| 2008 Canadian federal election: Cardigan | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Lawrence MacAulay | 10,105 | 52.81 | -3.35 | $35,000.12 | |||
| Conservative | Sid McMullin | 5,661 | 29.59 | -4.09 | $29,907.51 | |||
| New Democratic | Mike Avery | 1,556 | 8.13 | +0.66 | $1,316.84 | |||
| Independent | Larry McGuire | 1,101 | 5.75 | – | none listed | |||
| Green | Emma Daughton | 710 | 3.71 | +1.02 | $2,546.13 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 19,133 | 100.0 | – | $67,487 | ||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 101 | 0.53 | -0.03 | |||||
| Turnout | 19,234 | 70.26 | -5.07 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 27,374 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +0.37 | ||||||
