{"id":48029,"date":"2019-04-25T03:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T07:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=48029"},"modified":"2019-05-13T10:52:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T14:52:11","slug":"prince-edward-island-elects-its-very-first-minority-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/04\/25\/prince-edward-island-elects-its-very-first-minority-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Edward Island elects its very first minority government"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s not often news from Prince Edward Island<\/a>, Canada’s smallest province, but in yesterday’s provincial election they did something they’ve never done before: elect a minority government and have the first Green Party official opposition.<\/p>\n

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Election results map for the April 23, 2019 provincial election.
Blue – PC (36.5% of the vote for 12 seats)
Red – Liberal (29.5% of the vote for 6 seats)
Green – Green Party (30.6% of the vote for 8 seats)
Orange – NDP (2.9% of the vote for 0 seats)
Map via CBC News – https:\/\/newsinteractives.cbc.ca\/elections\/pei\/2019\/results\/<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Prince Edward Island\u2019s Liberal Premier Wade MacLauchlan lost his own seat to the province\u2019s Progressive Conservatives, who will form the first ever minority government in PEI\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

PEI has traditionally had a two-party system, broken in 2015 with a familiar story: a lone Green seat. We saw it in Ontario, New Brunswick, British Columbia, and federally.<\/p>\n

The PEI Greens, who for a long time looked poised to form government, will form the official opposition. They will become the only party other than the PCs and Liberals to do so. With a by-election to come in the next months, the Green Party won at least nine seats, a record number of elected Greens in Canada.<\/p>\n

Elections in PEI often go unnoticed in most of the country, but this election gained special attention after the tragic news of the death of a candidate and his young son in a canoeing accident.<\/p>\n

But Canadians have been keeping a closer eye to other province\u2019s elections. Consider the unusual level of national attention generated by provincial elections in Alberta, Ontario, and elsewhere.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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