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1919 Prince Edward Island general election
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All 30 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island; 16 seats needed for a majority
Premier before election; Aubin E. Arsenault; Conservative	Premier after election ; John Howatt Bell; Liberal

The 1919 Prince Edward Island general election was held in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island on July 24, 1919.^[1]

The opposition Liberals led by John Howatt Bell gained eleven seats to defeat the incumbent government of Conservative Premier Aubin E. Arsenault, who had succeeded former Premier John A. Mathieson in 1917.

John A. Dewar, a former Conservative member, was elected as an Independent Assembleyman for 3rd Kings.^[2]

Party Standings

Party		Party Leader	Seats			Popular Vote
Party		Party Leader	1915	Elected	Change	#	%	Change
	Liberal	John Howatt Bell	13	24	+11	19,910	53.5%	+3.6%
	Conservative	Aubin E. Arsenault	17	5	-12	16,669	44.8%	-5.3%
	Independent		-	1	+1	646	1.7%	+1.7%

Members Elected

The Legislature of Prince Edward Island had two levels of membership from 1893 to 1996 - Assemblymen and Councillors. This was a holdover from when the Island had a bicameral legislature, the General Assembly and the Legislative Council.

In 1893, the Legislative Council was abolished and had its membership merged with the Assembly, though the two titles remained separate and were elected by different electoral franchises. Assembly men were elected by all eligible voters of within a district, while Councillors were only elected by landowners within a district.^[3]

Kings

District		Party		Party
1st Kings	Daniel C. MacDonald	Liberal	Harry D. McLean	Conservative
2nd Kings	Robert Cox	Liberal	James P. McIntyre	Liberal
3rd Kings	John A. Dewar	Independent	James J. Johnston	Liberal
4th Kings	Wallace B. Butler	Liberal	William G. Sutherland	Liberal
5th Kings	Stephen Hessian	Liberal	James David Stewart	Conservative

Queens

District		Party		Party
1st Queens	Murdock Kennedy	Conservative	Cyrus Crosby	Liberal
2nd Queens	Bradford W. LePage	Liberal	George E. Hughes	Liberal
3rd Queens	Peter Brodie	Liberal	David McDonald	Liberal
4th Queens	James C. Irving	Liberal	Frederick J. Nash	Liberal
5th Queens	Edmund Higgs	Liberal	Gavan Duffy	Liberal

Prince

District		Party		Party
1st Prince	Benjamin Gallant	Liberal	Christopher Metherall	Liberal
2nd Prince	Albert Charles Saunders	Liberal	William H. Dennis	Liberal
3rd Prince	Aubin Edmond Arsenault	Conservative	Alfred E. MacLean	Liberal
4th Prince	John Howatt Bell	Liberal	Walter Lea	Liberal
5th Prince	James A. MacNeill	Conservative	Creelman McArthur	Liberal

Sources

^ "Provincial General Election Results, 1919" (PDF). Elections PEI. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 25, 2015.
^ Dewar won election and sat as an "Independent Farmer", from "John Alexander Dewar". Prince Edward Island Legislative Documents Online. Archived from the original on November 25, 2018. Retrieved June 6, 2015.
^ Fred Driscoll. "History and Politics of Prince Edward Island" (PDF). Canadian Parliamentary Review.