PEILiberal incumbent Sean Casey will remain the member of Parliament for P.E.I.’s Charlottetown riding, having earned about 65 per cent of the vote in Monday’s federal election.Casey says Charlottetown’s voters are his bosses, ‘and this was time for my job review’Gwyneth Egan · CBC News · Posted: Apr 28, 2025 8:49 PM EDT | Last Updated: 43 minutes agoSean Casey, the Liberal incumbent and projected winner of the Charlottetown riding (centre), posed with supporter Judy Hughes and Charlottetown Mayor Philip Brown. (Nicola MacLeod/CBC)Liberal incumbent Sean Casey will remain the member of Parliament for P.E.I.’s Charlottetown riding, having earned about 65 per cent of the vote in Monday’s federal election.Conservative candidate Natalie Jameson was trailing Casey by more than 1,400 votes when CBC News made the call to project his win just after 10 p.m. AT on Monday. With 96 per cent of the 77 polls reporting at 1:30 a.m. AT Tuesday, Casey had 15,011 votes compared to 6,630 for Jameson.The NDP’s Joe Byrne was in third place with 977 votes, followed by Green candidate Daniel Cousins with 265 and People’s Party of Canada candidate Robert Lucas with 137. Charlottetown was the last of P.E.I.’s four ridings to report any election results. The Charlottetown riding has been held by the Liberal Party of Canada for more than 30 years. Casey was first elected in 2011, and has represented the people of Charlottetown for the last four terms.Just after 10 p.m. AT on Monday, CBC News made the call to project that Liberal MP Sean Casey would represent the Charlottetown riding in Ottawa for a fifth term. (Aaron Adetuyi/CBC)”I always characterize the 45,000 people of Charlottetown as my bosses. And this was time for my job review,” Casey told CBC News following his projected win Monday evening. I’ll continue to project your voice even when it’s not popular in Ottawa, and I’ll continue to contribute to an increase in civility in Parliament because we need more of it.— Sean Casey”I’m honoured and humbled to have passed my job review,” he said. “I’ll continue to do my best, I’ll continue to project your voice even when it’s not popular in Ottawa, and I’ll continue to contribute to an increase in civility in Parliament because we need more of it.” Charlottetown is the smallest federal riding on Prince Edward Island in terms of geography, but is the most densely populated.ABOUT THE AUTHORGwyneth Egan is a digital writer at CBC Prince Edward Island. She is a graduate of Carleton University’s master of journalism program and previously interned with White Coat, Black Art. You can reach her at gwyneth.egan1@cbc.caWith files from Nicola MacLeod
Incumbent Liberal Sean Casey holds onto P.E.I.’s Charlottetown riding
