| Election Name: | 1915 Prince Edward Island general election |
| Country: | Prince Edward Island |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Party Colour: | no |
| Party Name: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1912 Prince Edward Island general election |
| Previous Year: | 1912 |
| Previous Mps: | 37th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island |
| Elected Mps: | members |
| Next Election: | 1919 Prince Edward Island general election |
| Next Year: | 1919 |
| Next Mps: | 39th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island |
| Seats For Election: | All 30 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island |
| Majority Seats: | 16 |
| Leader1: | John A. Mathieson |
| Leader Since1: | 1903 |
| Leaders Seat1: | 5th Kings |
| Last Election1: | 28 seats, 59.2% |
| Seats1: | 17 |
| Seat Change1: | 11 |
| Popular Vote1: | 17,179 |
| Percentage1: | 50.1% |
| Swing1: | 9.1pp |
| Leader2: | unknown |
| Leader Since2: | - |
| Leaders Seat2: | - |
| Last Election2: | 2 seats, 40.8% |
| Seats2: | 13 |
| Seat Change2: | 11 |
| Popular Vote2: | 17,097 |
| Percentage2: | 49.9% |
| Swing2: | 9.1pp |
| Premier | |
| Posttitle: | Premier after election |
| Before Election: | John A. Mathieson |
| After Election: | John A. Mathieson |
The 1915 Prince Edward Island general election was held in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island on September 16, 1915.[1] The election was held in the midst of the First World War.
The election was won by the governing Conservatives, led by incumbent Premier John A. Mathieson, whose government lost a large number of seats as the opposition Liberals won back a number of districts lost in previous elections.
The Liberals in this election were able to climb up from one of their worst electoral defeats in 1912 to nearly topple the Mathieson government. However, it is unknown who the Liberal leader was during the election, if there was one at all. Previous Official Opposition Leader John Richards chose not to run in this election, while his successor John Howatt Bell was chosen as leader following the election. It is possible the Liberals did not have an official leader for this election.
The Legislature of Prince Edward Island had two levels of membership from 1893 to 1996 - Assemblymen and Councillors. This was a holdover from when the Island had a bicameral legislature, the General Assembly and the Legislative Council.
In 1893, the Legislative Council was abolished and had its membership merged with the Assembly, though the two titles remained separate and were elected by different electoral franchises. Assembleymen were elected by all eligible voters of within a district, while Councillors were only elected by landowners within a district.[2]
| District | Assemblyman | Party | Councillor | Party | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Kings | Augustine A. MacDonald | Conservative | John McLean | Conservative | |||||
| 2nd Kings | Harvey D. McEwen | Conservative | James D. McInnis | Liberal | |||||
| 3rd Kings | John A. Dewar | Conservative | James J. Johnston | Liberal | |||||
| 4th Kings | Albert P. Prowse | Conservative | Murdock MacKinnon | Conservative | |||||
| 5th Kings | Roderick J. McLellan | Conservative | John Alexander Mathieson | Conservative | |||||