Sure, the Liberal leadership race has gotten a lot of ink and there’s a lot of buzz about Preston Manning and the provincial PC race out here.

But, the real leadership race we’ve all been following has finally played itself out – the PEI New Democrats have elected a new leader:

Prince Edward Island’s New Democrats have chosen a new leader.

Dean Constable, a 26-year-old stage manager from Charlottetown, beat out 53-year-old Michael DesRoches, who works with child and family services.

Mr. Constable says he received 29 votes to Mr. DesRoches’s 19 in the one-member-one-vote leadership convention in Summerside on Saturday.

Yes, you read that right: 29-19. In a one-member, one vote system. 29-19. Needless to say, Mr. Constable has a bit of work to do…