Charlottetown-Victoria Park

Charlottetown-Victoria Park is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island, Canada. It consists of the entire downtown core of Charlottetown. It was previously known as Charlottetown-Kings Square.

Charlottetown-Victoria Park

Prince Edward Island electoral district
Coordinates:	46°14′06″N 63°07′41″W / 46.235°N 63.128°W / 46.235; -63.128
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island
MLA	Karla Bernard Green
District created	1996
First contested	1996
Last contested	2023
Demographics
Census division(s)	Queens County
Census subdivision(s)	Charlottetown

Members

The riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly:

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Charlottetown-Victoria Park
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
See 5th Queens 1873–1996 and 6th Queens 1966–1996
60th	1996–1997		Wayne Cheverie	Liberal
	1997–2000		Richard Brown
61st	2000–2003		Bob MacMillan	Progressive Conservative
62nd	2003–2007		Richard Brown	Liberal
63rd	2007–2011
64th	2011–2015
65th	2015–2019
66th	2019–2023		Karla Bernard	Green
67th	2023–present

Election results

Charlottetown-Victoria Park, 2007–present

v t e 2023 Prince Edward Island general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Karla Bernard	1,052	42.0	+1.5
	Progressive Conservative	Tim Keizer	978	39.0	+18.2
	Liberal	Barb MacLeod	293	11.7	-16.2
	New Democratic	Joe Byrne	150	6.0	-4.8
	Island	Danni Moher	32	1.3
Total valid votes			2,505	100.0
	Green hold		Swing		-4.8
Source(s) ^[1]

v t e 2019 Prince Edward Island general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Green	Karla Bernard	1,272	40.5	+21.7	$5,713.87
	Liberal	Richard Brown	875	27.9	-11.5	$8,745.20
	Progressive Conservative	Tim Keizer	656	20.9	-6.6	$8,352.69
	New Democratic	Joe Byrne	338	10.8	-3.6	$20,244.92
Total valid votes/expense limit			3,141	99.5		$11,564.28
Rejected ballots			17	0.5
Turnout			3,158	74.55	−6.1
Eligible voters			4,236
	Green gain from Liberal		Swing		+14.4
Source: Elections PEI^[2]

2015 Prince Edward Island general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Richard Brown	955	39.38	-11.75
	Progressive Conservative	Joey Kitson	666	27.46	+0.53
	Green	Darcie Lanthier	456	18.80	+5.94
	New Democratic	Chris Clay	348	14.35	+6.16
Total valid votes			2,425	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		-6.14
^[3]

2011 Prince Edward Island general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Richard Brown	1,105	51.13	-2.45
	Progressive Conservative	Miles MacKinnon	582	26.93	-6.48
	Green	Sharon Labchuk	278	12.86	+7.07
	New Democratic	Rita Jackson	177	8.19	+0.97
	Island	Phillip Stewart	19	0.88
Total valid votes			2,161	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		+2.02

2007 Prince Edward Island general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Richard Brown	1,536	53.58	+2.57
	Progressive Conservative	Jason Lee	958	33.41	-12.50
	New Democratic	Dean Constable	207	7.22	+4.13
	Green	Denise Reiser	166	5.79
Total valid votes			2,867	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		+7.54

2016 electoral reform plebiscite results

2016 Prince Edward Island electoral reform referendum
Side	Votes	%
Mixed Member Proportional	411	33.86
Dual Member Proportional Representation	338	27.84
First Past the Post	251	20.68
Preferential Voting	122	10.05
First Past the Post plus leaders	92	7.58
Two-choice preferred result
Mixed Member Proportional	559	55.79
Dual Member Proportional Representation	443	44.21
Total votes cast	1,214	40.83
Registered voters	2,973
Source "Plebiscite Report" (PDF).

Charlottetown-Kings Square, 1996–2007

2003 Prince Edward Island general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Richard Brown	1,420	51.01	+6.66
	Progressive Conservative	Bobby MacMillan	1,278	45.91	+0.97
	New Democratic	Kevin Roach	86	3.09	-7.62
Total valid votes			2,784	100.0
	Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+2.84

2000 Prince Edward Island general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Bobby MacMillan	1,213	44.94	+8.51
	Liberal	Richard Brown	1,197	44.35	+1.68
	New Democratic	Lesley Sprague	289	10.71	-10.19
Total valid votes			2,699	100.0
	Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+3.42

Prince Edward Island provincial by-election, 17 November 1997 On the appointment of Wayne Cheverie to the Regulatory and Appeals Commission
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Richard Brown	1,019	42.67	-5.66
	Progressive Conservative	Brian McKenna	870	36.43	-2.20
	New Democratic	Leo Broderick	499	20.90	+7.86
Total valid votes			2,388	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		-1.73

1996 Prince Edward Island general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Wayne D. Cheverie	1,345	48.33
	Progressive Conservative	Brian McKenna	1,075	38.63
	New Democratic	Sibyl Frei	363	13.04
Total valid votes			2,783	100.0
This riding was created from parts of the dual-member ridings of 5th Queens and 6th Queens.

References

1. "2023 Election Results". Elections PEI. Retrieved April 5, 2023.
2. Garrity, Tim (November 12, 2019). Report of the Chief Electoral Officer of PEI: 2019 Provincial General Election (PDF) (Report). Elections Prince Edward Island. Retrieved April 5, 2023.
3. Elections Prince Edward Island (4 May 2015). . Archived from the original on 2015-05-05. Retrieved 5 May 2015.