Photo: Hayden Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Kent MacDonald (Liberal Party of Canada) holds Cardigan, the riding that includes Souris
Across Prince Edward Island, 4 of the 4 MPs sit with the Liberal Party of Canada. Locally, Souris is run as a fire district. On Prince Edward Island, councils aren’t on any open list we can use, so Souris’ mayor isn’t named. With no licence on the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island’s ridings map, Souris isn’t placed in a riding here.
Three governments, and who does what
Souris, a fire district in Prince Edward Island, shares the work with the province and Ottawa.
Local services, by-laws and property tax.
Schools, health care, highways, municipal law.
assembly.pe.ca ↗Passports, pensions, EI, defence, immigration.
ourcommons.ca ↗Who to ask
Green: municipal. Gold: provincial. Grey: federal.
No county or regional government sits above Souris’s council; Kings is only a census division, a unit for statistics.
From the council table to Ottawa
Every elected tier that speaks for Souris, from the most recent elections.
- 1Souris councilFire district
- 2Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island–
- 3House of CommonsCardigan
Party colours are neutral on purpose: they tell parties apart and aren’t the parties’ own. MPs: Wikidata (CC0), 45th Parliament statements, read 7 November 2026; ridings: 2023 Representation Order, Statistics Canada
When Souris votes
The last and next general elections at each level; a by-election can come in between.
| Election | Last | Next |
|---|---|---|
| Souris council | 2 November 2026 | 4 November 2030 |
| Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island | 3 April 2023 | – |
| House of Commons | 28 April 2025 | – |
The Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island was last elected on 3 April 2023, and the House of Commons on 28 April 2025. The council elected on 2 November 2026 serves until 4 November 2030, when Souris council is chosen again. It is the first Monday in November every four years, as the Municipal Election Act provides. The 2025 results are left out because elections.ca’s terms forbid commercial reproduction; the open catalogue’s latest is 2021.
Election dates: the legislatures, MMAH and MAMH
The Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island: riding not placed
Provinces and territories run schools, health care and municipal law; each riding elects one MLA.
Find your MLA on the legislature’s site
assembly.pe.ca ↗Legislatures: their own member pages
Kent MacDonald represents Cardigan in Ottawa
Each riding elects one MP to the House of Commons; the general election of 28 April 2025 chose the 45th Parliament.
Cardigan · Liberal Party of Canada
en.wikipedia.org ↗- Liberal Party of Canada4
As Wikidata records them.
The MP’s record
Kent MacDonald is new to Parliament, first elected in the April 2025 vote. Elections Canada’s transposition of the 2021 vote onto today’s Cardigan puts the Liberal Party of Canada first at 51%; Kent MacDonald held it for the party in 2025.
MPs: Wikidata (CC0), 45th Parliament statements, read 7 November 2026; ridings: 2023 Representation Order, Statistics Canada · MPs’ records: Wikidata (CC0), positions held and party memberships, read 8 November 2026
In 2021, Cardigan re-elected Lawrence MacAulay of the Liberal Party of Canada
These are the 2019 and 2021 results on the 2013 map of Cardigan; its boundaries changed for the 2025 election.
4,358 votes separated Lawrence MacAulay (Liberal Party of Canada) from Wayne Phelan (Conservative Party of Canada) in Cardigan in 2021, when the winner took 51%. Lawrence MacAulay was the sitting MP, elected there in 2019 with 49%. Cardigan turned out at 72% in 2021; the country managed 63%.
All 6 candidates in Cardigan, 2021
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence MacAulay | Liberal Party of Canada | 11,175 | 50.6% |
| Wayne Phelan | Conservative Party of Canada | 6,817 | 30.9% |
| Lynne Thiele | New Democratic Party | 2,168 | 9.8% |
| Michael MacLean | Green Party of Canada | 1,064 | 4.8% |
| Kevin Hardy | People's Party of Canada | 725 | 3.3% |
| Fred MacLeod | Christian Heritage Party of Canada | 145 | 0.7% |
Federal results: Elections Canada, 43rd and 44th general elections and the 44th’s transposition to the 2023 ridings, via open.canada.ca. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada
Having a say in how Souris is run
Check or update the federal list.
elections.ca ↗Every MP lists an office.
ourcommons.ca ↗Ridings, registration and voting dates.
electionspei.ca ↗What this data can and can’t tell you
- Election results. Elections Canada redrew the ridings in 2023 and re-tallied the 2021 ballots onto the new map from polling divisions; that estimate, and the official 2019 and 2021 counts on the old map, are what you see.
- Not on this page. Party control (Canadian councils are mostly elected without parties, and the open lists record none), council budgets, and band councils.
- Who holds each seat. MPs come from Wikidata’s records of the 45th Parliament, which can lag a resignation or a by-election by some days.
- Which riding. A riding is listed when 5% or more of the place’s 2021 Census residents live in it; the largest share comes first.
Questions about how Souris is run
Who is the MP for Souris?
Souris is in Cardigan, represented by Kent MacDonald (Liberal Party of Canada).
Which party won Souris in the 2021 federal election?
Lawrence MacAulay won Cardigan for the Liberal Party of Canada in 2021; the riding is now Cardigan, held by Kent MacDonald.
Who is the MLA for Souris?
Use the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island’s own list: every MLA is there by riding, though Souris isn’t placed in one here.
Who heads the council in Souris?
Ask the municipality itself: Souris, a fire district, isn’t on an open list of councils we can use.
Sources: MPs: Wikidata (CC0), 45th Parliament statements, read 7 November 2026; ridings: 2023 Representation Order, Statistics Canada · Next municipal election: the province’s municipal election act · Municipality types: Statistics Canada census subdivisions · Federal results: Elections Canada, 43rd and 44th general elections and the 44th’s transposition to the 2023 ridings, via open.canada.ca. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada · MPs’ records: Wikidata (CC0), positions held and party memberships, read 8 November 2026. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).