1979 Prince Edward Island general election

Canadian provincial election September 2023 1979 Prince Edward Island general election Prince Edward Island parliamentary no no no 1978 Prince Edward Island general election 1978 1979 04 23 1982 Prince Edward Island general election 1982 All 32 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island 17 175x175px PE PC nohash Angus MacLean PE PC name September 25, 1976 4th Queens 15 seats, 48.1% 21 6 68,440 53.3% 5.2pp Prince Edward Island general election, 1979 results by district.svg 400px Seats won by each party per district. Voters elect two members (one Councillor and Assemblyman) from each of the 16 districts. Premier Bennett Campbell PE Liberal name Premier after election Angus MacLean PE PC name 54th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island members Lib PE Liberal nohash Bennett Campbell December 9, 1978 PE Liberal name 3rd Kings 17 seats, 50.7% 11 6 58,175 45.3% 5.4pp The 1979 Prince Edward Island general election was held on April 23, 1979.http://www.electionspei.ca/pdfs/ceoreports/results/1979Report.pdf Provincial General Election Results, 1979 Elections PEI 2016-10-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20161020173215/http://www.electionspei.ca/pdfs/ceoreports/results/1979Report.pdf 2016-10-20 dead The election was held just one year after the 1978 election, which featured a 17–15 split in MLAs in the legislature. Following the resignation of former premier Alex Campbell from his seat, the legislature was in a 15–15 tie in voting members (the Liberal Speaker, Russell Perry, could not cast active votes in his role), the new Premier Bennett Campbell decided to call an election in an effort to regain his lost majority. The gambit failed, and instead the Progressive Conservatives led by Angus MacLean formed a strong majority government. The campaign was the first to feature a female party leader running in PEI, with Doreen Sark serving as interim leader of the NDP.Woman leads Nova Scotia NDP Canadian Press The Toronto Star Toronto November 17, 1980 A5 The campaign was also the only one in which the "Draft Beer Party of PEI" ran, with one candidate in 5th Queens. Party standings + ↓ 21 11 PC Liberal PartyParty LeaderSeatsPopular Vote1978ElectedChange#%Change PE PC rowPE PC nameAngus MacLean1521+668,44053.3%+5.2% PE Liberal rowLiberalBennett Campbell1711-658,17445.3%-5.4% PE NDP rowPE NDP nameDoreen Sark (interim)00-1,6551.3%+0.4% PE Independent rowDraft Beer Party --0-2000.2%+0.2% Popular vote #ddd 600px 410px PC PE PC 53.27 Liberal PE Liberal 45.28 New Democratic PE NDP 1.29 Others PE Independent 0.16Seats summary #ddd 600px 410px PC PE PC 65.63 Liberal PE Liberal 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.http://www.revparl.ca/11/2/11n2_88e_Driscoll.pdf History and Politics of Prince Edward Island Fred Driscoll Canadian Parliamentary Review Kings District Assemblyman Party Councillor Party 1st Kings     Ross "Johnny" Young Liberal     Albert Fogarty Progressive Conservative 2nd Kings     Roddy Pratt Progressive Conservative     Leo Rossiter Progressive Conservative 3rd Kings     William Bennett Campbell Liberal     Bud Ings Liberal 4th Kings     Pat Binns Progressive Conservative     Gilbert R. Clements Liberal 5th Kings     Arthur J. MacDonald Liberal     Lowell Johnston Progressive Conservative Prince District Assemblyman Party Councillor Party 1st Prince     Russell Perry Liberal     Robert E. Campbell Liberal 2nd Prince     George R. Henderson Liberal     Allison Ellis Liberal 3rd Prince     Léonce Bernard Liberal     Edward Clark Liberal 4th Prince     William MacDougall Progressive Conservative     Prowse Chappel Progressive Conservative 5th Prince     George McMahon Progressive Conservative     Peter Pope Progressive Conservative Queens District Assemblyman Party Councillor Party 1st Queens     Marion Reid Progressive Conservative     Leone Bagnall Progressive Conservative 2nd Queens     Gordon Lank Progressive Conservative     Lloyd MacPhail Progressive Conservative 3rd Queens     Horace B. Carver Progressive Conservative     Fred Driscoll Progressive Conservative 4th Queens     J. Angus MacLean Progressive Conservative     Daniel Compton Progressive Conservative 5th Queens     James M. Lee Progressive Conservative     Wilfred MacDonald Progressive Conservative 6th Queens     Barry Clark Progressive Conservative     Jim Larkin Progressive Conservative Sources Further reading Byers R.B. Canadian annual review of politics and public affairs. 1979 1981 University of Toronto Press Toronto 978-1-4426-7193-5 https://archive.org/details/canadianannualre0000unse_w1r4 registration Category:1979 elections in Canada Category:Elections in Prince Edward Island Category:1979 in Prince Edward Island Category:April 1979 in Canada