Mount Pearl South is a defunct provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Prior to the 2007 provincial election, the district was known as Mount Pearl. Mount Pearl South has seen an expansion in big-box retail outlets in recent years. In 2011, there were 8,114 eligible voters living within the district.
The district was created in 1975 and was a Tory stronghold for two decades, with Progressive Conservative Neil Windsor holding the seat from 1975 to 1995. The seat went Liberal in 1996 when Brian Tobin won a large majority government, but returned to the Progressive Conservatives, under Dave Denine, in 2003 when the party swept back to power. Denine won again in the 2007 election.
Dave Denine retired just before the writ was dropped in 2011. The 2011 Election was contested between Progressive Conservative nominee Paul Lane, a Mount Pearl city councillor, New Democrat John Riche, a Real Estate Agent and Liberal Norm Snelgrove, a civic administrator. Paul Lane won the 2011 contest by 700 votes on October 11, 2011, and remained the district's MHA until its dissolution.
On January 20, 2014, Paul Lane announced he was leaving the governing PC Party to sit with the Opposition Liberal Party. In 2015, an electoral district boundary review resulted in the districts dissolution, with its territory being incorporated into Mount Pearl-Southlands.
Members of the House of Assembly The district had elected the following members of the House of Assembly: Assembly Years Member Party 37th 1975–1979 Neil Windsor Progressive Conservative 38th 1979–1982 39th 1982–1985 40th 1985–1989 41st 1989–1993 42nd 1993–1996 43rd 1996–1999 Julie Bettney Liberal 43rd 1999–2003 44th 2003–2007 Dave Denine Progressive Conservative 45th 2007–2011 46th 2011–2014 Paul Lane 2014–2015 Liberal CBC news NL votes 2007 district profiles
Election results
|NDP |John Riche |align="right"|1,675 |align="right"|38.51 |align="right"|+31.78
|NDP |Tom McGinnis |align="right"|332 |align="right"|6.73 |align="right"| -0.51
|NDP |Roy Locke |align="right"|504 |align="right"| 7.24 |align="right"|
See also List of Newfoundland and Labrador provincial electoral districts Canadian provincial electoral districts
References
External links Website of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly