| Election Name: | 1993 Prince Edward Island general election |
| Country: | Prince Edward Island |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Party Colour: | no |
| Party Name: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1989 Prince Edward Island general election |
| Previous Year: | 1989 |
| Previous Mps: | 58th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island |
| Elected Mps: | members |
| Next Election: | 1996 Prince Edward Island general election |
| Next Year: | 1996 |
| Next Mps: | 60th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island |
| Seats For Election: | All 32 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island |
| Majority Seats: | 17 |
| Image1: | Lib |
| Leader1: | Catherine Callbeck |
| Leader Since1: | January 23, 1993 |
| Leaders Seat1: | 1st Queens |
| Last Election1: | 30 seats, 60.7% |
| Seats1: | 31 |
| Seat Change1: | 1 |
| Popular Vote1: | 80,443 |
| Percentage1: | 55.1% |
| Swing1: | 5.6pp |
| Leader2: | Pat Mella |
| Leader Since2: | November 10, 1990 |
| Leaders Seat2: | 3rd Queens |
| Last Election2: | 2 seats, 35.8% |
| Seats2: | 1 |
| Seat Change2: | 1 |
| Popular Vote2: | 57,549 |
| Percentage2: | 39.5% |
| Swing2: | 3.7pp |
| Map Size: | 300px |
| Premier | |
| Posttitle: | Premier after election |
| Before Election: | Catherine Callbeck |
| After Election: | Catherine Callbeck |
The 1993 Prince Edward Island general election was held on March 29, 1993.[1]
The campaign resulted in the re-election of the governing Liberals under Premier Catherine Callbeck, the province's first female premier, who had taken over only two months previous from former premier Joe Ghiz. Despite dropping in the popular vote, the Liberals gained on its seat tally, taking 31 of 32 seats, with only PC leader Pat Mella as the sole opposition member in the Legislature.
This election featured several notable events. It was the first to see a female party leader lead her party to a victory in a general election,[2] it was also the first to feature two women leading the two major parties. It was the last to use the dual-member constituencies that had been in place since 1893.
| 31 | 1 | |
| 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. Assemblymen were elected by all eligible voters within a district. Before 1963, Councillors were only elected by landowners within a district, but afterward they were elected in the same manner as Assemblymen.[3]
|-|bgcolor="whitesmoke"|1st Kings|||Roger Soloman
1,681||Craig Norton
1,279|||||Ross Young|-|bgcolor="whitesmoke"|2nd Kings|||Claude Matheson
1,031||Henry Compton
786||Martin Kenny
85|||Claude Matheson|-|bgcolor="whitesmoke"|3rd Kings|||Peter Doucette
1,436||John Callaghan
1,133|||||Peter Doucette|-|bgcolor="whitesmoke"|4th Kings|||Stanley Bruce
1,540||Marjory Tattrie
1,053||Janet MacDonald
164|||Stanley Bruce|-|bgcolor="whitesmoke"|5th Kings|||Rose Marie MacDonald
1,098||Hal Jamieson
601|||||Rose Marie MacDonald|-|bgcolor="whitesmoke"|1st Queens|||Marion Murphy
1,598||Wilber Lamont
1,065||Karen Kelly-Fyfe
184|||Marion Murphy|-|bgcolor="whitesmoke"|2nd Queens|||Gordon MacInnis
3,916||George Watts
2,783||Marlene Hunt
416|||Gordon MacInnis|-|bgcolor="whitesmoke"|3rd Queens||Betty Jean Brown
3,326|||Pat Mella
4,486||Gerry Birt
301|||Betty Jean Brown|-|bgcolor="whitesmoke"|4th Queens|||Alan Buchanan
1,343||Wilbur MacDonald
1,245|||||Alan Buchanan|-|bgcolor="whitesmoke"|5th Queens|||Wayne Cheverie
5,251||Lloyd McKenna
3,387||Barbara Boudreau
606|||Wayne Cheverie|-|bgcolor="whitesmoke"|6th Queens|||Jeannie Lea
3,934||Diane Griffin
3,300||Heather DeMille
402|||Joe Ghiz|-|bgcolor="whitesmoke"|1st Prince|||Bobby Morrissey
3,530||Larry Gaudet
2,600||Leroy Hiltz
273|||Bobby Morrissey|-|bgcolor="whitesmoke"|2nd Prince|||Keith Milligan
1,660||Jimmy Stewart
816||Grace Coughlin
246|||Keith Milligan|-|bgcolor="whitesmoke"|3rd Prince|||Robert Maddix
1,942||Emile Gallant
1,066|||||Léonce Bernard|-|bgcolor="whitesmoke"|4th Prince|||Stavert Huestis
4,215||Fred McCardle
2,568||Larry Duchesne
825|||Stavert Huestis|-|bgcolor="whitesmoke"|5th Prince|||Walter McEwen
2,179||Greg Deighan
1,298||Neil Matthews
255|||Walter McEwen|}
|-|bgcolor="whitesmoke"|1st Kings|||Ross Young
1,702||Peter McQuaid
1,208||Brian MacDonald
83|||Albert Fogarty|-|bgcolor="whitesmoke"|2nd Kings|||Walter Bradley
1,081||Kevin MacAdam
815|||||Walter Bradley|-|bgcolor="whitesmoke"|3rd Kings|||Roberta Hubley
1,369||Doug Johnston
1,123||Bruno Peripoli
106|||Roberta Hubley|-|bgcolor="whitesmoke"|4th Kings|||Gilbert Clements
1,618||Philip Curley
912||Alan Hicken
235|||Gilbert Clements|-|bgcolor="whitesmoke"|5th Kings|||Barry Hicken
1,202||Wesley Stead
506|||||Barry Hicken|-|bgcolor="whitesmoke"|1st Queens|||Catherine Callbeck
1,602||Ronald Myers
1,115||Marvyn Wells
150|||Leone Bagnall|-|bgcolor="whitesmoke"|2nd Queens|||Ron MacKinley
4,043||Brian Dollar
2,729||Gerard Gallant
368|||Ron MacKinley|-|bgcolor="whitesmoke"|3rd Queens|||Tom Dunphy
3,940||Mildred Dover
3,769||Paul McCarron
389|||Tom Dunphy|-|bgcolor="whitesmoke"|4th Queens|||Lynwood MacPherson
1,553||Lou Douse
1,034|||||Lynwood MacPherson|-|bgcolor="whitesmoke"|5th Queens|||Tim Carroll
4,463||Chester Gillan
4,199||Mickey MacDonald
579|||Tim Carroll|-|bgcolor="whitesmoke"|6th Queens|||Paul Connolly
4,365||Stuart Drummond
2,732||Ronald Kelly
515|||Paul Connolly|-|bgcolor="whitesmoke"|1st Prince|||Hector MacLeod
3,354||Gary Morgan
2,751||Ed Kilfoil
297|||Bob Campbell|-|bgcolor="whitesmoke"|2nd Prince|||Randy Cooke
1,459||Donna Williams
720||Herb Dickieson
540|||Allison Ellis|-|bgcolor="whitesmoke"|3rd Prince|||Edward Clark
2,229||Lorne Ramsay
794|||||Edward Clark|-|bgcolor="whitesmoke"|4th Prince|||Libbe Hubley
4,342||Don MacFarlane
2,668||Margaret Arsenault
598|||Libbe Hubley|-|bgcolor="whitesmoke"|5th Prince|||Nancy Guptill
2,441||Mac MacDonald
1,108||Gordon Whitlock
202|||Nancy Guptill|}