The 28th Newfoundland general election was held on 2 June 1928 to elect members of the 27th General Assembly of Newfoundland in the Dominion of Newfoundland

Dominion of Newfoundland

The Dominion of Newfoundland was a British Dominion from 1907 to 1949 . The Dominion of Newfoundland was situated in northeastern North America along the Atlantic coast and comprised the island of Newfoundland and Labrador on the continental mainland...

. The Liberal Party led by Richard Squires

Richard Squires

Sir Richard Anderson Squires KCMG was the Prime Minister of Newfoundland from 1919 to 1923 and from 1928 to 1932.-Early career:...

 defeated the Conservative Party led by Frederick C. Alderdice

Frederick C. Alderdice

Frederick Charles Alderdice was a businessman, politician and the last Prime Minister of Newfoundland. A prominent St...

 and formed the government with the support of Fishermen's Protective Union

Fishermen's Protective Union

The Fishermen's Protective Union was a workers' organization and political party in the Dominion of Newfoundland...

 members. Legislation had been introduced so that persons named to the Executive Council were no longer required to run for reelection. Helena E. Squires

Helena Squires

Helena Squires, née Strong was a politician in Newfoundland. She was born in Little Bay Islands.-Biography:Lady Helena E. Squires was born in Little Bay Islands, Newfoundland in 1879...

, elected in an 1930 by-election, became the first woman elected to the Newfoundland assembly.

Results by party

	Party	Leader	1924 Newfoundland general election, 1924 The 27th Newfoundland general election was held on 2 June 1924 to elect members of the 26th General Assembly of Newfoundland in the Dominion of Newfoundland. The Liberal-Progressives and Liberal-Conservative Progressives were new parties formed as a result of the collapse of the ruling Liberal...	Seats won	% change	Popular vote	(%)	Liberal	Sir Richard Squires Richard Squires Sir Richard Anderson Squires KCMG was the Prime Minister of Newfoundland from 1919 to 1923 and from 1928 to 1932.-Early career:...	10*	19				Fishermen's Protective Union Fishermen's Protective Union The Fishermen's Protective Union was a workers' organization and political party in the Dominion of Newfoundland...	J. H. Scammell Jack Henry Scammell John "Jack" Henry Scammell was an educator, journalist and political figure in Newfoundland. He represented St...	9				Liberal-Conservative Progressive Party	Frederick C. Alderdice Frederick C. Alderdice Frederick Charles Alderdice was a businessman, politician and the last Prime Minister of Newfoundland. A prominent St...	25	12				Other		1	0
Totals			36	40

* As Liberal-Progressives

Elected members

(Fishermen's Protective Union MHAs are listed as Liberals)

• Bay de Verde
  Bay de Verde, Newfoundland and Labrador
  Bay de Verde is an incorporated town in Conception Bay on the northern tip of the Bay de Verde Peninsula of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The first recorded inhabitants at Bay de Verde arrived in 1662. Bay de Verde became an incorporated town in 1950.-Geography:Bay de Verde is the northern...
  
  
  • John C. Puddester
    John Charles Puddester
    John Charles Puddester was a businessman and political figure in Newfoundland. He represented Bay de Verde from 1924 to 1932 and Carbonear-Bay de Verde from 1932 to 1934. Puddester was then appointed to the Commission of Government, serving until his death in 1947.He was born in Northern Bay, the...
    
     Conservative
• Bay Roberts
  Bay Roberts
  Bay Roberts is located on the north shore of Conception Bay on the Bay de Verde Peninsula in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada...
  
  
  • John Parsons
    John Parsons (politician)
    John Parsons was a businessman, ship's captain and political figure in Newfoundland. He represented Bay Roberts in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1928 to 1932 as a Liberal....
    
     Liberal
• Bell Island
  Bell Island
  Bell Island is a Canadian island located off Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula in Conception Bay.Measuring 9 km in length and 3 km in width, Bell Island has an area of 34 km²...
  
  
  • Joseph M. Greene
    Joseph Greene (Newfoundland politician)
    Joseph M. Greene was an accountant and political figure in Newfoundland. He represented Bell Island in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1928 to 1932 as a Liberal....
    
     Liberal
• Bonavista Centre
  • J. H. Scammell
    Jack Henry Scammell
    John "Jack" Henry Scammell was an educator, journalist and political figure in Newfoundland. He represented St...
    
     Liberal
• Bonavista East
  • William F. Coaker
    William Coaker
    Sir William Ford Coaker was a Newfoundland union leader and politician and founder of the Fisherman's Protective Union and the Fishermen's Union Trading Co....
    
     Liberal
• Bonavista North
  Bonavista North
  Bonavista North is a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. As of 2011 the district has 6,956 eligible voters....
  
  
  • Robert G. Winsor
    Robert G. Winsor
    Robert George Winsor was a fisherman and political figure in Newfoundland. He represented Bonavista Bay from 1913 to 1924 and Bonavista North from 1928 to 1929 in the Newfoundland House of Assembly as a member of the Fishermen's Protective Union.He was born in Wesleyville, the son of George Winsor...
    
     Liberal
    • Nathan G. Winsor Liberal, elected in 1930
• Bonavista South
  Bonavista South
  Bonavista South is a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. As of 2011 the district had 6,843 eligible voters....
  
  
  • Herman W. Quinton
    Herman William Quinton
    Herman William Quinton was a Canadian politician.He worked as a school teacher from 1913 to 1914 and then joined Sir William Coaker in the Fisherman's Union Trading Company managing various branches before becoming dry goods superintendentQuinton served with the Newfoundland Regiment during World...
    
     Conservative
• Burgeo
  • Walter M. Chambers Conservative
    • Arthur Barnes
      Arthur Barnes (politician)
      Arthur Barnes was an educator and political figure in Newfoundland. He represented Harbour Grace from 1904 to 1908 and from 1919 to 1924 and Burgeo from 1928 to 1932 in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly as a Liberal.He was born in Topsail, Conception Bay, the son of John Barnes and...
      
       Liberal, shortly after election
• Burin East
  • James A. Winter
    James A. Winter
    James Alexander Winter was a lawyer and political figure in Newfoundland and Labrador. He represented Burin East from 1928 to 1932 and Burgeo and La Poile from 1932 to 1934 in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly as a member of the United Newfoundland Party.He was the son of James...
    
     Conservative
• Burin West
  • H. B. C. Lake
    H. B. C. Lake
    Harold Bertram Clyde Lake was a businessman and political figure in Newfoundland. He represented Burin as a Liberal-Conservative from 1924 to 1928 and Burin West as a Liberal from 1928 to 1932 in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly.He was born in Fortune, the son of Philip E. Lake and...
    
     Liberal
• Carbonear
  • James Moore Conservative
• Ferryland
  Ferryland (electoral district)
  Ferryland is a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. As of 2011, there are 8,571 eligible voters living within the district....
  
  
  • Peter J. Cashin
    Peter John Cashin
    Major Peter John Cashin was a businessman, soldier and politician in Newfoundland and Labrador.-Early life:Cashin, a son of Sir Michael Cashin, joined the Newfoundland Regiment during World War I and ultimately served in command of the British Machine Gun Corp...
    
     Liberal
• Fogo
  Fogo, Newfoundland and Labrador
  Fogo is an outport town on Fogo Island, Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.-History:The largest community on the island, the town may also be the location of the island's first permanent settlement, which took place in the early 18th century, though it is unknown...
  
  
  • Richard Hibbs
    Richard Hibbs
    Richard Hibbs was a farmer, journalist and political figure in Newfoundland. He represented Fogo from 1919 to 1923 and from 1924 to 1932 and Trinity Bay in 1923 as a member of the Fishermen's Protective Union....
    
     Liberal
• Fortune Bay
  Fortune Bay
  Fortune Bay is a fairly large natural bay located on the south coast of the island of Newfoundland, Canada. The Bay is bounded by Point Crewe on the Burin Peninsula and Pass Island at the entrance to Hermitage Bay to the northwest for a distance of 56 kilometers...
  
  
  • Harris M. Mosdell
    Harris M. Mosdell
    Harris Mundon Mosdell was a journalist, physician and political figure in Newfoundland. He represented Fortune Bay and then Fortune Bay and Hermitage in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1926 to 1934 as a Liberal and then Independent member.He was born in Bay Roberts, the son of...
    
     Liberal
• Grand Falls
  • William Earle Liberal
• Green Bay
  • Roland G. Starkes
    Roland G. Starkes
    Roland George Starkes was a businessman and politician in Newfoundland. He represented Green Bay in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1928 to 1934 as a Liberal....
    
     Liberal
• Harbour Grace
  • Frank C. Archibald
    Frank C. Archibald
    Frank C. Archibald was a businessman and politician in Newfoundland. He represented Harbour Grace from 1919 to 1923 and from 1928 to 1932 in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly as a Liberal....
    
     Liberal
• Harbour Main
  • Philip J. Lewis
    Philip J. Lewis
    Philip J. Lewis was a lawyer and politician in Newfoundland. He represented Harbour Main from 1928 to 1932 as a Liberal, Placentia and St...
    
     Liberal
  • Albert J. Walsh
    Albert Walsh
    Sir Albert Joseph Walsh , commissioner, chief justice and the first Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland for 1949, the first Lieutenant Governor for Newfoundland after confederation with Canada....
    
     Liberal (speaker)
• Hermitage
  • Philip Fudge
    Philip Fudge
    Philip Thomas Fudge was an educator, businessman, civil servant and politician in Newfoundland. He represented Hermitage in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1928 to 1932 as a Liberal....
    
     Liberal
• Humber
  • Richard A. Squires
    Richard Squires
    Sir Richard Anderson Squires KCMG was the Prime Minister of Newfoundland from 1919 to 1923 and from 1928 to 1932.-Early career:...
    
     Liberal
• Lewisporte
  Lewisporte (electoral district)
  Lewisporte is a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. As of 2011, there are 7,797 eligible voters living within the district....
  
  
  • George F. Grimes
    George F. Grimes
    George Frederick Arthur Grimes was a businessman and political figure in Newfoundland. He represented Port de Grave from 1913 to 1919, Fogo from 1923 to 1924, Twillingate from 1924 to 1928 and Lewisporte from 1928 to 1929 in the Newfoundland House of Assembly.He was born in Channel, the son of...
    
     Liberal
    • Helena E. Squires
      Helena Squires
      Helena Squires, née Strong was a politician in Newfoundland. She was born in Little Bay Islands.-Biography:Lady Helena E. Squires was born in Little Bay Islands, Newfoundland in 1879...
      
       Liberal, elected in 1930
• Placentia East
  • L. Edward Emerson
    Lewis Edward Emerson
    Lewis Edward Emerson was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Newfoundland. He represented Placentia East from 1928 to 1932 and St. John's East from 1932 to 1934 in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly....
    
     Conservative
• Placentia West
  • Michael Sullivan Conservative
    • Leo J. Murphy Liberal, elected in 1930
• Port au Port
  Port au Port (electoral district)
  Port au Port is a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. As of 2011, there were 8,439 eligible voters living within the district....
  
  
  • William A. Abbott Conservative
• Port de Grave
  • R. J. Smith Liberal
• St. Barbe
  St. Barbe (electoral district)
  St. Barbe is a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. As of 2011, there were 7,064 eligible voters living within the district....
  
  
  • Walter R. Skanes
    Walter Skanes
    Walter R. V. Skanes was a fisherman, oil worker, civil servant and political figure in Newfoundland. He represented St. Barbe in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1928 to 1932 as a Liberal....
    
     Liberal
• St. George's
  • Joseph F. Downey
    Joseph F. Downey
    Joseph F. Downey was a civil servant and political figure in Newfoundland. He represented St. George's in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1908 to 1919 as a member of the Newfoundland People's Party and in 1923 and from 1928 to 1932 as a Liberal.He was born in St. John's and...
    
     Liberal
• St. John's City East
  • Frederick C. Alderdice
    Frederick C. Alderdice
    Frederick Charles Alderdice was a businessman, politician and the last Prime Minister of Newfoundland. A prominent St...
    
     Conservative
  • Gerald G. Byrne Conservative
• St. John's City West
  • Alexander Campbell
    Alexander Campbell (Newfoundland politician)
    Alexander Campbell was a physician, fox rancher and political figure in Newfoundland. He represented St. John's in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1928 to 1932....
    
     Liberal
  • J. M. Fitzgibbon Liberal
• St. John's East Extern
  • John M. Tobin Conservative
• St. John's West Extern
  • Frank Bennett Conservative
• St. Mary's
  • James J. Bindon
    James J. Bindon
    James J. Bindon was a businessman and politician in Newfoundland. He represented St. Mary's in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1928 to 1932 as a Liberal....
    
     Liberal
• Trinity Centre
  • F. Gordon Bradley
    Frederick Gordon Bradley
    Frederick Gordon Bradley, PC, QC was a Canadian and Dominion of Newfoundland politician.-Education and employment:...
    
     Liberal
• Trinity North
  Trinity North
  Trinity North is a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. As of 2011, there were 8,278 eligible voters living within the district....
  
  
  • William W. Halfyard
    William Halfyard
    William Wesley Halfyard was an educator and political figure in Newfoundland. He represented Fogo from 1913 to 1919, Trinity Bay from 1919 to 1928 and Trinity North from 1928 to 1932 in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly.He was born in Ochre Pit Cove, Conception Bay, the son of...
    
     Liberal
• Trinity South
  • Edwin J. Godden
    Edwin J. Godden
    Edwin John Godden was an English-born businessman and political figure in Newfoundland. He represented Trinity Bay and then Trinity South in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1924 to 1932 as a Liberal....
    
     Liberal
• Twillingate
  Twillingate
  Twillingate is a town of 2,448 people located on the Twillingate Islands in Notre Dame Bay. It is located off the northeastern shore of the island of Newfoundland in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It was incorporated on September 30, 1965. The town is about north of Lewisporte and...
  
  
  • Kenneth M. Brown
    Kenneth M. Brown
    Kenneth McKenzie Brown was a pulp and paper worker and political figure in Newfoundland. He represented Twillingate from 1923 to 1932 as a member of the Fisherman's Protective Union and Grand Falls from 1932 to 1934 as a member of the United Newfoundland Party in the Newfoundland and Labrador...
    
     Liberal
• White Bay
  • J. A. Strong Liberal