Lake Melville | |
Province: | Newfoundland and Labrador |
Prov-Status: | Active |
Prov-Created: | 1975 |
Prov-Election-First: | 1975 |
Prov-Election-Last: | 2021 |
Prov-Rep: | Perry Trimper |
Prov-Rep-Party: | Liberal |
Demo-Census-Date: | 2006 |
Demo-Pop: | 10299 |
Demo-Electors: | 6647 |
Demo-Electors-Date: | 2011 |
Lake Melville is a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. As of 2011, there are 6,647 eligible voters living within the district.[1]
The district includes Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Churchill Falls, North West River, Sheshatshiu and Mud Lake. Happy Valley-Goose Bay is a service and defence town. Aboriginal issues, defence spending, hydroelectric power and control over development of forest resources are the major issues of the district.[2]
Sheshatshiu, a federal Innu reserve, is located approximately 30 kilometres north of Goose Bay.
The district has elected the following members of the House of Assembly:
Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
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Labrador | ||||
29th | 1949-1951 | Harold Horwood | Liberal | |
30th | 1951-1956 | Frederick William Rowe | ||
Labrador North | ||||
31st | 1956-1959 | Earl W. Winsor | Liberal | |
32nd | 1959-1962 | |||
33rd | 1962-1966 | |||
34th | 1966-1971 | |||
35th | 1972 | Melvin Woodward | ||
36th | 1972-1975 | |||
Naskaupi | ||||
37th | 1975-1979 | Joseph Goudie | Progressive Conservative | |
38th | 1979-1982 | |||
39th | 1982-1985 | |||
40th | 1985-1989 | Jim Kelland | Liberal | |
41st | 1989-1992 | |||
1992-1993 | Ed Roberts | |||
42nd | 1993-1996 | |||
Lake Melville | ||||
43rd | 1996-1999 | Ernie McLean | Liberal | |
44th | 1999-2003 | |||
45th | 2003-2007 | John Hickey | Progressive Conservative | |
46th | 2007-2011 | |||
47th | 2011-2015 | Keith Russell | ||
48th | 2015-2019 | Perry Trimper | Liberal | |
49th | 2019-2020 | |||
2020-2021 | Independent | |||
50th | 2021-2022 | |||
2022- | Liberal |
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|-|-|-|NDP|Bill Cooper|align="right"|147|align="right"|3.5%|align="right"||}[3]
|-|-|-|-|NDP|Barbara Stickley|align="right"|135|align="right"|2.98%|align="right"||}[4]
|-|-|NDP|Ronald W. Peddle|align="right"|323|align="right"|8.8%|align="right"||-|}[5]