1989 Newfoundland general election

{{Infobox election

| election_name = 1989 Newfoundland general election

| country = Newfoundland and Labrador

| type = parliamentary

| party_colour = no

| party_name = no

| previous_election = 1985 Newfoundland general election

| previous_year = 1985

| previous_mps =

| election_date = {{Start date|1989|4|20}}

| elected_mps =

| next_election = 1993 Newfoundland general election

| next_year = 1993

| next_mps =

| seats_for_election= 52 seats of the Newfoundland House of Assembly

| majority_seats = 27

| turnout = 80.6% ({{increase}} 3.3 pp){{cite web |title=Election Statistics 1989 |url=https://www.elections.gov.nl.ca/elections/resources/pdf/electionreports/genelections/GEreport1989.pdf |website=Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly |access-date=31 March 2025}}

| image1 =

LIB

| colour1 = {{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|nohash}}

| leader1 = Clyde Wells

| party1 = {{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|name}}

| leader_since1 =

| leaders_seat1 = Windsor-Buchans
Ran in Humber East (lost)

| last_election1 = 15

| seats_before1 =

| seats1 = 31

| seat_change1 = {{increase}}16

| popular_vote1 = 137,271

| percentage1 = 47.2%

| swing1 = {{increase}}10.5pp

| image2 =

| colour2 = {{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|nohash}}

| leader2 = Tom Rideout

| party2 = {{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|name}}

| leader_since2 =

| leaders_seat2 = Baie Verte-Springdale

| last_election2 = 36

| seats_before2 =

| seats2 = 21

| seat_change2 ={{decrease}}15

| popular_vote2 = 138,609

| percentage2 = 47.6%

| swing2 = {{decrease}}1.0pp

| image3 =

NDP

| colour3 = {{Canadian party colour|NL|NDP|nohash}}

| leader3 = Cle Newhook

| party3 = {{Canadian party colour|NL|NDP|name}}

| leader_since3 =

| leaders_seat3 = Ran in St. John's East Extern (lost)

| last_election3 = 1

| seats_before3 =

| seats3 = 0

| seat_change3 = {{decrease}}1

| popular_vote3 = 12,929

| percentage3 = 4.4%

| swing3 = {{decrease}}10.0pp

| map_image =

| map_size =

| map_caption =

| title = Premier

| before_election = Tom Rideout

| before_party = {{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|name}}

| after_election = Clyde Wells

| posttitle = Premier after election

| after_party = {{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|name}}

}}

The 1989 Newfoundland general election was held on April 20, 1989 to elect members of the 41st General Assembly of Newfoundland. It was won by the Liberal party despite polling fewer votes than the Conservatives.

Unusually, however, Liberal leader Clyde Wells was defeated by Lynn Verge in his own riding of Humber East despite having led his party to victory. Consequently, a member of his caucus, Eddie Joyce, resigned shortly after the election, and Wells was acclaimed to office in the riding of Bay of Islands.[http://www.cbc.ca/nlvotes2007/riding/002 Newfoundland and Labrador Votes 2007: Bay of Islands]. cbc.ca. Seven years later, Verge was the leader of the Progressive Conservatives during the 1996 election, and she also lost Humber East in the election, though her party did not win that election.

Opinion polls

class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;font-size:85%;line-height:14px;" align="center" \|+ Evolution of voting intentions at provincial level
rowspan="2" \| Polling firm ! rowspan="2" \|Last day of survey ! rowspan="2" \| Source ! class="unsortable" style="width:40px;"\| LPNL ! class="unsortable" style="width:40px;"\| PCNL ! class="unsortable" style="width:40px;"\| NLNDP ! class="unsortable" style="width:40px;"\| Other ! rowspan="2" \| {{Abbr\|ME\|Margin of Error}} ! rowspan="2" \| Sample
style="line-height:5px;" ! style="background:{{Canadian party colour\|NL\|Liberal}};" data-sort-type="number"\| ! style="background:{{Canadian party colour\|NL\|PC}};" data-sort-type="number"\| ! style="background:{{Canadian party colour\|NL\|NDP}};" data-sort-type="number"\| ! style="background:{{Canadian party colour\|CA\|Indépendant}};" data-sort-type="number"\|
style="background:#ffd;" \|Election 1989 \| style="background:#ffd;" \|April 20, 1989 \| style="background:#ffd;" \| \| style="background:#ffd;" \|47.2 \| style="background:#ffd;" \|47.6 \| style="background:#ffd;" \|4.4 \| style="background:#ffd;" \|0.8 \| style="background:#ffd;" \| \| style="background:#ffd;" \|
Omnifacts \|April 1989 \|{{cite news \|title=Polls put Newfoundland Tories out in front \|date=April 17, 1989 \|work=The Ottawa Citizen \|page=A5}} \|41.6 \|style="background:#9999FF"\|52.1 \|6.3 \|{{N/A}} \|{{formatnum:4.1}} \|{{formatnum:622}}
\|April 1989 \|{{cite news \|title=Newfoundland Tories still No. 1, but barely \|date=April 17, 1989 \|work=The Windsor Star \|page=A8}} \|43.9 \|style="background:#9999FF"\|50 \|6.1 \|{{N/A}} \|{{N/A}} \|{{formatnum:1305}}
style="background:#ffd;" \|Election 1985 \| style="background:#ffd;" \|November 6, 1984 \| style="background:#ffd;" \| \| style="background:#ffd;" \|36.7 \| style="background:#ffd;" \|48.6 \| style="background:#ffd;" \|14.4 \| style="background:#ffd;" \|0.3 \| style="background:#ffd;" \| \| style="background:#ffd;" \|

class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;font-size:85%;line-height:14px;" align="center"

|+ Evolution of voting intentions at provincial level

rowspan="2" | Polling firm

! rowspan="2" |Last day
of survey

! rowspan="2" | Source

! class="unsortable" style="width:40px;"| LPNL

! class="unsortable" style="width:40px;"| PCNL

! class="unsortable" style="width:40px;"| NLNDP

! class="unsortable" style="width:40px;"| Other

! rowspan="2" | {{Abbr|ME|Margin of Error}}

! rowspan="2" | Sample

style="line-height:5px;"

! style="background:{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal}};" data-sort-type="number"|

! style="background:{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC}};" data-sort-type="number"|

! style="background:{{Canadian party colour|NL|NDP}};" data-sort-type="number"|

! style="background:{{Canadian party colour|CA|Indépendant}};" data-sort-type="number"|

style="background:#ffd;" |Election 1989

| style="background:#ffd;" |April 20, 1989

| style="background:#ffd;" |

| style="background:#ffd;" |47.2

| style="background:#ffd;" |47.6

| style="background:#ffd;" |4.4

| style="background:#ffd;" |0.8

| style="background:#ffd;" |

Omnifacts

|April 1989

|{{cite news |title=Polls put Newfoundland Tories out in front

|date=April 17, 1989 |work=The Ottawa Citizen |page=A5}}

|41.6

|style="background:#9999FF"|52.1

|6.3

|{{N/A}}

|{{formatnum:4.1}}

|{{formatnum:622}}

|April 1989

|{{cite news |title=Newfoundland Tories still No. 1, but barely

|date=April 17, 1989 |work=The Windsor Star |page=A8}}

|43.9

|style="background:#9999FF"|50

|6.1

|{{N/A}}

|{{formatnum:1305}}

style="background:#ffd;" |Election 1985

| style="background:#ffd;" |November 6, 1984

| style="background:#ffd;" |

| style="background:#ffd;" |36.7

| style="background:#ffd;" |48.6

| style="background:#ffd;" |14.4

| style="background:#ffd;" |0.3

| style="background:#ffd;" |

Results

{{election table|title=Summary of the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador election results}}{{cite news |title=At a glance |work=The Vancouver Sun |date=1989-04-21 |location=Vancouver, B.C. |page=A9}}

|- style="background:#ccc;"

! 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

|- style="background:#eee;"

| style="text-align:center;"|1985

| style="text-align:center;"|Dissol.

| style="text-align:center;"|1989

| style="text-align:center;"|Change

| style="text-align:center;"|#

| style="text-align:center;"|%

| style="text-align:center;"|% Change

| style="text-align:left;" |Clyde Wells

| style="text-align:right;" |52

| style="text-align:right;" |15

| style="text-align:right;" |14

| style="text-align:right;" |31

| style="text-align:right;" |{{fluc|16}}

| style="text-align:right;" |137,271

| style="text-align:right;" |47.2

| style="text-align:right;" |+10.5

| style="text-align:left;" |Tom Rideout

| style="text-align:right;" |52

| style="text-align:right;" |36

| style="text-align:right;" |34

| style="text-align:right;" |21

| style="text-align:right;" |{{fluc|-15}}

| style="text-align:right;" |138,609

| style="text-align:right;" |47.6

| style="text-align:right;" |–1.0

| style="text-align:left;" |Cle Newhook

| style="text-align:right;" |36

| style="text-align:right;" |1

| style="text-align:right;" |2

| style="text-align:right;" |0

| style="text-align:right;" |{{fluc|-1}}

| style="text-align:right;" |12,929

| style="text-align:right;" |4.4

| style="text-align:right;" |–10.0

| style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 |Independents

| style="text-align:right;" |5

| style="text-align:right;" |0

| style="text-align:right;" |{{fluc|0|steady label=0}}

| style="text-align:right;" |2,138

| style="text-align:right;" |0.8

| style="text-align:right;" |+0.5

| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;"|Vacant

| style="text-align:right;" |2

| style="text-align:right;" |

| style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"|Total

| style="text-align:right;"|145

| style="text-align:right;"|52

| style="text-align:right;"|-

| style="text-align:right;"|291,785

| style="text-align:right;"|100

| style="text-align:right;"|-

Results by district

Names in boldface type represent party leaders.
† represents that the incumbent did not run again.
‡ represents that the incumbent ran in a different district.

=St. John's=

{{Canadian politics/candlist header|province=NL|Liberal|PC|NDP|}}

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kilbride
77.25% turnout

|Gerry Glavine
2,960
42.09%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Robert Aylward
3,452
49.08%

|Kevin James
621
8.83%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Robert Aylward

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Pleasantville
74.87% turnout

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Walter Noel
3,284
47.12%

|Stephen Stafford
2,972
42.65%

|Dennis MacKay
713
10.23%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Jerome Dinn†

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. John's Centre
79.52% turnout

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Hubert Kitchen
2,967
46.14%

|Patrick McNicholas
2,838
44.14%

|Vicky Silk
625
9.72%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Patrick McNicholas

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. John's East
83.00% turnout

|Lynette Billard
1,212
21.09%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Shannie Duff
2,397
41.72%

|Gene Long
2,137
37.19%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|NDP|background}}|

|Gene Long

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. John's North
69.73% turnout

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Phil Warren
2,705
52.66%

|Tom Osborne
1,937
37.71%

|Dorothy Inglis
495
9.63%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|John Carter†

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. John's South
71.49% turnout{{efn|name="Recount"|A judicial recount was held in this riding.}}

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Tom Murphy
2,107
43.08%

|Douglas Atkinson
2,105
43.04%

|Linda Hyde
679
13.88%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|John Collins†

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. John's West
72.52% turnout

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Rex Gibbons
3,389
53.35%

|Harold Barrett
2,583
40.67%

|Larry Power
380
5.98%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Harold Barrett

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Waterford-Kenmount
79.59% turnout

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Eric Gullage
3,947
53.06%

|Ralph Tucker
3,188
42.85%

|Wayne James
304
4.09%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Eric Gullage

=St. John's suburbs=

{{Canadian politics/candlist header|province=NL|Liberal|PC|NDP|Other}}

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Conception Bay South
91.44% turnout

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Pat Cowan
3,107
53.50%

|John Butt
2,580
44.42%

|Edgar Russell
121
2.08%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|John Butt

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Mount Pearl
86.13% turnout

|Gordon Seabright
3,834
46.27%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Neil Windsor
4,273
51.57%

|Leo Thistle
179
2.16%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Neil Windsor

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Mount Scio-Bell Island
74.89% turnout{{efn|name="Recount"}}

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Jim Walsh
3,143
44.73%

|Myrle Vokey
3,107
44.22%

|Kevin Walsh
425
6.05%

|Josiah Harvey (Independent)
351
5.00%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Leo Barry†

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. John's East Extern
85.57% turnout

|John O'Brien
2,430
31.65%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Kevin Parsons
3,750
48.84%

|Cle Newhook
1,498
19.51%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Kevin Parsons

=Avalon Peninsula=

{{Canadian politics/candlist header|province=NL|Liberal|PC|NDP|Other}}

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Carbonear
90.70% turnout

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Art Reid
3,581
50.94%

|Milton Peach
3,387
48.18%

|Nicholas Murray (Independent)
62
0.88%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Milton Peach

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Ferryland
89.25% turnout

|Tom Carey
1,711
35.68%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Charlie Power
2,954
61.61%

|Aiden Coady
130
2.71%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Charlie Power

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Harbour Grace
85.79% turnout

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|John Crane
3,213
56.96%

|Joe Gregory
2,428
43.04%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Haig Young†

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Harbour Main
78.65% turnout

|Rod Fowler
1,485
23.62%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Norman Doyle
4,123
65.59%

|Gus Flannigan
678
10.79%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Norman Doyle

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Placentia
83.95% turnout

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|William Hogan
2,702
58.23%

|William Patterson
1,760
37.93%

|Cletus Canning
178
3.84%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|William Patterson

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Port de Grave
87.77% turnout

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|John Efford
4,797
69.43%

|Lewis Gosse
2,050
29.67%

|Wayne Lucas
62
0.90%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|John Efford

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. Mary's-The Capes
79.95% turnout

|Don O'Keefe
913
22.13%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Loyola Hearn
3,100
75.13%

|Ian Penney
113
2.74%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Loyola Hearn

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Trinity-Bay de Verde
81.39% turnout

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Lloyd Snow
2,768
54.92%

|Wayne Quinlan
1,999
39.66%

|Bert Pitcher
189
3.75%

|Bren Howard (Independent)
84
1.67%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|James Reid†

=Eastern Newfoundland=

{{Canadian politics/candlist header|province=NL|Liberal|PC|NDP|}}

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Bellevue
77.31% turnout

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Percy Barrett
3,842
60.91%

|Bruce Stagg
2,233
35.40%

|Harvey Thistle
233
3.69%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Wilson Callan†

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Bonavista North
88.06% turnout

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Tom Lush
3,470
58.44%

|Eli Cross
2,351
39.59%

|Ingwald Feltham
117
1.97%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Tom Lush

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Bonavista South
67.54% turnout{{efn|name="Recount"}}

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Aubrey Gover
1,952
47.12%

|Roger Fitzgerald
1,932
46.63%

|Rex Sheppard
259
6.25%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Jim Morgan†

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Fogo
84.85% turnout

|Beaton Tulk
2,872
49.19%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Sam Winsor
2,966
50.81%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Beaton Tulk

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Terra Nova
78.52% turnout

|Ray Goulding
2,370
44.23%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Glen Greening
2.920
54.50%

|Randy Miller
68
1.27%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Glen Greening

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Trinity North
79.02% turnout

|Wendell Moore
2,506
41.35%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Charlie Brett
3,431
56.61%

|Sam Kelly
124
2.04%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Charlie Brett

=Central Newfoundland=

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Baie Verte-White Bay
84.36% turnout

|Joe Gedge
879
17.62%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Tom Rideout
4,109
82.38%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Tom Rideout

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Exploits
73.35% turnout

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Roger Grimes
2,850
49.36%

|Paul Cooper
2,801
48.51%

|Reg Hemeon
123
2.13%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Hugh Twomey†

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Gander
76.20% turnout

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Winston Baker
3,460
60.66%

|Agnes Richard
2,029
35.57%

|Claude Elliott
215
3.77%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Winston Baker

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Grand Falls
85.41% turnout

|Jim Hornell
1,841
35.13%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Len Simms
3,400
64.87%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Len Simms

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Green Bay
72.90% turnout

|Maurice Budgell
2,128
41.15%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Alvin Hewlett
3,043
58.85%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Brian Peckford†

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Lewisporte
73.98% turnout

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Melvin Penney
3,148
51.53%

|Anne Picco
2,836
46.42%

|Berkley Rose
125
2.05%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|James Russell†

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Twillingate
79.81% turnout

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Walter Carter
2,353
51.83%

|Ida Reid
2,133
46.98%

|John Lewis
54
1.19%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Walter Carter

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Windsor-Buchans
85.50% turnout

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Graham Flight
2,336
50.69%

|Ray Hunter
2,164
46.96%

|Bernard Woodfine
108
2.35%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Clyde Wells‡

=Southern Newfoundland=

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Burgeo-Bay d'Espoir
82.39% turnout

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Dave Gilbert
2,427
51.80%

|Dave Brenton
2,618
33.94%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Dave Gilbert

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Burin-Placentia West
85.82% turnout

|Dave Brenton
2,618
33.94%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Glenn Tobin
5,095
66.06%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Glenn Tobin

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Fortune-Hermitage
75.70% turnout

|Nathan Cutler
1,872
39.84%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Oliver Langdon
2,827
60.16%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Roger Simmons†

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Grand Bank
75.82% turnout

|Graham Wood
1,811
31.45%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Bill Matthews
3,948
68.55%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Bill Matthews

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|La Poile
70.89% turnout

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Bill Ramsay
2,413
48.77%

|Cal Mitchell
1,757
35.52%

|Stephen MacKenzie
777
15.71%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Cal Mitchell

=Western Newfoundland=

{{Canadian politics/candlist header|province=NL|Liberal|PC|Other}}

|style="background:whitesmoke;" rowspan="3"|Bay of Islands
81.17% turnout

|rowspan=3 {{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|rowspan=3|Eddie Joyce
3,320
54.32%

|rowspan=3|

|rowspan=3|Leonard Gillingham
1,418
23.20%

|Myles Griffin (Independent)
789
12.91%

|rowspan=3 {{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|rowspan=3|Ted Blanchard†

|Trevor Bennett (Independent)
426
6.97%

|Ken Gould (NDP)
159
2.60%

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Humber East
88.75% turnout

|Clyde Wells
3,515
48.14%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Lynn Verge
3,658
50.10%

|Jim McManamy (NDP)
129
1.76%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Lynn Verge

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Humber Valley
79.95% turnout

|Gary Gale
2,125
44.16%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Rick Woodford
2,687
55.84%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Rick Woodford

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Humber West
87.30% turnout

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Paul Dicks
3,703
61.27%

|Jeannette Christopher
2,341
38.73%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Ray Baird†

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Port au Port
91.91% turnout

|Mark Felix
2,192
47.62%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Jim Hodder
2,313
50.25%

|Leo Foley (NDP)
98
2.13%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Jim Hodder

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. Barbe
83.62% turnout

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Chuck Furey
3,573
50.96%

|Joseph Kennedy
3,439
49.04%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Chuck Furey

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|St. George's
77.91% turnout

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Larry Short
2,647
55.52%

|Wayne Wheeler
2,121
44.48%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Ron Dawe†

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Stephenville
87.39% turnout

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Kevin Aylward
2,395
58.49%

|Wayne Morrison
1,500
36.63%

|Wade Morris (NDP)
200
4.88%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Kevin Aylward

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Strait of Belle Isle
70.53% turnout

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Chris Decker
3,284
57.99%

|Francis Reardon
1,953
34.49%

|Edward Hollahan (Independent)
426
7.52%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Chris Decker

=Labrador=

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Eagle River
80.35% turnout

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Danny Dumaresque
1,527
59.95%

|Reginald Hancock
1,020
40.05%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Eugene Hiscock†

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Menihek
87.02% turnout

|Bill Kelly
2,291
40.53%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Alec Snow
3,004
53.15%

|Nelson Larson
357
6.32%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|NDP|background}}|

|Peter Fenwick†

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Naskaupi
90.42% turnout

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Jim Kelland
2,882
68.90%

|Ian Strachan
1,118
26.73%

|Dorothy King
183
4.37%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|Liberal|background}}|

|Jim Kelland

|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Torngat Mountains
90.40% turnout

|Mervin Linstead
414
31.65%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Garfield Warren
821
62.77%

|Bill Wheaton
73
5.58%

|{{Canadian party colour|NL|PC|background}}|

|Garfield Warren

1989 Newfoundland general election

Opinion polls

Results

Results by district

=St. John's=

=St. John's suburbs=

=Avalon Peninsula=

=Eastern Newfoundland=

=Central Newfoundland=

=Southern Newfoundland=

=Western Newfoundland=

=Labrador=

Notes

References

Further reading