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1975 Newfoundland general election

Canadian provincial election

Field	Value
election_name	1975 Newfoundland general election
country	Newfoundland and Labrador
type	parliamentary
election_date	September 16, 1975
previous_election	1972 Newfoundland general election
previous_year	1972
previous_mps	36th General Assembly of Newfoundland
next_election	1979 Newfoundland general election
next_year	1979
elected_mps	members
seats_for_election	51 seats to the 37th General Assembly of Newfoundland
majority_seats	26
turnout	72.8% ( 6.2% pp)
image1	PC
colour1
party1
leader1	Frank Moores
leader_since1	1972
leaders_seat1	Humber West
last_election1	33 seats, 60.22%
seats1	30
seat_change1	3
popular_vote1	101,016
percentage1	45.54%
swing1	14.68pp
image2	LIB
colour2
party2
leader2	Edward Roberts
leader_since2	1972
leaders_seat2	Strait of Belle Isle
last_election2	9 seats, 37.06%
seats2	16
seat_change2	7
popular_vote2	82,270
percentage2	37.09%
swing2	0.03pp
image3	[[File:BradleyKingSmallwood1948 (cropped).jpg	150x150px]]
colour3
party3	Reform Liberal
leader3	Joey Smallwood
leader_since3	1975
leaders_seat3	Twillingate
last_election3	New party
seats3	4
seat_change3	4
popular_vote3	26,552
percentage3	11.96%
swing3	n/a
title	Premier
before_election	Frank Moores
before_party
posttitle	Premier after election
after_election	Frank Moores
after_party
ongoing	No
flag_year	1952

The 1975 Newfoundland general election was held on 16 September 1975 to elect members of the 37th General Assembly of Newfoundland. It was won by the Progressive Conservative party.

Results

	Party	Leader	1972	Seats won	% change	Popular vote	(%)	30	16	4	-	*1	Totals	51
	33	-9.1%	101,016	45.54	Ed Roberts	9	+56%	82,270	37.09
Reform Liberal	Joey Smallwood	-	N/A	26,522	11.96	Gerry Panting	-	0%	9,653	4.35	Other (Independent Liberal)	-	0%	2,357
42	-	222,789	100.00

Results by district

Names in boldface type represent party leaders.
† indicates that the incumbent did not run again.
₰ indicates that the incumbent ran in another district and lost the nomination.
‡ indicates that the incumbent ran in a different district.

St. John's

|- 72.56% turnout || |Robert Wells 2,939 62.71% | |Ern Antle 1,037 22.12% | |Hugh Shea 711 15.17% | | ||

New district
75.76% turnout

Jerome Dinn
2,903
46.33%

| |Maxwell Dyke 1,125 17.95% | |David Owens 479 7.65% | |Gerry Panting 1,759 28.07% ||

New district
66.08% turnout

Anthony Murphy
2,366
59.58%

| |William Doyle 956 24.08% | |John Coyle 649 16.34% | | ||

Anthony Murphy
65.30% turnout

William Marshall
2,032
55.08%

| |Brian Clarke 357 9.68% | |David Gulliver 721 19.54% | |Robert Griffiths 579 15.70% ||

William Marshall
72.49% turnout

John Carter
1,944
46.13%

| |Graham Wood 1,386 32.89% | | | |Andrew Wells 884 20.98% ||

John Carter
65.66% turnout

John Collins
2,221
66.96%

| |Gordon Lidstone 1,096 33.04% | | | | || |Robert Wells‡ (ran in Kilbride) |- 67.55% turnout || |John Crosbie 2,134 55.70% | |Robert Innes 1,697 44.30% | | | | ||

John Crosbie
66.24% turnout

Gerry Ottenheimer
2,922
54.29%

| |Gerald Moore 1,062 19.73% | |Roy Upshall 808 15.02% | |Elizabeth Genge 590 10.96% ||

New district
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St. John's suburbs

|- 79.24% turnout | |Gordon Dawe 3,062 44.21% || |John Nolan 3,112 44.93% | |Ralph Petten 467 6.74% | |Wilson Porter 285 4.12% ||

New district
75.20% turnout

Neil Windsor
1,885
41.03%

| |Kell Ashford 1,513 32.93% | | | |Helen Porter 1,196 26.04% ||

New district
85.10% turnout

Ray Winsor
2,685
47.88%

| |Len Stirling 1,978 35.27% | | | |Bill Gillespie 945 16.85% ||

New district
82.05% turnout

Tom Hickey
3,318
65.28%

| |Michael Laurie 1,765 34.72% | | | | || |Tom Hickey |}

Avalon Peninsula

|- 79.22% turnout | |Fred Earle 1,919 36.92% | |Walter Milley 1,194 22.97% || |Rod Moores 2,085 40.11% | | ||

Augustus Rowe†
83.47% turnout

Charlie Power
1,240
30.48%

| |Martin O'Brien 1,232 30.28% | |Kenneth Carew 918 22.57% | |Kevin Condon 678 16.67% || |Thomas Doyle‡ (ran in Twillingate) |- 79.89% turnout || |Haig Young 1,982 45.79% | |Ted Pike 969 22.38% | |Clarence Engelbrecht (Bob Lewis) 1,378 31.83% | | ||

Haig Young
69.24% turnout
2,944
65.96%
1,519
34.04%

Gordon Dawe‡
Harbour Main (ran in Conception Bay South)
-

William Doody
Harbour Main
-
-

Steve Neary₰
Bell Island (ran in La Poile)
-
78.90% turnout

William Patterson
1,721
41.40%

| |Anthony Sparrow 1,698 40.85% | |Alphonsus Best 738 17.75% | | || |Fintan Aylward† Placentia East |- 74.97% turnout | |George Wilson 1,625 33.18% | |James Hussey 1,624 33.15% || |Eric Dawe 1,649 33.67% | | ||

George Wilson
77.41% turnout

Walter Carter
2,168
60.81%

| |Ted Noseworthy 264 7.41% | |John Devereaux 1,133 31.78% | | || |Gerry Ottenheimer St. Mary's (ran in Waterford-Kenmount) |- 74.09% turnout 1,536 37.85% 2,197 54.14% 325 8.01% || |Brendan Howard† Bay de Verde

-

James Reid
Trinity South
}

Eastern Newfoundland

|- 74.42% turnout | |Graham Bennett 1,303 23.55% | |Hubert Kitchen 2,044 36.94% || |Wilson Callan 2,186 39.51% | | ||

New district
70.07% turnout

George Cross
1,518
35.80%

| |Paul Thoms 1,511 35.64% | |Samuel King 1,211 28.56% | | ||

Paul Thoms
67.69% turnout

Jim Morgan
2,326
62.23%

| |George Allen 474 12.68% | |William Smallwood 938 25.09% | | ||

Jim Morgan
58.14% turnout

| |Barton Manning 947 28.06% || |Earl Winsor 2,428 71.94% | | | | ||

Earl Winsor
68.44% turnout

| |Samuel Saunders 1,069 26.80% || |Tom Lush 2,116 53.06% | |Bill Broderick 803 20.14% | | ||

New district
73.04% turnout

Charlie Brett
2,554
54.67%

| |Calvin Lethbridge 979 20.95% | |Bren Power Jr. 1,073 22.97% | |Edgar Russell (Independent) 66 1.41% || |Charlie Brett |}

Central Newfoundland

|- 79.86% turnout | |Desmond Sullivan 1,592 31.35% | |Tom Rideout 2,911 57.31% | |Carl Wright 576 11.34% | | || |Bill Rowe† White Bay South |- 69.70% turnout || |Stephen Mulrooney 2,464 50.09% | |Hugh Twomey 2,455 49.91% | | | | ||

New district
76.91% turnout

Harold Collins
2,462
57.07%

| |Averill Baker 1,852 42.93% | | | | ||

Harold Collins
77.19% turnout

John Lundrigan
2,126
70.34%

| |Mundun Batstone 1,014 27.21% | | | |Ernest Duder 586 15.73% ||

Aubrey Senior†
66.60% turnout

Brian Peckford
2,639
70.34%

| |Corbin Clarke 1,028 27.40% | | | |Harold Card 85 2.26% ||

Brian Peckford
75.98% turnout

| |James Russell 2,214 43.18% || |Freeman White 2,719 53.02% | |Randolph LeDrew 195 3.80% | | ||

James Russell
73.80% turnout

| |Thomas Doyle 877 24.17% | |Woodrow Philpott 1,200 33.07% || |Joey Smallwood 1,467 40.42% | |Roderick Woolridge 85 2.34% ||

Herbert Gillett†
75.59% turnout

| |Walter Critchley 1,233 29.32% || |Graham Flight 2,363 56.18% | | | |Donald Head 610 14.50% || |New district |}

Southern Newfoundland

|- 72.00% turnout | |Brendan Howard 770 23.19% || |Roger Simmons 2,550 76.81% | | | | || |Allan Evans Burgeo-La Poile (ran in La Poile) |- 81.02% turnout | |Leo Barry 2,237 39.95% || |Patrick Canning 3,363 60.05% | | | | || |Leo Barry Placentia West |- 66.59% turnout 1,219 34.71% 1,696 48.29% 597 17.00% || |H.R.V. Earle Fortune Bay

-

Roger Simmons‡
Hermitage (ran in Burgeo-Bay d'Espoir)
-
75.07% turnout

Alex Hickman
2,038
39.72%

| |Ted Skakum 1,912 37.26% | |Robert Field 1,054 20.54% | |Esther Spracklin (NDP) 127 2.48% || |Alex Hickman Burin |- 76.96% turnout 1,558 34.23% 758 16.66% || |Steve Neary (Independent Liberal) 2,185 48.01% |- | |Eric Hiscock (Independent) 50 1.10% |}

Western Newfoundland

|- 75.29% turnout || |Luke Woodrow 1,726 37.71% | |David Barter 1,250 27.31% | |Arthur Vincent 970 21.19% | |David Hunt (NDP) 631 13.79% ||

New district
72.03% turnout

Tom Farrell
2,595
58.17%

| |Clayton Hutchings 1,866 41.83% | | | | ||

Tom Farrell
69.42% turnout

Wallace House
2,221
53.03%

| |Stanley Parsons 902 21.54% | |Alex Wiseman 865 20.65% | |Kenneth Prowse (Independent) 200 4.78% ||

New district
78.22% turnout

Frank Moores
2,419
49.77%

| |Fred Basha 927 19.07% | |Geoff Stirling 1,380 28.39% | |Gordon Mullett (NDP) 135 2.77% ||

Frank Moores
80.87% turnout

| |James Cochrane 1,543 43.69% || |Jim Hodder 1,989 56.31% | | | | ||

Jim Hodder
70.35% turnout
2,019
50.96%
1,943
49.04%

Frederick B. Rowe‡
St. Barbe North (ran in Trinity-Bay de Verde)
-
-

Edward Maynard
St. Barbe South
-
76.85% turnout

| |Alexander Dunphy 1,990 48.15% || |Hazel McIsaac 2,143 51.85% | | | | ||

Alexander Dunphy
71.65% turnout

| |Wayne Morrison 1,823 46.32% || |William MacNeil 2,113 53.68% | | | | ||

New district
67.45% turnout

| |Marlene Maynard 982 21.71% || |Edward Roberts 2,819 62.33% | |Cyril Humber 568 12.56% | |Raymond Elliott (NDP) 154 3.40% || |Edward Roberts White Bay North |}

Labrador

|- 66.58% turnout | |Winston White 585 37.82% || |Ian Strachan 962 62.18% | | | | || |Michael Martin† Labrador South |- 50.39% turnout || |Joseph Rousseau 2,561 65.00% | |Eric Chaulk 621 15.76% | |Eugene Canning 434 11.02% | |William Smeaton 324 8.22% || |Joseph Rousseau Labrador West |- 62.86% turnout || |Joseph Goudie 1,869 54.32% | |Melvin Woodward 1,572 45.68% | | | | || |Melvin Woodward Labrador North |}

Notes

References

"Election Returns 1975". [[Elections Newfoundland and Labrador.

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