Interim Green party Leader Sharon Labchuk ran for respect and she won that, but not a seat in Rustico-Emerald.
Labchuk ran third in the Central P.E.I. district and scored over six per cent of the popular vote, which by provincial terms is very good for the third-place finisher.
Liberal Carolyn Bertram took the district with 58 per cent of the vote.
Tory David Blacquiere placed second, with 36 per cent of the vote.
"I'm happy — very happy," Labchuck told CBC News after the results came in. "Our objective was to introduce Islanders to us and we succeeded at that."
As for the Liberal surge, Labchuck said: "We don't really see that there's a lot of difference between the [Liberals] and Conservatives."
The longtime environmental activist ran on a platform that included ridding P.E.I. of agriculture pesticides.
She had previously run federally for the Green Party of Canada, but this was her first try at provincial politics.
P.E.I. Votes 2007 Headlines »
- P.E.I. tide paints province Liberal red
- P.E.I.'s Liberal party cruised to a surprisingly easy victory in Monday's provincial election, crushing the governing Progressive Conservatives and reversing the seat count from the previous legislative session.
- Hasty promises, desire for change sank P.E.I. Tories
- Pat Binns and his Progressive Conservatives went down to defeat in Monday's Prince Edward Island election, at least in part because of how two campaign promises fed into Islanders' growing appetite for change.
- Liberal wave fails to flood Eastern P.E.I.
- Progressive Conservative candidates picked up all of their handful of successes in the eastern part of Prince Edward Island on Monday, as Liberals swept the rest of the province.
- Liberals sweep crucial districts
- The Liberal party took every key district they needed for victory Monday night, and then some.
- 6 ministers defeated as P.E.I. cabinet trounced
- Six of Pat Binns's cabinet ministers fell and two were re-elected as P.E.I. voters bounced the Progressive Conservative government out of office Monday night.
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