align="right"|48

Results by riding

Names in boldface type represent party leaders.
† represents that the incumbent is not running again.

St. John's

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kilbride 70.54% turnout

|Joe Wadden 1,071 15.77%

|Ed Byrne 5,315 78.28%

|David Reynolds 404 5.95%

|Ed Byrne

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. John's Centre 70.51% turnout

|Joan Marie Aylward 1,763 29.05%

|Shawn Skinner 3,349 55.19%

|Carol Cantwell 956 15.75%

|Joan Marie Aylward

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. John's East 65.68% turnout

|George Murphy 862 14.56%

|John Ottenheimer 4,151 70.11%

|Bruce Clark 841 14.21%

|Steve Durant (Independent) 66 1.11%

|John Ottenheimer

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. John's North 62.69% turnout

|Jeff Brace 1,433 26.74%

|Bob Ridgley 3,107 57.97%

|Liam Walsh 820 15.30%

|Lloyd Matthews†

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. John's South 67.72% turnout

|Dennis O'Keefe 756 12.68%

|Tom Osborne 4,532 75.99%

|Tom McGinnis 676 11.33%

|Tom Osborne

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. John's West 66.91% turnout

|Tom Hann 1,292 20.48%

|Sheila Osborne 4,557 72.23%

|Raj Sharan 460 7.29%

|Sheila Osborne

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Signal Hill—Quidi Vidi 67.55% turnout

|Ray O'Neill 391 7.72%

|Karen Carroll 2,221 43.82%

|Jack Harris 2,456 48.46%

|Jack Harris

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Virginia Waters 69.14% turnout

|Walter Noel 2,358 32.67%

|Kathy Dunderdale 4,193 58.10%

|Dave Sullivan 666 9.23%

|Walter Noel

St. John's suburbs

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape St. Francis 78.42% turnout

|Bill Tapper 1,294 16.43%

|Jack Byrne 5,604 71.13%

|Ralph Tapper 980 12.44%

|Jack Byrne

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Conception Bay East and Bell Island 77.71% turnout

|Jim Walsh 1,870 25.41%

|Dianne Whalen 4,147 56.36%

|Ken Kavanaugh 1,180 16.04%

|Doug Cole (Independent) 171 2.32%

|Jim Walsh

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Conception Bay South 72.74% turnout

|Sheina Lerman 372 5.51%

|Terry French 5,606 83.10%

|Andy Lewis 768 11.38%

|Terry French

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Mount Pearl 68.79% turnout

|Wayne Ralph 798 11.46%

|Dave Denine 5,662 81.30%

|Roy Locke 504 7.24%

|Julie Bettney†

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Topsail 80.53% turnout

|Ralph Wiseman 2,354 28.78%

|Elizabeth Marshall 5,354 65.45%

|Michael Kehoe 472 5.77%

|Ralph Wiseman

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Waterford Valley 66.81% turnout

|Averill Baker 1,277 20.41%

|Harvey Hodder 4,569 73.03%

|Justin Locke 410 6.55%

|Harvey Hodder

Avalon and Burin peninsulas

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Bellevue 74.54% turnout

|Percy Barrett 2,623 48.17%

|Joan Cleary 2,523 46.34%

|Michael Fahey 299 5.49%

|Percy Barrett

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Burin—Placentia West 82.20% turnout

|Sam Synard 2,133 34.04%

|Clyde Jackman 3,450 55.05%

|Wayne Butler 684 10.91%

|Mary Hodder†

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Carbonear—Harbour Grace 77.95% turnout

|George Sweeney 3,699 53.84%

|John Babb 3,165 46.11%

|George Sweeney

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Ferryland 71.73% turnout

|Andrea Kavanagh 504 8.41%

|Loyola Sullivan 5,167 85.25%

|Lois Martin 309 5.16%

|Pilar Riego-Hickey (Independent) 11 0.18%

|Loyola Sullivan

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Grand Bank 85.51% turnout

|Judy Foote 3,101 49.26%

|Darin King 3,058 48.58%

|Bill Wakeley 136 2.16%

|Judy Foote

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Harbour Main—Whitbourne 83.69% turnout

|Fred Akerman 1,482 21.98%

|Tom Hedderson 4,769 70.71%

|Eugene Conway 493 7.31%

|Tom Hedderson

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Placentia and St. Mary's 84.87% turnout

|Kevin Power 1,812 31.73%

|Fabian Manning 3,746 65.60%

|Janet Stringer 152 2.66%

|Fabian Manning

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Port de Grave 74.97% turnout

|Roland Butler 3,983 62.66%

|Clarence Gosse 2,374 37.34%

|Roland Butler

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Trinity—Bay de Verde 81.40% turnout

|Lloyd Snow 2,095 32.37%

|Charlene Johnson 4,091 63.20%

|Victoria Harnum 287 4.43%

|Lloyd Snow

Central Newfoundland

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Baie Verte 71.03% turnout

|Maurice Budgell 927 22.69%

|Paul Shelley 3,045 74.52%

|William Day (Independent) 114 2.79%

|Paul Shelley

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Bonavista North 74.42% turnout

|Churence Rogers 2,301 39.67%

|Harry Harding 3,384 58.33%

|Howard E. Parsons 116 2.00%

|Harry Harding

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Bonavista South 66.82% turnout

|Betty Fitzgerald 938 17.14%

|Roger Fitzgerald 4,354 79.58%

|Sam Kelly 179 3.27%

|Roger Fitzgerald

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Exploits 75.26% turnout

|Roger Grimes 3,218 56.14%

|Clayton Forsey 2,346 40.93%

|John L. Whelan 168 2.93%

|Roger Grimes

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Gander 65.94% turnout

|Dianne Crewe 1,930 32.72%

|Kevin O'Brien 3,621 61.38%

|Steve Johnson 348 5.90%

|Sandra Kelly†

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Grand Falls—Buchans 70.63% turnout

|Anna Thistle 3,921 59.21%

|Paula Flood 2,331 35.20%

|Gerry Tobin 370 5.59%

|Anna Thistle

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Lewisporte 65.49% turnout

|Todd Manuel 1,275 25.82%

|Tom Rideout 3,504 70.96%

|Garry Vatcher (Independent) 159 3.22%

|Tom Rideout

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Terra Nova 79.03% turnout

|Tom Lush 2,614 43.96%

|Paul Oram 3,114 52.37%

|Herbert Ralph 218 3.67%

|Tom Lush

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Trinity North 76.88% turnout

|Kathryn Small 1,640 26.86%

|Ross Wiseman 4,126 67.57%

|Howard W. Duffett 340 5.57%

|Ross Wiseman

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Twillingate and Fogo 72.73% turnout

|Gerry Reid 2,941 55.75%

|Derrick Dalley 2,334 44.25%

|Gerry Reid

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Windsor—Springdale 65.82% turnout

|Barry Oake 1,826 32.62%

|Ray Hunter 3,488 62.32%

|Clar Jacobs 138 2.47%

|Elmer Anthony (Independent) 145 2.59%

|Ray Hunter

Western and Southern Newfoundland

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Bay of Islands 76.61% turnout

|Eddie Joyce 2,907 49.43%

|Mike Monaghan 2,760 46.93%

|Dave Quigley 214 3.64%

|Eddie Joyce

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Burgeo and La Poile 69.79% turnout

|Kelvin Parsons 4,233 80.77%

|Stephen MacKenzie 1,008 19.23%

|Kelvin Parsons

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Fortune Bay—Cape La Hune 72.55% turnout

|Oliver Langdon 2,880 58.49%

|Andrew Colford 2,044 41.52%

|Oliver Langdon

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Humber East 71.90% turnout

|Bob Mercer 2,624 39.75%

|Tom Marshall 3,976 60.25%

|Bob Mercer

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Humber Valley 78.02% turnout

|Dwight Ball 2,507 47.28%

|Kathy Goudie 2,796 52.72%

|Rick Woodford†

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Humber West 61.52% turnout

|Edward Buckle 1,533 27.56%

|Danny Williams 3,823 68.72%

|Matthew Robbins 207 3.72%

|Danny Williams

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Port au Port 67.91% turnout

|Gerald Smith 2,378 42.75%

|Jim Hodder 3,101 55.74%

|Frederick G. Ollerhead (Independent) 84 1.51%

|Gerald Smith

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. Barbe 73.59% turnout

|Ralph Payne 1,577 32.67%

|Wallace Young 2,948 61.07%

|Holly Patey 293 6.07%

|Wallace Young

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. George's—Stephenville East 70.23% turnout

|Ron Dawe 2,464 44.31%

|Joan Burke 2,927 52.63%

|Nancy Critchley (Independent) 170 3.06%

|Kevin Aylward†

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|The Straits - White Bay North 70.46% turnout

|Don McDonald 1,802 35.95%

|Trevor Taylor 3,133 62.50%

|Ford Michelmore (Independent) 78 1.56%

|Trevor Taylor

Labrador

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cartwright—L'Anse au Clair 80.47% turnout

|Yvonne Jones 1,514 59.98%

|Dennis Normore 804 31.85%

|Frank Pye 206 8.16%

|Yvonne Jones

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Labrador West 67.34% turnout

|Doris Sacrey 423 8.53%

|Graham Letto 1,142 23.03%

|Randy Collins 2,762 55.71%

|Ern Condon 631 12.73%

|Randy Collins

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Lake Melville 72.56% turnout

|Ken Anthony 1,126 24.92%

|John Hickey 1,778 39.35%

|Barbara Stickley 129 2.86%

|Brandon Pardy 1,485 32.87%

|Ernie McLean†

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Torngat Mountains 80.80% turnout

|Wally Andersen 934 68.93%

|Winston White 352 25.98%

|Lucy Jararuse 69 5.09%

|Wally Andersen

By-elections since the general election

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

|PC

|Clayton Forsey

|align="right"|2,605

|align="right"|55.2

|align="right"|

|Liberal

|George Saunders

|align="right"|1,958

|align="right"|41.5

|align="right"|

| style="width: 130px" |NDP

|John Whelan

|align="right"|159

|align="right"|3.4

|align="right"|

|- bgcolor="white"

!align="left" colspan=3|Total

!align="right"|4,722

!align="right"|100%

!align="right"|

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

|PC

|Felix Collins

|align="right"|2,247

|align="right"|46.3

|align="right"|

|Independent

|Nick Careen

|align="right"|1,641

|align="right"|33.8

|align="right"|

|Liberal

|Kevin Power

|align="right"|931

|align="right"|19.2

|align="right"|

|- bgcolor="white"

!align="left" colspan=3|Total

!align="right"|4,850

!align="right"|

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

| style="width: 130px" |NDP

|Lorraine Michael

|align="right"|1,968

|align="right"|55.23

|align="right"|+6.77

|PC

|Jerome Kennedy

|align="right"|1,595

|align="right"|44.77

|align="right"|+0.95

|- bgcolor="white"

!align="left" colspan=3|Total

!align="right"|3,563

!align="right"|100%

!align="right"|

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

|PC

|Keith Hutchings

|align="right"|2,770

|align="right"|75.52

|align="right"|-10.73

|Liberal

|Kevin Bennett

|align="right"|715

|align="right"|19.49

|align="right"|+11.08

| style="width: 130px" |NDP

|Rick Boland

|align="right"|183

|align="right"|4.99

|align="right"|-0.17

|- bgcolor="white"

!align="left" colspan=3|Total

!align="right"|3,668

!align="right"|100%

!align="right"|

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

|PC

|John Dinn

|align="right"|2,744

|align="right"|78.83

|align="right"|+0.55

|Liberal

|Bob Clarke

|align="right"|508

|align="right"|14.59

|align="right"|-1.18

| style="width: 130px" |NDP

|Gemma Schlamp-Hickey

|align="right"|229

|align="right"|6.58

|align="right"|+0.63

|- bgcolor="white"

!align="left" colspan=3|Total

!align="right"|3,481

!align="right"|100%

!align="right"|

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

|PC

|Tony Cornect

|align="right"|2,701

|align="right"|61.99

|align="right"|+6.25

|Liberal

|Mark Felix

|align="right"|1,521

|align="right"|34.91

|align="right"|-7.84

| style="width: 130px" |NDP

|Paul O'Keefe

|align="right"|135

|align="right"|3.90

|align="right"|*

|- bgcolor="white"

!align="left" colspan=3|Total

!align="right"|4,357

!align="right"|100%

!align="right"|

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

|Liberal

|Dwight Ball

|align="right"|2,153

|align="right"|48.70

|align="right"|+1.26

|PC

|Darryl Kelly

|align="right"|2,146

|align="right"|48.54

|align="right"|-4.02

| style="width: 130px" |NDP

|Shelley Senior

|align="right"|122

|align="right"|2.76

|align="right"|*

|- bgcolor="white"

!align="left" colspan=3|Total

!align="right"|4,421

!align="right"|100%

!align="right"|

References

External links

General resources

Government of Newfoundland and Labrador
Elections Newfoundland and Labrador
CBC - Newfoundland & Labrador Votes 2003

Parties

Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador (see also Conservative Party of Canada)
Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador (see also Liberal Party of Canada)
Newfoundland and Labrador New Democratic Party (see also New Democratic Party)
Labrador Party

2003 Newfoundland and Labrador general election

Opinion polls

Results

Results by party

Results by region

Results by riding

St. John's

St. John's suburbs

Avalon and Burin peninsulas

Central Newfoundland

Western and Southern Newfoundland

Labrador

By-elections since the general election

See also

References

Further reading

External links

General resources

Parties