August 20 1959 (NL)

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Important Dates  
Election Date 1959-08-20
Attributes  
Federal Jurisdiction ❌
Provincial Jurisdiction ✅
Province Newfoundland and Labrador
By-Election ❌

Primary Sources

Summary

Statistic Value
Invalid Ballots 823
Invalid Votes 823
Total Electors 189,240
Turnout Rate 69
Valid Ballots 130,325
Valid Votes 130,325

Notes

  • Sources: Figures were taken from REPORT ON PROVINCIAL GENERAL ELECTION, 1959. Compiled by N. Short, Chief Electoral Officer. Does not note a publisher. Details need to be added.

Results

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Party Candidates Seats Contested Seats % Vote %
Independent 3 0 0.00% 1.36%
Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador 34 31 86.11% 60.13%
New Democratic Party 18 0 0.00% 7.18%
Progressive Conservative Party of NFL 32 3 8.33% 25.32%
United Newfoundland Party 8 2 5.56% 6.01%

Candidates

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First Name Last Name Party District Votes Elected
Joseph Roberts Smallwood Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador St. John's West 4,243 ✅
Beaton J Abbott Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador Gander 4,037 ✅
Raymond Winston Guy Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador Grand Falls 3,636 ✅
Edward Samuel Spencer Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador Bonavista North 3,399 ✅
Charles H Ballam Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador Humber West 3,101 ✅
George Maurice Nightingale Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador St. John's North 3,056 ✅
John R O\'Dea United Newfoundland Party St. John's South 2,997 ✅
Ross Roland Barbour Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador Bonavista South 2,951 ✅
James J Greene Progressive Conservative Party of NFL St. John's East 2,949 ✅
John Aaron Forsey Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador Humber East 2,907 ✅
John R Courage Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador Fortune Bay and Hermitage 2,884 ✅
Augustine Michael Duffy United Newfoundland Party St. John's Centre 2,860 ✅
George Rex Renouf Progressive Conservative Party of NFL St. John's South 2,859 ❌
James Douglas Higgins Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador St. John's East 2,802 ❌
Eric Soper Jones Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador Burin 2,782 ✅
Arthur Samuel Mifflin Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador Trinity North 2,700 ✅
Leslie Roy Curtis Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador Twillingate 2,692 ✅
Frank Desbarres Fogwill Progressive Conservative Party of NFL St. John's Centre 2,631 ❌
Isaac Mercer Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador Fogo 2,551 ✅
John Thomas Cheeseman Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador Burgeo and La Poile 2,458 ✅
William Richard Smallwood Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador Green Bay 2,406 ✅
Charles Maxwell Lane Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador White Bay North 2,399 ✅
George William Clarke Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador Carbonear-Bay de Verde 2,359 ✅
Patrick Joseph Canning Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador Placentia West 2,307 ✅
James Ronald Chalker Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador St. Barbe 2,272 ✅
Malcolm Mercer Hollett Progressive Conservative Party of NFL St. John's West 2,221 ❌
Philip J Lewis Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador Harbour Main 2,212 ✅
Stephen K Smith Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador Port au Port 2,014 ✅
Leslie Mackay Marshall Progressive Conservative Party of NFL St. John's North 1,910 ❌
William Joseph Keough Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador St. George's 1,896 ✅
Claude Asquith Sheppard Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador Harbour Grace 1,834 ✅
Albert E Furey Progressive Conservative Party of NFL Harbour Main 1,827 ✅
Edward Finn Jr New Democratic Party Humber West 1,776 ❌
Frederick William Rowe Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador White Bay South 1,736 ✅
Llewellyn Strange Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador Port de Grave 1,703 ✅
Myles P Murray Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador Ferryland 1,676 ✅
Richard Joseph Greene Progressive Conservative Party of NFL Bell Island 1,631 ✅
G Alain Frecker Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador Placentia East 1,578 ✅
Matthew P Whelan Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador Harbour Main 1,476 ❌
John Henry Halley Progressive Conservative Party of NFL Harbour Main 1,386 ❌
Joseph Patrick O\'Driscoll Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador Bell Island 1,385 ❌
Joseph S Chaulk New Democratic Party Humber East 1,368 ❌
William G Patterson Progressive Conservative Party of NFL Placentia East 1,217 ❌
Otto Byrne Progressive Conservative Party of NFL Ferryland 1,162 ❌
Marvin C Skinner New Democratic Party Green Bay 1,122 ❌
George Sellars Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador Labrador South 1,061 ✅
James C Mullett Independent Gander 1,039 ❌
James Michael McGrath Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador St. Mary's 1,017 ✅
Joseph Benedict Cheeseman Progressive Conservative Party of NFL Placentia West 1,010 ❌
Thomas J Cahill Progressive Conservative Party of NFL Humber East 992 ❌
Eric Dixon Cave Hiscock Progressive Conservative Party of NFL Fortune Bay and Hermitage 949 ❌
Gerald Cleveland Hayley Progressive Conservative Party of NFL Bonavista South 932 ❌
Richard Augustus Parsons Progressive Conservative Party of NFL Port de Grave 835 ❌
Earl Wilfred Winsor Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador Labrador North 832 ✅
Michael J Singleton Progressive Conservative Party of NFL Port au Port 815 ❌
Thomas Augustine Howley Progressive Conservative Party of NFL St. Mary's 760 ❌
George B H Broomfield Progressive Conservative Party of NFL Harbour Grace 703 ❌
Fred N Clarke Progressive Conservative Party of NFL Humber West 696 ❌
John Patrick McCool New Democratic Party St. Barbe 668 ❌
Robert Bruce Taylor Progressive Conservative Party of NFL Gander 639 ❌
Allan Evans Progressive Conservative Party of NFL Burgeo and La Poile 637 ❌
Samuel Drover Independent Trinity North 619 ❌
Alphonsus Domonick Pittman Progressive Conservative Party of NFL St. George's 608 ❌
Raymond George Rogers New Democratic Party Twillingate 569 ❌
Milton William Moores Progressive Conservative Party of NFL Trinity North 547 ❌
Wallace Maynard Progressive Conservative Party of NFL St. Barbe 515 ❌
James Bertram Evans United Newfoundland Party Carbonear-Bay de Verde 496 ❌
Samuel C King Progressive Conservative Party of NFL Bonavista North 474 ❌
James Lawrence Hannaford New Democratic Party Grand Falls 464 ❌
Ambrose L Rice New Democratic Party Port au Port 464 ❌
Stephen Aloysius Neary New Democratic Party Bell Island 462 ❌
John Gerard O\'Brien New Democratic Party White Bay South 443 ❌
Henry Albert Butler Progressive Conservative Party of NFL Burin 442 ❌
Whitfield Bannister Progressive Conservative Party of NFL Fogo 422 ❌
James M Strong Progressive Conservative Party of NFL Green Bay 421 ❌
Harvey W Cole United Newfoundland Party St. John's North 418 ❌
Steadman Inder United Newfoundland Party Grand Falls 397 ❌
M Kitchener Pritchett New Democratic Party Bonavista North 349 ❌
James A Miller United Newfoundland Party Harbour Main 343 ❌
Roosevelt Wesley Wellon New Democratic Party Fogo 309 ❌
Lawrence Joseph Daley New Democratic Party St. John's Centre 303 ❌
Cyril Wellington Strong New Democratic Party Burin 282 ❌
Robert Lorenzo Gillard Progressive Conservative Party of NFL White Bay North 265 ❌
Richard Patrick White United Newfoundland Party St. George's 247 ❌
Job Kean Progressive Conservative Party of NFL Twillingate 237 ❌
Gerald Patrick Byrne New Democratic Party St. George's 227 ❌
Charles S Devine New Democratic Party St. John's South 215 ❌
William Q. Moss Progressive Conservative Party of NFL Labrador North 203 ❌
Alphonsus L Dunphy New Democratic Party Harbour Main 173 ❌
Esau E Thoms New Democratic Party Placentia East 117 ❌
Albert Reece Keel Independent Bonavista South 114 ❌
Roderick Roberts Progressive Conservative Party of NFL Labrador South 107 ❌
George C Sweetapple United Newfoundland Party Harbour Grace 79 ❌
Edgar Willis Richards New Democratic Party White Bay North 41 ❌
Uriah Fifield Strickland Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador Trinity South 0 ✅

Districts

Bell Island
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 6 elections (1956–1972)

Richard Joseph Greene · Progressive Conservative Party of NFL

1,631 votes
Bonavista North
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 19 elections (1949–2011)

Edward Samuel Spencer · Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador

3,399 votes
Bonavista South
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 19 elections (1949–2011)

Ross Roland Barbour · Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador

2,951 votes
Burgeo and La Poile
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 16 elections (1949–2021)

John Thomas Cheeseman · Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador

2,458 votes
Burin
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 8 elections (1949–1972)

Eric Soper Jones · Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador

2,782 votes
Carbonear-Bay de Verde
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 4 elections (1949–1959)

George William Clarke · Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador

2,359 votes
Ferryland
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 22 elections (1949–2021)

Myles P Murray · Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador

1,676 votes
Fogo
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 14 elections (1949–1993)

Isaac Mercer · Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador

2,551 votes
Fortune Bay and Hermitage
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 4 elections (1949–1959)

John R Courage · Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador

2,884 votes
Gander
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 20 elections (1956–2021)

Beaton J Abbott · Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador

4,037 votes
Grand Falls
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 14 elections (1949–1993)

Raymond Winston Guy · Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador

3,636 votes
Green Bay
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 14 elections (1949–1993)

William Richard Smallwood · Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador

2,406 votes
Harbour Grace
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 14 elections (1949–1993)

Claude Asquith Sheppard · Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador

1,834 votes
Harbour Main
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 14 elections (1956–2021)

Philip J Lewis · Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador

2,212 votes
Humber East
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 17 elections (1956–2011)

John Aaron Forsey · Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador

2,907 votes
Humber West
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 17 elections (1956–2011)

Charles H Ballam · Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador

3,101 votes
Labrador North
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 6 elections (1956–1972)

Earl Wilfred Winsor · Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador

832 votes
Labrador South
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 6 elections (1956–1972)

George Sellars · Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador

1,061 votes
Placentia East
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 6 elections (1956–1972)

G Alain Frecker · Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador

1,578 votes
Placentia West
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 8 elections (1949–1972)

Patrick Joseph Canning · Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador

2,307 votes
Port au Port
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 17 elections (1956–2011)

Stephen K Smith · Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador

2,014 votes
Port de Grave
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 19 elections (1949–2011)

Llewellyn Strange · Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador

1,703 votes
St. Barbe
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 15 elections (1949–2011)

James Ronald Chalker · Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador

2,272 votes
St. George's
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 12 elections (1956–1993)

William Joseph Keough · Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador

1,896 votes
St. John's Centre
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 20 elections (1956–2021)

Augustine Michael Duffy · United Newfoundland Party

2,860 votes
St. John's East
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 19 elections (1949–2011)

James J Greene · Progressive Conservative Party of NFL

2,949 votes
St. John's North
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 17 elections (1956–2011)

George Maurice Nightingale · Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador

3,056 votes
St. John's South
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 17 elections (1956–2011)

John R O\'Dea · United Newfoundland Party

2,997 votes
St. John's West
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 23 elections (1949–2021)

Joseph Roberts Smallwood · Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador

4,243 votes
St. Mary's
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 6 elections (1956–1972)

James Michael McGrath · Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador

1,017 votes
Trinity North
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 19 elections (1949–2011)

Arthur Samuel Mifflin · Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador

2,700 votes
Trinity South
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 8 elections (1949–1972)

Uriah Fifield Strickland · Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador

0 votes
Twillingate
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 14 elections (1949–1993)

Leslie Roy Curtis · Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador

2,692 votes
White Bay North
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 6 elections (1956–1972)

Charles Maxwell Lane · Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador

2,399 votes
White Bay South
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Provincial 6 elections (1956–1972)

Frederick William Rowe · Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador

1,736 votes

Parliament Seating Chart

Seats Won by Party

Vote Percentage by Party

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