St. John's East

Infobox Canada electoral district
province = Newfoundland and Labrador


caption = St. John's East in relation to other Newfoundland and Labrador ridings
fed-status = active
fed-district-number = 10006
fed-created = 1949
fed-abolished =
fed-election-first = 1949
fed-election-last = 2006
fed-rep = Norman Doyle
fed-rep-link =
fed-rep-party = Conservative
fed-rep-party-link = Conservative Party of Canada
demo-census-date = 2006
demo-pop = 88002
demo-electors = 68026
demo-electors-date = 2006
demo-area = 400
demo-cd = Division No. 1
demo-csd = St. John's, Conception Bay South, Paradise, Portugal Cove-St. Philip's, Torbay, Wabana

"For the provincial electoral district please see St. John's East (provincial electoral district) or St. John's North (provincial electoral district)."

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 Canadian House of Commons since 1949.

It covers a part of St. John's, Newfoundland. Since 1997, it has been represented by Norman Doyle. For a brief period in 2003 and 2004, it was known as "St. John's North". [http://www.elections.ca/scripts/fedrep/searchengine/PDF2/10/10006.pdf]

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, Paradise, Portugal Cove-St. Philip's, Pouch Cove, Torbay and Wabana;

:: (b) that part of the Town of Conception Bay South lying northeasterly of a line described as follows: commencing at the intersection of the southeasterly limit of the Town of Conception Bay South with Conway Brook; thence generally northerly along said brook and Long Pond Harbour to Conception Bay; 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; thence northeasterly and easterly along said road, Freshwater Road and Longs Hill to Gower Street; thence northeasterly along said street to Kings Bridge Road; thence northerly along said road to Rennie's River; thence generally easterly along said river, Quidi Vidi Lake and the channel known locally as Quidi Vidi Gut to Quidi Vidi Harbour. Including Bell Island, Little Bell Island, Kelly's Island and all the other islands adjacent to the shoreline of the above described area."

See the [http://www.elections.ca/scripts/pss/maps/C10006.pdf map of the St. John's East riding] .

History

The riding was created when Newfoundland joined Confederation in 1949. St. John's East was won by Liberal Bonnie Hickey in 1993 election, who was defeated by Progressive Conservastive Norman Doyle in the 1997 election. Doyle is now the Conservative Party incumbent in the riding.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Election results

- bgcolor="white"! align="right" colspan="3" | Total valid votes! align="right" | 41 047! align="right" | 100.0%! align="right"
- bgcolor="white"! align="right" colspan="3" | Total rejected ballots! align="right" | 111! align="right" | 0.27%! align="right"
- bgcolor="white"! align="right" colspan="3" | Turnout! align="right" | 41 158! align="right" | 61.5%! align="right" | +7.1%

- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan="3" | Total valid votes!align="right" | 36 405!align="right" | 54.4%

Change from 2000 is based on redistributed results. Conservative Party change is based on the combination of Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party totals.

-! colspan="3" align="right" | Total valid votes! align="right" | 44 356

Changes for the Canadian Alliance from 1997 are based on the results of its predecessor, the Reform Party.

-! colspan="3" align="right" | Total valid votes! align="right" | 44 350

-! colspan="3" align="right" | Total valid votes! align="right" | 43 900

-! colspan="3" align="right" | Total valid votes! align="right" | 48 725

-! colspan="3" align="right" | Total valid votes! align="right" | 34 234

-! colspan="3" align="right" | Total valid votes! align="right" | 39 419

-! colspan="3" align="right" | Total valid votes! align="right" | 32 661

-! colspan="3" align="right" | Total valid votes! align="right" | 34 680

-! colspan="3" align="right" | Total valid votes! align="right" | 30 153

-! colspan="3" align="right" | Total valid votes! align="right" | 29 317

-! colspan="3" align="right" | Total valid votes! align="right" | 29 793

-! colspan="3" align="right" | Total valid votes! align="right" | 28 911

-! colspan="3" align="right" | Total valid votes! align="right" | 28 679

-! colspan="3" align="right"| Total valid votes! align="right" | 28 321

-! colspan="3" align="right"| Total valid votes! align="right" | 27 354

-! colspan="3" align="right" | Total valid votes! align="right" | 19 385

-! colspan="3" align="right" | Total valid votes! align="right" | 19 460

-! colspan="3" align="right" | Total valid votes! align="right" | 18 022

See also

* List of Canadian federal electoral districts
* Past Canadian electoral districts

External links

* [http://www.elections.ca/scripts/pss/Map.aspx?L=e&ED=10006&EV=99&EV_TYPE=6&PC=&Prov=NL&ProvID=10&MapID=&QID=-1&PageID=27&TPageID= St. John's East riding] from Elections Canada
* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/process/house/hfer/hfer.asp?Language=E&Search=Det&Include=Y&rid=700 Riding history for St. John's East (1949–1952)] from the Library of Parliament
* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/process/house/hfer/hfer.asp?Language=E&Search=Det&Include=Y&rid=1257 Riding history for St. John's East (1952–1987)] from the Library of Parliament
* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/process/house/hfer/hfer.asp?Language=E&Search=Det&Include=Y&rid=1258 Riding history for St. John's East (1987–2003)] from the Library of Parliament
* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/process/house/hfer/hfer.asp?Language=E&Search=Det&Include=Y&rid=1312 Riding history for St. John's North (2003–2004)] from the Library of Parliament
* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/process/house/hfer/hfer.asp?Language=E&Search=Det&Include=Y&rid=1401 Riding history for St. John's East (2004– )] from the Library of Parliament
* [http://www.elections.ca/scripts/webpep/fin/welcome.aspx?lang=e Election Financial Reports] from Elections Canada