The 2003 Newfoundland and Labrador general election was held on October 21, 2003, to elect the 48 members of the 45th General Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador. The election was called on September 29 by Premier Roger Grimes of the Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Opinion polls

Results

This election marked only the third change of government in the 54 years since the province joined Canada. The Liberals, led by Roger Grimes, were soundly defeated by the Danny Williams-led Progressive Conservative Party, who took almost three-quarters of the seats in the House of Assembly and well over half of the popular vote. The Liberals lost seven of their 17 Cabinet ministers, along with the Speaker of the House, from the preceding government. Jack Harris and the New Democrats hopes to increase their seat total from two were frustrated, although their incumbents were re-elected.

Results by party

!rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |Party !rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |Party leader !rowspan="2"| Candidates !colspan="4" style="text-align:center;" |Seats !colspan="3" style="text-align:center;" |Popular vote ! Dissol. !2003 !Change !# !% !Change ! style="text-align:right;" |34 ! style="text-align:right;" |12 ! style="text-align:right;" |2 ! style="text-align:right;" |- ! style="text-align:left;" colspan=3 |Total ! style="text-align:right;" |143 ! style="text-align:right;" |48 ! style="text-align:right;" |48 ! style="text-align:right;" |48 ! style="text-align:right;" | - ! style="text-align:right;" |277,538 ! style="text-align:right;" |100.00% ! style="text-align:right;" |

Results by region

Results by riding

St. John's

5,315 1,071 404 2,221 391 2,456 3,349 1,763 956 4,151 862 841 66 3,107 1,433 820 4,532 756 676 4,557 1,292 460 4,193 2,358 666

St. John's suburbs

5,604 1,294 980 4,147 1,870 1,180 171 5,606 372 768 5,662 798 504 5,354 2,354 472 4,569 1,277 410

Avalon and Burin peninsulas

2,523 2,623 299 3,450 2,133 684 3,165 3,699 5,167 504 309 11 3,058 3,101 136 4,769 1,482 493 3,746 1,812 152 2,374 3,983 4,091 2,095 287

Central Newfoundland

3,045 927 114 3,384 2,301 116 4,354 938 179 2,346 3,218 168 3,621 1,930 348 2,331 3,921 370 3,504 1,275 159 3,114 2,614 218 4,126 1,640 340 2,334 2,941 3,488 1,826 138 145

Western and Southern Newfoundland

2,760 2,907 214 1,008 4,233 2,044 2,880 3,976 2,624 2,796 2,507 3,823 1,533 207 3,101 2,378 84 2,948 1,577 293 2,927 2,464 170 3,133 1,802 78

Labrador

804 1,514 206 1,142 423 2,762 631 1,778 1,126 129 1,485 352 934 69

By-elections since the general election

Exploits (resignation of Roger Grimes), June 23, 2005: !align="left" colspan=3|Total !align="right"|4,722 !align="right"|100% !align="right"| Placentia and St. Mary's (resignation of Fabian Manning), February 21, 2006: !align="left" colspan=3|Total !align="right"|4,850 !align="right"| !align="right"| Signal Hill-Quidi Vidi (resignation of Jack Harris), November 1, 2006: !align="left" colspan=3|Total !align="right"|3,563 !align="right"|100% !align="right"| Ferryland (resignation of Loyola Sullivan), February 8, 2007: !align="left" colspan=3|Total !align="right"|3,668 !align="right"|100% !align="right"| Kilbride (resignation of Ed Byrne), February 8, 2007: !align="left" colspan=3|Total !align="right"|3,481 !align="right"|100% !align="right"| Port au Port (resignation of Jim Hodder), February 8, 2007: !align="left" colspan=3|Total !align="right"|4,357 !align="right"|100% !align="right"| Humber Valley (resignation of Kathy Goudie), February 13, 2007: !align="left" colspan=3|Total !align="right"|4,421 !align="right"|100% !align="right"|

General resources

Parties