Liberals strengthen hold on P.E.I., edging up in popular vote
CBC
For the ninth time in the last 11 federal elections, the Liberal Party of Canada has taken every seat on Prince Edward Island.
While Liberal support slipped nationally, the party's share of the vote actually rose a couple of points on the Island. None of the four races was particularly close, leaving the Conservatives, Greens and NDP battling for second place.
For the first time since 2011, the Conservatives now have a firm hold on that position. The party placed second in all four ridings this time, after managing to do that only in Cardigan and Egmont two years ago.
But the Conservatives, about 14 percentage points behind in the popular vote, are far from threatening a streak of Liberal dominance that stretches back to 1988, the start of Brian Mulroney's second term as prime minister. Since that election, only twice have Islanders elected an MP who wasn't a Liberal: Conservative Gail Shea in Egmont in 2008 and 2011.
When Canadians went to the polls in October 2019, it looked like there might be a new contender to challenge Liberal dominance in the country's smallest province.
On the heels of a provincial election in April of that year that made the Green Party the official Opposition on P.E.I., the Greens took second place in Charlottetown and Malpeque federally. In terms of the popular vote, they still lagged behind the Conservatives province-wide, but the party's vote growth was remarkable.
The party earned about six per cent of the federal vote on the Island in 2015, and that grew to more than 20 per cent in 2019. This election, that vote was cut in half, with the other votes being spread among the Liberals, the Conservatives and the NDP.
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