Cardigan (electoral district)

Cardigan

Prince Edward Island electoral district
Cardigan in relation to the other Prince Edward Island ridings
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Lawrence MacAulay Liberal
District created	1966
First contested	1968
Last contested	2015
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)	36,005
Electors (2015)	28,777
Area (km²)	2,658
Pop. density (per km²)	13.5
Census divisions	Kings, Queens
Census subdivisions	Towns: Georgetown Montague Souris Stratford Villages: Morell, Mount Stewart, Murray Harbour, Murray River, St. Peters Bay First Nations reserves: Morell 2, Scotchfort 4 Lots Kings Royalty, Lot 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 66

Cardigan is a federal electoral district in Prince Edward Island, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968.

Ethnic groups: 98.5% White, 1.1% Native Canadian
Languages: 97.0% English, 1.2% French, 1.7% Other
Religions: 51.0% Catholic, 40.3% Protestant, 2.6% Other Christian, 5.9% No affiliation
Average income: $22 712

Cardigan is the riding with the highest percentage of people of Scottish (48.2%) and Irish (33.4%) ethnic origin (multiple responses).

The district includes all of Kings County and eastern Queens County. It also includes Governors Island and Boughton Island.

According to Elections Canada, the geographic boundaries of this riding for the 39th General Election (2006) are:

Consisting of:

See the map of Cardigan riding.

In the 2008 election, every poll except two voted Liberal. The only two polls that didn't, voted Conservative. These two polls were centred in the town of Georgetown, Prince Edward Island. [1]

The electoral district was created in 1966 from parts of the ridings of King's and Queen's, with minor modifications to its boundaries since. The boundaries of this electoral district will stay unchanged for the 2012 federal electoral redistribution.