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1974 Prince Edward Island general election

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1974 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 party Second party
 
Lib
PC
Leader Alex Campbell Melvin McQuaid
Party Liberal Progressive Conservative
Leader since December 11, 1965 February 3, 1973
Leader's seat 5th Prince 1st Kings
Last election 27 seats, 58.4% 5 seats, 41.6%
Seats won 26 6
Seat change Decrease1 Increase1
Popular vote 64,212 47,470
Percentage 54.0% 39.9%
Swing Decrease4.4pp Decrease1.7pp

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 1974 Prince Edward Island general election was held on April 29, 1974.[1]

This election was the first that the New Democratic Party contested as a provincial party on PEI, and the first third party to run candidates since the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, the NDP's predecessor, contested their last election in 1951.

Party standings

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26 6
Liberal PC
Party Party Leader Seats Popular Vote
1966 Elected Change # % Change
  Liberal Alex Campbell 27 26 -1 64,212 54.0% -4.4%
  Progressive Conservative Melvin McQuaid 5 6 +1 47,470 39.9% -1.7%
  New Democratic Aquinas Ryan - 0 - 7,327 6.2% +6.2%
Popular vote
Liberal
53.96%
PC
39.89%
New Democratic
6.16%
Seats summary
Liberal
81.25%
PC
18.75%

Members elected

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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.[2]

Kings

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District Assemblyman Party Councillor Party
1st Kings     Bruce L. Stewart Liberal     Melvin J. McQuaid Progressive
Conservative

Liberal

2nd Kings     Walter Dingwell Progressive
Conservative
    Leo Rossiter Progressive
Conservative
3rd Kings     William Bennett Campbell Liberal     Bud Ings Liberal
4th Kings     Charles Fraser Liberal     Gilbert R. Clements Liberal
5th Kings     Arthur J. MacDonald Liberal     Waldron Lavers Liberal

Prince

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District Assemblyman Party Councillor Party
1st Prince     Russell Perry Liberal     Robert E. Campbell Liberal
2nd Prince     George R. Henderson Liberal     Joshua MacArthur Liberal

Progressive
Conservative

3rd Prince     William Gallant Liberal     Edward Clark Liberal
4th Prince     Catherine Sophia Callbeck Liberal    
Frank Jardine Liberal
5th Prince     Earle Hickey Liberal     Alexander B. Campbell Liberal

Queens

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District Assemblyman Party Councillor Party
1st Queens     Jean Canfield Liberal     Ralph Johnstone Liberal
2nd Queens     David Ford Liberal     Lloyd MacPhail Progressive
Conservative
3rd Queens     Cecil A. Miller Liberal     Levi McNally Liberal
4th Queens     Vernon MacIntyre Progressive
Conservative
    Daniel Compton Progressive
Conservative
5th Queens     Gordon L. Bennett Liberal

Progressive
Conservative

    George Proud Liberal
6th Queens     Allison MacDonald Liberal     John H. Maloney Liberal

Sources

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  1. ^ "Provincial General Election Results, 1974" (PDF). Elections PEI. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 6, 2016. Retrieved May 25, 2015.
  2. ^ Fred Driscoll. "History and Politics of Prince Edward Island" (PDF). Canadian Parliamentary Review.

Further reading

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