Comment Re:Please understand your own system before you vo (Score 1) 376
Liberal riding associations select delegates to attend the party leadership convention. The delegates promise to vote for the candidate(s) selected by the riding association, at least on the first ballot. Deal making is rampant.
Also participating in the leadership vote are friends of the party, party hacks, etc. This is often around 30 percent of the delegate count.
NDP/BQ follow the same process.
The Reform/Alliance/Conservative party allows all members of the party to vote directly for party leader.
The person chosen as leader of the party becomes the Prime Minister if more members of that party are elected than are elected for any other party. There is no vote by the general population for the Prime Minister, just the leadership convention delegates.
This applies also to provincial parties.
Also participating in the leadership vote are friends of the party, party hacks, etc. This is often around 30 percent of the delegate count.
NDP/BQ follow the same process.
The Reform/Alliance/Conservative party allows all members of the party to vote directly for party leader.
The person chosen as leader of the party becomes the Prime Minister if more members of that party are elected than are elected for any other party. There is no vote by the general population for the Prime Minister, just the leadership convention delegates.
This applies also to provincial parties.
