PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND VOTES 2007

District Profiles

DISTRICT: TYNE VALLEY-LINKLETTER
Candidate Party Vote Count Vote Share Elected
Paula Biggar LIB 1,599 58.06% X
Philip Brown PC 1,155 41.94%
Updated: Nov. 29, 2007 02:25 AST 12 of 12 polls reporting

Tyne Valley-Linkletter (23)


Candidates:
PC Philip Brown
LIB Paula Biggar

District Profile:

This district takes in the western suburbs of Summerside and stretches up along the North Shore past Tyne Valley and to Lennox Island. It also splits the community of Miscouche (pop. 769) roughly in half.

The district shares in the shellfishery in Malpeque Bay, and has a major tourist attraction at Green Park. Lennox Island (pop. 261) is the province's largest First Nations reserve.

The emergency department at the Stewart Memorial Hospital in Tyne Valley has been closed down since the last election, but earlier this year a new clinic and outpatient facilities were announced.


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Political History:
Cascumpec-Grand River
2003 PHILIP BROWN (PC) beat ROBERT NOYE (LIB) by 496 votes.
2000 Brown slipped past ROB HENDERSON (LIB) by a 24-vote margin.
1996 KEITH MILLIGAN (LIB) beat BARRY BALSOM (PC) by 1,108 votes.

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Overall Election Results
Party Elected Leading Total Vote Share
LIB 23 0 23 52.93%
PC 4 0 4 41.35%
GRN 0 0 0 3.04%
NDP 0 0 0 1.96%
OTH 0 0 0 0.73%
  • Updated: Nov 29, 2007, 02:25 AST

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