Riding profile

Cape Spear

Federal riding — NL · Urban · atlantic

The question

Cape Spear: a safe seat for the Liberal Party?

Editorial read

Cape Spear, an urban riding in Newfoundland and Labrador, elected a member with the Liberal Party in the previous cycle, with a 42-point margin. The Vote-Scope model projects the Liberal Party ahead at 67% vote share, against 20% for the Conservative Party, and the probability of a close race is negligible. Linguistic profile: 0% francophone, 99% anglophone.

Sitting member

Tom Osborne

Sits with Liberal

Since
2025-04-28
Parliament
45th

Current forecast

Liberal

Safe

Probability
100%
Mean margin (pts)
47.1
P(close race)
0%

Projected vote share

Projection by party

  • Liberal 66.7%
  • Conservative 19.5%
  • NDP 6.7%
  • Green 0.7%

In context

How this riding stacks up

Liberal Conservative NDP Green
HereCape Spear 66.7%19.5%6.7%0.7%
Provincial averageNewfoundland and Labrador 51.6% +15.1 34.1% −14.6 5.8% +0.9 0.5% +0.2
National averageCanada 41.9% +24.8 34.8% −15.3 14.2% −7.5 2.1% −1.4

Provincial averages computed across the 343 riding-level projections (unweighted mean).

Projection track

How the projection has moved

Previous election · FED 2025

Won by
Liberal
Margin
42.1 pts
Turnout
66.5%
Margin shift vs current projection
+5.0 pts

Detailed result · FED 2025

Candidates and votes

Candidate Party Votes % Occupation
Tom Osborne Elected Liberal 31,388 68.3 General Manager
Corey Curtis Conservative 11,844 25.8 Vice President, Marine Fleet
Brenda Walsh NDP 2,446 5.3 Retired
Mike Peach Other 170 0.4 Academic Tutor
Kaelem Tingate Green 140 0.3 Distiller

Demographics

Who lives here

Linguistic profile

  • Francophone 0.1%
  • Anglophone 98.5%
  • Non-francophone (other) 1.4%

Data source : Statistics Canada — 2021 Census

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Last model run
Cycle
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