The Conservative Party of Canada elects its leaders through a process known as a leadership election. The most recent leadership election was held in 2022.

Since 2004, the party has elected its leaders on a one member, one vote 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.[1] 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.

Results by round
Candidate 1st round
Votes cast % Points allocated %
Stephen Harper 67,143 68.9% 17,296 56.2%
Belinda Stronach 22,286 22.9% 10,613 34.5%
Tony Clement 7,968 8.2% 2,887 9.4
Total 174,404 100% 33,800 100%

2017 leadership election

Held in Toronto, Ontario on May 27, 2017.

Results by round
Candidate Round 1 Round 13
Points % Points %
Andrew Scheer 7,375.79 21.82% 17,222.20 50.95%
Maxime Bernier 9,763.32 28.89% 16,577.80 49.05%
Erin O'Toole 3,600.72 10.65%
Brad Trost 2,820.87 8.35%
Michael Chong 2,552.47 7.55%
Kellie Leitch 2,366.09 7.00%
Pierre Lemieux 2,495.71 7.38%
Lisa Raitt 1,127.93 3.34%
Steven Blaney 426.37 1.26%
Chris Alexander 379.10 1.12%
Kevin O'Leary 361.21 1.07%
Rick Peterson 220.58 0.65%
Andrew Saxton 169.94 0.50%
Deepak Obhrai 139.90 0.41%

2020 leadership election

Conducted by mail-in ballot due August 21, with results announced on August 23-24.

Results by round[2]
Candidate 1st round 2nd round 3rd round
Votes cast % Points allocated % Votes cast % Points allocated % Votes cast % Points allocated %
Erin O'Toole 51,258 29.39% 10,681.40 31.60% 56,907 33.20% 11,903.69 35.22% 90,635 58.86% 19,271.74 57.02%
Peter MacKay 52,851 30.30% 11,328.55 33.52% 54,165 31.60% 11,756.01 34.78% 63,356 41.14% 14,528.26 42.98%
Leslyn Lewis 43,017 24.67% 6,925.38 20.49% 60,316 35.20% 10,140.30 30.00% Eliminated
Derek Sloan 27,278 15.64% 4,864.67 14.39% Eliminated
Total 174,404 100% 33,800 100% 171,388 100% 33,800 100% 153,991 100% 33,800 100%

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 had won the election in the first round with 68% of points.

First round (points allocated)
Pierre Poilievre
 
 68.15%
Jean Charest
 
 16.07%
Leslyn Lewis
 
 9.69%
Roman Baber
 
 5.03%
Scott Aitchison
 
 1.06%
First round (votes cast)
Pierre Poilievre
 
 70.7%
Jean Charest
 
 11.6%
Leslyn Lewis
 
 11.1%
Baber
 
 5.4%
Scott Aitchison
 
 1.2%

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.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Conservative Leadership: The Rules - CPAC". CPAC. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  2. ↑ "RCV Short Report" (PDF). August 24, 2020. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Riding by riding results" (PDF). cpcleadership.ca. 10 September 2022. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 September 2022. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
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