VOTING WRAPS UP AHEAD OF WEEKEND FEDERAL PC LEADERSHIP CONVENTION

Sep 06, 2022

By Bob Komsic

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Time’s up!
Voting for the next leader of the federal Conservative party is over.
Ballots must have been received by today 5 p.m. Ottawa time in order to be processed, validated and counted in time for Saturday’s announcement.

The party is using a ranked-ballot system to choose its next permanent leader among five hopefuls:  Pierre Poilievre, Jean Charest, Leslyn Lewis, Scott Aitchison and Roman Baber.

With Patrick Brown’s name still on the list despite his disqualification in July, the party says anyone who puts him first on their ballot will see their vote transferred automatically to their second choice. 

Whoever wins will become the fourth permanent leader of the party, after Stephen Harper, Andrew Scheer and Erin O’Toole.

Candice Bergen, who took over as interim leader after O’Toole’s ouster in February, has announced that she won’t be running in the next federal election. 

First elected in 2008, she was named Conservative House leader in 2016 and became the party’s deputy leader in 2020 under O’Toole.

 

Bergen says she will stay on as MP in the immediate future and is looking forward to embracing new opportunities.

“I will wholeheartedly be supporting whoever takes my place as leader after Sept. 10,” Bergen said in a statement.

“I’m incredibly optimistic about the future of the Conservative movement in Canada.”

The party settled on a points-based system to ensure regional representation in the result. 

Points are divided across Canada’s 338 electoral districts, each of which gets as many points as it has party members, up to a maximum of 100 points.

Point totals are calculated based on candidates’ percentage of the vote in each riding.

If nobody gets more than 50 per cent in the first round, whomever has the fewest points will drop off the ballot.

People who selected that candidate as their first choice will see their votes transferred to their second choice.  

The process could be repeated up to three times. 

Last week, the party said that it already received ballots from more than half of the 678,000 members eligible to vote.

(The Canadian Press)

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