party won 32 of 48 seats (66.7%) while in 2015 they won 31 of 40 seats (77.5%). By percentage, this is the party's best result since 1966 when the party won 39 of 42 seats (92.9%). Dwight Ball is the province's first liberal premier since Roger Grimes. 6 liberal candidates won over 80% of the popular vote in their respective ridings and 4 of these 6 candidates were later appointed to the Executive Council. Progressive Conservative Party With this election PC leader Paul Davis became the fourth incumbent premier to not lead his party to re-election (after Joey Smallwood in 1972, Tom Rideout in 1989 and Roger Grimes in 2003). With 7 of 40 seats (17.5%), this is the party's worst result since 1966 when it won 3 of 42 seats. New Democratic Party In the 2011 election the NDP placed second in total votes and won 5 seats (a record-high for the party) however since the election 2 NDP MHAs defected to the Liberal Party. Only 2 of the 3 remaining NDP MHAs ran for re-election and these 2 MHAs were the only NDP candidates to win in this election. By percentage of seats however, this is the second-best result the provincial NDP has ever had winning 2 of 40 seats (5%). However, NDP leader McCurdy was defeated in his district. Results by region The district with the highest turnout was Cape St. Francis (71.68%). The district with the lowest turnout was Torngat Mountains (39.50%). Candidates by district Bold incumbents indicates cabinet members and party leaders are italicized. The premier's name is boldfaced and italicized. All candidate names are those on the official list of confirmed candidates; names in media or on party website may differ slightly. Names in boldface type represent party leaders. † represents that the incumbent is not running again. § represents that the incumbent was defeated for nomination. ₰ represents that the incumbent ran in another district and lost the nomination ‡ represents that the incumbent is running in a different district. St. John's |- | style="background:whitesmoke;"| Mount Scio46.81% turnout | |Rhonda Churchill Herder1,10427.4% || |Dale Kirby1,89947.1% | |Sean Panting1,03025.5% | | || |Dale KirbySt. John's North |- | style="background:whitesmoke;"| St. John's Centre47.58% turnout | |Kathie Hicks49010.6% | |Lynn Sullivan1,92341.7% || |Gerry Rogers2,19547.6% | | || |Gerry Rogers |- | style="background:whitesmoke;"| St. John's East-Quidi Vidi56.40% turnout | |Joshua Collier4788.1% | |Paul Antle2,36540.2% || |Lorraine Michael3,03551.6%