Premier Dennis King’s Tories were elected in 22 of the province’s 27 ridings, the Liberals won three seats and the Greens two
The vote in April 2019 had seen P.E.I. become the first province in Canada where the Green Party formed the official Opposition.
Some observers said the Greens’ poor showing could also be attributed to inexperience. None of the Green members of the legislature had been elected in P.E.I. before 2015.Article content “There was a lot of talk at the start of the campaign that there potentially might be a clean sweep for the PCs,” Hood said. “I think we’ve grown some momentum in the campaign and I think we’ll see us hold a solid base of support.”
Don Desserud, a Prince Edward Island political analyst, said the Tory strategy was to ask voters to take note of their achievements in spite of the obstacles thrown in their way. He said it was as if King were saying: “If we can do that under those circumstances, imagine what we can do when we don’t have to deal with these crises.
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