2025 Brackley-Hunter River provincial by-election
Election in Canada
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A by-election took place on August 12, 2025, in the provincial riding of Brackley-Hunter River to elect a member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island. It was held on the same day as a by-election in Charlottetown-Hillsborough Park.[1]
 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
August 12, 2025
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
District of Brackley-Hunter River | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnout | 55.79% ( 14.67%) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The by-election was triggered by the resignation of Dennis King, who was at the time the Premier of Prince Edward Island.[2]
It was originally announced that the by-election would take place on August 11, however, there was an error on the Election Date Calculation Tool used by Elections PEI.[3]
Result
| Prince Edward Island provincial by-election, August 12, 2025: Brackley-Hunter River Resignation of Dennis King | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Kent Dollar | 1,140 | 50.26 | -17.94 | ||||
| Green | Philip Hamming | 538 | 23.72 | +6.41 | ||||
| Liberal | Nicole Ford | 527 | 23.24 | +11.73 | ||||
| New Democratic | Michelle Neill | 63 | 2.78 | -0.20 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 2,268 | 99.69 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 7 | 0.31 | -0.23 | |||||
| Turnout | 2,275 | 55.81 | -14.65 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 4,076 | |||||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | -12.18 | ||||||
Previous result
| 2023 Prince Edward Island general election: Brackley-Hunter River | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Dennis King | 1,903 | 68.21 | +26.46 | ||||
| Green | Greg Bradley | 483 | 17.31 | -10.59 | ||||
| Liberal | Nicole Ford | 321 | 11.51 | -17.03 | ||||
| New Democratic | Leah-Jane Hayward | 83 | 2.97 | +1.17 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 2,790 | 99.47 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 15 | 0.53 | +0.25 | |||||
| Turnout | 2,805 | 70.46 | -9.60 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 3,981 | |||||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | +18.53 | ||||||
Source(s) | ||||||||
