Progressive Conservative Leader Pat Binns was re-elected in his own district of Belfast-Murray River Monday night, though his party went down to defeat at the hands of the Ghiz Liberals.
Binns had 55 per cent of the popular vote, compared to 41 per cent for Liberal candidate Charlie McGeoghegan.
Ahmon Katz of the Green party was a distant third with just over four per cent of the vote.
The New Democrats did not field a candidate in the district.
The result was expected in the strongly Tory rural district about half an hour's drive east of Charlottetown.
This was a new district for the 2007 election, including the larger sections of the former districts of Belfast-Pownal Bay and Murray River-Gaspereaux, Binns's riding.
P.E.I. Votes 2007 Headlines »
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- P.E.I.'s Liberal party cruised to a surprisingly easy victory in Monday's provincial election, crushing the governing Progressive Conservatives and reversing the seat count from the previous legislative session.
- Hasty promises, desire for change sank P.E.I. Tories
- Pat Binns and his Progressive Conservatives went down to defeat in Monday's Prince Edward Island election, at least in part because of how two campaign promises fed into Islanders' growing appetite for change.
- Liberal wave fails to flood Eastern P.E.I.
- Progressive Conservative candidates picked up all of their handful of successes in the eastern part of Prince Edward Island on Monday, as Liberals swept the rest of the province.
- Liberals sweep crucial districts
- The Liberal party took every key district they needed for victory Monday night, and then some.
- 6 ministers defeated as P.E.I. cabinet trounced
- Six of Pat Binns's cabinet ministers fell and two were re-elected as P.E.I. voters bounced the Progressive Conservative government out of office Monday night.
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