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Herb Dickieson is a retired physician and a former educator and politician in Prince Edward Island,Canada. Dickieson was the first and,to date,only member of the New Democratic Party of Prince Edward Island to have sat in the Legislative Assembly. He currently serves as the President of the PEI NDP.
Patrick George Binns,is a Canadian diplomat,the 30th premier of Prince Edward Island from 1996 to 2007 and Canadian Ambassador to Ireland from 2007 to 2010.
Keith Wayne Milligan is a Canadian politician who was the 29th premier of Prince Edward Island,serving for seven weeks in the autumn of 1996. He was educated at Inverness District School,O'Leary Regional High School and the University of PEI,where he obtained Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education degrees. He is married to the former Deborah Foley and they reside in Tyne Valley. They have three children - Charles Christian (Jolene),Olivia (Shawn) and Dustin.
Lawrence A. MacAulay is a Canadian politician,who has represented the riding of Cardigan,Prince Edward Island in the House of Commons since 1988.
Canadian federal elections have provided the following results in Prince Edward Island.
The politics of Prince Edward Island are centred on a provincial government resembling that of the other Canadian provinces. The capital of the province of Prince Edward Island is Charlottetown,where the lieutenant governor and the premier reside,and where the provincial legislature and cabinet are located.
The 2007 Prince Edward Island general election was held on May 28,2007. It elected members of the Legislative Assembly of the province of Prince Edward Island,Canada. The incumbent Progressive Conservative government was defeated by the Liberal opposition after holding power for eleven years.
Joseph Alan McIsaac is a Canadian politician,who represented the electoral district of Vernon River-Stratford in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island as a member of the Liberal Party from 2007 to 2019.
Robert Joseph Morrissey is a Canadian politician. He represents the electoral district of Egmont in the House of Commons of Canada. He is a member of the Liberal Party.
Robert Vessey is a Canadian politician. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island in the 2007 provincial election and represented the electoral district of York-Oyster Bed as a member of the Liberal Party until 2015.
Gail A. Shea is a Canadian politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Egmont from 2008 to 2015. She was previously a member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 2000 to 2007,representing the electoral district of Tignish-DeBlois as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.
Joseph Wilfred Arsenault was a political figure on Prince Edward Island,Canada. He represented Evangeline-Miscouche in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 2000 to 2007 as a Progressive Conservative member.
Sean J. Casey is a Canadian politician from Prince Edward Island,Canada. Casey was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2011 federal election as the Liberal Member of Parliament for the riding of Charlottetown. Casey previously served as the president of the Prince Edward Island Liberal Party.
The Prince Edward Island Liberal Party,a political party in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island chooses its leadership by an open vote of party members at a convention called by the party executive when there is a vacancy in the leadership. The first convention was held when Alex W. Matheson sought reelection as leader in 1961.
The 2015 Prince Edward Island general election was held May 4,2015,to elect members of the 65th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island. Under amendments passed by the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island in 2008,Prince Edward Island elections are usually held on the first Monday of October in the fourth calendar year,unless it is dissolved earlier by the lieutenant governor of Prince Edward Island due to a motion of no confidence,or at the request of the premier. The current government had hinted that an election would be held "before Mother's Day" 2015,and such a dissolution would avoid any conflicts with the next federal election,expected to be held in October 2015.
The Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island,Canada selected a new leader on February 28,2015,to replace Olive Crane who resigned on January 31,2013. The Progressive Conservatives have been the Official Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island since June 12,2007,having lost the 2007 and 2011 provincial elections to the Liberals. The interim leader was Steven Myers.
Jordan Kent Macdonald Brown is a Canadian politician who represented the electoral district of Charlottetown-Brighton in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island as a member of the Liberal Party from 2015 to 2019.
The 2019 Prince Edward Island general election was held to elect the members of the 66th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island. The vote in 26 of the 27 districts was held on 23 April 2019,while the vote for the member from Charlottetown-Hillsborough Park was deferred to 15 July due to the death of the Green Party's candidate. However,Charlottetown-Hillsborough Park still voted in a referendum on electoral reform. Natalie Jameson won the deferred election in the district.
A referendum on electoral reform was held on April 23,2019,in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island –simultaneously with the 2019 provincial election –to determine if the province should adopt a mixed-member proportional representation voting system (MMP). A narrow majority voted to keep the existing first-past-the-post system. However,the referendum was not binding,as neither the yes or no side received majority support in 60% or more of the province's 27 electoral districts.
The 2017 Charlottetown-Parkdale provincial by-election took place on November 27,2017. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of the district's incumbent MLA Doug Currie on October 19.
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- ↑ "Gail Shea to run for Tories in Egmont" Archived 2018-11-09 at the Wayback Machine , The Guardian , November 1, 2007.
- ↑ "Shea wins recount" Archived 2018-11-09 at the Wayback Machine , The Guardian, October 23, 2008.
- ↑ "Brown defends use of government car" Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine , CBC News , April 15, 2004.
- ↑ "Liberal critic demands answers on tourism inquiries going to Maine", The Guardian, April 19, 2007.
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