1st General Election: 1832
Party composition: Conservative 10, Liberal 5. Total Assembly membership 15.
After many years of agitation the British Parliament provided Newfoundland with a local legislature. Unfortunately the ethnic and religious disagreements in the colony, between the predominantly Irish Catholic and British Protestant inhabitants, caused the system to work even less well than in other parts of British North America.
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