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This article provides a summary of results for thegeneral elections to theCanadian province ofNewfoundland and Labrador'sunicamerallegislative body, theNewfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly. The number of seats has varied over time, from a low of twenty-seven for the first election in 1949, to a high of fifty-two during the 1980s and early 1990s. There are currently 40 seats in the house.

The chart on the right shows the information graphically, with the most recent elections on the right. It shows that politics in Newfoundland and Labrador have been dominated by two parties: theLiberal party (red) and theConservative party (blue). The Liberal party have won ten out of the seventeen elections held.

This article only covers elections since the province became part of theCanadian Confederation in 1949. It was then namedNewfoundland, and its official name changed toNewfoundland and Labrador in 2001. Prior to becoming part of Canada, Newfoundland was aBritish dominion, and the Newfoundland House of Assembly (as it was known before 2001) was first formed in 1832. For elections prior to 1949, seeGeneral elections in Newfoundland (pre-Confederation).

The table below shows the total number of seats won by the major political parties at each election. It also shows the percentage of the vote obtained by the major political parties at each election, if greater than 0.1%. The winning party's totals are shown in bold. To date, there has only been one election (in 1989) where the party that formed the government did not have the largest share of the vote. Full details on any election are linked via the number of the election at the start of the row.

^A Includes results forProgressive Conservatives.

^B Includes results forCo-operative Commonwealth Federation prior to 1963.

^C Includes 8.2% for theUnited Newfoundland Party.

^D Includes 2.4% for the Labrador Party.

^E Captured less than 1% of the vote. Its vote total is included in the "other" vote share.

^F Includes 1.2% for theLabrador Party.

^G Includes 11.9% for theReform Liberal Party.

^H Includes 1.0% for theNewfoundland and Labrador Party

• List of political parties in Newfoundland and Labrador
• General elections in Newfoundland (pre-Confederation)

• "General Election Statistics (1949-1999)".Elections Newfoundland and Labrador. Archived fromthe original on 2008-09-26. Retrieved2008-11-07.
• "Official Count"(PDF).Elections Newfoundland and Labrador. Retrieved2006-12-08.^{[dead link]} (2003)

• Elections in Newfoundland and Labrador
• Canadian election timelines
• Newfoundland and Labrador politics-related lists

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