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Torngat Mountains
Newfoundland and Labrador electoral district
Torngat Mountains in relation to other districts in Labrador
Provincial electoral district
LegislatureNewfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly
MHA
 
 		 
Lela Evans
Progressive Conservative
District created1979
First contested1979
Last contested2021
Demographics
Population (2011)3,548
Electors (2015)2,132
Area (km²)113,100
Census division(s)Division No. 10 (part), Division No. 11
Census subdivision(s)Hopedale, Makkovik, Nain, Natuashish, Postville, Rigolet, Division No. 10, Subd. C (part), Division No. 10, Subd. D (part), Division No. 10, Subd. E, Division No. 11, Subd. C (part), Division No. 11, Subd. E

Torngat Mountains is a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. As of 2011 there are 2,130 eligible voters living within the district.[1] The district takes its name from the Torngat Mountains.

Progressive Conservative Lela Evans was elected as the Member of the House of Assembly (MHA) for this district in the 2019 general election defeating Liberal incumbent Randy Edmunds. Evans was re-elected in 2021. On October 25, 2021, Evans left the PC Party to sit as an Independent in the House of Assembly.[2] On March 7, 2022, Evans joined the NDP.[3][4] On July 16, 2024, she rejoined the PC Party.

The district contains a large indigenous population, including the Inuit self-governing territory of Nunatsiavut,[5] as well as the Naskapi community of Natuashish which is a federal reserve.[6][7] The Voisey's Bay nickel mine, near Nain, is also in the district.[8][9][10]

All six indigenous communities in the district are inaccessible by road and may be reached only by air or sea.[11][12]

Members of the House of Assembly

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The district has elected the following members of the House of Assembly:

Assembly Years Member Party
38th 1979-1982     Garfield Warren Liberal
39th 1982-1985
1985     Progressive Conservative
40th 1985-1989
41st 1989-1993
42nd 1993-1996 William Andersen III Liberal
43rd 1996-1999 Wally Andersen Liberal
44th 1999-2003
45th 2003-2007
46th 2007-2011 Patty Pottle Progressive Conservative
47th 2011-2015 Randy Edmunds Liberal
48th 2015-2019
49th 2019–2021     Lela Evans Progressive Conservative
50th 2021
2021–2022     Independent
2022-2024     New Democrat
2024–Present     Progressive Conservative

Election results

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Graph of election results (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)


2021 Newfoundland and Labrador general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Lela Evans 420 88.79 +32.21
New Democratic Patricia Johnson-Castle 37 7.82
Liberal Devon Ryan 16 3.38 -40.03
Total valid votes 473
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
Eligible voters
Progressive Conservative hold Swing +12.19
Source(s)
"Officially Nominated Candidates General Election 2021" (PDF). Elections Newfoundland and Labrador. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
"NL Election 2021 (Unofficial Results)". Retrieved 27 March 2021.
2019 Newfoundland and Labrador general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Lela Evans 623 56.58 +53.85
Liberal Randy Edmunds 478 43.42 -49.21
Total valid votes 1,100 98.57
Total rejected ballots 16 1.43 +0.26
Turnout 1,117 55.24 +15.33
Eligible voters 2,022
Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +51.53
2015 Newfoundland and Labrador general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Randy Edmunds 779 92.63 +43.55
New Democratic Mark Sharkey 39 4.64 -7.63
Progressive Conservative Sharon Vokey 23 2.73 -35.91
Total valid votes 841 98.82 –
Total rejected ballots 10 1.18 –
Turnout 851 39.92 -34.92
Eligible voters 2,132
Liberal hold Swing +25.59
Source: Elections Newfoundland and Labrador[13]
2011 Newfoundland and Labrador general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Randy Edmunds 744 49.08 +7.88
Progressive Conservative Patty Pottle 586 38.65 -15.51
New Democratic Alex Saunders 186 12.27 +12.27
Total valid votes 1,516 97.43 –
Total rejected ballots 40 2.57 –
Turnout 1,556 74.84 +3.65
Eligible voters 2,079
Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative Swing +11.70
Source: Elections Newfoundland and Labrador[14]
2007 Newfoundland and Labrador general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Patty Pottle 794 54.16 +28.18
Liberal Danny Dumaresque 604 41.20 -27.73
Labrador Jimmy Tuttauk 68 4.64 -0.45
Total valid votes 1,466 99.05 –
Total rejected ballots 14 0.95 –
Turnout 1,480 71.19 +3.60
Eligible voters 2,079
Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +27.95
Source: Elections Newfoundland and Labrador[15]
2003 Newfoundland and Labrador general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Wally Andersen 934 68.93 -16.13
Progressive Conservative Winston White 352 25.98 +11.04
Labrador Lucy Jararuse 69 5.09 +5.09
Total valid votes 1,355 99.05 –
Total rejected ballots 13 0.95 –
Turnout 1,368 67.59 -12.66
Eligible voters 2,024
Liberal hold Swing -13.59
Source: Elections Newfoundland and Labrador[16]
1999 Newfoundland and Labrador general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Wally Andersen 1,036 85.06 +14.77
Progressive Conservative Simeon Tshakapesh 182 14.94 -14.77
Total valid votes 1,218 99.59 –
Total rejected ballots 5 0.41 –
Turnout 1,223 80.25 -4.38
Eligible voters 1,524
Liberal hold Swing +14.77
Source: Elections Newfoundland and Labrador[17]
1996 Newfoundland and Labrador general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Wally Andersen 795 70.29 +21.49
Progressive Conservative Bill Flowers 336 29.71 -18.85
Total valid votes 1,131 99.42 –
Total rejected ballots 3 0.58 –
Turnout 1,134 84.63 +1.66
Eligible voters 1,340
Liberal hold Swing +20.17
Source: Elections Newfoundland and Labrador[18]
1993 Newfoundland and Labrador general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal William Andersen III 591 48.80 +17.15
Progressive Conservative Patricia Ford 588 48.56 -14.21
New Democratic Felix Barnable 32 2.64 -2.94
Total valid votes 1,211 99.43 –
Total rejected ballots 7 0.57 –
Turnout 1,218 82.97 -7.43
Eligible voters 1,468
Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative Swing +15.68
Source: Elections Newfoundland and Labrador[19]
1989 Newfoundland and Labrador general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Garfield Warren 821 62.77 +10.97
Liberal Mervin Linstead 414 31.65 -9.07
New Democratic Bill Wheaton 73 5.58 -1.90
Total valid votes 1,308 98.57 –
Total rejected ballots 19 1.43 –
Turnout 1,327 90.40 +8.71
Eligible voters 1,468
Progressive Conservative hold Swing +10.02
Source: Elections Newfoundland and Labrador[20]
1985 Newfoundland and Labrador general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Garfield Warren 589 51.80 +33.01
Liberal Melvin Woodward 463 40.72 -40.49
New Democratic John Terriak 85 7.48 +7.48
Total valid votes 1,137 98.78 –
Total rejected ballots 14 1.22 –
Turnout 1,151 81.69 -17.37
Eligible voters 1,409
Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +36.75
Source: Elections Newfoundland and Labrador[21]
1982 Newfoundland and Labrador general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Garfield Warren 925 81.21 +26.96
Progressive Conservative David L. Hunt 214 18.79 -26.96
Total valid votes 1,139 98.70 –
Total rejected ballots 15 1.30 –
Turnout 1,154 99.06 +25.07
Eligible voters 1,165
Liberal hold Swing +26.96
Source: Elections Newfoundland and Labrador[22]
1979 Newfoundland and Labrador general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Garfield Warren 460 54.25 –
Progressive Conservative William Harold Flowers 388 45.75 –
Total valid votes 848 98.38 –
Total rejected ballots 14 1.62 –
Turnout 862 73.99 –
Eligible voters 1,165
Liberal notional gain from Progressive Conservative Swing –
Source: Elections Newfoundland and Labrador[23]

References

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  1. ^ "Summary of Polling Divisions TORNGAT MOUNTAINS" (PDF). Elections Newfoundland and Labrador. 3 August 2011. Retrieved 5 September 2011.
  2. ^ Staff, CBC News (25 October 2021). "Lela Evans, MHA for Labrador's Torngat Mountains district, leaving PC Party". CBC News. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  3. ^ Smith, Greg. "Former PC MHA Joins NDP". VOCM. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
  4. ^ "Former PC MHA Lela Evans joins NDP caucus". CBC News. 7 March 2022. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
  5. ^ "Land Claims". Department of Labrador and Aboriginal Affairs, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador. Archived from the original on May 11, 2010. Retrieved April 23, 2010.
  6. ^ "Mushuau Innu First Nation Band Order SOR/2002-415". Justice Canada. 21 November 2002.
  7. ^ "Archived - Reserve Creation at Natuashish". Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada. Nov 2007. Retrieved Oct 16, 2020.
  8. ^ "CBC My Region - Torngat Mountains".
  9. ^ "Voisey's Bay Mine Expansion". vale.com. 2017. Retrieved May 20, 2021.
  10. ^ "Voisey's Bay underground development hits 10% completion". CBC News. Aug 28, 2019. Retrieved May 20, 2021.
  11. ^ Moore, Angel (Apr 5, 2020). "Indigenous leaders asking that access to Labrador be sealed off". APTN News. Retrieved Oct 16, 2020.
  12. ^ Churchill Duke, Laura (20 Sep 2019). "Hopedale woman circulating petition calling for the province to subsidize flights to northern Labrador". Saltwire. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
  13. ^ "2015 Provincial General Election Report" (PDF). Elections Newfoundland and Labrador. 25 July 2016. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  14. ^ "Report on the Provincial General Election, October 11, 2011" (PDF). Office of the Chief Electoral Officer of Newfoundland and Labrador. 8 June 2012. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  15. ^ "Report on the Provincial General Election, October 9, 2007" (PDF). Office of the Chief Electoral Officer of Newfoundland and Labrador. 7 July 2008. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  16. ^ "Report on the October 21, 2003 General Election" (PDF). Office of the Chief Electoral Officer of Newfoundland and Labrador. 9 July 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-04-13. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  17. ^ "Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the General Election for the Forty-Fourth General Assembly, February 9, 1999" (PDF). Office of the Chief Electoral Officer of Newfoundland and Labrador. 9 November 1999. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  18. ^ "Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the General Election for the Forty-Third General Assembly, February 22, 1996" (PDF). Office of the Chief Electoral Officer of Newfoundland and Labrador. 28 October 1996. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  19. ^ "Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the General Election for the Forty-Second General Assembly, May 3, 1993" (PDF). Office of the Chief Electoral Officer of Newfoundland and Labrador. 1994. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  20. ^ "Election Statistics 1989" (PDF). Office of the Chief Electoral Officer of Newfoundland and Labrador. 1989. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  21. ^ "Election Returns 1985" (PDF). Office of the Chief Electoral Officer of Newfoundland and Labrador. 22 October 1985. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  22. ^ "Election Returns 1982" (PDF). Office of the Chief Electoral Officer of Newfoundland and Labrador. 25 August 1982. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  23. ^ "Election Returns 1979" (PDF). Office of the Chief Electoral Officer of Newfoundland and Labrador. 12 October 1979. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
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