| Election Name: | 2003 Newfoundland and Labrador general election |
| Country: | Newfoundland and Labrador |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Party Colour: | no |
| Party Name: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1999 Newfoundland general election |
| Previous Year: | 1999 |
| Previous Mps: | 44th General Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador |
| Election Date: | October 21, 2003 |
| Elected Members: | members |
| Next Election: | 2007 Newfoundland and Labrador general election |
| Next Year: | 2007 |
| Seats For Election: | 48 seats of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly 25 seats were needed for a majority |
| Leader1: | Danny Williams |
| Leader Since1: | 2001 |
| Leaders Seat1: | Humber West |
| Last Election1: | 14 |
| Seats1: | 34 |
| Seat Change1: | 20 |
| Popular Vote1: | 162,949 |
| Percentage1: | 58.71% |
| Swing1: | 17.94% |
| Leader2: | Roger Grimes |
| Leader Since2: | 2001 |
| Leaders Seat2: | Exploits |
| Last Election2: | 32 |
| Seats2: | 12 |
| Seat Change2: | 20 |
| Popular Vote2: | 91,729 |
| Percentage2: | 33.05% |
| Swing2: | 16.57% |
| Leader3: | Jack Harris |
| Leader Since3: | 1992 |
| Leaders Seat3: | Signal Hill-Quidi Vidi |
| Last Election3: | 2 |
| Seats3: | 2 |
| Seat Change3: | 0 |
| Popular Vote3: | 19,048 |
| Percentage3: | 6.86% |
| Swing3: | 1.37% |
| Map Size: | 350px |
| Premier | |
| Before Election: | Roger Grimes |
| After Election: | Danny Williams |
| Posttitle: | Premier after 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.[1]
| Polling firm | Last day of survey | Source | PCNL | LPNL | NLNDP | Other | Sample | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Election 2003 | October 21, 2003 | 58.71 | 33.05 | 6.86 | 1.38 | ||||
| Corporate Research Associates Inc. | October 2003 | [2] | 57 | 33 | 6 | ||||
| Corporate Research Associates Inc. | August 2003 | [3] | 54 | 36 | 6 | ||||
| Election 1999 | February 9, 1999 | 40.77 | 49.62 | 8.23 | 1.38 |
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.[4] 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.
!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!#!%!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;" |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;" |-| 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;" |48! 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;" | |}| Party name | St. John's | Avalon/Burin | Central/Southern | Western | Labrador | Total | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parties winning seats in the legislature: | Progressive Conservative | Seats: | 13 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 34 | Popular vote: | 67.73% | 57.61% | 54.02% | 57.48% | 30.52% | 58.71% | Liberal | Seats: | align="right" | - | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 12 | Popular vote: | 19.43% | 38.17% | 42.78% | 40.16% | 29.93% | 33.05% | New Democratic | Seats: | 1 | align="right" | - | align="right" | - | align="right" | - | 1 | 2 | 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: | 14 | 9 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 48 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kilbride|||Ed Byrne
5,315||Joe Wadden
1,071||David Reynolds
404|||||Ed Byrne
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Signal Hill—Quidi Vidi||Karen Carroll
2,221||Ray O'Neill
391|||Jack Harris
2,456|||||Jack Harris|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. John's Centre|||Shawn Skinner
3,349||Joan Marie Aylward
1,763||Carol Cantwell
956|||||Joan Marie Aylward|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. John's East|||John Ottenheimer
4,151||George Murphy
862||Bruce Clark
841||Steve Durant (Ind.)
66|||John Ottenheimer|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. John's North|||Bob Ridgley
3,107||Jeff Brace
1,433||Liam Walsh
820|||||Lloyd Mathews †|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. John's South|||Tom Osborne
4,532||Dennis O'Keefe
756||Tom McGinnis
676|||||Tom Osborne|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. John's West|||Sheila Osborne
4,557||Tom Hann
1,292||Raj Sharan
460|||||Sheila Osborne
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Virginia Waters|||Kathy Dunderdale
4,193||Walter Noel
2,358||Dave Sullivan
666|||||Walter Noel
|}
|-|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cape St. Francis|||Jack Byrne
5,604||Bill Tapper
1,294||Ralph Tapper
980|||||Jack Byrne|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Conception Bay East and Bell Island|||Dianne Whalen
4,147||Jim Walsh
1,870||Ken Kavanaugh
1,180||Doug Cole (Ind.)
171|||Jim Walsh|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Conception Bay South|||Terry French
5,606||Sheina Lerman
372||Andy Lewis
768|||||Terry French|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Mount Pearl|||Dave Denine
5,662||Wayne Ralph
798||Roy Locke
504|||||Julie Bettney †|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Topsail|||Elizabeth Marshall
5,354 ||Ralph Wiseman
2,354||Michael Kehoe
472|||||Ralph Wiseman|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Waterford Valley|||Harvey Hodder
4,569||Averill Baker
1,277||Justin Locke
410|||||Harvey Hodder|}
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Bellevue||Joan Cleary
2,523|||Percy Barrett
2,623||Michael Fahey
299|||||Percy Barrett|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Burin—Placentia West|||Clyde Jackman
3,450||Sam Synard
2,133||Wayne Butler
684|||||Mary Hodder †|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Carbonear—Harbour Grace||John Babb
3,165|||George Sweeney
3,699|||||||George Sweeney|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Ferryland|||Loyola Sullivan
5,167||Andrea Kavanagh
504||Lois Martin
309||Pilar Riego-Hickey (Ind.)
11|||Loyola Sullivan|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Grand Bank||Darin King
3,058|||Judy Foote
3,101||Bill Wakeley
136|||||Judy Foote|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Harbour Main—Whitbourne|||Tom Hedderson
4,769||Fred Akerman
1,482||Eugene Conway
493|||||Tom Hedderson|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Placentia and St. Mary's |||Fabian Manning
3,746||Kevin Power
1,812||Janet Stringer
152|||||Fabian Manning|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Port de Grave ||Clarence Gosse
2,374|||Roland Butler
3,983|||||||Roland Butler|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Trinity—Bay de Verde |||Charlene Johnson
4,091||Lloyd Snow
2,095||Victoria Harnum
287|||||Lloyd Snow|}
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Baie Verte|||Paul Shelley
3,045||Maurice Budgell
927||||William Day (Ind.)
114|||Paul Shelley|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Bonavista North|||Harry Harding
3,384||Churence Rogers
2,301||Howard E. Parsons
116|||||Harry Harding|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Bonavista South|||Roger Fitzgerald
4,354||Betty Fitzgerald
938||Sam Kelly
179|||||Roger Fitzgerald
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Exploits||Clayton Forsey
2,346|||Roger Grimes
3,218||John L. Whelan
168|||||Roger Grimes
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Gander|||Kevin O'Brien
3,621||Dianne Crewe
1,930||Steve Johnson
348|||||Sandra Kelly †|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Grand Falls—Buchans||Paula Flood
2,331|||Anna Thistle
3,921||Gerry Tobin
370|||||Anna Thistle|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Lewisporte|||Tom Rideout
3,504||Todd Manuel
1,275||||Garry Vatcher (Ind.)
159|||Tom Rideout|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Terra Nova|||Paul Oram
3,114||Tom Lush
2,614||Herbert Ralph
218|||||Tom Lush|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Trinity North|||Ross Wiseman
4,126||Kathryn Small
1,640||Howard W. Duffett
340|||||Ross Wiseman|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Twillingate and Fogo||Derrick Dalley
2,334|||Gerry Reid
2,941|||||||Gerry Reid|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Windsor—Springdale|||Ray Hunter
3,488||Barry J. Oake
1,826||Clar Jacobs
138||Elmer Anthony (Ind.)
145|||Ray Hunter|}
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Bay of Islands||Mike Monaghan
2,760|||Eddie Joyce
2,907||Dave Quigley
214|||||Eddie Joyce|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Burgeo and La Poile||Stephen MacKenzie
1,008|||Kelvin Parsons
4,233|||||||Kelvin Parsons|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Fortune Bay—Cape La Hune||Andrew Colford
2,044|||Oliver Langdon
2,880|||||||Oliver Langdon|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Humber East|||Tom Marshall
3,976||Bob Mercer
2,624|||||||Bob Mercer|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Humber Valley|||Kathy Goudie
2,796||Dwight Ball
2,507|||||||Rick Woodford †|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Humber West|||Danny Williams
3,823||Edward Buckle
1,533||Matthew Robbins
207|||||Danny Williams|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Port au Port|||Jim Hodder
3,101||Gerald Smith
2,378||||Frederick G. Ollerhead (Ind.)
84|||Gerald Smith|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. Barbe|||Wallace Young
2,948||Ralph Payne
1,577||Holly Patey
293|||||Wallace Young|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. George's—Stephenville East|||Joan Burke
2,927||Ron Dawe
2,464||||Nancy Critchley (Ind.)
170|||Kevin Aylward †|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|The Straits - White Bay North|||Trevor Taylor
3,133||Don McDonald
1,802||||Ford Michelmore (Ind.)
78|||Trevor Taylor|}
|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cartwright—L'Anse au Clair||Dennis Normore
804|||Yvonne Jones
1,514||||Frank Pye (Lab.)
206|||Yvonne Jones|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Labrador West||Graham Letto
1,142||Doris Sacrey
423|||Randy Collins
2,762||Ern Condon (Lab.)
631|||Randy Collins|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Lake Melville|||John Hickey
1,778||Ken Anthony
1,126||Barbara Stickley
129||Brandon Pardy (Lab.)
1,485|||Ernie McLean †|-|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Torngat Mountains||Winston White
352|||Wally Andersen
934||||Lucy Jararuse (Lab.)
69|||Wally Andersen|}
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"|!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"||}