Results

STRATFORD-KINLOCK
Party Candidate Votes Status
13/13 polls Updated: Oct. 3, 2011 8:27 PM EDT
PC James Aylward 2,020 Elected
LIB Cynthia Dunsford 1,241
NDP Chris Van Ouwerkerk 205
GRN Donald Killorn 164

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Candidates

  • LIB – Cynthia Dunsford
  • PC – James Aylward
  • NDP – Chris Van Ouwerkerk
  • GREEN – Donald Killorn

The race

This was a very narrow win for the Liberals in 2007.

District profile

This is urban district takes in a large part of Stratford, the Island's third-largest community (pop. 7,083) and the fastest growing.

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An expansion of the Hillsborough Bridge to four lanes in 1998 encouraged many people working in Charlottetown to locate in Stratford. The town's population grew 12.2 per cent between 2001 and 2006, and it continues to grow.

Growth in the area led to the construction of a new elementary school in 2010. Before the 2007 campaign there appeared to be momentum for a junior high school in the town — students are currently bused to Charlottetown — and the Progressive Conservatives promised to build one. But the Liberals won the government and elementary school education was expanded instead.

Political history

2007: Cynthia Dunsford (LIB) squeezed by David McKenna (PC) by 81 votes.

Glen Stewart-Bellevue Cove

2003: McKenna beat Eric Ellsworth (LIB) by 958 votes.

2000: Pat Mella (PC) defeated Viola Evans-Murley (LIB) by 1,547 votes. Mella opted not to run in the 2003 election.

1996: Mella beat Mary Hughes (LIB) by 1,443 votes.