Tracadie-Hillsborough Park
Tracadie-Hillsborough Park is a former provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island, Canada.
 Prince Edward Island electoral district | |
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| Coordinates: | 46.356°N 62.985°W |
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island |
| Last contested | 2015 |
The district was created in the redistribution that preceded the 2007 Prince Edward Island general election out of parts of Sherwood-Hillsborough, Stanhope-East Royalty and Tracadie-Fort Augustus.
The district was dissolved in the redistribution that preceded the 2019 Prince Edward Island general election. Its urban portion in Charlottetown was transferred to the new district of Charlottetown-Hillsborough Park, while the rural portion was largely transferred to the district of Stanhope-Marshfield,[1] and a small part transferred to Morell-Donagh.
Members
The riding has elected the following Members of the Legislative Assembly:
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Tracadie-Hillsborough Park | ||||
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| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Sherwood-Hillsborough, Stanhope-East Royalty and Tracadie-Fort Augustus 1996-2007 | ||||
| 63rd | 2007–2011 | Buck Watts | Liberal | |
| 64th | 2011–2015 | |||
| 65th | 2015–2019 | |||
| See Charlottetown-Hillsborough Park, Stanhope-Marshfield and Morell-Donagh after 2019 | ||||
Election results
| 2015 Prince Edward Island general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Buck Watts | 1,354 | 45.65 | -2.88 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Darren Creamer | 826 | 27.85 | -14.43 | ||||
| New Democratic | Jason Murray | 549 | 18.51 | +13.45 | ||||
| Green | Isaac Williams | 237 | 7.99 | +4.53 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 2,966 | 99.60 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 12 | 0.40 | -0.12 | |||||
| Turnout | 2,978 | 76.63 | +3.83 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 3,886 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +5.77 | ||||||
| [2] | ||||||||
| 2011 Prince Edward Island general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Buck Watts | 1,304 | 48.53 | -6.86 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Glen Kelly | 1,136 | 42.28 | +3.57 | ||||
| New Democratic | Ron Kelly | 136 | 5.06 | +2.50 | ||||
| Green | Helene Larouche | 93 | 3.46 | +0.12 | ||||
| Island | Gary Chipman | 18 | 0.67 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 2,687 | 99.48 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 14 | 0.52 | ||||||
| Turnout | 2,701 | 72.80 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 3,710 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -5.22 | ||||||
| [3] | ||||||||
| 2007 Prince Edward Island general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Buck Watts | 1,577 | 55.39 | +12.84 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Elmer MacFadyen | 1,102 | 38.71 | -16.58 | ||||
| Green | Robert Pendergast | 95 | 3.34 | |||||
| New Democratic | Peter MacFarlane | 73 | 2.56 | +0.39 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 2,847 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative | Swing | +14.71 | ||||||
2016 electoral reform plebiscite results
| 2016 Prince Edward Island electoral reform referendum | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Side | Votes | % | |
| Mixed Member Proportional | 429 | 30.62 | |
| First Past the Post | 375 | 26.77 | |
| Dual Member Proportional Representation | 322 | 22.98 | |
| Preferential Voting | 174 | 12.42 | |
| First Past the Post plus leaders | 101 | 7.21 | |
| Two-choice preferred result | |||
| Mixed Member Proportional | 789 | 59.01 | |
| First Past the Post | 548 | 40.99 | |
| Total votes cast | 1,401 | 35.65 | |
| Registered voters | 3,930 | ||
Source
"Plebiscite Report" (PDF). | |||
References
- "Districts to watch in the P.E.I. election". CBC News Prince Edward Island, April 18, 2019.
- Elections Prince Edward Island. "2015 Provincial General Election - Official Results" (PDF). Retrieved 15 July 2019.
- Elections Prince Edward Island. "2011 Provincial General Election - Official Results" (PDF). Retrieved 15 July 2019.