Newfoundland general election, 1959

The 33rd Newfoundland general election was held on 20 August 1959 to elect members of the 32nd General Assembly of Newfoundland, the fourth general election for the province of Newfoundland, Canada. It was won by the Liberal party.

Results

	Party	Leader	1956	Seats won	% change	Popular vote	(%)
	Liberal	Joey Smallwood	32	31	-3.1%	75,560	58.0%
	Progressive Conservative	Malcolm Hollett	4	3	-25%	33,002	25.3%
	Newfoundland Democratic Party*	Ed Finn, Jr.	0	0	0%	9,352	7.2%
	United Newfoundland	James D. Higgins	-	2	N/A	**	8.2%
	Other		0	0	0%	12,411	1.3%
Totals			36	36	-	131,148	100%

*The CCF supported the Newfoundland Democratic Party which was founded by the Newfoundland Federation of Labour to run candidates as a protest against the Liberal government's decertification of the International Woodworkers of America in the course of a logging strike. The Newfoundland Democratic Party ran eighteen candidates, none of whom was elected. The party went on to become the Newfoundland New Democratic Party in 1961.

** United Newfoundland votes included in "other" total.

References

"Seat Count Results in Newfoundland & Labrador Provincial Elections". Election Almanac. Election Almanac. Retrieved 9 April 2014.

Elections and referendums in Newfoundland and Labrador

General elections	Pre-Confederation: 1832 1836 1837 1842 1848 1852 1855 1859 1861 1865 1869 1873 1874 1878 1882 1885 1889 1893 1897 1900 1904 1908 1909 1913 1919 1923 1924 1928 1932 Post-Confederation: 1949 1951 1956 1959 1962 1966 1971 1972 1975 1979 1982 1985 1989 1993 1996 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

Referendums	1915 1948

See also: List of Newfoundland and Labrador by-elections

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