The
Conservative Party of Canada
The Conservative Party of Canada (french: Parti conservateur du Canada), colloquially known as the Tories, is a federal political party in Canada. It was formed in 2003 by the merger of the two main right-leaning parties, the Progressive Con ...
elects its leaders through a process known as a
leadership election. The most recent leadership election was held in
2022
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.
Since 2004, the party has elected its leaders on a
one member, one vote
In the parliamentary politics of the United Kingdom and Canada, one member, one vote (OMOV) is a method of selecting party leaders, and determining party policy, by a direct vote of the members of a political party. Traditionally, these objectives ...
basis using a
ranked ballot. The process is weighted so that each
riding is allocated 100 points, divided proportionately among candidates based on their percentage of the vote in that riding. This process was first used in the
1998 Progressive Conservative leadership election, a predecessor party of the modern Conservative Party.
2004 leadership election
Held in
Toronto,
Ontario on March 20, 2004.
2017 leadership election
Held in
Toronto,
Ontario on May 27, 2017.
2020 leadership election
Conducted by mail-in ballot due August 21, with results announced on August 23-24.
2022 leadership election
Following the ousting of previous leader Erin O’Toole, a leadership election to choose his successor was held.
On September 10, 2022, the Conservative Party announced that
Pierre Poilievre
Pierre Marcel Poilievre ( ; born June 3, 1979) is a Canadian politician who has served as the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and the leader of the Official Opposition since 2022. Poilievre has served as a member of Parliament (MP) ...
had won the election in the first round with 68% of points.
Poilievre won the leadership election in a landslide, carrying 330 of 338 ridings with at least a plurality. The only other candidate to win a plurality in any ridings was
Jean Charest, whose support mostly came from
Quebec, though Poilievre still won 72 of the province's 78 ridings. Charest won his former
federal riding of Sherbrooke, all other candidates losing their ridings to Poilievre.
See also
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Progressive Conservative Party of Canada leadership elections
*
Canadian Alliance leadership elections
References
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