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The Political RecordFederal electoral districtsNo. 10005Newfoundland and Labrador

Long Range Mountains

Long Range Mountains is a federal riding in Newfoundland and Labrador. Carol Anstey (Conservative) has represented Long Range Mountains since the 2025 election. Carol Anstey (Conservative) took Long Range Mountains from the Liberals in the 2025 election by 3,506 votes (7.6 points), with 50.3% of the vote. Don Bradshaw (Liberal) was second with 42.7%, on a turnout of 65.0% of 71,680 electors. Member as of .

Coast of Bays—Central—Notre Dame · ConservativeCôte-Nord—Kawawachikamach—Nitassinan · Bloc QuébécoisLabrador · LiberalLong Range Mountains
Fig. 1 — Long Range Mountains on the board, 2023 boundaries; the ridings next door as the House holds them on . Open it on the board →

Who represents Long Range Mountains

CCarol Anstey
Carol Anstey's piece from the board. Illustration after the official portrait © House of Commons.

Carol Anstey

Member of Parliament for Long Range Mountains

Conservative

MP since · first term

  • Environment and Sustainable Development committee
  • Exercise of Powers Under the Building Canada Act committee

199 speeches in the 45th Parliament, most often on The Economy.

Contact and office · House of Commons →

The 2025 result: Conservative gain from the Liberals

Share of the valid votes by candidate, Long Range Mountains, April 28, 2025

Share of the valid votes by candidate, Long Range Mountains, April 28, 2025Of the 46,143 valid votes, Carol Anstey (Conservative) took 50.3%, Don Bradshaw (Liberal) 42.7%, Sarah Parsons (New Democratic) 4.4%, Robbie Coles (Independent) 1.4% and Pamela Geiger (People's Party) 1.2%.2025Turnout 65.0% of 71,680 electorsCarol AnsteyConservative50.3% · 23,2323,506 votes ahead · 7.6 ptsDon BradshawLiberal42.7% · 19,726Sarah ParsonsNew Democratic4.4% · 2,011Robbie ColesIndependent1.4% · 637Pamela GeigerPeople's Party1.2% · 537050%100%
Share of the valid votes by candidate, Long Range Mountains, April 28, 2025Of the 46,143 valid votes, Carol Anstey (Conservative) took 50.3%, Don Bradshaw (Liberal) 42.7%, Sarah Parsons (New Democratic) 4.4%, Robbie Coles (Independent) 1.4% and Pamela Geiger (People's Party) 1.2%.2025Turnout 65.0% of 71,680 electorsCarol AnsteyConservative50.3% · 23,2323,506 votes ahead · 7.6 ptsDon BradshawLiberal42.7% · 19,726Sarah ParsonsNew Democratic4.4% · 2,011Robbie ColesIndependent1.4% · 637Pamela GeigerPeople's Party1.2% · 537050%100%
Shares of the 46,143 valid votes; a candidate under 1% is counted with the others. Source: Elections Canada, official voting results, the 2025 general election.
The figures
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Carol AnsteyConservative23,23250.3%
Don BradshawLiberal19,72642.7%
Sarah ParsonsNew Democratic2,0114.4%
Robbie ColesIndependent6371.4%
Pamela GeigerPeople's Party5371.2%

Carol Anstey (Conservative) won Long Range Mountains on with 23,232 votes, 50.3% of the 46,143 valid votes. Don Bradshaw (Liberal) was second with 19,726 (42.7%), 3,506 votes and 7.6 points behind.

Of the 46,143 valid votes, Carol Anstey (Conservative) took 50.3%, Don Bradshaw (Liberal) 42.7%, Sarah Parsons (New Democratic) 4.4%, Robbie Coles (Independent) 1.4% and Pamela Geiger (People's Party) 1.2%. Turnout was 65.0% of 71,680 electors: 46,595 ballots cast, 46,143 of them valid, for 5 candidates.

Since 2021

Against the 2021 result on these boundaries, the Conservatives are up 11.4 (38.9% to 50.3%), the Liberals down 1.1 (43.8% to 42.7%), the New Democrats down 7.4 (11.8% to 4.4%) and the People's Party down 3.1 (4.3% to 1.2%), in points of the valid votes.

2021 is Elections Canada's transposition of that election onto the 2023 boundaries, not an election held on these lines.

Since 2004: no party has held it

The party first in Long Range Mountains at each general election, 2004 to 2025, on today's boundaries

  1. 2004Liberal57.8%by 36.3 points over the Conservatives
  2. 2006Liberal50.7%by 16.6 points over the Conservatives
  3. 2008Liberal63.9%by 44.5 points over the New Democrats
  4. 2011Liberal54.8%by 27.6 points over the Conservatives
  5. 2015Liberal73.9%by 61.7 points over the Conservatives
  6. 2019Liberal47.4%by 19.1 points over the Conservatives
  7. 2021Liberal43.8%by 5.0 points over the Conservatives
  8. 2025changed handsConservative50.3%by 7.6 points over the Liberals
Each election carried onto today's boundaries by where the riding's 2025 electors lived: our estimate to 2019, Elections Canada's transposition for 2021, the official result for 2025. Parties are counted as they ran.
The figures
YearFirstShareSecondMargin (pts)Basis
2004Liberal57.8%Conservative36.3carried, our estimate
2006Liberal50.7%Conservative16.6carried, our estimate
2008Liberal63.9%New Democratic44.5carried, our estimate
2011Liberal54.8%Conservative27.6carried, our estimate
2015Liberal73.9%Conservative61.7carried, our estimate
2019Liberal47.4%Conservative19.1carried, our estimate
2021Liberal43.8%Conservative5.0transposed by Elections Canada
2025Conservative50.3%Liberal7.6official result

The Liberals were first at seven of the eight general elections from 2004 to 2025, the Conservatives at one; it changed hands once. In 2025 the Conservatives took 50.3% of the vote here, 25.2 points above their average of 25.1% at the seven general elections from 2004 to 2021.

On today's boundaries the Liberals were first here in 2004 (57.8%), 2006 (50.7%), 2008 (63.9%), 2011 (54.8%), 2015 (73.9%), 2019 (47.4%) and 2021 (43.8%) and the Conservatives in 2025 (50.3%), each with the share of the valid votes shown.

A stronghold is a party first at every general election since 2004, by an average of 20 points or more over the next party; held, first at every one; usually, first at all but one. By-elections are not counted. By this rule 160 of the 343 ridings have no degree. The results before 2021 are carried onto today's boundaries by where the riding's 2025 electors lived: our estimate, from the older boundaries of Taylor, Lucas, Kirby and Hewitt and the results in Sevi's "Who Runs?". 2021 is Elections Canada's transposition, and 2025 the official result.

Before 2025
  • 2021 Liberal · Gudie Hutchings, by 1,834 votes (5.0 pts)
  • 2019 Liberal · Gudie Hutchings, by 7,326 votes (19.1 pts)
  • 2015 Liberal · Gudie Hutchings, by 25,804 votes (61.7 pts)

In the old Long Range Mountains on the 2013 boundaries, the riding most of the 2025 electors in today's Long Range Mountains lived in; Elections Canada's official results.

What kind of place Long Range Mountains is

Population
81,7902021 census
Area
57,889km²
Density
1.4people per km²
Electors
71,680on the 2025 lists
Distinctions · ranked against all 343 ridings
  • 9th-oldest median age: Median age 53.2, 9th highest of 343 (Median age, 2021 census)9th
    9th-oldest median age
    Median age 53.2, 9th highest of 343 (Median age, 2021 census)
  • Most candidates on the ballot in Newfoundland and Labrador: 5 candidates stood · 1st of 7 in Newfoundland and Labrador · 156th of 343 in Canada1st
    Most candidates on the ballot in Newfoundland and Labrador
    5 candidates stood · 1st of 7 in Newfoundland and Labrador · 156th of 343 in Canada
  • 2nd-largest by area in Newfoundland and Labrador: 57,889 km² · 2nd of 7 in Newfoundland and Labrador · 21st of 343 in Canada2nd
    2nd-largest by area in Newfoundland and Labrador
    57,889 km² · 2nd of 7 in Newfoundland and Labrador · 21st of 343 in Canada
  • Median age is 53.2 — about 1.3 times the median riding's 41.6.
    highestlowest9th highest of 343
  • Share who are immigrants is 1.7% — about 10 percent of the median riding's 17.3%.
    highestlowest17th lowest of 343
  • Median total household income is $62,000 — about 74 percent of the median riding's $84,000.
    highestlowest23rd lowest of 343
  • Share with French as a mother tongue is 0.6% — about 37 percent of the median riding's 1.6%.
    highestlowest30th lowest of 343
  • Share aged 25-64 with a bachelor's degree or higher is 14.8% — about 52 percent of the median riding's 28.2%.
    highestlowest31st lowest of 343
  • Share of households that own their home is 77.1% — a little higher than the median riding's 71.4%.
    highestlowest95th highest of 343

2021 Census on the 2023 boundaries; each rule places this riding among all 343. Density is the census population over the riding's area.

IDid this riding change?

Yes. 99.8% of the 2025 electors in today's Long Range Mountains lived in the old Long Range Mountains; by area, 1% of the riding came from other ridings.

Share of today's electorsFormer riding
99.8%Long Range Mountains 99.1% of the area
0.2%Labrador 0.9% of the area · 0.1% of it kept
How this is measured. Electors: the share of the current riding's 2025 ordinary-list electors who lived in each former riding, each 2025 polling division placed in the 2013 riding a point inside it falls in. Area: the share of the current riding's area that came from each former riding, by intersecting the 2013 and 2023 boundary files, and how much of the former riding that part was. Area is land, not population. Elections Canada counts 48 of 343 ridings as entirely unchanged.

IIThe 2025 result

CandidatePartyVotes%2021±
Carol AnsteyConservative23,23250.3%38.9%+11.4
Don BradshawLiberal19,72642.7%43.8%−1.1
Sarah ParsonsNew Democratic2,0114.4%11.8%−7.4
Robbie ColesIndependent6371.4%—+1.4
Pamela GeigerPeople's5371.2%4.3%−3.1
The 2021 column is Elections Canada's official transposition of the 2021 result onto these 2023 boundaries. ± is the change in each party's share. It is not "swing": with four or more competitive parties there is no single pair to swing between.

IIIHow close was it, really

Third place vs. the margin
2,011 votes
New Democratic took fewer than the 3,506-vote margin.
Election-day polls won by others
60 of 211
2 polls ended in an exact tie.
Fig. 2 — Each square is one election-day poll: ■ won by the Conservatives (149) · ■ won by another party (60) · ▨ tied (2).
Flip the seatHypothetical

It would have taken 1,754 voters switching from Conservative to Liberal — 3.8% of the 46,143 valid votes, 3.8 points — to change the result. No ballot was cast this way; this only moves votes between the top two.

Conservative23,232
Liberal19,726
Still Conservative by 3,506 votes. Actual margin: 3,506.

IVElection day versus advance

Only 68.6% of this riding's votes were cast at election-day polls. The rest were advance or special ballots.

On election day the Liberals took 39.8%, the Conservatives 52.5%, the New Democrats 4.8%, the independents 1.5% and the People's Party 1.5%; in advance and special ballots, 49.3%, 45.7%, 3.4%, 1.1% and 0.5%, in that order.

Share of the valid votes by party, election-day polls against advance and special ballots, Long Range Mountains, April 28, 2025

Share of the valid votes by party, election-day polls against advance and special ballots, Long Range Mountains, April 28, 2025On election day the Liberals took 39.8%, the Conservatives 52.5%, the New Democrats 4.8%, the independents 1.5% and the People's Party 1.5%; in advance and special ballots, 49.3%, 45.7%, 3.4%, 1.1% and 0.5%, in that order.Election dayAdvance and special± pts, the gapLiberal39.8%49.3%+9.5 ptsConservative52.5%45.7%−6.8 ptsNew Democratic4.8%3.4%−1.4 ptsIndependent1.5%1.1%−0.4 ptsPeople's Party1.5%0.5%−1.0 pts050%100%
Share of the valid votes by party, election-day polls against advance and special ballots, Long Range Mountains, April 28, 2025On election day the Liberals took 39.8%, the Conservatives 52.5%, the New Democrats 4.8%, the independents 1.5% and the People's Party 1.5%; in advance and special ballots, 49.3%, 45.7%, 3.4%, 1.1% and 0.5%, in that order.Election dayAdvance and special± pts, the gapLiberal39.8%49.3%+9.5 ptsConservative52.5%45.7%−6.8 ptsNew Democratic4.8%3.4%−1.4 ptsIndependent1.5%1.1%−0.4 ptsPeople's Party1.5%0.5%−1.0 pts050%100%
Shares of the valid votes cast at election-day polls, and of those cast at advance polls, at mobile polls and by special ballot; the gap is the second less the first, in points. Source: Elections Canada, poll-by-poll results, the 2025 general election.
The figures
PartyElection dayAdvance and specialGap
Liberal39.8%49.3%+9.5
Conservative52.5%45.7%−6.8
New Democratic4.8%3.4%−1.4
Independent1.5%1.1%−0.4
People's Party1.5%0.5%−1.0
An association, not a cause. Voters who cast ballots before election day differed from those who turned out on the day. It does not say why. There is no poll-level turnout figure on this page: the elector count on a polling division includes people who voted in advance and were counted elsewhere.

VWhere it is

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Fig. 3 — Long Range Mountains and its 3 neighbouring ridings.

Sources and citation

"Long Range Mountains — federal riding profile and 2025 results." The Political Record. https://politicalrecord.ca/riding/long-range-mountains/ Accessed 2026-11-10.

Results and transposition: Elections Canada. Boundaries: Elections Canada / Statistics Canada, Open Government Licence – Canada. Census: Statistics Canada 2021 Census. Member: House of Commons.

Figures reconcile to the certified national total of 19,641,663 votes. The member is as the House of Commons listed them on 2026-11-01. Page built 2026-11-10.