Canadian provincial election
1989 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 |
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 Seats won by each party per district. Voters elect two members (one Councillor and Assemblyman) from each of the 16 districts. |
Premier before election
Joe Ghiz
Liberal | Premier after election
Joe Ghiz
Liberal | |
The 1989 Prince Edward Island general election was held on May 29, 1989.[1]
The campaign resulted in the re-election of the Liberal government of Premier Joe Ghiz. In this election, the Liberals won 60.7% of the popular vote, the highest percentage that a winning party has taken on record in Prince Edward Island. The Progressive Conservatives won 2 seats despite taking 36 percent of the popular vote; they were due 12 seats. This was the lowest share of the vote that the Progressive Conservatives ever received, 35.8%. Only 5 times has the Opposition had 2 or fewer seats in the history of Prince Edward Island; this was one of them.
One of the two members from each constituency is styled a Councillor, and the other an Assemblyman. In electoral contests Councillor candidates run against Councillor candidates; Assemblyman candidates against Assemblyman candidates.[2]
Opinion polls
Evolution of voting intentions at provincial level | Polling firm | Last day
of survey | Source | PEILA | PCPEI | NDPPEI | ME | Sample |
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| Election 1989 | May 29, 1989 | | 60.7 | 35.8 | 3.5 | | |
| Baseline Research | May 10, 1989 | [3] | 68 | 26 | 6 | 6−7 | 200 |
| Election 1986 | April 21, 1986 | | 50.3 | 45.5 | 4.0 | | |
Party standings
| Popular vote |
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| | | | Liberal | | 60.72% | | PC | | 35.82% | | New Democratic | | 3.46% | |
| Seats summary |
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| | | | Liberal | | 93.75% | | PC | | 6.25% | |
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.[4]
Kings
Prince
Queens
Sources
- ^ "Provincial General Election Results, 1989" (PDF). Elections PEI. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 5, 2016. Retrieved May 25, 2015.
- ^ "Canadian Parliamentary Review - Article". Archived from the original on May 5, 2021. Retrieved January 11, 2022.
- ^ "Ghiz to win handily, Islander poll shows". The Windsor Star. May 17, 1989. p. E7.
- ^ Fred Driscoll. "History and Politics of Prince Edward Island" (PDF). Canadian Parliamentary Review. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved October 22, 2016.
Further reading
- Leyton-Brown, David, ed. (1995). Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs, 1989. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802007148.
