{{Short description|Former provincial electoral district in Prince Edward Island, Canada}} {{Use Canadian English|date=December 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2025}} {{Infobox Canada electoral district | province = Prince Edward Island | image = PEI 6 Queens.gif | prov-status = defunct | prov-created = 1966 | prov-abolished = 1996 | prov-election-first = 1966 | prov-election-last = 1993 | demo-cd = Queens County | demo-csd = Charlottetown }} '''6th Queens''' was a provincial electoral district of Prince Edward Island, Canada, which elected two members to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1966 to 1993.<ref name="CEO">{{cite web |title=CEO Election Reports |url=https://www.electionspei.ca/resources/ceo-election-reports |publisher=Elections Prince Edward Island |access-date=6 March 2026}}</ref>

The district comprised the western half of the city of Charlottetown. Prior to 1966, the district was part of 5th Queens, and its creation marked the only redistribution of Prince Edward Island's provincial electoral districts to take place until the province adopted conventional single-member districts for the 1996 general election.<ref name="elec1966">{{cite web |title=1966 May 30 Provincial General Election |url=https://www.electionspei.ca/sites/www.electionspei.ca/files/1966%20May%2030%20Provincial%20General%20Election.pdf |publisher=Elections Prince Edward Island |format=PDF |access-date=6 March 2026}}</ref>

== History == The district was created for the 1966 Prince Edward Island general election following a redistribution that increased the Legislative Assembly from 30 to 32 seats, splitting the former 5th Queens district along the east–west axis of Charlottetown.<ref name="elec1966" /> Like all Prince Edward Island districts of the period, 6th Queens elected two members simultaneously: one Assemblyman and one Councillor.

In the 1982 election, Joe Ghiz won the Assemblyman seat and went on to serve as Premier of Prince Edward Island from 1986 to 1993.<ref>{{cite web |title=Historical MLA Biographies |url=https://www.assembly.pe.ca/sites/www.assembly.pe.ca/files/Historical%20MLA%20Bios/C.pdf |publisher=Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island |format=PDF |access-date=6 March 2026}}</ref>

The district was abolished following the adoption of the Electoral Boundaries Act (Royal Assent 19 May 1994), which reduced the Assembly to 27 single-member constituencies effective at the 1996 general election.<ref name="elec1966" /> Its territory was redistributed into Charlottetown-Rochford Square and Charlottetown-Spring Park.<ref>{{cite web |title=1996 General Election Results |url=https://www.electionspei.ca/resources/ceo-election-reports |publisher=Elections Prince Edward Island |access-date=6 March 2026}}</ref>

==MLAs==

{| class="wikitable" ! Parliament ! Years ! colspan="2" | Assemblyman ! Party ! colspan="2" | Councillor ! Party |- | bgcolor="CCCCCC" | 51st | 1966–1970 | {{Canadian party colour|PE|PC|background}} | | David Stewart | Progressive Conservative | {{Canadian party colour|PE|PC|background}} | | Alban Farmer | Progressive Conservative |- | bgcolor="CCCCCC" | 52nd | 1970–1974 | rowspan="2" {{Canadian party colour|PE|Liberal|background}} | | rowspan="2" | Allison MacDonald | rowspan="2" | Liberal | rowspan="3" {{Canadian party colour|PE|Liberal|background}} | | rowspan="3" | John H. Maloney | rowspan="3" | Liberal |- | bgcolor="CCCCCC" | 53rd | 1974–1978 |- | bgcolor="CCCCCC" | 54th | 1978–1979 | rowspan="2" {{Canadian party colour|PE|PC|background}} | | rowspan="2" | Barry Clark | rowspan="2" | Progressive Conservative |- | bgcolor="CCCCCC" | 55th | 1979–1982 | {{Canadian party colour|PE|PC|background}} | | Jim Larkin | Progressive Conservative |- | bgcolor="CCCCCC" | 56th | 1982–1986 | rowspan="3" {{Canadian party colour|PE|Liberal|background}} | | rowspan="3" | Joe Ghiz | rowspan="3" | Liberal | rowspan="4" {{Canadian party colour|PE|Liberal|background}} | | rowspan="4" | Paul Connolly | rowspan="4" | Liberal |- | bgcolor="CCCCCC" | 57th | 1986–1989 |- | bgcolor="CCCCCC" | 58th | 1989–1993 |- | bgcolor="CCCCCC" | 59th | 1993–1996 | {{Canadian party colour|PE|Liberal|background}} | | Jeannie Lea | Liberal |} <small>Sources: Elections Prince Edward Island.<ref name="elec1966"/><ref name="elec1970">{{cite web |title=1970 May 11 Provincial General Election |url=https://www.electionspei.ca/sites/www.electionspei.ca/files/1970%20May%2011%20Provincial%20General%20Election.pdf |publisher=Elections Prince Edward Island |format=PDF |access-date=6 March 2026}}</ref><ref name="elec1974">{{cite web |title=1974 May 29 Provincial General Election |url=https://www.electionspei.ca/sites/test.electionspei.ca/files/1974%20May%2029%20Provincial%20General%20Election.pdf |publisher=Elections Prince Edward Island |format=PDF |access-date=6 March 2026}}</ref><ref name="elec1978">{{cite web |title=1978 April 24 Provincial General Election |url=https://www.electionspei.ca/sites/test.electionspei.ca/files/1978%20April%2024%20Provincial%20General%20Election.pdf |publisher=Elections Prince Edward Island |format=PDF |access-date=6 March 2026}}</ref><ref name="elec1979">{{cite web |title=1979 April 23 Provincial General Election |url=https://www.electionspei.ca/sites/test.electionspei.ca/files/1979%20April%2023%20Provincial%20General%20Election.pdf |publisher=Elections Prince Edward Island |format=PDF |access-date=6 March 2026}}</ref><ref name="elec1982">{{cite web |title=1982 September 27 Provincial General Election |url=https://www.electionspei.ca/sites/www.electionspei.ca/files/1982%20Sept%2027%20Provincial%20General%20Election.pdf |publisher=Elections Prince Edward Island |format=PDF |access-date=6 March 2026}}</ref><ref name="elec1986">{{cite web |title=1986 April 21 Provincial General Election |url=https://www.electionspei.ca/sites/test.electionspei.ca/files/1986%20April%2021%20Provincial%20General%20Election.pdf |publisher=Elections Prince Edward Island |format=PDF |access-date=6 March 2026}}</ref><ref name="elec1989">{{cite web |title=1989 May 29 Provincial General Election |url=https://www.electionspei.ca/sites/test.electionspei.ca/files/1989May29ProvGenElection_0.pdf |publisher=Elections Prince Edward Island |format=PDF |access-date=6 March 2026}}</ref><ref name="elec1993">{{cite web |title=1993 March 29 Provincial General Election |url=https://www.electionspei.ca/sites/www.electionspei.ca/files/1993%20Mar%2029%20Provincial%20General%20Election.pdf |publisher=Elections Prince Edward Island |format=PDF |access-date=6 March 2026}}</ref></small>

== Further reading == * {{cite book |editor-last=Weeks |editor-first=Blair |title=Minding the House: A Biographical Guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs, 1873–1993 |publisher=Acorn Press |location=Charlottetown |year=2002 |isbn=978-1-894838-01-6}}

== See also == * List of Prince Edward Island provincial electoral districts * Canadian provincial electoral districts * == References == {{Reflist}}

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