Torngat Mountains (electoral district)

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Torngat Mountains
Newfoundland and Labrador
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Torngat Mountains is a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. As of 2011 there are 2,130 eligible voters living within the district.[1] The district takes its name from the Torngat Mountains.

Liberal incumbent Randy Edmunds. Evans was re-elected in 2021. On October 25, 2021, Evans left the PC Party to sit as an Independent in the House of Assembly.[2] On March 7, 2022, Evans joined the NDP.[3][4]

The district contains a large indigenous population, including the Inuit self-governing territory of Nunatsiavut,[5] as well as the Naskapi community of Natuashish which is a federal reserve.[6][7] The Voisey's Bay nickel mine, near Nain, is also in the district.[8][9][10]

All six indigenous communities in the district are inaccessible by road and may be reached only by air or sea.[11][12]

Members of the House of Assembly

The district has elected the following members of the House of Assembly:

Assembly Years Member Party
38th 1979-1982     Garfield Warren Liberal
39th 1982-1985
1985     Progressive Conservative
40th 1985-1989
41st 1989-1993
42nd 1993-1996 William Andersen III Liberal
43rd 1996-1999 Wally Andersen Liberal
44th 1999-2003
45th 2003-2007
46th 2007-2011 Patty Pottle Progressive Conservative
47th 2011-2015 Randy Edmunds Liberal
48th 2015-2019
49th 2019–2021     Lela Evans Progressive Conservative
50th 2021–2022    
Independent
2022-    
New Democrat

Election results

Graph of election results (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)


2021 Newfoundland and Labrador general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Lela Evans 420 88.79 +32.21
New Democratic Patricia Johnson-Castle 37 7.82
Liberal Devon Ryan 16 3.38 -40.03
Total valid votes 473
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
Eligible voters
Progressive Conservative hold Swing +12.19
Source(s)
"Officially Nominated Candidates General Election 2021" (PDF).
Elections Newfoundland and Labrador. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
"NL Election 2021 (Unofficial Results)"
. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
2019 Newfoundland and Labrador general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Lela Evans 623 56.58 +53.85
Liberal Randy Edmunds 478 43.42 -49.21
Total valid votes 1,100 98.57
Total rejected ballots 16 1.43 +0.26
Turnout 1,117 55.24 +15.33
Eligible voters 2,022
Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +51.53
2015 Newfoundland and Labrador general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Randy Edmunds 779 92.63 +43.55
New Democratic Mark Sharkey 39 4.64 -7.63
Progressive Conservative Sharon Vokey 23 2.73 -35.91
Total valid votes 841 98.82 –
Total rejected ballots 10 1.18 –
Turnout 851 39.92 -34.92
Eligible voters 2,132
Liberal hold Swing +25.59
Source: Elections Newfoundland and Labrador[13]
2011 Newfoundland and Labrador general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Randy Edmunds 744 49.08 +7.88
Progressive Conservative Patty Pottle 586 38.65 -15.51
New Democratic Alex Saunders 186 12.27 +12.27
Total valid votes 1,516 97.43 –
Total rejected ballots 40 2.57 –
Turnout 1,556 74.84 +3.65
Eligible voters 2,079
Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative Swing +11.70
Source: Elections Newfoundland and Labrador[14]
2007 Newfoundland and Labrador general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Patty Pottle 794 54.16 +28.18
Liberal Danny Dumaresque 604 41.20 -27.73
Labrador Jimmy Tuttauk 68 4.64 -0.45
Total valid votes 1,466 99.05 –
Total rejected ballots 14 0.95 –
Turnout 1,480 71.19 +3.60
Eligible voters 2,079
Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +27.95
Source: Elections Newfoundland and Labrador[15]
2003 Newfoundland and Labrador general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Wally Andersen 934 68.93 -16.13
Progressive Conservative Winston White 352 25.98 +11.04
Labrador Lucy Jararuse 69 5.09 +5.09
Total valid votes 1,355 99.05 –
Total rejected ballots 13 0.95 –
Turnout 1,368 67.59 -12.66
Eligible voters 2,024
Liberal hold Swing -13.59
Source: Elections Newfoundland and Labrador[16]
1999 Newfoundland and Labrador general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Wally Andersen 1,036 85.06 +14.77
Progressive Conservative Simeon Tshakapesh 182 14.94 -14.77
Total valid votes 1,218 99.59 –
Total rejected ballots 5 0.41 –
Turnout 1,223 80.25 -4.38
Eligible voters 1,524
Liberal hold Swing +14.77
Source: Elections Newfoundland and Labrador[17]
1996 Newfoundland and Labrador general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Wally Andersen 795 70.29 +21.49
Progressive Conservative Bill Flowers 336 29.71 -18.85
Total valid votes 1,131 99.42 –
Total rejected ballots 3 0.58 –
Turnout 1,134 84.63 +1.66
Eligible voters 1,340
Liberal hold Swing +20.17
Source: Elections Newfoundland and Labrador[18]
1993 Newfoundland and Labrador general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal William Andersen III 591 48.80 +17.15
Progressive Conservative Patricia Ford 588 48.56 -14.21
New Democratic Felix Barnable 32 2.64 -2.94
Total valid votes 1,211 99.43 –
Total rejected ballots 7 0.57 –
Turnout 1,218 82.97 -7.43
Eligible voters 1,468
Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative Swing +15.68
Source: Elections Newfoundland and Labrador[19]
1989 Newfoundland and Labrador general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Garfield Warren 821 62.77 +10.97
Liberal Mervin Linstead 414 31.65 -9.07
New Democratic Bill Wheaton 73 5.58 -1.90
Total valid votes 1,308 98.57 –
Total rejected ballots 19 1.43 –
Turnout 1,327 90.40 +8.71
Eligible voters 1,468
Progressive Conservative hold Swing +10.02
Source: Elections Newfoundland and Labrador[20]
1985 Newfoundland and Labrador general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Garfield Warren 589 51.80 +33.01
Liberal Melvin Woodward 463 40.72 -40.49
New Democratic John Terriak 85 7.48 +7.48
Total valid votes 1,137 98.78 –
Total rejected ballots 14 1.22 –
Turnout 1,151 81.69 -17.37
Eligible voters 1,409
Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +36.75
Source: Elections Newfoundland and Labrador[21]
1982 Newfoundland and Labrador general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Garfield Warren 925 81.21 +26.96
Progressive Conservative David L. Hunt 214 18.79 -26.96
Total valid votes 1,139 98.70 –
Total rejected ballots 15 1.30 –
Turnout 1,154 99.06 +25.07
Eligible voters 1,165
Liberal hold Swing +26.96
Source: Elections Newfoundland and Labrador[22]
1979 Newfoundland and Labrador general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Garfield Warren 460 54.25 –
Progressive Conservative William Harold Flowers 388 45.75 –
Total valid votes 848 98.38 –
Total rejected ballots 14 1.62 –
Turnout 862 73.99 –
Eligible voters 1,165
Liberal notional gain from Progressive Conservative Swing –
Source: Elections Newfoundland and Labrador[23]

References

  1. ^ "Summary of Polling Divisions TORNGAT MOUNTAINS" (PDF). Elections Newfoundland and Labrador. 3 August 2011. Retrieved 5 September 2011.
  2. ^ Staff, CBC News (25 October 2021). "Lela Evans, MHA for Labrador's Torngat Mountains district, leaving PC Party". CBC News. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  3. ^ Smith, Greg. "Former PC MHA Joins NDP". VOCM. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
  4. ^ "Former PC MHA Lela Evans joins NDP caucus". CBC News. 7 March 2022. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
  5. ^ "Land Claims". Department of Labrador and Aboriginal Affairs, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador. Archived from the original on May 11, 2010. Retrieved April 23, 2010.
  6. ^ "Mushuau Innu First Nation Band Order SOR/2002-415". Justice Canada. 21 November 2002.
  7. ^ "Archived - Reserve Creation at Natuashish". Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada. Nov 2007. Retrieved Oct 16, 2020.
  8. ^ "CBC My Region - Torngat Mountains".
  9. ^ "Voisey's Bay Mine Expansion". vale.com. 2017. Retrieved May 20, 2021.
  10. ^ "Voisey's Bay underground development hits 10% completion". CBC News. Aug 28, 2019. Retrieved May 20, 2021.
  11. ^ Moore, Angel (Apr 5, 2020). "Indigenous leaders asking that access to Labrador be sealed off". APTN News. Retrieved Oct 16, 2020.
  12. ^ Churchill Duke, Laura (20 Sep 2019). "Hopedale woman circulating petition calling for the province to subsidize flights to northern Labrador". Saltwire. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
  13. ^ "2015 Provincial General Election Report" (PDF). Elections Newfoundland and Labrador. 25 July 2016. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  14. ^ "Report on the Provincial General Election, October 11, 2011" (PDF). Office of the Chief Electoral Officer of Newfoundland and Labrador. 8 June 2012. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  15. ^ "Report on the Provincial General Election, October 9, 2007" (PDF). Office of the Chief Electoral Officer of Newfoundland and Labrador. 7 July 2008. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  16. ^ "Report on the October 21, 2003 General Election" (PDF). Office of the Chief Electoral Officer of Newfoundland and Labrador. 9 July 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-04-13. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  17. ^ "Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the General Election for the Forty-Fourth General Assembly, February 9, 1999" (PDF). Office of the Chief Electoral Officer of Newfoundland and Labrador. 9 November 1999. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  18. ^ "Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the General Election for the Forty-Third General Assembly, February 22, 1996" (PDF). Office of the Chief Electoral Officer of Newfoundland and Labrador. 28 October 1996. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  19. ^ "Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the General Election for the Forty-Second General Assembly, May 3, 1993" (PDF). Office of the Chief Electoral Officer of Newfoundland and Labrador. 1994. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  20. ^ "Election Statistics 1989" (PDF). Office of the Chief Electoral Officer of Newfoundland and Labrador. 1989. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  21. ^ "Election Returns 1985" (PDF). Office of the Chief Electoral Officer of Newfoundland and Labrador. 22 October 1985. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  22. ^ "Election Returns 1982" (PDF). Office of the Chief Electoral Officer of Newfoundland and Labrador. 25 August 1982. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  23. ^ "Election Returns 1979" (PDF). Office of the Chief Electoral Officer of Newfoundland and Labrador. 12 October 1979. Retrieved 22 November 2018.

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