Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox Parliament The Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly (Template:Langx) is the unicameral deliberative assembly of the General Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It meets in the Confederation Building in St. John's. Bills passed by the assembly are given royal assent by the lieutenant governor of Newfoundland and Labrador, in the name of the King of Canada.

The governing party sits on the left side of the speaker of the House of Assembly as opposed to the traditional right side of the speaker. This tradition dates back to the 1850s as the heaters in the Colonial Building were located on the left side. Thus, the government chose to sit near the heat, and leave the opposition sitting in the cold.

Homes of Legislature

Before 1850 the legislature has sat at various locations including Mary Travers' tavern on Duckworth Street across from War Memorial 1832, St. John's Court House (at Duckworth and Church Hill) from 1833 to 1846, a building on southwest corner of Water Street and Prescott Street (since replaced with office building) and the site of the former St. Patrick’s Hall on Queen’s Road and Garrison Hill (demolished and replace by current building 1880).

Permanent homes of the legislature, Confederation Building and Colonial Building, are the only surviving structures.

Constituencies

Members represent one electoral district each. There are 40 seats in the House of Assembly.

Current members (MHAs)

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Colonial Building, the House of Assembly of the Dominion of Newfoundland

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Newfoundland House of Assembly in Colonial Building, ca. 1914

Party leaders' names are written in bold and cabinet ministers in italic, with the Speaker of the House of Assembly designated by a dagger (†).

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	Name	Party	Riding
Vacant		St. John's East-Quidi Vidi	Derek Bennett†	Liberal	Lewisporte-Twillingate	Jim McKenna	Progressive Conservative	Fogo Island-Cape Freels	Fred Hutton	Liberal	Conception Bay East-Bell Island	Jordan Brown	New Democratic	Labrador West	Gerry Byrne	Liberal	Corner Brook	Siobhán Coady	Liberal	St. John's West	Helen Conway-Ottenheimer	Progressive Conservative	Harbour Main	Steve Crocker	Liberal	Carbonear-Trinity-Bay de Verde	Bernard Davis	Liberal	Virginia Waters-Pleasantville	Lisa Dempster	Liberal	Cartwright-L'Anse au Clair	Jim Dinn	New Democratic	St. John's Centre	Paul Dinn	Progressive Conservative	Topsail-Paradise	Jeff Dwyer	Progressive Conservative	Placentia West-Bellevue	Lela Evans	Progressive Conservative	Torngat Mountains	Pleaman Forsey	Progressive Conservative	Exploits	Andrew Furey	Liberal	Humber-Gros Morne	Sherry Gambin-Walsh	Liberal	Placentia-St. Mary's	John Haggie	Liberal	Gander	John Hogan	Liberal	Windsor Lake	Krista Lynn Howell	Liberal	St. Barbe-L'Anse aux Meadows	Eddie Joyce	Independent	Humber-Bay of Islands	Paul Lane	Independent	Mount Pearl-Southlands	Elvis Loveless	Liberal	Fortune Bay-Cape La Hune	Loyola O'Driscoll	Progressive Conservative	Ferryland	Jamie Korab	Liberal	Waterford Valley	Craig Pardy	Progressive Conservative	Bonavista	Lloyd Parrott	Progressive Conservative	Terra Nova	Vacant		Burgeo-La Poile	Pam Parsons	Liberal	Harbour Grace-Port de Grave	Barry Petten	Progressive Conservative	Conception Bay South	Paul Pike	Liberal	Burin-Grand Bank	Scott Reid	Liberal	St. George's-Humber	Sarah Stoodley	Liberal	Mount Scio	Lucy Stoyles	Liberal	Mount Pearl North	Chris Tibbs	Progressive Conservative	Grand Falls-Windsor-Buchans	Perry Trimper	Liberal	Lake Melville	Tony Wakeham	Progressive Conservative	Stephenville-Port au Port	Joedy Wall	Progressive Conservative	Cape St. Francis	Lin Paddock	Progressive Conservative	Baie Verte-Green Bay

Seat total and official layout

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See also

• 50th General Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador
• 48th General Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador
• 47th General Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador
• Speaker of the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador
• List of Newfoundland and Labrador General Assemblies

External links

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• Canadian Governments Compared