1999 Newfoundland general election explained

Election Name:1999 Newfoundland general election
Country:Newfoundland and Labrador
Type:parliamentary
Party Colour:no
Party Name:no
Previous Election:1996 Newfoundland general election
Previous Year:1996
Election Date:February 9, 1999
Next Election:2003 Newfoundland and Labrador general election
Next Year:2003
Seats For Election:48 seats of the Newfoundland House of Assembly
25 seats were needed for a majority
Leader1:Brian Tobin
Leaders Seat1:The Straits & White Bay North
Last Election1:37
Seats1:32
Seat Change1:5
Popular Vote1:132,399
Percentage1:49.62%
Swing1:5.48pp
Leader2:Ed Byrne
Leaders Seat2:Kilbride
Last Election2:9
Seats2:14
Seat Change2:5
Popular Vote2:108,772
Percentage2:40.77%
Swing2:2.11pp
Leader3:Jack Harris
Leaders Seat3:Signal Hill-Quidi Vidi
Last Election3:1
Seats3:2
Seat Change3:1
Popular Vote3:21,962
Percentage3:8.23%
Swing3:3.78pp
Map Size:350px
Premier
Before Election:Brian Tobin
After Election:Brian Tobin
Posttitle:Premier after election

The 1999 Newfoundland general election was held on February 9, 1999 to elect members of the 44th General Assembly of Newfoundland. It was won by the Liberal party.

Results

 PartyLeader1996Seats won% changePopular vote(%)Brian Tobin3732align=right-16%132,39949.62%Ed Byrne914+56%108,77240.77%Jack Harris12+100%21,9628.23%Newfoundland & Labrador Partyalign=right-2,5620.96%Independent/No affiliation1align=right-align=right-100%1,1120.42%
Total4848-266,807100%

* Party did not nominate candidates in previous election.

Results by district

St. John's

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|23. Kilbride||HOWLETT, Barbara
2133|||BYRNE, Ed
4145||INGRAM, Lee
289||STUCKLESS, Vicki
119|||Ed Byrne

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|33. St. John's Centre|||AYLWARD, Joan
2609||BROWN, Paul
2443||LONG, Valerie
1120|||||Joan Aylward|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|34. St. John's East||McGRATH, Tom
1559|||OTTENHEIMER, John
3774||DARBY, Barry
600|||||Hubert Kitchen|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|35. St. John's North|||MATTHEWS, Lloyd
2304||ANDREWS, Ray
1971||KIRBY, Dale
788|||||Lloyd Matthews|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|36. St. John's South||KENNEDY, Patrick
1563|||OSBORNE, Tom
4041||VANTA, Judy
374||CRUMMEY, Jason
101|||Tom Osborne|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|37. St. John's West||MOORE, Tom
2532|||OSBORNE, Sheila
3206||LYNCH, Pat
683||||||Sheila Osborne|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|38. Signal Hill - Quidi Vidi||SOUCY, Pete
2010||O'BRIEN, Chris
793|||HARRIS, Jack
2179||HILLIER, Paul David
116
DUNN, Shaun
53|||Jack Harris

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|46. Virginia Waters|||NOEL, Walter
2973||WALSH, Paul
2277||WILL, Amanda
887||STAPLETON, Deanne
131|||Walter Noel|}

St. John's suburbs

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|8. Cape St. Francis||MARTIN, Jim
2169|||BYRNE, Jack
4197||SULLIVAN, Shawn
440|||||Jack Byrne|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|11. Conception Bay East & Bell Island|||WALSH, Jim
2426||COLE, Doug
1803||KAVANAGH, Ken
932||KELLAND-DYER, Sue(NL Party)
876|||Jim Walsh|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|12. Conception Bay South||LEE, Bill
1806|||FRENCH, Bob
3888||PORTER, Reg
330|||||Bob French

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|27. Mount Pearl|||BETTNEY, Julie
3468|| SHEEHAN, Cathy
2269||GROUCHEY, Glen C.
489|||||Julie Bettney|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|41. Topsail|||WISEMAN, Ralph
3381||FIFIELD, Rick
2533||SNOW, Mary
568|||||Pat Cowan

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|47. Waterford Valley||BUCKLE, Paula M.
2680|||HODDER, Harvey
3480||MADDIGAN, Bill
239|||||Harvey Hodder|}

Avalon and Burin peninsulas

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|3. Bellevue|||BARRETT, Percy
3229||COOMBS, Gus
1667||INGRAM, Mose
375|||||Percy Barrett|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|7. Burin - Placentia West|||HODDER, Mary
3469||LUNDRIGAN, Dominic
2658||BUTLER, Wayne
382|||||Mary Hodder

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|9. Carbonear - Harbour Grace|||SWEENEY, George
4132||GARLAND, Claude
2266||NOEL, Kevin
391|||||Art Reid

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|14. Ferryland||MULLOWNEY, Harold
2141|||SULLIVAN, Loyola
4482||RYAN, Gerry
147|||||Loyola Sullivan

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|17. Grand Bank|||FOOTE, Judy
3964||BOLT, John
1146||RENNIE, Richard
538|||||Judy Foote|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|19. Harbour Main - Whitbourne||DAWE, Wanda
2502|||HEDDERSON, Tom
3670||AKERMAN, Fred
511|||||Don Whelan|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|28. Placentia & St. Mary's||SPARROW, Anthony
2938|||MANNING, Fabian
3579|||||||Anthony Sparrow

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|30. Port De Grave|||EFFORD, John
4488||COOPER, Paul
1026||QUIGLY, Steve
185|||||John Efford

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|43. Trinity - Bay De Verde|||SNOW, Lloyd
3201||BURSEY, Peter
2176||JACOBS, Jeff
320||NEWHOOK, Monty
214|||Lloyd Snow|}

Central Newfoundland

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|1. Baie Verte||BURTON, Gerald
1988|||SHELLEY, Paul
3152|||||||Paul Shelley

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|4. Bonavista North|||TULK, Beaton
3943||COOZE, Jim
1277|||||||Beaton Tulk|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|5. Bonavista South||CLEMENTS, George
1768|||FITZGERALD, Roger
4496||CRANN, Shawn
80|||||Roger Fitzgerald

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|13. Exploits|||GRIMES, Roger
2526||GILLINGHAM, Gonzo
1944||||BEST, Arnold
633|||Roger Grimes

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|16. Gander|||KELLY, Sandra C.
3064||O'BRIEN, Kevin
2926||LOCKE, Roy
193|||||Sandra Kelly

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|18. Grand Falls - Buchans|||THISTLE, Anna
3511||WOOLRIDGE, Lorne
2349||BUCKINGHAM, Bob
188|||||Anna Thistle

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|26. Lewisporte||PENNEY, Melvin
2116|||RIDEOUT, Tom
3791||DWYER, Michael J.
125|||||Melvin Penney

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|39. Terra Nova|||LUSH, Tom
3514||STEAD, Rob
1740|||||||Tom Lush

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|44. Trinity North|||OLDFORD, Doug
2979||KELLY-BLACKMORE, Sheila
2183||CORBETT, Dan
714|||||Doug Oldford|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|45. Twillingate & Fogo|||REID, Gerry
3343||McKENNA, Gerald
1466||||MITCHELL, Dallas
270|||Gerry Reid

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|48. Windsor - Springdale||FLIGHT, Graham
2180|||HUNTER, Ray
3192||HOWE, Rose
115||BENNETT, Roger B.
95
SMITH, Aubrey
263|||Graham Flight|-

Western and Southern Newfoundland

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|2. Bay of Islands|||JOYCE, Eddie
3164||HUNT, Paul
1713||HANN, Israel
620|||||Brian Tobin|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|6. Burgeo & La Poile|||PARSONS, Kelvin
3421||SHEAVES, Greg
1988||MARSDEN, Owen
342|||||Bill Ramsay|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|15. Fortune Bay - Cape La Hune|||LANGDON, Oliver
3189||BAKER, Bob
1353|||||||Oliver Langdon

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|20. Humber East|||MERCER, Bob
3197||WELLS, Janice
2405||MEHANEY, Jean
246||LEDREW, David B.
259|||Bob Mercer|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|21. Humber Valley|||WOODFORD, Rick
3051||ROSE, Warren
1422|||||||Rick Woodford|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|22. Humber West|||DICKS, Paul
2814||CALLAHAN, Pat
1152||BOURGEOIS, Paul
852|||||Paul Dicks

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|29. Port au Port|||SMITH, Gerald
2976||MARCHE, Ada
1719||WHALEN, Sharon
421||SMALLWOOD, William
151|||Gerald Smith|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|31. St. Barbe|||FUREY, Chuck
2878||ROBERTS, Rod
1950|||||||Chuck Furey|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|32. St. George's - Stephenville East|||AYLWARD, Kevin
2546||MUISE, Leonard
1944||||JOHNSON, Dave
345|||Kevin Aylward

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|40. The Straits & White Bay North|||TOBIN, Brian
3227||MITCHELMORE, Ford
1089|||||||Chris Decker|}

Labrador

|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|10. Cartwright - L'Anse Au Clair|||JONES, Yvonne
1832||MOORES, Sharon
312|||||||Yvonne Jones|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|24. Labrador West||CANNING, Perry
2544||WHITTEN, Susan
400|||COLLINS, Randy
2700|||||Perry Canning|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|25. Lake Melville|||McLEAN, Ernie
1915||BROOMFIELD, Hayward
1413||PEDDLE, Ronald W.
323|||||Ernie McLean|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|42. Torngat Mountains|||ANDERSEN, Wally
1036||TSHAKAPESH, Simeon
182|||||||Wally Andersen|}

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