Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis · CC BY-SA 2.0Kent MacDonald (Liberal Party of Canada) holds Cardigan, the riding that includes Three Rivers
4 of the 4 MPs from Prince Edward Island belong to the Liberal Party of Canada. The Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island’s riding map is published without a licence, so this page doesn’t place Three Rivers in a riding. In the census’s list of municipalities, Three Rivers is a town. No open list of councils exists on Prince Edward Island, so no mayor of Three Rivers is named here.
Three governments, and who does what
Three Rivers, a town 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.
Three Rivers has no upper-tier council: Kings, its census division, exists for statistics only.
From the council table to Ottawa
Every elected tier that speaks for Three Rivers, from the most recent elections.
- 1Three Rivers councilTown
- 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 Three Rivers votes
The last and next general elections at each level; a by-election can come in between.
| Election | Last | Next |
|---|---|---|
| Three Rivers council | 2 November 2026 | 4 November 2030 |
| Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island | 3 April 2023 | – |
| House of Commons | 28 April 2025 | – |
The council elected on 2 November 2026 serves until 4 November 2030, when Three Rivers council is chosen again. It is the first Monday in November every four years, as the Municipal Election Act provides. The Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island was last elected on 3 April 2023, and the House of Commons on 28 April 2025. 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 was elected to the Commons for the first time in April 2025. On today’s boundaries, the 2021 vote in Cardigan would have gone to the Liberal Party of Canada with 51%, and Kent MacDonald kept it for them 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
Counts for Cardigan within its 2013 boundaries, used in 2019 and 2021; the 2025 election ran on a new map.
72% of electors in Cardigan voted in 2021, above the 63% turnout across Canada. In 2019, Lawrence MacAulay had won the same riding with 49%. Lawrence MacAulay won the 2021 race in Cardigan for the Liberal Party of Canada, polling 51% and beating Wayne Phelan (Conservative Party of Canada) by 4,358 votes.
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 Three Rivers 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
- Not on this page. Who controls the council by party (the open lists give none, and most Canadian councils sit without parties), budgets and band councils.
- Election results. Where the page says “today’s boundaries”, it means Elections Canada’s estimate of the 2021 vote on the 2023 ridings; every other count is official and on the 2013 map.
- Which riding. A place belongs to the riding where most of its 2021 Census residents live, plus any other with 5% or more.
- 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.
Questions about how Three Rivers is run
Who is the MP for Three Rivers?
Kent MacDonald (Liberal Party of Canada) sits for Cardigan, the riding Three Rivers is in.
Which party won Three Rivers in the 2021 federal election?
Cardigan went to Lawrence MacAulay (Liberal Party of Canada) in 2021. Since 2025, Kent MacDonald has been the MP for Cardigan.
Who is the MLA for Three Rivers?
Three Rivers’ riding isn’t placed on this page; the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island’s members page lists every MLA by riding.
Who heads the council in Three Rivers?
Three Rivers, a town, lists its council on its own pages; no open list names the head here.
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).