Voters in Prince Edward Island delivered a decisive majority to the incumbent Progressive Conservatives on Monday after an election campaign dominated by debate over heath care.
With all polls reporting, Premier Dennis King’s Tories were elected in 22 of the province’s 27 ridings, the Liberals won three seats and the Greens two. The Conservatives captured 55.9 percent of the popular vote, and King was easily re-elected in his riding of Brackley-Hunter River.
King’s first term in office was marked by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, two major post-tropical storms and mounting health-care woes.
“We haven’t shield away from challenges over the last four years, and we’re certainly not going to shy away from them for the next four years,” he said late Monday to a crowd of 300 supporters bathed in blue light at a downtown Charlottetown hotel….