Overview
- Preliminary results show the PCs with 21 seats, the Liberals with 15, the NDP with two, and two independents, ending the Liberals’ 10-year run in government.
- Tony Wakeham says cost of living and health care dominated voters’ concerns and he will first commission a nonpartisan analysis of the Churchill Falls MOU before putting it to a referendum.
- Liberal leader John Hogan held Windsor Lake, conceded defeat, and said he will meet Wakeham and the lieutenant-governor to arrange the transition.
- PCs retained all 14 incumbent seats and flipped key districts such as St. George’s–Humber, while three rural districts — Burin–Grand Bank, Fortune Bay–Cape La Hune, and Burgeo–La Poile — remained Liberal.
- NDP leader Jim Dinn was re-elected in St. John’s Centre and Sheilagh O’Leary won St. John’s East–Quidi Vidi, preserving the party’s official status, and early reports pegged voter turnout near 53 percent.