| Election Name: | 1970 Prince Edward Island general election |
| Country: | Prince Edward Island |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Party Colour: | no |
| Party Name: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1966 Prince Edward Island general election |
| Previous Year: | 1966 |
| Next Election: | 1974 Prince Edward Island general election |
| Next Year: | 1974 |
| Seats For Election: | All 32 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island |
| Majority Seats: | 17 |
| Image1: | Lib |
| Leader1: | Alex Campbell |
| Leader Since1: | December 11, 1965 |
| Leaders Seat1: | 5th Prince |
| Last Election1: | 17 seats, 50.5% |
| Seats1: | 27 |
| Seat Change1: | 10 |
| Popular Vote1: | 64,484 |
| Percentage1: | 58.4% |
| Swing1: | 7.9pp |
| Map Size: | 400px |
| Premier | |
| Before Election: | Alex Campbell |
| Posttitle: | Premier after election |
| After Election: | Alex Campbell |
| Previous Mps: | 51st General Assembly of Prince Edward Island |
| Elected Mps: | members |
| Next Mps: | 53rd General Assembly of Prince Edward Island |
| Leader2: | George Key |
| Leader Since2: | September 21, 1968 |
| Leaders Seat2: | Ran in 2nd Prince (lost) |
| Last Election2: | 15 seats, 49.5% |
| Seats2: | 5 |
| Seat Change2: | 10 |
| Popular Vote2: | 46,015 |
| Percentage2: | 41.6 |
| Swing2: | 7.9pp |
The 1970 Prince Edward Island general election was held on May 11, 1970.[1]
The incumbent Liberal government of Alex Campbell was easily re-elected, gaining a total of 7.9% in the popular vote on the Tories, who dropped by the identical amount, as only the two parties ran any candidates in both the 1970 and 1966 elections.[2]
Jean Canfield, the first woman ever elected to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island, was a victorious candidate in 1st Queens in this election.[3]
| 27 | 5 | |
| Liberal | PC |
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. Before 1963, Councillors were only elected by landowners within a district, but afterward were elected in the same manner as Assemblymen.[4]
| District | Assemblyman | Party | Councillor | Party | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Kings | Bruce L. Stewart | Liberal | Daniel J. MacDonald | Liberal Progressive Conservative | |||||
| 2nd Kings | Walter Dingwell | Progressive Conservative | Leo Rossiter | Progressive Conservative | |||||
| 3rd Kings | William Bennett Campbell | Liberal | Bud Ings | Liberal | |||||
| 4th Kings | Lorne Bonnell | Liberal | Gilbert R. Clements | Liberal | |||||
| 5th Kings | Arthur J. MacDonald | Liberal | George J. Ferguson | Liberal | |||||
| District | Assemblyman | Party | Councillor | Party | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Prince | Russell Perry | Liberal | Robert E. Campbell | Liberal | |||||
| 2nd Prince | George Dewar | Progressive Conservative | Joshua MacArthur | Liberal | |||||
| 3rd Prince | William Gallant | Liberal | Edward Clark | Liberal | |||||
| 4th Prince | Robert Schurman | Liberal | | Frank Jardine | Liberal | ||||
| 5th Prince | Earle Hickey | Progressive Conservative | Alexander B. Campbell | Liberal | |||||
| District | Assemblyman | Party | Councillor | Party | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Queens | Jean Canfield | Liberal | Ralph Johnstone | Liberal | |||||
| 2nd Queens | Sinclair Cutcliffe | Liberal | Lloyd MacPhail | Progressive Conservative | |||||
| 3rd Queens | Cecil A. Miller | Liberal | Levi McNally | Liberal | |||||
| 4th Queens | J. Stewart Ross | Liberal | Daniel Compton | Progressive Conservative | |||||
| 5th Queens | Gordon L. Bennett | Liberal | Elmer Blanchard | Liberal | |||||
| 6th Queens | Allison MacDonald | Liberal | John H. Maloney | Liberal | |||||