The Prince Edward Island Liberal Party

Prince Edward Island Liberal Party

The Prince Edward Island Liberal Party is a major political party in the province of Prince Edward Island, Canada. The PEI Liberals are aligned with the federal Liberal Party of Canada. The party is led by Robert Ghiz, a former member of the staff of the Prime Minister's Office under Prime Minister...

, a political party in the Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 province

Provinces and territories of Canada

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 of Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island is a Canadian province consisting of an island of the same name, as well as other islands. The maritime province is the smallest in the nation in both land area and population...

 choses its leadership by an open vote of party members at a convention called by the party executive when there is a vacancy in the leadership (or there is a temporary interim leader). The first convention was held when Alex W. Matheson sought reelection as leader in 1961.

1961 leadership convention

(Held in September 1961)

• Alexander Wallace MATHESON
  Alexander Wallace Matheson
  Alexander Wallace Matheson was a Prince Edward Island politician.He was born in Bellevue, Prince Edward Island. He was first elected to the provincial legislature in 1940 as a Liberal. Matheson became minister of health and welfare in the government of Premier J. Walter Jones in 1948 and succeeded...
  
  751
• J.Watson MACNAUGHT 278
• W.E. CALLAHAN 25

1965 leadership convention

(Held on December 11, 1965)

• Alexander CAMPBELL
  Alex Campbell
  Alexander Bradshaw Campbell, PC is a former politician of Prince Edward Island, Canada. He is the son of former premier Thane A. Campbell and Cecilia L. Bradshaw. He entered politics by winning a seat in the legislature through a 1965 by-election in 5th Prince...
  
  765
• Lorne BONNELL 592

1978 leadership convention

(Held on December 9, 1978)

• Bennett CAMPBELL
  Bennett Campbell
  William Bennett Campbell, PC was a politician and the 24th Premier of Prince Edward Island, Canada....
  
  963
• Gerard MITCHELL
  Gerard Mitchell
  Gerard Eugene Mitchell BA LL.B is a former Canadian judge and Chief Justice of Prince Edward Island.He was educated at Grand Tracadie Consolidated and St. Dunstan's High School. He received his BA from St...
  
   382

1981 leadership convention

(Held on October 24, 1981)

• Joseph GHIZ
  Joe Ghiz
  Joseph Atallah "Joe" Ghiz was the 27th Premier of Prince Edward Island from 1986 to 1993, an educator of law and a justice of the Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island. He was the father of Robert Ghiz, the current Premier of Prince Edward Island...
  
  905
• Gilbert CLEMENTS
  Gilbert Clements
  Gilbert Ralph Clements, is a Canadian retired politician and the 25th Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island.Born in Victoria Cross, Prince Edward Island, he was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island in 1970 representing 4th Kings. He was re-elected in 1974, 1979,...
  
   482

1993 leadership convention

(Held on January 23, 1993)

• Catherine CALLBECK
  Catherine Callbeck
  Catherine Sophia Callbeck is a Canadian politician and a current member of the Senate of Canada.She was the 28th Premier of Prince Edward Island from 1993 to 1996, the second female provincial premier in Canadian history, and the first to win a general election Catherine Sophia Callbeck (born July...
  
  1229
• Larry CREED 250
• Bill CAMPBELL 77

1996 leadership convention

(Held on October 5, 1996)

• Keith MILLIGAN
  Keith Milligan
  Keith Milligan was the 29th Premier of Prince Edward Island, serving for two months in the autumn of 1996. He was educated at Inverness District School, O'Leary Regional High School and the University of PEI, where he obtained Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education degrees. He is married to...
  
  2237
• Wayne CHEVERIE
  Wayne Cheverie
  Wayne Cheverie is a Canadian former attorney, politician, government minister and currently a justice in the Trial Division of the Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island....
  
   1836
• Ian "Tex" MACDONALD 205
• Dan MULLEN 51

1999 leadership convention

(Held on March 5, 1999)

• Wayne CAREW
  Wayne Carew
  Wayne Carew is a businessman and former Canadian politician in the province of Prince Edward Island.A resident of Summerside, Carew was elected by acclamation as leader of the Liberal Party of Prince Edward Island, then the Official Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island, in...
  
  accl.

Carew as defeated in the 2000 general election

Prince Edward Island general election, 2000

The Canadian province of Prince Edward Island conducted a general election on April 17, 2000 to elect the 27 members of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island....

. Ron MacKinley

Ron MacKinley

Ronald W. "Ronnie" MacKinley is a Prince Edward Island Liberal politician, and a current member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island....

 was chosen interim leader.

2003 leadership convention

(Held on April 5, 2003)

• Robert GHIZ
  Robert Ghiz
  Robert Watson Joseph Ghiz, MLA is a Canadian politician who has been the 31st Premier of Prince Edward Island since 2007...
  
  2065
• Alan BUCHANAN
  Alan Buchanan
  Alan Gilmore Buchanan BA, MA, is a Canadian university administrator and former politician from Prince Edward Island.A native of the rural farming hamlet of Belfast in southeastern Queens County, Buchanan is a graduate of the University of Prince Edward Island and Queen's University...
  
  1904

(Note: there were 10 Spoiled Ballots)