1996 Prince Edward Island general election

The 1996 Prince Edward Island general election was held on November 18, 1996. It was the first election in the province's history to not use multi-member constituencies, and instead elect a single member in each of 27 districts. (Previously, since 1873 the province had been divided into 15 or 16 districts, each electing two members.)

1996 Prince Edward Island general election
November 18, 1996 (1996-11-18)
All 27 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island
14 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
PC
Lib
Leader Pat Binns Keith Milligan Herb Dickieson
Party Progressive Conservative Liberal New Democratic
Leader since May 4, 1996 October 5, 1996 March 1995
Leader's seat Murray River-Gaspereaux Cascumpec-Grand River West Point-Bloomfield
Last election 1 seat, 39.5% 31 seats, 55.1% 0 seats, 5.4%
Seats before 1 31 0
Seats won 18 8 1
Seat change 17 23 1
Popular vote 37,910 35,802 6,283
Percentage 47.4% 44.8% 7.9%
Swing 7.9pp 10.3pp 2.5pp
Popular vote by riding. As this is an FPTP election, seat totals are not determined by popular vote, but instead via plurality results by each riding.
Premier before election

Keith Milligan
Liberal

 Premier after election

Pat Binns
Progressive Conservative

The governing Liberals of Premier Keith Milligan, who had been in power since Joe Ghiz first won government in 1986, lost to the resurgent Progressive Conservatives under their new leader, Pat Binns.

This was also the first election where a party other than the Liberals or Tories won a seat in the Legislature, with New Democratic Party leader Herb Dickieson winning a three-way race in a Prince County riding.

This election was the only one in PEI history where a party formed government without winning a majority of the vote until the 2015 election.

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