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1989 Newfoundland general election

Canadian provincial election

Field	Value
election_name	1989 Newfoundland general election
country	Newfoundland and Labrador
type	parliamentary
party_colour	no
party_name	no
previous_election	1985 Newfoundland general election
previous_year	1985
previous_mps	40th General Assembly of Newfoundland
election_date
elected_mps	[members](41st-general-assembly-of-newfoundland)
next_election	1993 Newfoundland general election
next_year	1993
seats_for_election	52 seats of the Newfoundland House of Assembly
majority_seats	27
turnout	80.6% ( 3.3 pp)
image1	LIB
colour1
leader1	Clyde Wells
party1
leaders_seat1	Windsor-Buchans
Ran in Humber East (lost)
last_election1	15
seats1	31
seat_change1	16
popular_vote1	137,271
percentage1	47.2%
swing1	10.5pp
image2	PC
colour2
leader2	Tom Rideout
party2
leaders_seat2	Baie Verte-Springdale
last_election2	36
seats2	21
seat_change2	15
popular_vote2	138,609
percentage2	47.6%
swing2	1.0pp
image3	NDP
colour3
leader3	Cle Newhook
party3
leaders_seat3	Ran in St. John's East Extern (lost)
last_election3	1
seats3	0
seat_change3	1
popular_vote3	12,929
percentage3	4.4%
swing3	10.0pp
title	Premier
before_election	Tom Rideout
before_party
after_election	Clyde Wells
posttitle	Premier after election
after_party

Ran in Humber East (lost) The 1989 Newfoundland general election was held on April 20, 1989 to elect members of the 41st General Assembly of Newfoundland. It was won by the Liberal party despite polling fewer votes than the Conservatives.

Unusually, however, Liberal leader Clyde Wells was defeated by Lynn Verge in his own riding of Humber East despite having led his party to victory. Consequently, a member of his caucus, Eddie Joyce, resigned shortly after the election, and Wells was acclaimed to office in the riding of Bay of Islands. Seven years later, Verge was the leader of the Progressive Conservatives during the 1996 election, and she also lost Humber East in the election, though her party did not win that election.

Opinion polls

Polling firm	Last day
of survey	Source	LPNL	PCNL	NLNDP	Other	ME	Sample	NL	Liberal}};" data-sort-type="number"	NL	PC}};" data-sort-type="number"	NL	NDP}};" data-sort-type="number"	CA	Indépendant}};" data-sort-type="number"
Election 1989	April 20, 1989		47.2	47.6	4.4	0.8
Omnifacts	April 1989	{{cite news	title=Polls put Newfoundland Tories out in front	work=The Ottawa Citizen	page=A5}}	41.6	52.1	6.3
	April 1989	{{cite news	title=Newfoundland Tories still No. 1, but barely	work=The Windsor Star	page=A8}}	43.9	50	6.1
[Election 1985](1985-newfoundland-general-election)	November 6, 1984		36.7	48.6	14.4	0.3

Results

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Results by district

Names in boldface type represent party leaders.
† represents that the incumbent did not run again.
‡ represents that the incumbent ran in a different district.

St. John's

|- 77.25% turnout || |Robert Aylward 3,452 49.08% | |Gerry Glavine 2,960 42.09% | |Kevin James 621 8.83% ||

Robert Aylward
74.87% turnout

| |Stephen Stafford 2,972 42.65% || |Walter Noel 3,284 47.12% | |Dennis MacKay 713 10.23% ||

Jerome Dinn†
79.52% turnout

| |Patrick McNicholas 2,838 44.14% || |Hubert Kitchen 2,967 46.14% | |Vicky Silk 625 9.72% ||

Patrick McNicholas
83.00% turnout

Shannie Duff
2,397
41.72%

| |Lynette Billard 1,212 21.09% | |Gene Long 2,137 37.19% ||

Gene Long
69.73% turnout

| |Tom Osborne 1,937 37.71% || |Phil Warren 2,705 52.66% | |Dorothy Inglis 495 9.63% ||

John Carter†
71.49% turnout

| |Douglas Atkinson 2,105 43.04% || |Tom Murphy 2,107 43.08% | |Linda Hyde 679 13.88% ||

John Collins†
72.52% turnout

| |Harold Barrett 2,583 40.67% || |Rex Gibbons 3,389 53.35% | |Larry Power 380 5.98% ||

Harold Barrett
79.59% turnout

| |Ralph Tucker 3,188 42.85% || |Eric Gullage 3,947 53.06% | |Wayne James 304 4.09% ||

Eric Gullage
}

St. John's suburbs

|- 91.44% turnout | |John Butt 2,580 44.42% || |Pat Cowan 3,107 53.50% | |Edgar Russell 121 2.08% | | ||

John Butt
86.13% turnout

Neil Windsor
4,273
51.57%

| |Gordon Seabright 3,834 46.27% | |Leo Thistle 179 2.16% | | ||

Neil Windsor
74.89% turnout

| |Myrle Vokey 3,107 44.22% || |Jim Walsh 3,143 44.73% | |Kevin Walsh 425 6.05% | |Josiah Harvey (Independent) 351 5.00% ||

Leo Barry†
85.57% turnout

Kevin Parsons
3,750
48.84%

| |John O'Brien 2,430 31.65% | |Cle Newhook 1,498 19.51% | | || |Kevin Parsons |}

Avalon Peninsula

|- 90.70% turnout | |Milton Peach 3,387 48.18% || |Art Reid 3,581 50.94% | | | |Nicholas Murray (Independent) 62 0.88% ||

Milton Peach
89.25% turnout

Charlie Power
2,954
61.61%

| |Tom Carey 1,711 35.68% | |Aiden Coady 130 2.71% | | ||

Charlie Power
85.79% turnout

| |Joe Gregory 2,428 43.04% || |John Crane 3,213 56.96% | | | | ||

Haig Young†
78.65% turnout

Norman Doyle
4,123
65.59%

| |Rod Fowler 1,485 23.62% | |Gus Flannigan 678 10.79% | | ||

Norman Doyle
83.95% turnout

| |William Patterson 1,760 37.93% || |William Hogan 2,702 58.23% | |Cletus Canning 178 3.84% | | ||

William Patterson
87.77% turnout

| |Lewis Gosse 2,050 29.67% || |John Efford 4,797 69.43% | |Wayne Lucas 62 0.90% | | ||

John Efford
79.95% turnout

Loyola Hearn
3,100
75.13%

| |Don O'Keefe 913 22.13% | |Ian Penney 113 2.74% | | ||

Loyola Hearn
81.39% turnout

| |Wayne Quinlan 1,999 39.66% || |Lloyd Snow 2,768 54.92% | |Bert Pitcher 189 3.75% | |Bren Howard (Independent) 84 1.67% || |James Reid† |}

Eastern Newfoundland

|- 77.31% turnout | |Bruce Stagg 2,233 35.40% || |Percy Barrett 3,842 60.91% | |Harvey Thistle 233 3.69% ||

Wilson Callan†
88.06% turnout

| |Eli Cross 2,351 39.59% || |Tom Lush 3,470 58.44% | |Ingwald Feltham 117 1.97% ||

Tom Lush
67.54% turnout

| |Roger Fitzgerald 1,932 46.63% || |Aubrey Gover 1,952 47.12% | |Rex Sheppard 259 6.25% ||

Jim Morgan†
84.85% turnout

Sam Winsor
2,966
50.81%

| |Beaton Tulk 2,872 49.19% | | ||

Beaton Tulk
78.52% turnout

Glen Greening
2.920
54.50%

| |Ray Goulding 2,370 44.23% | |Randy Miller 68 1.27% ||

Glen Greening
79.02% turnout

Charlie Brett
3,431
56.61%

| |Wendell Moore 2,506 41.35% | |Sam Kelly 124 2.04% || |Charlie Brett |}

Central Newfoundland

|- 84.36% turnout || |Tom Rideout 4,109 82.38% | |Joe Gedge 879 17.62% | | ||

Tom Rideout
73.35% turnout

| |Paul Cooper 2,801 48.51% || |Roger Grimes 2,850 49.36% | |Reg Hemeon 123 2.13% ||

Hugh Twomey†
76.20% turnout

| |Agnes Richard 2,029 35.57% || |Winston Baker 3,460 60.66% | |Claude Elliott 215 3.77% ||

Winston Baker
85.41% turnout

Len Simms
3,400
64.87%

| |Jim Hornell 1,841 35.13% | | ||

Len Simms
72.90% turnout

Alvin Hewlett
3,043
58.85%

| |Maurice Budgell 2,128 41.15% | | ||

Brian Peckford†
73.98% turnout

| |Anne Picco 2,836 46.42% || |Melvin Penney 3,148 51.53% | |Berkley Rose 125 2.05% || |James Russell†

|- 79.81% turnout | |Ida Reid 2,133 46.98% || |Walter Carter 2,353 51.83% | |John Lewis 54 1.19% ||

Walter Carter
85.50% turnout

| |Ray Hunter 2,164 46.96% || |Graham Flight 2,336 50.69% | |Bernard Woodfine 108 2.35% || |Clyde Wells‡ (ran in Humber East) |}

Southern Newfoundland

|- 82.39% turnout | |Dave Brenton 2,618 33.94% || |Dave Gilbert 2,427 51.80% | | ||

Dave Gilbert
85.82% turnout

Glenn Tobin
5,095
66.06%

| |Dave Brenton 2,618 33.94% | | ||

Glenn Tobin
75.70% turnout

Oliver Langdon
2,827
60.16%

| |Nathan Cutler 1,872 39.84% | | ||

Roger Simmons†
75.82% turnout

Bill Matthews
3,948
68.55%

| |Graham Wood 1,811 31.45% | | ||

Bill Matthews
70.89% turnout

| |Cal Mitchell 1,757 35.52% || |Bill Ramsay 2,413 48.77% | |Stephen MacKenzie 777 15.71% || |Cal Mitchell |}

Western Newfoundland

|- 81.17% turnout 1,418 23.20% 3,320 54.32% 159 2.60% | |Myles Griffin (Independent) 789 12.91% |- | |Trevor Bennett (Independent) 426 6.97% |- 88.75% turnout || |Lynn Verge 3,658 50.10% | |Clyde Wells 3,515 48.14% | |Jim McManamy 129 1.76% | | ||

Lynn Verge
79.95% turnout

Rick Woodford
2,687
55.84%

| |Gary Gale 2,125 44.16% | | | | ||

Rick Woodford
87.30% turnout

| |Jeannette Christopher 2,341 38.73% || |Paul Dicks 3,703 61.27% | | | | ||

Ray Baird†
91.91% turnout

Jim Hodder
2,313
50.25%

| |Mark Felix 2,192 47.62% | |Leo Foley 98 2.13% | | ||

Jim Hodder
83.62% turnout

| |Joseph Kennedy 3,439 49.04% || |Chuck Furey 3,573 50.96% | | | | ||

Chuck Furey
77.91% turnout

| |Wayne Wheeler 2,121 44.48% || |Larry Short 2,647 55.52% | | | | ||

Ron Dawe†
87.39% turnout

| |Wayne Morrison 1,500 36.63% || |Kevin Aylward 2,395 58.49% | |Wade Morris 200 4.88% | | ||

Kevin Aylward
70.53% turnout

| |Francis Reardon 1,953 34.49% || |Chris Decker 3,284 57.99% | | | |Edward Hollahan (Independent) 426 7.52% ||

Chris Decker
}

Labrador

|- 80.35% turnout | |Reginald Hancock 1,020 40.05% || |Danny Dumaresque 1,527 59.95% | | ||

Eugene Hiscock†
87.02% turnout

Alec Snow
3,004
53.15%

| |Bill Kelly 2,291 40.53% | |Nelson Larson 357 6.32% ||

Peter Fenwick†
90.42% turnout

| |Ian Strachan 1,118 26.73% || |Jim Kelland 2,882 68.90% | |Dorothy King 183 4.37% ||

Jim Kelland
90.40% turnout

Garfield Warren
821
62.77%

| |Mervin Linstead 414 31.65% | |Bill Wheaton 73 5.58% ||

Garfield Warren
}

Notes

References

"Election Statistics 1989".
[http://www.cbc.ca/nlvotes2007/riding/002 Newfoundland and Labrador Votes 2007: Bay of Islands]. [[cbc.ca]].
(1989-04-21). "At a glance". The Vancouver Sun.

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