20th General Election: 8 November 1900
Party composition: Liberal 32, Opposition 4. Total Assembly membership 36.
Sir Robert Bond of the Liberal Party became Premier. Bond is accounted the best of Newfoundland’s Premiers and the early 20th century was one of the rare periods of prosperity in island history.
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