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Rookie campaigner Kent MacDonald holds a important aboriginal pb successful the eastbound P.E.I. riding of Cardigan arsenic results commencement to rotation in.
The eastbound riding is the lone 1 connected P.E.I. without an incumbent candidate
Stephen Brun · CBC News
· Posted: Apr 28, 2025 8:17 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago
Rookie campaigner Kent MacDonald holds a important aboriginal pb successful the eastbound P.E.I. riding of Cardigan arsenic results commencement to rotation in.
With 5 of the riding's 97 polls reporting, the Liberal campaigner holds a pb of 2,050 votes implicit the Conservative's James Aylward with 869.
NDP campaigner Lynne Thiele is successful 3rd with 45 votes, Maria Rodriguez of the Green Party has 37, Independent Wayne Phelan has 29 and the People's Party of Canada's Adam Harding has 10.
P.E.I.'s easternmost riding of Cardigan is simply a predominantly agrarian area, and there's a batch of it. It's the largest successful country of the 4 ridings, and has the astir eligible voters, according to Elections Canada.
It's the lone 1 of P.E.I.'s 4 ridings that does not person an incumbent candidate.
Liberal Lawrence MacAulay, the longest-serving MP successful the Island's history, confirmed successful March that helium wouldn't tally again.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Stephen Brun works for CBC successful Charlottetown, P.E.I. Through the years helium has been a writer and exertion for a fig of newspapers and quality sites crossed Canada, astir precocious successful the Atlantic region. You tin scope him astatine [email protected].
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