Early results in P.E.I.'s Malpeque riding show lead for Liberal incumbent Heath MacDonald

Stephen Brun · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 28, 2025 8:42 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

Early results successful P.E.I.'s Malpeque riding amusement Liberal incumbent Heath MacDonald successful an aboriginal pb with 17 of the riding's 97 polls reporting.

MacDonald holds a pb of 1,563 votes to 975 for Conservative campaigner Jamie Fox, a erstwhile provincial Progressive Conservative furniture minister, arsenic national predetermination results begin to roll in. 

MacDonald's ballot total represents 58.1 per cent of the ballots counted truthful far.

The Green Party's Anna Keenan has 98 votes successful third, with the NDP's Cassie MacKay and People's Party of Canada campaigner Hilda Baughan trailing successful a distant 4th and fifth, respectively.

The cardinal P.E.I. riding of Malpeque is 1 with a increasing population, peculiarly successful towns similar Kensington and Cornwall. 

Balancing colonisation maturation and the request for lodging with the extortion of farmland is thing residents successful the riding person expressed concerns about, immoderate candidates said. 

It's besides location to the P.E.I. extremity of the Confederation Bridge to New Brunswick, the toll connected which has been a interest for Islanders for immoderate time. Federal leaders person weighed successful connected the contented successful caller weeks, promising to trim oregon destruct the toll should they beryllium elected. 

The riding has remained Liberal for much than 30 years.