Charlottetown (electoral district)

Charlottetown

Prince Edward Island electoral district
Charlottetown in relation to the other Prince Edward Island ridings
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Sean Casey Liberal
District created	2003
First contested	2004
Last contested	2011
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2006)	32,174
Electors (2011)	26,067
Area (km²)	46
Pop. density (per km²)	699.4
Census divisions	Queens
Census subdivisions	Charlottetown

Charlottetown is a federal electoral district in Prince Edward Island, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004. The district, which includes the entire City of Charlottetown, has an area of 46 km² and a population of 32,245 as of 2001.

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

History

From 1966 until 2004, most of the Charlottetown riding was part of the riding of Hillsborough. In 2003, there was a riding readjustment; some pieces 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.

Member of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

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

Election results

Charlottetown 2004-present

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Sean Casey	7,292	39.48	-10.58
	Conservative	Donna Profit	6,040	32.71	+0.60
	New Democrat	Joe Byrne	4,632	25.08	+12.77
	Green	Eliza Knockwood	417	2.26	-2.57
	Christian Heritage	Baird Judson	87	0.47	-0.23
Total valid votes/Expense limit			18,468	100.00
Total rejected ballots			113	0.61	-0.16
Turnout			18,581	70.10	+3.96
Eligible voters			26,507

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Shawn Murphy	8,893	50.06	-0.10	$65,348
	Conservative	Tom DeBlois	5,704	32.11	-2.03	$48,872
	New Democrat	Brian Pollard	2,187	12.31	+1.19	$4,744
	Green	Laura Bisaillon	858	4.83	+1.76	$1,266
	Christian Heritage	Baird Judson	124	0.70	+0.19	$8,750
Total valid votes/Expense limit			17,776	100.00		$67,455
Total rejected ballots			137	0.77	+0.26
Turnout			17,913	66.14
Eligible voters			27,083

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Shawn Murphy	9,586	50.16	+0.80
	Conservative	Tom DeBlois	6,524	34.14	+6.59
	New Democrat	Brian Pollard	2,126	11.12	-7.32
	Green	David Daughton	586	3.07	-1.02
	Marijuana	Andrew J. Chisholm	193	1.01
	Christian Heritage	Baird Judson	97	0.51	-0.05
Total valid votes			19,112	100.00
	Liberal hold		Swing	-2.9

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Shawn Murphy	9,175	49.36	+6.80
	Conservative	Darren Peters	5,121	27.55	-9.80
	New Democrat	Dody Crane	3,428	18.44	-2.90
	Green	Will McFadden	760	4.09
	Christian Heritage	Baird Judson	105	0.56	+0.30
Total valid votes			18,589	100.00

Change from 2000 is based on redistributed results. The Conservative Party change is based on the combination of Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party totals. The Christian Heritage Party change based on vote from previous election of the same candidate, who ran as an independent (the CHP was not recognized in that election.)

Hillsborough 1968-2004

Canadian federal election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Shawn Murphy	8,277	41.81
	Progressive Conservative	Darren Peters	6,039	30.50
	New Democrat	Dody Crane	4,328	21.86
	Canadian 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%

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	George Proud	7,630	40.87
	New Democrat	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%

Canadian federal election, 1993
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	George Proud	11,976	60.57
	Progressive Conservative	Tom McMillan	5,269	26.65
	New Democrat	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

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

Canadian federal election, 1984
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Tom McMillan	9,158	53.20
	Liberal	Gerry Birt	6,768	39.32
	New Democrat	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

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

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

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

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

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

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Past Canadian electoral districts

References

• 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. http://www.cbc.ca/canadavotes2006/riding/009/. Retrieved 20 December 2010.