Charlottetown (electoral district)

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Charlottetown

Prince Edward Island electoral district
Charlottetown in relation to the other Prince Edward Island ridings
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP		Shawn Murphy Liberal
District created	2003
First contested	2004
Last contested	2006
Demographics
Population (2006)	32,174
Electors (2006)	27,175
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 sq. km. and a population of 32,245 as of 2001.

Contents 1 Demographics 2 History 2.1 Member of Parliament 3 Election results 4 See also 5 References

[edit] 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

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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-

[edit] Election results

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Shawn Murphy	9586	50.16	+0.80
	Conservative	Tom DeBlois	6524	34.14	+6.59
	New Democrat	Brian Pollard	2126	11.12	-7.32
	Green	David Daughton	586	3.07	-1.02
	Marijuana	Andrew J. Chisholm	193	1.01	Ø
	Christian Heritage	Baird Judson	97	0.51	-0.05
Total valid votes			19 112

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Shawn Murphy	9175	49.36	+6.8
	Conservative	Darren Peters	5121	27.55	-9.8
	New Democrat	Dody Crane	3428	18.44	-2.9
	Green	Will McFadden	760	4.09	Ø
	Christian Heritage	Baird Judson	105	0.56	+0.3
Total valid votes			18 589

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 change based on vote from previous election of the same candidate, who ran as an independent (the CHP was not recognized in that election.)

[edit] See also

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

[edit] References

• Riding history for Hillsborough (1966–2003) from the Library of Parliament
• Riding history for Charlottetown (2003–) from the Library of Parliament

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