[6] Following the result of the election no party with the word "Conservative" in its name formed the government in either a provincial or federal jurisdiction in Canada for the first time since 1943.

Aylward was unable to win a seat in the legislature and announced on October 26, 2011, he would step down once his successor was chosen.

[17] Marshall had indicated that he would not be seeking re-election as the member of the House of Assembly for Humber East and therefore would not contest the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party.

The party held its leadership convention on September 13, 2014, and chose Paul Davis as its leader.

Many veteran PC MHAs who had served in Danny Williams' cabinet did not seek re-election.

[56] On November 5, Davis visited the lieutenant governor to request that the House of Assembly be dissolved.

[58] Their lead was so large and so unshakable that some pundits openly speculated that the party could potentially sweep every seat in the province,[59] although others suggested that this was unlikely.

[60] Numerous ridings in and around St. John's remained more competitive than provincewide polling suggested,[59] 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.

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).