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 Leader1972Seats won% changePopular vote (%)Frank Moores3330-9.1%101,01645.54Ed Roberts916+56%82,27037.09Reform LiberalJoey Smallwood -4 N/A26,52211.96Gerry Panting --0%9,6534.35Other (Independent Liberal)-*1 0% 2,3571.06Totals4251 -222,789100.00
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
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kilbride72.56% turnout || |Robert Wells2,93962.71% | |Ern Antle1,03722.12% | |Hugh Shea71115.17%
|New district |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Pleasantville75.76% turnout || |Jerome Dinn2,90346.33% | |Maxwell Dyke1,12517.95% | |David Owens4797.65% | |Gerry Panting1,75928.07% || |New district |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. John's Centre66.08% turnout || |Anthony Murphy2,36659.58% | |William Doyle95624.08% | |John Coyle64916.34%
|Anthony Murphy |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. John's East65.30% turnout || |William Marshall2,03255.08% | |Brian Clarke3579.68% | |David Gulliver72119.54% | |Robert Griffiths57915.70% || |William Marshall |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. John's North72.49% turnout || |John Carter1,94446.13% | |Graham Wood1,38632.89%
|Andrew Wells88420.98% || |John Carter |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. John's South65.66% turnout || |John Collins2,22166.96% | |Gordon Lidstone1,09633.04%
|Robert Wells‡(ran in Kilbride) |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. John's West67.55% turnout || |John Crosbie2,13455.70% | |Robert Innes1,69744.30%
|John Crosbie |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Waterford-Kenmount66.24% turnout || |Gerry Ottenheimer2,92254.29% | |Gerald Moore1,06219.73% | |Roy Upshall80815.02% | |Elizabeth Genge59010.96% || |New district
St. John's suburbs
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Conception Bay South79.24% turnout | |Gordon Dawe3,06244.21% || |John Nolan3,11244.93% | |Ralph Petten4676.74% | |Wilson Porter2854.12% || |New district |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Mount Pearl75.20% turnout || |Neil Windsor1,88541.03% | |Kell Ashford1,51332.93%
|Helen Porter1,19626.04% || |New district |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Mount Scio85.10% turnout || |Ray Winsor2,68547.88% | |Len Stirling1,97835.27%
|Bill Gillespie94516.85% || |New district |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. John's East Extern82.05% turnout || |Tom Hickey3,31865.28% | |Michael Laurie1,76534.72%
|Tom Hickey
Avalon Peninsula
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Carbonear79.22% turnout | |Fred Earle1,91936.92% | |Walter Milley1,19422.97% || |Rod Moores2,08540.11%
|Augustus Rowe† |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Ferryland83.47% turnout || |Charlie Power1,24030.48% | |Martin O'Brien1,23230.28% | |Kenneth Carew91822.57% | |Kevin Condon67816.67% || |Thomas Doyle‡(ran in Twillingate) |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Harbour Grace79.89% turnout || |Haig Young1,98245.79% | |Ted Pike96922.38% | |Clarence Engelbrecht (Bob Lewis)1,37831.83%
|Haig Young |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke rowspan=4|Harbour Main-Bell Island69.24% turnout |rowspan=4 | |rowspan=4|William Doody2,94465.96% |rowspan=4| |rowspan=4|Wilfred Drover1,51934.04% |rowspan=4| |rowspan=4| |rowspan=4| |rowspan=4| || |Gordon Dawe‡Harbour Main (ran in Conception Bay South)
|William DoodyHarbour Main |- |colspan=2|Merged district
|Steve Neary₰Bell Island (ran in La Poile) |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Placentia78.90% turnout || |William Patterson1,72141.40% | |Anthony Sparrow1,69840.85% | |Alphonsus Best73817.75%
|Fintan Aylward†Placentia East |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Port de Grave74.97% turnout | |George Wilson1,62533.18% | |James Hussey1,62433.15% || |Eric Dawe1,64933.67%
|George Wilson |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. Mary's-The Capes77.41% turnout || |Walter Carter2,16860.81% | |Ted Noseworthy2647.41% | |John Devereaux1,13331.78%
|Gerry OttenheimerSt. Mary's (ran in Waterford-Kenmount) |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke rowspan=3|Trinity-Bay de Verde74.09% turnout |rowspan=3| |rowspan=3|James Reid1,53637.85% |rowspan=3 | |rowspan=3|Frederick B. Rowe2,19754.14% |rowspan=3| |rowspan=3|Raymond Taylor3258.01% |rowspan=3| |rowspan=3| || |Brendan Howard†Bay de Verde |- |colspan=2|Merged district
|James ReidTrinity South
Eastern Newfoundland
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Bellevue74.42% turnout | |Graham Bennett1,30323.55% | |Hubert Kitchen2,04436.94% || |Wilson Callan2,18639.51%
|New district |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Bonavista North70.07% turnout || |George Cross1,51835.80% | |Paul Thoms1,51135.64% | |Samuel King1,21128.56%
|Paul Thoms |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Bonavista South67.69% turnout || |Jim Morgan2,32662.23% | |George Allen47412.68% | |William Smallwood93825.09%
|Jim Morgan |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Fogo58.14% turnout | |Barton Manning94728.06% || |Earl Winsor2,42871.94%
|Earl Winsor |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Terra Nova68.44% turnout | |Samuel Saunders1,06926.80% || |Tom Lush2,11653.06% | |Bill Broderick80320.14%
|New district |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Trinity North73.04% turnout || |Charlie Brett2,55454.67% | |Calvin Lethbridge97920.95% | |Bren Power Jr.1,07322.97% | |Edgar Russell (Independent)661.41% || |Charlie Brett
Central Newfoundland
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Baie Verte-White Bay79.86% turnout | |Desmond Sullivan1,59231.35% || |Tom Rideout2,91157.31% | |Carl Wright57611.34%
|Bill Rowe†White Bay South |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Exploits69.70% turnout | |Hugh Twomey2,45549.91% || |Stephen Mulrooney2,46450.09%
|New district |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Gander76.91% turnout || |Harold Collins2,46257.07% | |Averill Baker1,85242.93%
|Harold Collins |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Grand Falls77.19% turnout || |John Lundrigan2,12670.34% | |Mundun Batstone1,01427.21%
|Ernest Duder58615.73% || |Aubrey Senior† |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Green Bay66.60% turnout || |Brian Peckford2,63970.34% | |Corbin Clarke1,02827.40%
|Harold Card852.26% || |Brian Peckford |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Lewisporte75.98% turnout | |James Russell2,21443.18% || |Freeman White2,71953.02% | |Randolph LeDrew1953.80%
|James Russell |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Twillingate73.80% turnout | |Thomas Doyle87724.17% | |Woodrow Philpott1,20033.07% || |Joey Smallwood1,46740.42% | |Roderick Woolridge852.34% || |Herbert Gillett† |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Windsor-Buchans75.59% turnout | |Walter Critchley1,23329.32% || |Graham Flight2,36356.18%
|Donald Head61014.50% || |New district
Southern Newfoundland
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Burgeo-Bay d'Espoir72.00% turnout | |Brendan Howard77023.19% || |Roger Simmons2,55076.81%
|Allan EvansBurgeo-La Poile (ran in La Poile) |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Burin-Placentia West81.02% turnout | |Leo Barry2,23739.95% || |Patrick Canning3,36360.05%
|Leo BarryPlacentia West |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke rowspan=3|Fortune-Hermitage66.59% turnout |rowspan=3| |rowspan=3|H.R.V. Earle1,21934.71% |rowspan=3 | |rowspan=3|Jack Winsor1,69648.29% |rowspan=3| |rowspan=3|William Brown59717.00% |rowspan=3| |rowspan=3| || |H.R.V. EarleFortune Bay |- |colspan=2|Merged district
|Roger Simmons‡Hermitage (ran in Burgeo-Bay d'Espoir) |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Grand Bank75.07% turnout || |Alex Hickman2,03839.72% | |Ted Skakum1,91237.26% | |Robert Field1,05420.54% | |Esther Spracklin (NDP)1272.48% || |Alex HickmanBurin |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke rowspan=2|La Poile76.96% turnout |rowspan=2| |rowspan=2|Allan Evans1,55834.23% |rowspan=2| |rowspan=2|Walter Hodder75816.66% |rowspan=2| |rowspan=2| || |Steve Neary (Independent Liberal)2,18548.01% |rowspan=2 | |rowspan=2|New district
|Eric Hiscock (Independent)501.10%
Western Newfoundland
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Bay of Islands75.29% turnout || |Luke Woodrow1,72637.71% | |David Barter1,25027.31% | |Arthur Vincent97021.19% | |David Hunt (NDP)63113.79% || |New district |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Humber East72.03% turnout || |Tom Farrell2,59558.17% | |Clayton Hutchings1,86641.83%
|Tom Farrell |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Humber Valley69.42% turnout || |Wallace House2,22153.03% | |Stanley Parsons90221.54% | |Alex Wiseman86520.65% | |Kenneth Prowse (Independent)2004.78% || |New district |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Humber West78.22% turnout || |Frank Moores2,41949.77% | |Fred Basha92719.07% | |Geoff Stirling1,38028.39% | |Gordon Mullett (NDP)1352.77% || |Frank Moores |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Port au Port80.87% turnout | |James Cochrane1,54343.69% || |Jim Hodder1,98956.31%
|Jim Hodder |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke rowspan=3|St. Barbe70.35% turnout |rowspan=3 | |rowspan=3|Edward Maynard2,01950.96% |rowspan=3| |rowspan=3|Wilson Brown1,94349.04% |rowspan=3| |rowspan=3| |rowspan=3| |rowspan=3| || |Frederick B. Rowe‡St. Barbe North (ran in Trinity-Bay de Verde) |- |colspan=2|Merged district
|Edward MaynardSt. Barbe South |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. George's76.85% turnout | |Alexander Dunphy1,99048.15% || |Hazel McIsaac2,14351.85%
|Alexander Dunphy |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Stephenville71.65% turnout | |Wayne Morrison1,82346.32% || |William MacNeil2,11353.68%
|New district |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Strait of Belle Isle67.45% turnout | |Marlene Maynard98221.71% || |Edward Roberts2,81962.33% | |Cyril Humber56812.56% | |Raymond Elliott (NDP)1543.40% || |Edward RobertsWhite Bay North
Labrador
|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Eagle River66.58% turnout | |Winston White58537.82% || |Ian Strachan96262.18%
|VacantLabrador South |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Menihek50.39% turnout || |Joseph Rousseau2,56165.00% | |Eric Chaulk62115.76% | |Eugene Canning43411.02% | |William Smeaton3248.22% || |Joseph RousseauLabrador West |- |bgcolor=whitesmoke|Naskaupi62.86% turnout || |Joseph Goudie1,86954.32% | |Melvin Woodward1,57245.68%
|Melvin WoodwardLabrador North
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