Megathread - Liberal Party Leadership Election
Starting at 4 PM ET, the Liberal Party Canada will announce the results of its leadership race. The winner will become the Prime Minister-designate of Canada.
Four candidates appeared on the ballot:
Frank Baylis
Mark Carney
Chrystia Freeland
Karina Gould
The Process:
The contest will be a ranked ballot of voters in each of the 343 parliamentary constituencies, also known as ridings. Each riding is allocated 100 points. These are distributed based on the ratio of votes won by a contestant in each riding.
Voters in each riding rank the candidates in order of preference. So if Candidate A won 60 per cent of the votes in a riding and Candidate B won 40 per cent, they would earn 60 and 40 points respectively. The process is repeated in all 343 ridings and then the national count takes place.
If no contestant gets more than 50 per cent of the overall points on the first count, the leadership contestant who received the least points is eliminated.
The Liberal Party will redistribute the ballots of the eliminated contestant to the other contenders based on who voters in each riding chose as their second option. This process continues until someone takes more than 50 per cent of the points. Ranked ballots in each of Canada's 343 ridings are given equal weighting and 100 points to be allocated based on a preferential ballot. The first candidate to cross the threshold of 17,151 points will win the race. CTV News
Voting process explained (video): Liberal leadership: How the votes are counted
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