John Lorne Connors (born 1944 or 1945) is a Canadian educator and former politician who was leader of the Newfoundland New Democratic Party from 1970 to 1974.
The party had never won a seat in an election and Connors hoped to win three seats and hold the balance of power in what was expected to be a close election between long-time premier Joey Smallwood's incumbent Liberals and Frank Moores' Progressive Conservatives.
In the 1971 provincial election, he ran in Grand Falls against education minister Frederick William Rowe.
[3] Nevertheless, Connors was re-elected as NDP leader at the party's November 1972 bi-annual convention, defeating a challenge by Edgar Russell.
After leaving politics, Connors joined Memorial University working for 26 years at the university's Fisheries and Marine Institute in senior management positions including a term as Head of the School of Maritime Studies.