19th General Election: 28 October 1897
Party composition: Tory 23, Liberal 13. Total Assembly membership 36.
The new Premier was Sir James Spearman Winter. By 1900 the Tory Party had faded out in the way Newfoundland parties quite often seemed to do.
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