St. John's East (French: St. John's-Est; formerly known as St. John's North) is a federal electoral district in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1949.
It covers a part of St. John's. Since 2008, it has been represented by Jack Harris, who also represented the seat briefly in the 1980s. For a brief period in 2003 and 2004, it was known as "St. John's North".
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