Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island
The Prince Edward Iceland Progressive Conservative Party is a conservative political party in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Iceland. As usual with regional parties in Canada, it is only loosely with the mother party at the federal level, the Conservative Party of Canada connected. Party leader Olive Crane is that since the elections in May 2007, one of four Conservative MPs in the 27-member Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Iceland.
Since its inception in 1851, the Progressive Conservatives ( until 1942 called the Conservative Pary ) next to the Liberals, the only party that formed the government at the provincial level. Exist between two parties only a few differences: Both position themselves in the middle of the political spectrum, conservatives tend particular issues more to the right, the Liberals rather to the left. The Conservatives find their supporters traditionally Protestants and east of the island, the Liberals closer to Catholics and French-speaking Acadians in the west of the island. As is usual in the other Atlantic provinces, the Conservatives of Prince Edward Iceland are less right standing as the federal party.
Prime minister
- John Holl (1854-1855)
- Edward Palmer (1859-1863)
- John Hamilton Gray (1863-1865)
- James Colledge Pope ( 1865-67, 1870-72, 1873)
- William Wilfred Sullivan (1879-1889)
- Neil McLeod (1889-1891)
- John Alexander Mathieson (1911-1917)
- Aubin -Edmond Arsenault (1917-1919)
- James David Stewart (1923-1927, 1931-33 )
- Walter Russell Shaw (1959-1966)
- Angus MacLean (1979-1981)
- James Lee (1981-1986)
- Pat Binns (1996-2007)