1986 Prince Edward Island general election

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1986 Prince Edward Island general election
Flag of Prince Edward Island.svg
  1982 April 21, 1986 (1986-04-21) 1989  

All 32 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island
17 seats needed for a majority
Turnout87.60% [1]
 First partySecond party
 
PC
Leader Joe Ghiz James Lee
Party Liberal Progressive Conservative
Leader since October 24, 1981 November 7, 1981
Leader's seat 6th Queens 5th Queens (lost)
Last election11 seats, 45.8%21 seats, 53.7%
Seats won2111
Seat changeIncrease2.svg10Decrease2.svg10
Popular vote75,18768,062
Percentage50.3%45.5%
SwingIncrease2.svg4.5pp Decrease2.svg8.2pp

Prince Edward Island general election 1986 - 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

James Lee
Progressive Conservative

Premier after election

Joe Ghiz
Liberal

The 1986 Prince Edward Island general election was held on April 21, 1986. [2]

Contents

The election resulted in the defeat of the two-term Progressive Conservative government by the Liberals led by Joe Ghiz. Ghiz, the son of a Lebanese store owner, went on to become the first Canadian premier that was not of complete European descent. [3]

Party standings

2111
LiberalPC
PartyParty LeaderSeatsPopular Vote
1982ElectedChange#%Change
  Liberal Joe Ghiz 1121+1075,18750.3%+4.5%
  Progressive Conservative James Lee 2111-1068,06245.5%-8.2%
  New Democratic Jim Mayne 00-5,9654.0%+3.5%
  Independent -0-2800.2%+0.2%
Popular vote
Liberal
50.29%
PC
45.53%
New Democratic
3.99%
Others
0.19%
Seats summary
Liberal
65.63%
PC
34.37%

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 they were elected in the same manner as Assemblymen. [4]

Kings

DistrictAssemblymanPartyCouncillorParty
1st Kings    Ross "Johnny" Young Liberal    Albert Fogarty Progressive
Conservative
2nd Kings    Roddy Pratt Progressive
Conservative
   Francis O'Brien Progressive
Conservative
3rd Kings    A. A. "Joey" Fraser Progressive
Conservative
   Peter MacLeod Progressive
Conservative
4th Kings    Stanley Bruce Liberal    Gilbert R. Clements Liberal
5th Kings    Arthur J. MacDonald Liberal    Barry Hicken Liberal

Prince

DistrictAssemblymanPartyCouncillorParty
1st Prince    Robert Morrissey Liberal    Robert E. Campbell Liberal
2nd Prince    Keith Milligan Liberal    Allison Ellis Liberal
3rd Prince    Léonce Bernard Liberal    Edward Clark Liberal
4th Prince    Stavert Huestis Liberal   
Prowse Chappel Progressive
Conservative
5th Prince    George McMahon Progressive
Conservative
   Peter Pope Progressive
Conservative

Queens

DistrictAssemblymanPartyCouncillorParty
1st Queens    Marion Reid Progressive
Conservative
   Leone Bagnall Progressive
Conservative
2nd Queens    Gordon MacInnis Liberal    Ron MacKinley Liberal
3rd Queens    Betty Jean Brown Liberal    Tom Dunphy Liberal
4th Queens    Wilbur MacDonald Progressive
Conservative
   Lynwood MacPherson Liberal
5th Queens    Wayne Cheverie Liberal    Tim Carroll Liberal
6th Queens    Joseph Atallah Ghiz Liberal    Paul Connolly Liberal

Sources

  1. "Saltwire | Prince Edward Island". Archived from the original on September 17, 2019. Retrieved April 27, 2019.
  2. "Provincial General Election Results, 1986" (PDF). Elections PEI. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 25, 2015. Retrieved May 25, 2015.
  3. "Joseph A. Ghiz". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on October 21, 2016. Retrieved October 20, 2016.
  4. Fred Driscoll. "History and Politics of Prince Edward Island" (PDF). Canadian Parliamentary Review. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved October 20, 2016.

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