1848 Newfoundland General Election
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The 1848 Newfoundland general election was held in 1848 to elect members of the 4th 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 use of two separate bodies, an elected assembly and an appointed Legislative Council, was resumed; the experiment with combining the two bodies which had been initiated in 1842 was terminated. While the exact party composition of the
Newfoundland House of Assembly The Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly 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. Jo ...
following this election is unknown; the Liberals did enjoy a majority. * St. John's District ** John Kent Liberal (speaker) ** Laurence O'Brien Liberal ** Robert John Parsons Liberal *
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 ** James Luke Prendergast Liberal ** Edmund Hanrahan Liberal ** Nicholas Molloy **
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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 ** Peter Winser * Placentia and St. Mary's District ** Ambrose Shea Liberal ** John Delaney Liberal * Burin District ** Joshua George Falle *
Fortune Bay Fortune Bay () is a fairly large natural bay located in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the south coast of Newfoundland, Canada.Hugh William Hoyles Conservative * Trinity Bay District ** Thomas Bulley Job Conservative *
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 ** George Henry Emerson


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