1970 Prince Edward Island general election

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1970 Prince Edward Island general election
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All 32 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island
17 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond party
 
Lib
PC
Leader Alex Campbell George Key
Party Liberal Progressive Conservative
Leader since December 11, 1965 September 21, 1968
Leader's seat 5th Prince Ran in 2nd Prince (lost)
Last election17 seats, 50.5%15 seats, 49.5%
Seats won275
Seat changeIncrease2.svg10Decrease2.svg10
Popular vote64,48446,015
Percentage58.4%41.6
SwingIncrease2.svg7.9pp Decrease2.svg7.9pp
Prince Edward Island general election, 1970 results by district.svg
Seats won by each party per district. Voters elect two members (one Councillor and Assemblyman) from each of the 16 districts.
Premier before election

Alex Campbell
Liberal

Premier after election

Alex Campbell
Liberal

The 1970 Prince Edward Island general election was held on May 11, 1970. [1]

Contents

The incumbent Liberal government of Alex Campbell was easily re-elected, gaining a total of 7.9% in the popular vote on the Tories, who dropped by the identical amount, as only the two parties ran any candidates in both the 1970 and 1966 elections. [2]

Jean Canfield, the first woman ever elected to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island, was a victorious candidate in 1st Queens in this election. [3]

Party standings

↓
275
LiberalPC
PartyParty LeaderSeatsPopular Vote
1966ElectedChange#%Change
  Liberal Alex Campbell 1727+1064,48458.4%+7.9%
  Progressive Conservative George Key 155-1046,01541.6%-7.9%
Popular vote
Liberal
 
58.36%
PC
 
41.64%
Seats summary
Liberal
 
84.38%
PC
 
15.62%

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. Assembleymen were elected by all eligible voters of within a district. Before 1963, Councillors were only elected by landowners within a district, but afterward were elected in the same manner as Assemblymen. [4]

Kings

DistrictAssemblymanPartyCouncillorParty
1st Kings    Bruce L. Stewart Liberal    Daniel J. MacDonald Liberal

Progressive
Conservative

2nd Kings    Walter Dingwell Progressive
Conservative 		   Leo Rossiter Progressive
Conservative
3rd Kings    William Bennett Campbell Liberal    Bud Ings Liberal
4th Kings    Lorne Bonnell Liberal    Gilbert R. Clements Liberal
5th Kings    Arthur J. MacDonald Liberal    George J. Ferguson Liberal

Prince

DistrictAssemblymanPartyCouncillorParty
1st Prince    Russell Perry Liberal    Robert E. Campbell Liberal
2nd Prince    George Dewar Progrsesive
Conservative 		   Joshua MacArthur Liberal
3rd Prince    William Gallant Liberal    Edward Clark Liberal
4th Prince    Robert Schurman Liberal   
 Frank Jardine Liberal
5th Prince    Earle Hickey Progressive
Conservative 		   Alexander B. Campbell Liberal

Queens

DistrictAssemblymanPartyCouncillorParty
1st Queens    Jean Canfield Liberal    Ralph Johnstone Liberal
2nd Queens    Sinclair Cutcliffe Liberal    Lloyd MacPhail Progressive
Conservative
3rd Queens    Cecil A. Miller Liberal    Levi McNally Liberal
4th Queens    J. Stewart Ross Liberal    Daniel Compton Progressive
Conservative
5th Queens    Gordon L. Bennett Liberal    Elmer Blanchard Liberal
6th Queens    Allison MacDonald Liberal    John H. Maloney Liberal

Sources

  1. ↑ "Provincial General Election Results, 1970" (PDF). Elections PEI. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-06. Retrieved 2015-05-25.
  2. ↑ "Big Grit Win in PEI (Pt. 1)". Ottawa Journal . May 12, 1970. p. 1. Retrieved March 1, 2015– via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  3. ↑ "Big Grit Win (Pt. 2)". Ottawa Journal . May 12, 1970. p. 25. Retrieved March 1, 2015– via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  4. ↑ Fred Driscoll. "History and Politics of Prince Edward Island" (PDF). Canadian Parliamentary Review.

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