so unshakable that some pundits openly speculated that the party could potentially sweep every seat in the province, although others suggested that this was unlikely. Numerous ridings in and around St. John's remained more competitive than provincewide polling suggested, and some voters appeared to be swayed in the final days by the argument that even if they were inclined to support the Liberals, the province's democratic process would not be well-served by giving one party a clean sweep of the legislature with no opposition party to challenge them. In the final results, the Liberals did win almost every seat in most of the province, except for a single Progressive Conservative incumbent hanging on in Central Newfoundland; in St. John's, however, the New Democrats successfully retained two of the three seats they held in the city, while the Progressive Conservatives held onto almost every seat in the city's suburbs. The largest victory in the province was won by Liberal MLA Andrew Parsons in Burgeo-La Poile, who took fully 96.5 per cent of the more than 4,000 votes cast in his riding while neither of his opponents garnered even 100 votes. Party standings This election saw the fourth change-in-government since Newfoundland and Labrador joined confederation in 1949. |- style="background:#ccc;" ! rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|Party ! rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|Party leader !rowspan="2"|Candidates ! colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|Seats ! colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|Popular vote |- style="background:#ccc;" | style="text-align:center;"|2011 | style="text-align:center;"|Dissol. | style="text-align:center;"|2015 | style="text-align:center;"|Change | style="text-align:center;"|# | style="text-align:center;"|% | style="text-align:center;"|% Change | style="text-align:left;" |Dwight Ball | style="text-align:right;" |40 | style="text-align:right;" |6 | style="text-align:right;" |16 | style="text-align:right;" |31 | style="text-align:right;" |15 | style="text-align:right;" |114,271 | style="text-align:right;" |57.2 | style="text-align:right;" |38.1 | style="text-align:left;" |Paul Davis | style="text-align:right;" |40 | style="text-align:right;" |37 | style="text-align:right;" |29 | style="text-align:right;" |7 | style="text-align:right;" |22 | style="text-align:right;" |60,413 | style="text-align:right;" |30.2 | style="text-align:right;" |25.9 | style="text-align:left;" |Earle McCurdy | style="text-align:right;" |40 | style="text-align:right;" |5 | style="text-align:right;" |3 | style="text-align:right;" |2 | style="text-align:right;" |1 | style="text-align:right;" |23,906 | style="text-align:right;" |12.0 | style="text-align:right;" |12.6 | style="text-align:left;" colspan="2"|Independents | style="text-align:right;" |4 | style="text-align:right;" |- | style="text-align:right;" |- | style="text-align:right;" |0 | style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" |1,344 | style="text-align:right;" |0.7 | style="text-align:right;" |.5 |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"|Total | style="text-align:right;"|111 | style="text-align:right;"|48 | style="text-align:right;"|40 | style="text-align:right;"|40 | style="text-align:right;"|- | style="text-align:right;"|199,934 | style="text-align:right;"|100% | style="text-align:right;"| |} Results by party Liberal Party The Liberal Party won 31 seats making this election their best election since 1999 when the party won 32. However, in 1990, the