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Cavendish federal election, 2015
← 2010 June 3, 2015 (2015-06-03) 2018 →

550 seats in the Cavendish House of Burgesses
276 seats were needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout70.9% (Increase7.6pp)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Quinn Bromley Kim Kennedy Patrick Sheffield
Party Liberal Republican Progressive Conservative
Leader since 2 December 2010 18 May 2009 27 April 2008
Leader's seat Ivy Bridge Colchester-Conestoga Elizabethtown
Last election 23 seats, 13.9% 32 seats, 14.7% 202 seats, 30.1%
Seats before 25 32 200
Seats won 322 150 44
Seat change Increase297 Increase128 Decrease156
Popular vote 15,782,849 8,583,654 6,882,746
Percentage 39.9% 21.7% 17.4%
Swing Increase27.0pp Increase7.0pp Decrease12.7pp

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Forrest St. John's Elaine Chang Emily Harrington
Party Solidarity Green Social Democrat
Leader since 20 September 2013 8 June 2009 29 May, 2012
Leader's seat Grantchester-Basin Riverside & Pebble Isles Docklands (Lost)
Last election Pre-creation 14 seats, 6.7% 279 seats, 34.3%
Seats before 5 12 272
Seats won 23 7 4
Seat change Increase18 Decrease5 Decrease268
Popular vote 4,074,269 1,859,132 2,175,580
Percentage 10.3% 4.7% 5.5%
Swing Increase10.30pp Decrease2.0pp Decrease28.8pp

Incumbent Prime Minister before election

Emily Harrington
Social Democrat

Prime Minister-designate

Quinn Bromley
Liberal

The 28th Cavendish Federal Election was held on 3 June, 2015 to elect all 550 members of the Cavendish House of Burgesses. The incumbent centre-left Social Democrat government, led by Prime Minister Emily Harrington, was dramatically defeated, losing nearly all of their seats as Quinn Bromley’s centrist Liberal Party was swept to their first majority government since 1946.

The Liberals gained more seats than any other party in one election in Cavendish history. Bromley became the first woman to become Prime Minister from opposition, and became the first rookie leader to lead her party from minor-party status to government. Harrington became the first Prime Minister to lose her own seat at a federal election, as well as the longest-serving Prime Minister to have never received an electoral mandate. This is marked the first time in which both the outgoing and incoming Prime Minister came from the same province (the Royal Free State). This is the first election in history in which the Progressive Conservatives finished neither first nor second nationally, in either votes or seat-count.