St. John's East

Newfoundland and Labrador electoral district
St. John's East in relation to other Newfoundland and Labrador ridings (2013 boundaries)
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Joanne Thompson Liberal
District created	1949
First contested	1949
Last contested	2021
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2016)[1]	85,697
Electors (2019)	66,063
Area (km²)[1]	363
Pop. density (per km²)	236.1
Census division(s)	Division 1
Census subdivision(s)	St. John's, Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove, Paradise, Portugal Cove-St. Philip's, Subdivision 1R, Torbay, Wabana

St. John's East (French: St. John's-Est; formerly known as St. John's North) is a federal electoral district in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1949.

It covers a part of St. John's. For a brief period in 2003 and 2004, it was known as "St. John's North".^[2]

In the 2019 federal election, former NDP MP Jack Harris defeated incumbent MP Nick Whalen in a rematch of the 2015 election. Harris retired in 2021, and Liberal Joanne Thompson won the seat.^[3]

Demographics

Ethnic groups: 97.2% White
Languages: 97.7% English, 1.9% Other
Religions: 47.1% Catholic, 46.0% Protestant, 4.9% No affiliation
Average income: $28 969

Geography

The district includes the extreme northeastern part of the Avalon Peninsula including the northern half of the City of St. John's, and the eastern half of the Town of Conception Bay South. It also includes Bell Island, Little Bell Island and Kelly's Island.

The neighbouring ridings are Avalon and St. John's South—Mount Pearl.

According to Elections Canada, the geographic boundaries for this riding as of the 39th General Election are:

"All that area consisting of:

(a) the towns of Bauline, Flatrock, Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove, Portugal Cove-St. Philip's, Pouch Cove, Torbay and Wabana;

(b) that part of the Town of Paradise lying northeasterly and northerly of a line described as follows: commencing at the intersection of the easterly limit of the Town of Paradise with Topsail Road; thence generally westerly along said road to Paradise Road; thence generally northwesterly along said road to Camrose Drive; thence northerly along said drive to the northerly limit of said town; and

(c) that part of the City of St. John's lying northwesterly of a line described as follows: commencing at the intersection of the westerly limit of the City of St. John's with Kenmount Road coincident with the northerly limit of the City of Mount Pearl; thence northeasterly and easterly along said road and Freshwater Road to Lemarchant Road; thence southerly along said road to Barter's Hill; thence generally southeasterly along Barter's Hill to Waldegrave Street; thence easterly and northeasterly along said street to Water Street; thence northerly and northeasterly along said street to Temperance Street; thence northwesterly along said street to Duckworth Street; thence northeasterly along said street to Signal Hill Road; thence northeasterly along said road to Cabot Avenue; thence northeasterly in a straight line to a point on Signal Hill at approximate latitude 47°34'31"N and longitude 52°41'21"W (on the northern boundary of the Johnson Geo Centre lot); thence due east in a straight line to the Atlantic Ocean."

See the map of the St. John's East riding.

History

The riding was created when Newfoundland joined Confederation in 1949 and has historically been a conservative stronghold.^[4] St. John's East was won by Liberal Bonnie Hickey in 1993 election, who was defeated by Progressive Conservative Norman Doyle in the 1997 election. Doyle held the riding for the PCs and then the Conservatives, but stood down in 2008 and was replaced in a landslide by New Democrat, Jack Harris.^[5][6] Harris held the riding until his defeat in the 2015 election by Nick Whalen. That result was considered one of the biggest surprises of the 2015 election.^[7]

As of the 2012 electoral redistribution, 21% of this riding will be moved into Avalon, and it will gain 5% from St. John's South—Mount Pearl.

Election results

St. John's East (2004-present)

Graph of election results in St. John's East (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

2021 election by polling area

2021 general election

2021 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Joanne Thompson	17,239	45.16	+11.90	$71,466.38
	New Democratic	Mary Shortall	13,090	34.29	–12.63	$65,576.70
	Conservative	Glenn Etchegary	7,119	18.65	+0.59	$44,852.25
	People's	Dana Metcalfe	723	1.89	–	none listed
Total valid votes/expense limit			38,171	99.23	-0.61	$105,251.87
Total rejected ballots			296	0.77	–0.39
Turnout			38,467	57.61	–10.04
Registered voters			66,768
	Liberal gain from New Democratic		Swing		+12.30
Source: Elections Canada[8][9]

2019 general election

2019 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Jack Harris	21,148	46.92	+1.63	none listed
	Liberal	Nick Whalen	14,962	33.20	−13.54	none listed
	Conservative	Joedy Wall	8,141	18.06	+11.52	$56,419.96
	Green	David Peters	821	1.82	+0.71	$0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			45,072	99.84		$101,886.12
Total rejected ballots			528	1.16	+0.91
Turnout			45,600	67.65	-0.21
Eligible voters			67,406
	New Democratic gain from Liberal		Swing		+7.58
Source: Elections Canada[10]

2015 general election

2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Nick Whalen	20,974	46.73	+38.96	–
	New Democratic	Jack Harris	20,328	45.29	-25.36	–
	Conservative	Deanne Stapleton	2,938	6.55	-13.90	–
	Green	David Anthony Peters	500	1.11	-0.02	–
	Communist	Sean Burton	140	0.31	–	–
Total valid votes/expense limit			44,880	99.75		$198,664.41
Total rejected ballots			111	0.25
Turnout			44,991	67.86
Eligible voters			66,304
	Liberal gain from New Democratic		Swing		+32.16
Source: Elections Canada[11][12]

2011 federal election redistributed results[13]
Party		Vote	%
	New Democratic	26,042	70.65
	Conservative	7,538	20.45
	Liberal	2,863	7.77
	Green	415	1.13

2011 general election

2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Jack Harris	31,388	71.22	-3.33	$68,045.84
	Conservative	Jerry Byrne	9,198	20.87	+11.61	$85,207.91
	Liberal	John Allan	3,019	6.85	-5.73	$53,539.40
	Green	Robert Miller	467	1.06	-0.32	$335.14
Total valid votes/Expense limit			44,072	100.0	–	$85,537.94
Total rejected, declined and unmarked ballots			136	0.31	+0.32
Turnout			44,208	57.85	+0.96
Eligible voters			76,424
	New Democratic hold		Swing		-7.47
Sources:[14][15]

2008 general election

2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Jack Harris	30,881	74.55	+57.03	$78,829
	Liberal	Walter Noel	5,211	12.58	-22.37	$51,030
	Conservative	Craig Westcott	3,836	9.26	-37.30	$79,772
	Progressive Canadian	Shannon Tobin	578	1.40	–	none listed
	Green	Howard Story	570	1.38	+0.40	none listed
	Newfoundland and Labrador First	Les Coultas	347	0.84	–	none listed
Total valid votes/Expense limit			41,423	100.0	$81,734
Total rejected, declined and unmarked ballots			137	0.33	-0.06
Turnout			41,560	56.89	-4.6
Eligible voters			73,053
	New Democratic gain from Conservative		Swing		+39.70

2006 general election

2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Norman Doyle	19,110	46.56	+5.16	$72,442
	Liberal	Paul Antle	14,345	34.95	-1.70	$71,682
	New Democratic	Mike Kehoe	7,190	17.52	-2.25	$14,072
	Green	Stephen Eli Harris	402	0.98	-1.19	none listed
Total valid votes/Expense limit			41,047	100.0	–	$74,567
Total rejected, declined and unmarked ballots			111	0.27	-0.04
Turnout			41,158	60.50	+4.88
Eligible voters			68,026
	Conservative hold		Swing		+3.43

Student Vote Results

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada

References

• "St. John's East (federal electoral district) (Code 10006) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada. Retrieved March 3, 2011.
• St. John's East riding from Elections Canada
• Riding history for St. John's East (1949–1952) from the Library of Parliament
• Riding history for St. John's East (1952–1987) from the Library of Parliament
• Riding history for St. John's East (1987–2003) from the Library of Parliament
• Riding history for St. John's North (2003–2004) from the Library of Parliament
• Riding history for St. John's East (2004– ) from the Library of Parliament
• Election Financial Reports from Elections Canada