Charlottetown (electoral district)

Charlottetown
Prince Edward Island electoral district
	Charlottetown in relation to the other Prince Edward Island ridings
Coordinates:	46°15′36″N 63°08′02″W / 46.260°N 63.134°W
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Sean Casey; Liberal
;
District created	2003
First contested	2004
Last contested	2021
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2016)	36,094
Electors (2019)	27,480
Area (km²)	46
Pop. density (per km²)	784.7
Census division(s)	Queens
Census subdivision(s)	Charlottetown

Charlottetown (formerly Hillsborough) is a federal electoral district in Prince Edward Island, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2004. The district, which includes the entire City of Charlottetown, has an area of 46 km² and a population of 34,562 as of 2011.^[2]

Hillsborough was formed in 1966 (from the old Queen's (Prince Edward Island federal electoral district). It elected its first MP in 1968. It was re=drawn and re-named Charlottetown in 2003.

Following the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution, at the first election held after April 22, 2024. It will gain newly annexed territory by the City of Charlottetown in the Marshfield area from Malpeque.^[3]

Demographics

Ethnic groups: 97.2% White
Languages: 94.8% English, 2.1% French, 2.5% Other
Religions: 47.7% Catholic, 39.5% Protestant, 2.5% Other Christian, 8.3% no affiliation
Average income: $26,205

According to the 2016 Canadian census

Twenty most common mother tongue languages (2016) : 86.8% English, 3.7% Mandarin, 2.1% French, 1.3% Arabic, 0.6% Nepali, 0.4% Cantonese, 0.4% Spanish, 0.4% Tagalog, 0.3% Farsi, 0.3% Russian, 0.2% Dutch, 0.2% Vietnamese, 0.2% Albanian, 0.2% Korean^[4]

History

From 1966 until 2004, most of the Charlottetown riding was part of the riding of Hillsborough. In 2003, there was a riding readjustment; a part of the old Hillsborough riding became part of Cardigan. 96.4% of the riding of Charlottetown was previously part of the Hillsborough riding, and 3.6% was previously part of Malpeque. There were no boundary changes as a result of the 2012 federal electoral redistribution.

Member of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
Hillsborough Riding created from Queen's
28th	1968–1972	Heath MacQuarrie	Progressive Conservative
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1979
31st	1979–1980	Tom McMillan
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988
34th	1988–1993	George Proud	Liberal
35th	1993–1997
36th	1997–2000
37th	2000–2004	Shawn Murphy
Charlottetown
38th	2004–2006	Shawn Murphy	Liberal
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015	Sean Casey
42nd	2015–2019
43rd	2019–2021
44th	2021–present

Election results

Graph of election results in Hillsborough, Charlottetown (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

Charlottetown

Graph of election results in Charlottetown (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

2021

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Sean Casey	8,919	46.70	+2.44	$72,839.73
	Conservative	Doug Currie	5,932	31.06	+10.77	$77,864.04
	New Democratic	Margaret Andrade	2,048	10.72	-0.52	$3,242.50
	Green	Darcie Lanthier	1,832	9.59	-13.76	none listed
	People's	Scott McPhee	369	1.93	–	$0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			19,100	98.97	+0.40	$88,991.90
Total rejected ballots			198	1.03	-0.40
Turnout			19,298	71.08	-2.37
Eligible voters			27,150
	Liberal hold		Swing		-4.17
Source: Elections Canada^[5]^[6]

2019

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Sean Casey	8,812	44.26	−12.01	$81,859.21
	Green	Darcie Lanthier	4,648	23.35	+17.57	$36,415.23
	Conservative	Robert A. Campbell	4,040	20.29	+5.47	$46,459.01
	New Democratic	Joe Byrne	2,238	11.24	−11.90	$4,819.38
	Christian Heritage	Fred MacLeod	172	0.86	New	$1,200.90
Total valid votes/expense limit			19,910	100.0		$86,542.92
Total rejected ballots			274	1.36	+0.89
Turnout			20,184	73.45	−2.14
Eligible voters			27,480
	Liberal hold		Swing		−14.79
Source: Elections Canada^[7]

2015

v t e 2015 Canadian federal election: Charlottetown
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Sean Casey	11,910	56.27	+16.79	$133,567.53
	New Democratic	Joe Byrne	4,897	23.14	–1.94	$51,147.58
	Conservative	Ron MacMillan	3,136	14.82	–17.89	$73,560.00
	Green	Becka Viau	1,222	5.77	+3.51	$5,912.52
Total valid votes/expense limit			21,165	99.53		$170,107.74
Total rejected ballots			99	0.47	–0.14
Turnout			21,264	76.24	+6.14
Eligible voters			27,891
	Liberal hold		Swing		+9.36
Source: Elections Canada^[8]^[9]

2011

v t e 2011 Canadian federal election: Charlottetown
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Sean Casey	7,292	39.48	-10.58	$61,465.09
	Conservative	Donna Profit	6,040	32.71	+0.60	$48,556.35
	New Democratic	Joe Byrne	4,632	25.08	+12.77	$45,026.11
	Green	Eliza Knockwood	417	2.26	-2.57	$2,301.92
	Christian Heritage	Baird Judson	87	0.47	-0.23	$3,159.86
Total valid votes/expense limit			18,468	100.0	–	$69,664.10
Total rejected ballots			113	0.61	-0.16
Turnout			18,581	70.10	+3.96
Eligible voters			26,507
	Liberal hold		Swing		-5.59
Sources:^[10]^[11]

2008

v t e 2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Shawn Murphy	8,893	50.06	-0.10	$66,093.14
	Conservative	Tom DeBlois	5,704	32.11	-2.03	$48,302.66
	New Democratic	Brian Pollard	2,187	12.31	+1.19	$4,744.42
	Green	Laura Bisaillon	858	4.83	+1.76	$1,257.27
	Christian Heritage	Baird Judson	124	0.70	+0.19	$8,750.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			17,776	100.0	–	$67,455
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			137	0.77	+0.18
Turnout			17,913	66.14	-4.61
Eligible voters			27,083
	Liberal hold		Swing		+0.96

2006

v t e 2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Shawn Murphy	9,586	50.16	+0.80	$60,442.09
	Conservative	Tom DeBlois	6,524	34.14	+6.59	$60,317.15
	New Democratic	Brian Pollard	2,126	11.12	-7.32	$5,251.38
	Green	David Daughton	586	3.07	-1.02	$780.62
	Marijuana	Andrew J. Chisholm	193	1.01	–	none listed
	Christian Heritage	Baird Judson	97	0.51	-0.05	$5,346.77
Total valid votes/expense limit			19,112	100.0	–	$62,665
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			114	0.59	-0.12
Turnout			19,226	70.75	+3.45
Eligible voters			27,175
	Liberal hold		Swing		-2.90

2004

v t e 2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Shawn Murphy	9,175	49.36	+6.80	$59,677.46
	Conservative	Darren Peters	5,121	27.55	-7.80	$60,605.56
	New Democratic	Dody Crane	3,428	18.44	-2.91	$13,197.84
	Green	Will McFadden	760	4.09	–	$1,647.47
	Christian Heritage	Baird Judson	105	0.56	–	$2,837.13
Total valid votes/expense limit			18,589	100.0	–	$61,440
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			133	0.71
Turnout			18,722	67.30
Eligible voters			27,820
	Liberal notional hold		Swing		+7.30
Changes from 2000 are based on redistributed results. Change for the Conservatives is based on the combined total of the Progressive Conservatives and the Canadian Alliance.

2000 federal election redistributed results
Party		Vote	%
	Liberal	7,427	42.56
	Progressive Conservative	5,270	30.20
	New Democratic	3,725	21.35
	Alliance	899	5.15
	Others	129	0.74

Hillsborough

Graph of election results in Hillsborough (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

2000

v t e 2000 Canadian federal election: Hillsborough
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Shawn Murphy	8,277	41.81
	Progressive Conservative	Darren Peters	6,039	30.50
	New Democratic	Dody Crane	4,328	21.86
	Alliance	Gerry Stewart	1,005	5.08
	Natural Law	Peter Cameron	92	0.46
	Independent	Baird Judson	58	0.29
Turnout			19,895	67.2

1997

v t e 1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	George Proud	7,630	40.87
	New Democratic	Dody Crane	5,751	30.80
	Progressive Conservative	Mitchell Tweel	4,594	24.61
	Reform	Blaine Jensen	476	2.55
	Christian Heritage	Baird Judson	145	0.78
	Natural Law	Paula Price	74	0.40
Turnout			18,847	71.2%

1993

v t e 1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	George Proud	11,976	60.57
	Progressive Conservative	Thomas McMillan	5,269	26.65
	New Democratic	Dody Crane	1,143	5.78
	Reform	Freeman T. Whitty	744	3.76
	National	Dave Patterson	350	1.77
	Christian Heritage	Baird Judson	167	0.84
	Natural Law	Peter Cameron	123	0.62

1988

v t e 1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	George Proud	8,897	43.68
	Progressive Conservative	Thomas McMillan	8,638	42.41
	New Democratic	Dody Crane	1,984	5.78
	Independent	David Weale	569	2.79
	Christian Heritage	Baird Judson	281	1.38

1984

v t e 1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Thomas McMillan	9,158	53.20
	Liberal	Gerry Birt	6,768	39.32
	New Democratic	David Burke	846	4.91
	Independent	Big John Muise	323	1.88
	Independent	Izzurd Goat McFadden	82	0.48
	Green	David Daughton	37	0.21

1980

v t e 1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Thomas McMillan	7,128	47.66
	Liberal	Gerry Birt	6,555	43.83
	New Democratic	Bob Crockett	1,245	8.32
	Marxist–Leninist	Kathryn Schmidt	28	0.19

1979

v t e 1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Thomas McMillan	8,338	54.99
	Liberal	Gordon Tweedy	5,319	35.08
	New Democratic	Bob Crockett	1,453	9.58
	Libertarian	Garry Anstett	54	0.36

1974

v t e 1974 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Heath MacQuarrie	9,917	50.36
	Liberal	George Chandler	8,577	43.56
	New Democratic	Preston MacLeod	1,197	6.08

1972

v t e 1972 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Heath MacQuarrie	10,605	55.13
	Liberal	Ian Glass	7,168	37.26
	New Democratic	Etsel Ross	1,464	7.61

1968

v t e 1968 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Heath MacQuarrie	8,328	54.99
	Liberal	Jack McAndrew	6,447	41.05
	New Democratic	David Hall	930	5.92

Student vote results

In a student vote, participating Canadian schools to parallel the Canadian federal election results. The vote was designed to educate students and simulate the electoral process for persons who have not yet reached the legal majority. Schools with a large student body that reside in another electoral district had the option to vote for candidates outside of the electoral district then where they were physically located.^[12]

Graph of student vote election results in Charlottetown (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

2019

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sean Casey	1,002	32.01	-9.52
	Green	Darcie Lanthier	983	31.41	+7.7
	Conservative	Robert Campell	536	17.12	+5.05
	New Democratic	Joe Byrne	470	15.02	-7.66
	Christian Heritage	Fred MacLeod	139	4.44	New
Total Valid Votes			3,130	100.0
Source: Student Vote^[13]

2015

v t e 2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sean Casey	1,280	41.53	+13.3
	Green	Becka Viau	731	23.72	+8.37
	New Democratic	Joe Byrne	699	22.68	-7.24
	Conservative	Ron MacMillan	372	12.07	-9.19
Total Valid Votes			3,082	100.0

2011

2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Joe Byrne	785	29.92
	Liberal	Sean Casey	767	29.23
	Conservative	Donna Profit	558	21.26
	Green	Eliza Knockwood	402	15.32
	Christian Heritage	Baird Judson	112	4.27
Total valid votes			2,624	100.00

References

"Charlottetown (electoral district) (Code 11002) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada. Retrieved March 3, 2011.
Riding history for Hillsborough (1966–2003) from the Library of Parliament
Riding history for Charlottetown (2003–) from the Library of Parliament
"Canada Votes 2006". CBC News. Retrieved December 20, 2010.

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Charlottetown (electoral district)

Contents

Demographics

History

Member of Parliament

Election results

Charlottetown

2021

2019

2015

2011

2008

2006

2004

Hillsborough

2000

1997

1993

1988

1984

1980

1979

1974

1972

1968

Student vote results

2019

2015

2011

See also

References

Notes