Here are the candidates running in Charlottetown
Charlottetown is home to many civil servants
Charlottetown, the riding containing the capital of P.E.I., is the province's only fully urban riding.
The riding conforms to the boundaries of the city itself.
As the provincial capital and with the headquarters of the federal Department of Veterans Affairs, the city is home to many civil servants. It also contains the province's only university and its largest college campus.
The city contains several light industrial areas with a strong focus on the bioscience industry.
Margaret Andrade, NDP
Margaret Andrade is a former leadership candidate for the provincial party.
She ran unsuccessfully for that position in 2018.
Andrade ran as a federal NDP candidate in the Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes riding in eastern Ontario in the 2015 election, finishing third. She was also previously on a municipal council in Alberta.
Sean Casey, Liberal Party
Sean Casey has represented Charlottetown since 2011, and is seeking his fourth election victory.
He is currently chair of the standing committee on human resources, skills and social development and the status of persons with disabilities.
Casey was born in Newfoundland, raised in New Brunswick, and attended law school at Dalbousie University in Halifax. He joined Stewart McKelvey in Charlottetown as a lawyer, and also spent time helping to run the family business, Paderno, before entering politics.
Doug Currie, Conservative Party
Doug Currie is a former provincial cabinet minister who served in the Liberal administrations of premiers Robert Ghiz and Wade MacLauchlan.
He was first elected to the legislature in 2007, and remained a cabinet minister until he resigned his seat in 2017. He served as education minister, health minister, family and human services minister, as well as justice minister and attorney general.
Currie was born and raised in Charlottetown. Since leaving politics he has been working at Holland College as vice-president of corporate services.
Darcie Lanthier, Greens
Lanthier lives in Charlottetown and is running in a federal election for the second time. Lanthier ran unsuccessfully for the Greens provincially in 2011 and 2015, and federally in 2019.
She is the president of Solar Island Electric and technical sales manager for Renewable Lifestyles, a solar energy supplier on the Island.
Lanthier has been a longtime advocate for affordable housing. Most recently she launched P.E.I.'s rental registry MyOldApartment.org, and has helped renters advocate against illegal rent increases.
Scott McPhee, People's Party of Canada
The People's Party of Canada, or PPC, was formed in 2018 by former Conservative MP and cabinet minister Maxime Bernier.
Scott McPhee is representing the PPC in Charlottetown. The party's website says he was born and raised on P.E.I., is trained as a resident care worker and is a long-time advocate for free speech and mental health.
Bernier says the PPC is the only national political party speaking against COVID-19 vaccination passports and mask mandates, arguing the party is standing up for freedom of choice.
The party's platform also includes more provincial autonomy, significant changes to the federal equalization plan, a withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accords, a streamlined pipeline approval process and finding a private buyer for the Trans Mountain project.
Electoral history
Like Malpeque and Cardigan, Charlottetown (and its predecessor Hillsborough) has been in Liberal hands since 1988.
But unlike those ridings, which have seen only one or two MPs in that time, Charlottetown has seen more passing of the red baton, with George Proud serving from 1988-2000, Shawn Murphy from 2000-11 and Sean Casey since then.
While the riding has remained Liberal, Charlottetown has been a three-party race since 2011.
The Conservatives took second place in that election, but the NDP were the runners up in 2015, and the Greens in 2019.
With the vote split three ways in 2019 Casey won comfortably with 44.3 per cent of the vote. The Greens earned 23.4 per cent and the Conservatives 20.3 per cent.
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