7th General Election: 7 May 1855
With this election, Newfoundland becomes the last British colony in North America to achieve responsible government.
Party composition unknown but divided between a Liberal majority and a Conservative minority. Total Assembly membership 30.
The Liberal leader, Philip Francis Little, became the first Premier of the Colony. The Liberals were a largely Catholic party, which depended on Methodist support to defeat the mostly Anglican Conservative opposition.
Little became a Judge in 1858 and the Premiership passed to an older Catholic Liberal, John Kent.
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