• Source: 1885 Newfoundland general election

      • The 1885 Newfoundland general election was held on 31 October 1885 to elect members of the 15th General Assembly of Newfoundland in the Newfoundland Colony. The Reform Party had been created by Robert Thorburn on a platform of "Protestant Rights" after supporters of the Orange Order abandoned the Whiteway government after sectarian riots in 1885 against the government's 'denominational compromise'. Whiteway's Conservative Party was destroyed as a result and Whiteway founded a new Liberal Party. Thorburn's new party swept to power but soon turned away from its sectarian agenda by inviting Catholic Liberals into the Cabinet.


      Results by party




      Elected members


      Bay de Verde
      Stephen R. March Reform
      A.J.W. McNeilly Reform (speaker)
      Bonavista Bay
      James L. Noonan Reform
      Alfred B. Morine elected in 1886
      Abraham Kean Reform
      Frederick White Reform
      Burgeo-LaPoile
      Alexander M. Mackay Reform
      Burin
      John E. Peters Reform
      Henry LeMessurier Reform
      Carbonear
      Alfred Penney Liberal
      Ferryland
      Daniel Joseph Greene Liberal
      George Shea Liberal
      Fortune Bay
      Robert Bond Independent
      Harbour Grace
      James S. Winter Reform
      Charles Dawe Reform
      Joseph Godden Reform
      Harbour Main
      John Veitch Liberal
      Richard MacDonnell Liberal
      Placentia and St. Mary's
      James McGrath Liberal
      W. J. S. Donnelly Liberal
      George Emerson Liberal
      Port de Grave
      George A. Hutchings Reform
      St. Barbe
      Albert Bradshaw Reform
      St. George's
      Michael H. Carty Liberal
      St. John's East
      Robert J. Kent Liberal
      Thomas J. Murphy Liberal, elected in 1886
      Ambrose Shea Liberal
      Robert J. Parsons Liberal, elected in 1887
      Michael J. O'Mara Liberal
      St. John's West
      Edward Morris Liberal
      Patrick J. Scott Liberal
      James J. Callanan Liberal
      Trinity Bay
      Robert Thorburn Reform
      Walter B. Grieve Reform
      Twillingate-Fogo
      Augustus F. Goodridge Reform
      Smith McKay Reform
      Michael T. Knight Reform


      References


      Smallwood, Joseph R (1981). Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. Vol. v. 1. ISBN 0-920508-14-6.

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