Canadian Parties' Leadership Conventions

[Polkergeist]

I have been browsing through the CBC archives and discovered that the Canadian parties elect their leaders by a holding a convention. But how does this system work ?

In some instances leaders have been elected with no seat in parliament ? How do they get a seat for the leader in these circumstances ?

[Gabu]

As far as I know, the process is something along these lines:

1. Members of a party declare candidacies for the leadership role.
2. The members go through a campaign not unlike the one to get elected to a government position.
3. The party's members vote on who they want as their leader.
4. Whoever gets the most votes becomes the leader.

Basically, anyone who's a member of the party can declare candidacy, I think, although if you're not fairly high up, you probably don't have that much of a chance.

[Polkergeist]

Thanks

[Hatman 🍁]

As far as I know, the process is something along these lines:

1. Members of a party declare candidacies for the leadership role.
2. The members go through a campaign not unlike the one to get elected to a government position.
3. The party's members vote on who they want as their leader.
4. Whoever gets the most votes becomes the leader.

Basically, anyone who's a member of the party can declare candidacy, I think, although if you're not fairly high up, you probably don't have that much of a chance.

They usually have a number of ballots, depending on if a candidate can get over 50% of the vote in the first round. They keep knocking off candidates until one gets over 50%.

As for leaders who have no seats in the House, often they will wait for the next election,  by-election, or occaisonally a member of their party will resign to open a seat up for a by-election.