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1848 Newfoundland general election

Election in Canada

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type	parliamentary
party_colour	no
party_name	no
previous_election	1842 Newfoundland general election
previous_year	1842
previous_mps	[outgoing members](3rd-general-assembly-of-newfoundland-members-of-the-assembly)
election_date	November 20, 1848
elected_mps	[members](4th-general-assembly-of-newfoundland-members-of-the-assembly)
next_election	1852 Newfoundland general election
next_year	1852
seats_for_election	15 seats of the Newfoundland House of Assembly
majority_seats	8
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party1
last_election1	8
seats1	9
seat_change1	1
popular_vote1	11,066
percentage1	84.86%
swing1	24.95%
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The 1848 Newfoundland general election was held on November 20, 1848 to elect members of the 4th General Assembly of Newfoundland in the Newfoundland Colony. The House of Assembly and the Legislative Council were restored as separate bodies following an experiment by Governor John Harvey which had amalgamated the two legislatures. The Liberal Party continued to maintain a majority of seats with a Conservative opposition.

Results

	Party	[1842](1842-newfoundland-general-election)	Candidates	Seats won	Seat change	% of seats
(% change)	Popular vote	% of vote
(% change)	Totals	15	30	15	100%	13,041	100%
Liberal	8	17	9	1	60.00%
( 6.67%)	11,066	84.86%
( 24.95%)	Conservative	7	13	6	1	40.00%
( 6.67%)	1,975	15.14%
( 24.95%)

Results by district

† indicates that the incumbent did not run again.

St. John's

|- || |Laurence O'Brien 1,901 23.43% | |James Douglas (Independent Liberal) 1,666 20.53% ||

Robert Parsons

John Kent
1,895
23.35%
875
10.78%

Laurence O'Brien
-

Robert John Parsons
1,777
21.90%

John Nugent
}

Avalon Peninsula

|- 40.06% turnout || |James Prendergast 702 21.12% || |Richard Rankin 493 14.83% | | ||

Thomas Ridley†

Edmund Hanrahan
687
20.67%

| |Thomas Newell 472 14.20% | | ||

John Munn†
510
15.34%
460
13.84%

| | ||

James Prendergast

| | ||

Edmund Hanrahan

Peter Winser

| |Thomas Glen | | ||

Thomas Glen

Ambrose Shea
224
23.88%

| | || |John Delaney (Independent Liberal) 287 30.60% ||

John Dillon†
28
2.99%

| |? Furlong (Independent Liberal) 189 20.15% |- | |? Murphy (Independent Liberal) 168 17.91% |- | |? McGill (Independent Liberal) 42 4.48% |}

Eastern and Southern Newfoundland

|- | | || |Robert Carter | |Hugh Emerson (Independent Conservative) ||

Robert Carter

Henry Winton (Independent Conservative)

? Douglas (Independent Conservative)

? Perchard (Independent Conservative)

| | || |Hugh Hoyles Won by acclamation | | ||

Bryan Robinson†

| |George Brooking 402 42.23% || |Thomas Job 550 57.77% | | ||

Thomas Job

| | || |George Emerson Won by acclamation | | ||

Vacant
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Notes

References

"Representative Government, 1832-1855". Memorial University.
(16 November 1848). "To the Independent Electors of the District of St. John's". Courier.
(7 October 1848). "To the Electors of the District of St. John's". Times and General Commercial Gazette.
(25 November 1848). "The Elections". Courier.
(18 November 1848). "From the Harbour Grace Herald, Nov. 15". Times and General Commercial Gazette.
(30 September 1848). "The Elections". Times and General Commercial Gazette.
(25 November 1848). "Placentia and St. Mary". Courier.
(25 November 1848). "Trinity Bay Election". Courier.

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