1919 Prince Edward Island general election

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1919 Prince Edward Island general election
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←  1915 July 24, 1919 (1919-07-24) 1923  →
All 30 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island
16 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond party
  John Howard Bell.jpg Aubin-Edmond Arsenault.jpg
Leader John Howatt Bell Aubin E. Arsenault
Party Liberal Progressive Conservative
Leader since19151917
Leader's seat 4th Prince 3rd Prince
Last election13 seats, 49.9%17 seats, 50.1%
Seats won245
Seat changeIncrease2.svg11Decrease2.svg12
Popular vote19,91016,669
Percentage53.5%44.8%
SwingIncrease2.svg3.6pp Decrease2.svg5.3pp
Premier before election

Aubin E. Arsenault
Conservative

Premier after election

John Howatt Bell
Liberal

The 1919 Prince Edward Island general election was held in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island on July 24, 1919. [1]

Contents

The opposition Liberals led by John Howatt Bell gained eleven seats to defeat the incumbent government of Conservative Premier Aubin E. Arsenault, who had succeeded former Premier John A. Mathieson in 1917.

John A. Dewar, a former Conservative member, was elected as an Independent Assembleyman for 3rd Kings. [2]

Party Standings

PartyParty LeaderSeatsPopular Vote
1915ElectedChange#%Change
  Liberal John Howatt Bell 1324+1119,91053.5%+3.6%
  Conservative Aubin E. Arsenault 175-1216,66944.8%-5.3%
  Independent -1+16461.7%+1.7%

Members Elected

The Legislature of Prince Edward Island had two levels of membership from 1893 to 1996 - Assemblymen and Councillors. This was a holdover from when the Island had a bicameral legislature, the General Assembly and the Legislative Council.

In 1893, the Legislative Council was abolished and had its membership merged with the Assembly, though the two titles remained separate and were elected by different electoral franchises. Assembly men were elected by all eligible voters of within a district, while Councillors were only elected by landowners within a district. [3]

Kings

DistrictAssemblymanPartyCouncillorParty
1st Kings    Daniel C. MacDonald Liberal    Harry D. McLean Conservative
2nd Kings    Robert Cox Liberal    James P. McIntyre Liberal
3rd Kings    John A. Dewar Independent    James J. Johnston Liberal
4th Kings    Wallace B. Butler Liberal    William G. Sutherland Liberal
5th Kings    Stephen Hessian Liberal    James David Stewart Conservative

Queens

DistrictAssemblymanPartyCouncillorParty
1st Queens    Murdock Kennedy Conservative    Cyrus Crosby Liberal
2nd Queens    Bradford W. LePage Liberal    George E. Hughes Liberal
3rd Queens    Peter Brodie Liberal    David McDonald Liberal
4th Queens    James C. Irving Liberal    Frederick J. Nash Liberal
5th Queens    Edmund Higgs Liberal    Gavan Duffy Liberal

Prince

DistrictAssemblymanPartyCouncillorParty
1st Prince    Benjamin Gallant Liberal    Christopher Metherall Liberal
2nd Prince    Albert Charles Saunders Liberal    William H. Dennis Liberal
3rd Prince    Aubin Edmond Arsenault Conservative    Alfred E. MacLean Liberal
4th Prince    John Howatt Bell Liberal   
 Walter Lea Liberal
5th Prince    James A. MacNeill Conservative    Creelman McArthur Liberal

Sources

  1. ↑ "Provincial General Election Results, 1919" (PDF). Elections PEI. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 25, 2015.
  2. ↑ Dewar won election and sat as an "Independent Farmer", from "John Alexander Dewar". Prince Edward Island Legislative Documents Online. Archived from the original on 2018-11-25. Retrieved 2015-06-06.
  3. ↑ Fred Driscoll. "History and Politics of Prince Edward Island" (PDF). Canadian Parliamentary Review.

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