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Charlottetown

2008 Results

Charlottetown
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Nov. 7, 2008 5:00 PM EST		83/83 polls
LIB	Shawn Murphy	8,893	50.06	Elected
CON	Tom DeBlois	5,704	32.11
NDP	Brian Pollard	2,187	12.31
GRN	Laura Bisaillon	858	4.83
CHP	Baird Judson	124	0.70

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This urban riding covers the city of Charlottetown.

The government sector, provincial and federal, is the largest employer in the riding. The University of P.E.I., Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Holland College help provide a stable employment base. The retail/service sector, focused on tourism, is another major contributor. The average family income is $69,565, the highest in the province, and the 2006 census shows an unemployment rate of nine per cent.

The immigrant population is slightly less than five per cent. Almost 94 per cent of the population cited English as their first language. Homeowners only slightly outnumbered renters in this riding, 53 per cent to 47 per cent. About 23 per cent of the population over age 25 has a university certificate or degree.

In 2004, 88 per cent of Hillsborough riding was combined with four per cent of Malpeque riding and the constituency was renamed Charlottetown.

Population: 32,174 (2006 census; a decrease of 0.2% since 2001)

Political History

Liberal incumbent Shawn Murphy triumphed again in 2006, taking 50 per cent of the vote.

In 2004, Murphy defeated Progressive Conservative Darren Peters by 4,054 votes.

The former riding of Queen's used to elect two members until the redistribution of 1966, which divided the riding into Hillsborough and Malpeque. One of the Queen's MPs, PC Heath MacQuarrie, went on to be re-elected in Hillsborough. He represented the area from 1957 until the election of 1979, when he chose not to run. That same year, MacQuarrie was appointed to the Senate. PC Angus Maclean was the other MP in the 1951 to 1974 period, serving as minister of fisheries and postmaster general under John Diefenbaker.

PC Tom McMillan won in 1979, 1980 and 1984. He was appointed minister of state for tourism in 1983 and the environment minister in 1985. Liberal George Proud defeated McMillan in 1988 and was elected for a further two terms.

Hillsborough:

1968-84 inclusive - PC
1988-2000 inclusive - LIB

Charlottetown:

2004, 2006 - LIB

Overall Results

Overall Election Results
Party	Elected	Leading	Total	Vote Share (%)
Updated: Nov. 7, 2008, 5:00 PM EST
CON	143	0	143	37.63
LIB	77	0	77	26.24
BQ	49	0	49	9.97
NDP	37	0	37	18.20
IND	2	0	2	0.65
GRN	0	0	0	6.80
OTH	0	0	0	0.51

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