Matt MacFarlane

Matt MacFarlane
Matt MacFarlane
Leader of the Green Party of Prince Edward Island
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; June 7, 2025
Preceded by	Karla Bernard (interim)
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island for Borden-Kinkora
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; February 7, 2024
Preceded by	Jamie Fox
Personal details
Party	Green Party of Prince Edward Island
Occupation	lawyer

Preceded byKarla Bernard (interim)

Preceded byJamie Fox

Occupationlawyer

Matt MacFarlane is a Canadian politician who serves as the leader of the Green Party of Prince Edward Island.^[1] He has been a Green member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island since winning the 2024 Borden-Kinkora provincial by-election.^[2] MacFarlane was the unsuccessful Green candidate in Borden-Kinkora in 2019 and 2023.^[3] He is the former president of the Green Party of Prince Edward Island and a lawyer by profession.^[4] As of June 2025, he serves as the leader of the Green Party of Prince Edward Island.

Prince Edward Island provincial by-election, February 7, 2024 Resignation of Jamie Fox
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Matt MacFarlane	1,226	49.00	+14.19
	Progressive Conservative	Carmen Reeves	964	38.53	-21.62
	Liberal	Gordon Sobey	272	10.87
	New Democratic	Karen Morton	40	1.60	-1.31
Total valid votes			2,502	99.80
Total rejected ballots			5	0.20	-0.46
Turnout			2,507	58.91	-9.06
Eligible voters			4,256
	Green gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+17.90

v t e 2023 Prince Edward Island general election: Borden-Kinkora
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Jamie Fox	1,719	60.15	+8.04
	Green	Matt MacFarlane	995	34.81	+2.53
	New Democratic	Carole MacFarlane	83	2.90	+1.91
	Island	Paul Smitz	61	2.13
Total valid votes			2,858	99.34
Total rejected ballots			19	0.66	+0.57
Turnout			2,877	67.97	–12.37
Eligible voters			4,233
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+2.76
Source(s) ^[5]

2019 Prince Edward Island general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Jamie Fox	1,680	52.11	+4.97
	Green	Matt MacFarlane	1,041	32.29	+17.21
	Liberal	Jamie Stride	417	12.93	-21.13
	Independent	Fred McCardle	54	1.67	N.A.
	New Democratic	Joan Gauvin	32	0.99	-2.73
Total valid votes			3,224	99.91
Total rejected ballots			3	0.09	-0.20
Turnout			3,227	80.33	-2.32
Eligible voters			4,017
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-6.12

v t e Current members of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island
Progressive Conservative	Lantz Arsenault Bell Burridge Compton Croucher Curran Deagle DesRoches Dillon Dollar Hudson MacEwen MacKay MacLennan Ramsay Redmond Thompson Trivers
Liberal	Perry Henderson McNeilly Simpson
Green	MacFarlane Bernard Bevan-Baker
Membership per the 2023 Prince Edward Island general election and followup by-elections.

v t e Green Party of Canada
Leaders	Hancock Trieger Cholette Lea Priesnitz Garfinkle (interim) Russow Bradshaw (interim) Harris May Roberts (interim) Paul Kuttner (interim) May May & Pedneault May
Leadership elections	2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2020 2022 2025 (co-leadership) Next
Parliamentary election candidate lists	1984 1988 1993 1997 2000 2004 2006 2008 2011 2015 2019 2021 2025
See also	History of the Green Party of Canada Young Greens of Canada List of Green politicians who have held office in Canada List of Green party leaders in Canada

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Matt MacFarlane

Leader of the Green Party of Prince Edward Island
Incumbent
Assumed office June 7, 2025
Preceded by	Karla Bernard (interim)
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island for Borden-Kinkora
Incumbent
Assumed office February 7, 2024
Preceded by	Jamie Fox

Personal details
Party	Green Party of Prince Edward Island
Occupation	lawyer