Logan McLellan picked to represent Conservatives in western P.E.I. for next federal election
Summerside resident also ran for the party in Egmont back in 2019
Logan McLellan will represent the Conservative Party in the western P.E.I. riding of Egmont in the next federal election.
The entrepreneur and financial adviser defeated Adam Bassett, an education specialist with Health P.E.I., for the party nomination after two days of voting last week.
"I am incredibly grateful for the overwhelming support we received during this nomination process. Our campaign team signed up more memberships than any campaign in the history of our riding for our party — absolutely unbelievable," McLellan wrote in a social media post after he was declared the winner.
McLellan, who's from Summerside, was also the Conservative candidate in 2019. He lost to the incumbent Liberal MP, Bobby Morrissey, by about 1,100 votes.
McLellan joins former provincial cabinet minister James Aylward, who won the Conservatives' nomination in Cardigan earlier this year, and Jamie Fox, who is the party's candidate in Malpeque.
Egmont is the only riding in which Islanders have elected a Conservative candidate since 1988. That was Gail Shea, who was MP from 2008 to 2015.
A federal election must be held by October 2025.