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"We can't allow things that are inaccurate to stand." — The Word of Our Dan, February 19, 2008.

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Grassroots

To put the truly astonishing Newfoundland and Labrador Liberal leadership vote into perspective, here is a table of "open" party leadership contests in Canada, both federal and provincial, since the Parti Québécois leadership race of 1985.

These include party leaderships decided by open, one-member-one-vote member- or supporter-based voting, or conventions which were open to all party members. It also includes party leaderships which were geographically weighted one-member-one-vote, but excludes internal party votes for delegated leadership conventions.

Colours follow the traditional partisan colour scheme, with the addition of purple for Quebec sovereigntist parties, and green for non-"Conservative" right-of-centre parties.

The "votes" figure takes the total number of valid votes on the largest ballot (or count, in the cast of preferential ballots.) The per-capita figure expresses the total number of leadership votes in the largest ballot as a percentage of the voters list in the province (or Canada) at the chronologically nearest federal election. (One exception: the 1990 Ontario PC leadership is expressed as a percentage of the 1990 Ontario provincial voters list.)

Since 1985, the average open provincial party leadership has attracted about 1.5% of that province's electors. At 5.8%, as a pure exercise in voter-mobilization, the NL Liberal leadership is a runaway success.

Additions and corrections are welcome.

Despite the wrinkles and gremlins, the NL Liberal Party, and the teams behind the five candidates, deserve full credit for driving this leadership process, which, adjusted for population, is one of the biggest exercises of grassroots party democracy in recent Canadian history.



PartyJurisdictionYearVotesPer-capita
PC AB 2006 144,289 6.2%
Liberal NL 2013 23,873 5.8%
Liberal PEI 1996 4,329 4.4%
PC AB 1992 78,251 4.2%
Liberal PEI 2003 3,969 3.6%
PC AB 2011 78,176 3.1%
NDP SK 2001 19,465 2.8%
Liberal NB 2012 14,672 2.5%
Parti QuébécoisQC198596,9742.1%
Parti QuébécoisQC2005105,2591.8%
Liberal BC 2011 54,879 1.8%
NDP SK 2009 9,444 1.3%
NDP SK 2013 8,719 1.2%
PC MB 2006 9,143 1.1%
Liberal NS 1992 6,998 1.0%
Bloc QuébécoisQC199748,4370.9%
Wild Rose AB 2009 16,400 0.7%
PC NB 2008 4,029 0.7%
NDP BC 2011 20,016 0.6%
Social Credit BC 1993 14,833 0.6%
Liberal AB 1994 11,004 0.6%
PC ON 2002 44,188 0.6%
Canadian Alliance Can 2000 120,557 0.6%
Saskatchewan SK 1998 3,344 0.5%
PC SK 1994 3,298 0.5%
PC NS 1995 2,985 0.4%
Conservative Can 2004 97,397 0.4%
Liberal Can 2013 104,552 0.4%
Liberal AB 1998 7,636 0.4%
Canadian Alliance Can 2002 88,228 0.4%
PC ON 2004 32,390 0.4%
Liberal AB 2011 8,640 0.3%
PC ON 2009 25,429 0.3%
NDP Can 2002 58,202 0.3%
Liberal BC 1993 6,540 0.3%
NDP Can 2012 65,108 0.3%
PC ON 1990 15,850 0.3%
Bloc Québécois QC 2011 12,846 0.2%
Liberal AB 2008 4,860 0.2%
PC Can 1998 30,100 0.2%
NDP ON 2009 11,150 0.1%
Liberal AB 2004 2,733 0.1%
ADQ QC 2009 3,912 0.1%
Wild Rose AB 2005 1,128 0.1%

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