1915 Prince Edward Island general election

Canadian provincial election September 2023 1915 Prince Edward Island general election Prince Edward Island parliamentary no no no 1912 Prince Edward Island general election 1912 37th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island 1915 09 16 members 1919 Prince Edward Island general election 1919 All 30 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island 16 150px PE PC nohash John A. Mathieson 1903 PE Conservative name 5th Kings 28 seats, 59.2% 17 11 17,179 50.1% 9.1pp LIB PE Liberal nohash unknown - PE Liberal name - 2 seats, 40.8% 13 11 17,097 49.9% 9.1pp Premier Premier after election John A. Mathieson PE Conservative name John A. Mathieson PE Conservative name The 1915 Prince Edward Island general election was held in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island on September 16, 1915.http://www.electionspei.ca/pdfs/ceoreports/results/1915Report.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20150525203134/http://www.electionspei.ca/pdfs/ceoreports/results/1915Report.pdf dead May 25, 2015 Provincial General Election Results, 1915 Elections PEI The election was held in the midst of the First World War. The election was won by the governing Conservatives, led by incumbent Premier John A. Mathieson, whose government lost a large number of seats as the opposition Liberals won back a number of districts lost in previous elections. The Liberals in this election were able to climb up from one of their worst electoral defeats in 1912 to nearly topple the Mathieson government. However, it is unknown who the Liberal leader was during the election, if there was one at all. Previous Official Opposition Leader John Richards chose not to run in this election, while his successor John Howatt Bell was chosen as leader following the election. It is possible the Liberals did not have an official leader for this election. Party Standings PartyParty LeaderSeatsPopular Vote1912Elected#% PE PC rowPE Conservative nameJohn A. Mathieson281717,17950.1% PE Liberal rowLiberalunknown21317,09749.9% 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, while Councillors were only elected by landowners within a district.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     Augustine A. MacDonald Conservative     John McLean Conservative 2nd Kings     Harvey D. McEwen Conservative     James D. McInnis Liberal 3rd Kings     John A. Dewar Conservative     James J. Johnston Liberal 4th Kings     Albert P. Prowse Conservative     Murdock MacKinnon Conservative 5th Kings     Roderick J. McLellan Conservative     John Alexander Mathieson Conservative Queens District Assemblyman Party Councillor Party 1st Queens     Murdock Kennedy Conservative     Alexander McNevin Conservative 2nd Queens     George E. Hughes Liberal     John McMillan Liberal 3rd Queens     Leonard Wood Conservative     David McDonald Liberal 4th Queens     John S. Martin Conservative     George Forbes Liberal 5th Queens     James Paton Conservative     Stephen R. Jenkins Conservative Prince District Assemblyman Party Councillor Party 1st Prince     Benjamin Gallant Liberal     Charles E. Dalton Conservative 2nd Prince     Albert Charles Saunders Liberal     William H. Dennis Liberal 3rd Prince     Aubin Edmond Arsenault Conservative     Alfred E. MacLean Liberal 4th Prince     John Howatt Bell* Liberal     Walter Lea Liberal 5th Prince     James A. MacNeill Conservative     Hubert Howatt Liberal John Howatt Bell named Leader of the Official Opposition and Liberal Party Leader following the election Sources Further reading Hopkins J. Castell The Canadian Annual Review of Public Affairs, 1915 1916 The Annual Review Publishing Company Toronto https://archive.org/details/canadianannualre0000unse Category:1915 elections in Canada Category:Elections in Prince Edward Island Category:1915 in Prince Edward Island Category:September 1915 in Canada