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The same votes, counted under each voting system.

A simulation, not a VoteLab prediction. No candidates are nominated yet, so each line on the ballot is a party. The vote shares and first-past-the-post seat totals are from The Northern Vibe Project’s Prince Edward Island projection as of October 11, 2026: its polling average for the vote, and its projected seat count for FPTP. VoteLab counts those same votes under each of the other voting systems.

What this simulation assumes
  • No candidates are named yet. Each party’s line is a placeholder until nominations close.
  • Each district starts from Northern Vibe’s own projected vote there, at that district’s 2023 turnout, on the same 27 districts. Added up, those figures land within a fraction of a point of Northern Vibe’s island-wide average, which the baseline is then set to exactly.
  • Where that would elect a different party than Northern Vibe’s seat projection, just enough votes are moved to the projected winner to put it one point ahead. A district or two are close races by construction, not by measurement.
  • Northern Vibe’s average across simulations is not a whole number, so it is rounded to whole seats, and each seat goes to the district where Northern Vibe gives that party its best chance. In a district or two that is a party Northern Vibe rates as less likely than another.
  • The polling average has one “Others” line. It is split between independents and other parties in the proportion Northern Vibe’s own projection gives them.
  • Turnout is held at each district’s 2023 level. The adjustment moves votes between parties but never changes how many were cast.
  • VoteLab’s own average of published PEI polls is kept as a cross-check. It no longer sets the baseline.
  • The ranked counts (AV and STV) use an estimated table of second preferences, not a measured one: no PEI poll asks for a second choice.

Read the full methodology

What if people vote differently?

How this election might play out overall

Explore how different ways of voting might affect the results.

How we vote now:FPTP
A different way:

half the voteshalf the seats
seats wonseats beyond a party’s share of the voteseats its share of the vote earned but it didn’t winvote sharemajorityhalf the votes
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seats wonvote share
PEGRN19(70%)43%
PELIB5(19%)27%
PEPC3(11%)22%
PENDP0(0%)7%

Seat vs Vote Shareseats wonvote share

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