Conservative Party of Canada leadership elections

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 current Conservative Party.

## 2004 leadership election

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Main article: 2004 Conservative Party of Canada 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

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Main article: 2017 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election

Held in Toronto, Ontario on May 27, 2017.

Results by round  Candidate  | Round 1  | Round 13

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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

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Main article: 2020 Conservative Party of Canada 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

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|
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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

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Main article: 2022 Conservative Party of Canada 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

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* Progressive Conservative Party of Canada leadership elections
* Canadian Alliance leadership elections

## References

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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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