Virginia Waters (electoral district)

Virginia Waters
Newfoundland and Labrador electoral district
	Virginia Waters in relation to the other St. John's districts
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly
District created	1995
District abolished	2015
First contested	1996
Last contested	2014
Demographics
Population (2006)	11,943
Electors (2011)	9,938
Census division(s)	Division 1
Census subdivision(s)	St. John's

Virginia Waters is a defunct provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The district was represented by former premier Kathy Dunderdale.

A residential district in the northeast end of St. John's, the area included Airport Heights, Wedgewood Park, residential areas off Newfoundland Drive, as well as a fairly wealthy enclave near Virginia Lake. The district was created in 1995 from parts of the districts of Pleasantville, St. John's East Extern and Mount Scio Road-Bell Island.^[1] Virginia Waters retained 80 per cent of its original territory in the 2007 redistribution, while taking in 14 per cent of Cape St. Francis. In 2011 there were 9,938 eligible voters living within the district.^[2]^[3]

The district was abolished in 2015, into new districts of Windsor Lake and Virginia Waters-Pleasantville.

Members of the House of Assembly

The district has elected the following members of the House of Assembly:

Assembly	Years		Party
43rd	1996–1999	Walter Noel	Liberal
43rd	1999–2003	Walter Noel	Liberal
44th	2003–2007	Kathy Dunderdale	Progressive Conservative
45th	2007–2011
46th	2011–2014
46th	2014–2015	Cathy Bennett	Liberal

Election results

By-election April 9, 2014 On the resignation of Kathy Dunderdale, February 28, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Cathy Bennett	1,932	39.88	+30.33
	Progressive Conservative	Danny Breen	1,892	39.05	-20.99
	NDP	Sheilagh O'Leary	1,021	21.07	-9.35
Total valid votes			4,895	99.84
Rejected			8	0.16	-0.14
Turnout			4,853	49.25	-6.14
Eligible voters			9,853
	Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+25.66

2011 Newfoundland and Labrador general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Kathy Dunderdale	3,371	60.04	-13.01
	NDP	Dave Sullivan	1,708	30.42	+17.59
	Liberal	Sheila Miller	536	9.55	+1.80
Total valid votes			5,615	99.70
Rejected			17	0.30	+0.09
Turnout			5,632	55.39	-0.73
Eligible voters			10,168
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-15.30

2007 Newfoundland and Labrador general election^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Kathy Dunderdale	4,043	73.04	+14.95
	NDP	David Sullivan	710	12.83	+3.60
	Liberal	Drew Brown	429	7.75	-24.92
	Independent	Fred Wilcox	353	6.38	-
Total valid votes			5,535	99.78
Rejected			12	0.22	+0.05
Turnout			5,547	56.12	-13.03
Eligible voters			9,885
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+5.67

^ Change is not from redistributed results.

2003 Newfoundland and Labrador general election^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Kathy Dunderdale	4,193	58.10	+21.77
	Liberal	Walter Noel	2,358	32.67	-14.76
	NDP	David Sullivan	666	9.23	-4.92
Total valid votes			7,217	99.83
Rejected			12	0.17	-0.01
Turnout			7,229	69.14	-3.94
Eligible voters			10,455
	Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+18.27

1999 Newfoundland general election^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Walter Noel	2,973	47.43	-8.24
	Progressive Conservative	Paul Walsh	2,277	36.33	+0.41
	NDP	Amanda Will	887	14.15	+5.74
	Independent	Deanne Stapleton	131	2.09
Total valid votes			6,268	99.82
Rejected			11	0.18	-0.01
Turnout			6,279	73.08	-3.14
Eligible voters			8,592
	Liberal hold		Swing		-4.32

1996 Newfoundland and Labrador general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Walter Noel	3,639	55.67
	Progressive Conservative	Bev LeMoine	2,348	35.92
	NDP	Bob Buckingham	550	8.41
Total valid votes			6,537	99.82
Rejected			12	0.18
Turnout			6,549	76.22
Eligible voters			8,592
Source: Elections Newfoundland and Labrador^[6]

References

^ "CBC.ca | Newfoundland & Labrador Votes 2007 | District Profiles". Archived from the original on 2007-10-12.
^ "Summary of Polling Divisions VIRGINIA WATERS" (PDF). Elections Newfoundland and Labrador. 3 August 2011. Retrieved 2 September 2011.
^ ^a ^b "District Profile - Virginia Waters". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 2 September 2011.
^ "District Profile - Virginia Waters". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 2 September 2011.
^ Robert Jenkins (9 November 1999). "Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the General Election for the Forty-Fourth General Assembly February 9, 1999" (PDF). Elections Newfoundland and Labrador. pp. 99–100. Retrieved 2 September 2011.
^ https://www.elections.gov.nl.ca/elections/ElectionReports/PDF/General.Elections/GEreport1996.pdf ^{[dead link]}

External links

Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly
Preceded by Humber West	Constituency represented by the premier of Newfoundland and Labrador 2010-2014	Succeeded by Humber East

[1] "CBC.ca | Newfoundland & Labrador Votes 2007 | District Profiles". Archived from the original on 2007-10-12.

[2] "Summary of Polling Divisions VIRGINIA WATERS" (PDF). Elections Newfoundland and Labrador. 3 August 2011. Retrieved 2 September 2011.

[profile-3] "District Profile - Virginia Waters". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 2 September 2011.

[4] "District Profile - Virginia Waters". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 2 September 2011.

[5] Robert Jenkins (9 November 1999). "Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the General Election for the Forty-Fourth General Assembly February 9, 1999" (PDF). Elections Newfoundland and Labrador. pp. 99–100. Retrieved 2 September 2011.

[6] ttps://www.elections.gov.nl.ca/elections/ElectionReports/PDF/General.Elections/GEreport1996.pdf ^{[dead link]}

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v t e Newfoundland and Labrador provincial electoral districts
St. John's	Mount Scio St. John's Centre St. John's East-Quidi Vidi St. John's West Virginia Waters-Pleasantville Waterford Valley Windsor Lake
St. John's suburbs	Cape St. Francis Conception Bay East–Bell Island Conception Bay South Mount Pearl North Mount Pearl-Southlands Topsail-Paradise
Avalon Peninsula	Carbonear-Trinity-Bay de Verde Ferryland Harbour Grace-Port de Grave Harbour Main Placentia-St. Mary's
Eastern Newfoundland	Bonavista Burin-Grand Bank Placentia West-Bellevue Terra Nova
Central Newfoundland	Baie Verte-Green Bay Exploits Fogo Island-Cape Freels Fortune Bay-Cape La Hune Gander Grand Falls-Windsor-Buchans Lewisporte-Twillingate
Western Newfoundland	Burgeo-La Poile Corner Brook Humber-Bay of Islands Humber-Gros Morne St. Barbe-L'Anse aux Meadows St. George's-Humber Stephenville-Port au Port
Labrador	Cartwright-L'Anse au Clair Labrador West Lake Melville Torngat Mountains
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