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The 1842 Newfoundland general election was held in 1842 to elect members of the 3rd General Assembly of Newfoundland in
Newfoundland Colony Newfoundland Colony was an English and, later, British colony established in 1610 on the island of Newfoundland off the Atlantic coast of Canada, in what is now the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. That followed decades of sporadic English ...
. The elected assembly with 15 members and the appointed Legislative Council with 10 members were combined into a unicameral legislature.


Members of the House of Assembly

* St. John's District ** Laurence O'Brien ** John Valentine Nugent **
William Carson Sir William Carson (baptised 4 June 1770 – 26 February 1843), often called "The Great Reformer", was a medical doctor and businessman in Newfoundland. Carson's primary contribution to Newfoundland was the application of modern agricultural ...
(d. 1843) *** Robert John Parsons elected later *
Conception Bay Conception Bay (CB) is a bay on the southeast coast of Newfoundland, Canada. The population (in 2011) of people living in municipalities (or unincorporated census subdivisions) located along the coast of Conception Bay was 90,490 making it on ...
District ** Thomas Ridley ** John Munn ** James Luke Prendergast ** Edmund Hanrahan *
Ferryland Ferryland is a town in Newfoundland and Labrador on the Avalon Peninsula. According to the 2021 Statistics Canada census, its population is 371. Seventeenth century settlement Ferryland was originally established as a station for migratory fis ...
District ** Thomas Glen * Placentia and St. Mary's District **
John Dillon John Dillon (4 September 1851 – 4 August 1927) was an Irish politician from Dublin, who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for over 35 years and was the last leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party. By political disposition Dillon was an a ...
** Simon Morris * Burin District ** Clement Benning *
Fortune Bay Fortune Bay () is a fairly large natural bay located in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the south coast of Newfoundland, Canada.Bryan Robinson * Trinity Bay District ** Richard Barnes *
Bonavista Bay Bonavista Bay (BB) is a large bay located on the northeast coast of the island of Newfoundland in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada. It opens directly onto the Atlantic Ocean. The bay is demarcated by Cape Freels to the nor ...
District ** Robert Carter Conservative * Fogo District ** John Slade elected later


Members of the Legislative Council

* James Simms Attorney General *
James Crowdy James Crowdy (1794 – April 17, 1867) was an English-born official in Newfoundland. He was Speaker of the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador from 1843-48. Crowdy served as clerk of the Council and colonial secretary for Cape ...
Colonial Secretary * John Dunscombe * William Thomas * Patrick Morris Colonial Treasurer * William Bickford Row *
James Tobin James Tobin (March 5, 1918 – March 11, 2002) was an American economist who served on the Council of Economic Advisers and consulted with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and taught at Harvard and Yale Universities. He devel ...
* Joseph Noad Surveyor General *
Charles Fox Bennett Charles James Fox Bennett (11 June 1793 in Shaftesbury, England – 5 December 1883) was a merchant and politician who successfully fought attempts to take Newfoundland into Canadian confederation. Bennett was a successful businessman and ...
* John Kent


References

* {{NL Elections
1842 Events January–March * January ** Michael Alexander takes office, as the first appointee to the Anglican-German Bishopric in Jerusalem. ** American medical student William E. Clarke of Berkshire Medical College becomes the first pe ...
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