List of post-confederation Prince Edward Island general elections

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Number of seats won by major parties at each election (except 2019 and 2023 general elections) Template:Legend-col

General elections to the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island's unicameral legislative body, the Prince Edward Island House of Assembly. Prince Edward Island became part of the Canadian Confederation in 1873. Prior to that, Prince Edward Island was a British colony; the House of Assembly dates to 1769.

The number of seats has varied over time, from a high of thirty-two between the 1960s and 1990s, to the current low of twenty-seven.

Prince Edward Island was effectively a two-party system - the Liberal party (red) and Conservative party (blue) until the 2019 election. After the first two elections (when not all MLAs declared a party allegiance), until 2015, only one MLA had been elected who has not been a member of these two parties. The Green Party won their first seat in 2015, their second in a 2017 byelection, and won a total of 8 seats in 2019, to form the first Green Official Opposition.

The Liberal party was elected to majority of seats in eighteen of the twenty-nine PEI general elections that occurred in the 20th century.

Prior to 1996, PEI used 16 dual-member districts; the 32 members have sat together since the 1893 abolition of the Legislative Council as a separate body. The boundaries for these districts were drawn in 1893; a single change was made in 1966 (when the riding of Charlottetown, also known as 5th Queens, was split into two parts). In 1996, a court determined that the number of electors varied too much between districts, and was therefore unconstitutional. This resulted in a redistricting in which a system of single-member districts was created.

Summary

The table below shows the total number of seats won by the major political parties at each election (if greater than zero). It also shows the percentage of the vote obtained by the major political parties at each election, if greater than 0.1%. The winning party's totals are shown in bold. To date, no party has formed a government that did not have the largest share of the vote. Full details on any election are linked via the year of the election at the start of the row.

Election date Win. Total
seats 		PCTemplate:Ref label Liberal NDPTemplate:Ref label Green Other
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Seats Vote
(%) 		Seats Vote
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(%) 		Seats Vote
(%) 		Seats Vote
(%) 		Seat-winning party
1873 April 1, 1873 Template:Canadian party colour | CON 30 15 Template:Ref label 10 Template:Ref label 5 Non-partisan
1876 August 10, 1876 Template:Canadian party colour | CON 30 15 Template:Ref label 7 Template:Ref label 8 Non-partisan
1879 April 2, 1879 Template:Canadian party colour | CON 30 24 Template:Ref label 6 Template:Ref label
1882 May 8, 1882 Template:Canadian party colour | CON 30 21 Template:Ref label 9 Template:Ref label
1886 June 30, 1886 Template:Canadian party colour | CON 30 18 Template:Ref label 12 Template:Ref label
1890 January 30, 1890 Template:Canadian party colour | CON 30 15Template:Ref label Template:Ref label 15Template:Ref label Template:Ref label
1893 December 13, 1893 Template:Canadian party colour | LIB 30 7 Template:Ref label 23 Template:Ref label
1897 July 28, 1897 Template:Canadian party colour | LIB 30 11 Template:Ref label 19 Template:Ref label
1900 December 12, 1900 Template:Canadian party colour | LIB 30 9 46.5 21 53.5
1904 December 7, 1904 Template:Canadian party colour | LIB 30 8 45.9 22 54.1
1908 November 18, 1908 Template:Canadian party colour | LIB 30 13 48.4 17 51.6
1912 January 3, 1912 Template:Canadian party colour | CON 30 28 60.3 2 39.7
1915 September 16, 1915 Template:Canadian party colour | CON 30 17 50.1 13 49.9
1919 July 24, 1919 Template:Canadian party colour | LIB 30 6 46.1 24 53.9
1923 July 26, 1923 Template:Canadian party colour | CON 30 25 51.5 5 43.8 4.7Template:Ref label
1927 June 25, 1927 Template:Canadian party colour | LIB 30 6 46.9 24 53.1
1931 August 6, 1931 Template:Canadian party colour | CON 30 18 51.7 12 48.3
1935 July 23, 1935 Template:Canadian party colour | LIB 30 – 42.0 30 58.0
1939 May 18, 1939 Template:Canadian party colour | LIB 30 4 47.0 26 53.0
1943 September 15, 1943 Template:Canadian party colour | LIB 30 10 46.1 20 51.3 2.1 0.5
1947 December 11, 1947 Template:Canadian party colour | LIB 30 6 45.8 24 49.8 4.3 0.1
1951 April 26, 1951 Template:Canadian party colour | LIB 30 6 46.7 24 51.6 1.7
1955 May 25, 1955 Template:Canadian party colour | LIB 30 3 45.0 27 55.0
1959 September 1, 1959 Template:Canadian party colour | PC 30 22 50.9 8 49.1
1962 December 10, 1962 Template:Canadian party colour | PC 30 19 50.6 11 49.4
1966 May 30, 1966 Template:Canadian party colour | LIB 32 15 49.5 17 50.5
1970 May 11, 1970 Template:Canadian party colour | LIB 32 5 41.7 27 58.3
1974 April 29, 1974 Template:Canadian party colour | LIB 32 6 40.2 26 53.9 5.9
1978 April 24, 1978 Template:Canadian party colour | LIB 32 15 48.2 17 50.7 1.1
1979 April 23, 1979 Template:Canadian party colour | PC 32 21 53.2 11 45.3 1.3 0.2
1982 September 27, 1982 Template:Canadian party colour | PC 32 21 53.6 11 45.7 0.7
1986 April 21, 1986 Template:Canadian party colour | LIB 32 11 45.6 21 50.4 4.0
1989 May 29, 1989 Template:Canadian party colour | LIB 32 2 35.8 30 60.7 3.5
1993 March 29, 1993 Template:Canadian party colour | LIB 32 1 39.5 31 55.1 5.4
1996 November 18, 1996 Template:Canadian party colour | PC 27 18 47.4 8 44.8 1 7.8
2000 April 17, 2000 Template:Canadian party colour | PC 27 26 57.9 1 33.7 8.4
2003 September 29, 2003 Template:Canadian party colour | PC 27 23 54.0 4 42.9 3.1
2007 May 28, 2007 Template:Canadian party colour | LIB 27 4 41.4 23 52.9   2.0   3.0   0.7  
2011 October 3, 2011 Template:Canadian party colour | LIB 27 5 40.2 22 51.4   3.2   4.4   0.9  
2015 May 4, 2015 Template:Canadian party colour | LIB 27 8 37.4 18 40.8   11.0 1 10.8      
2019 April 23, 2019 Template:Canadian party colour | PC 27 12 36.5 6 29.5   2.9 8 30.6      
2023 April 3, 2023 Template:Canadian party colour | PC 27 22 55.92 3 17.21 4.49 2 21.57      

Notes

Template:Note label Includes results for Progressive Conservatives from 1942 onwards.
Template:Note label Includes results for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation from 1943 to 1951.
Template:Note label Vote share not known for the elections in the 19th century.
Template:Note label Tie between Conservatives and Liberals, resulting in the incumbent Conservatives remaining in power until losing a motion of confidence in 1891 after a series of by-election losses and the Liberals taking power for the remainder of the term.
Template:Note label Includes 3.4% for the Progressive Party / United Farmers.

Historical voter turnouts

Year Turnout (%)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1966 85.65
1970 87.32
1974 82.10
1978 86.30
1979 83.80
1982 78.20
1986 87.60
1989 80.80
1993 80.70
1996 85.48
2000 84.86
2003 83.27
2007 83.84
2011 76.53
2015 82.1<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2019 76.28
2023 68.50

References

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Bibliography

See also

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