Newfoundland general election, 1956

The 32nd Newfoundland general election was held on 2 October 1956 to elect members of the 31st General Assembly of Newfoundland, the third general election for the province of Newfoundland, Canada. It was won by the Liberal party.

Results

	Party	Leader	1951	Seats won	% change	Popular vote	(%)
	Liberal	Joey Smallwood	24	32		75,883	66.3%
	Progressive Conservative	Malcolm Hollett	4	4		36,591	32.0%
	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	Sam Drover	0	0		*	*
	Other		0	0	0%	1,964	1.7%
Totals			28	36	-	114,438	100%

*CCF votes are among the 1,964 ballots categorized as "other". This was the CCF's first election, Sam Drover had been a cabinet minister in the Liberal government until he quit and decided to found the CCF in the province. The party ran 10 candidates in the 1956 election, the first time it had contested a provincial election in Newfoundland.

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 next

Referendums	1915 1948

See also: List of Newfoundland and Labrador by-elections

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