Virginia Waters (electoral district)

Not to be confused with Virginia Water.

Virginia Waters is a defunct provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The district was represented by former premier Kathy Dunderdale.

Virginia Waters

Newfoundland and Labrador electoral district
Virginia Waters in relation to the other St. John's districts
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly
District created	1995
District abolished	2015
First contested	1996
Last contested	2014
Demographics
Population (2006)	11,943
Electors (2011)	9,938
Census division(s)	Division 1
Census subdivision(s)	St. John's

A residential district in the northeast end of St. John's, the area included Airport Heights, Wedgewood Park, residential areas off Newfoundland Drive, as well as a fairly wealthy enclave near Virginia Lake. The district was created in 1995 from parts of the districts of Pleasantville, St. John's East Extern and Mount Scio Road-Bell Island.^[1] Virginia Waters retained 80 per cent of its original territory in the 2007 redistribution, while taking in 14 per cent of Cape St. Francis. In 2011 there were 9,938 eligible voters living within the district.^[2][3]

The district was abolished in 2015, into new districts of Windsor Lake and Virginia Waters-Pleasantville.

Members of the House of Assembly

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

Assembly	Years	Member		Party
43rd	1996–1999		Walter Noel	Liberal
44th	1999–2003
45th	2003–2007		Kathy Dunderdale	Progressive Conservative
46th	2007–2011
47th	2011–2014
	2014–2015		Cathy Bennett	Liberal

Election results

By-election April 9, 2014 On the resignation of Kathy Dunderdale, February 28, 2014

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Cathy Bennett	1,932	39.88	+30.33
	Progressive Conservative	Danny Breen	1,892	39.05	-20.99
	NDP	Sheilagh O'Leary	1,021	21.07	-9.35
Total valid votes			4,895	99.84
Rejected			8	0.16	-0.14
Turnout			4,853	49.25	-6.14
Eligible voters			9,853
	Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+25.66

2011 Newfoundland and Labrador general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Kathy Dunderdale	3,371	60.04	-13.01
	NDP	Dave Sullivan	1,708	30.42	+17.59
	Liberal	Sheila Miller	536	9.55	+1.80
Total valid votes			5,615	99.70
Rejected			17	0.30	+0.09
Turnout			5,632	55.39	-0.73
Eligible voters			10,168
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-15.30

2007 Newfoundland and Labrador general election^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Kathy Dunderdale	4,043	73.04	+14.95
	NDP	David Sullivan	710	12.83	+3.60
	Liberal	Drew Brown	429	7.75	-24.92
	Independent	Fred Wilcox	353	6.38	-
Total valid votes			5,535	99.78
Rejected			12	0.22	+0.05
Turnout			5,547	56.12	-13.03
Eligible voters			9,885
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+5.67

^ Change is not from redistributed results.

2003 Newfoundland and Labrador general election^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Kathy Dunderdale	4,193	58.10	+21.77
	Liberal	Walter Noel	2,358	32.67	-14.76
	NDP	David Sullivan	666	9.23	-4.92
Total valid votes			7,217	99.83
Rejected			12	0.17	-0.01
Turnout			7,229	69.14	-3.94
Eligible voters			10,455
	Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+18.27

1999 Newfoundland general election^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Walter Noel	2,973	47.43	-8.24
	Progressive Conservative	Paul Walsh	2,277	36.33	+0.41
	NDP	Amanda Will	887	14.15	+5.74
	Independent	Deanne Stapleton	131	2.09
Total valid votes			6,268	99.82
Rejected			11	0.18	-0.01
Turnout			6,279	73.08	-3.14
Eligible voters			8,592
	Liberal hold		Swing		-4.32

1996 Newfoundland and Labrador general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Walter Noel	3,639	55.67
	Progressive Conservative	Bev LeMoine	2,348	35.92
	NDP	Bob Buckingham	550	8.41
Total valid votes			6,537	99.82
Rejected			12	0.18
Turnout			6,549	76.22
Eligible voters			8,592
Source: Elections Newfoundland and Labrador[6]