Canadian Alliance Leadership Elections
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The Canadian Alliance, a conservative political party in
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, held two leadership elections to choose the party's leader. The first was held shortly after the party's founding in 2000, and the second was held in 2002. The party merged with the
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in 2003 to form the
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. The 1987 founding convention of the
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elected
Preston Manning Ernest Preston Manning (born June 10, 1942) is a retired Canadian politician. He was the founder and the only leader of the Reform Party of Canada, a Canadian federal political party that evolved into the Canadian Alliance in 2000 which in tu ...
as party leadership, leader by acclamation. Manning was re-ratified as leader at every subsequent convention of the party without opposition. The Reform Party became the "Canadian Alliance, Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance" (better known as the "Canadian Alliance") in 2000 and had its first contested leadership election. Canadian Alliance leadership votes were conducted via a pure one member one vote, one member, one vote system in which each party member cast a ballot with equal weight. In the CA's system, the leader was the candidate who received 50% plus one of all votes cast (i.e., an absolute majority). If no candidate had an absolute majority on the first ballot, the top two candidates participated in a Two-round system, run-off election several weeks after the first ballot.


2000 leadership election


Candidates

Stockwell Day: 49, Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta, Progressive Conservative Treasurer of Alberta (1997–2000), Alberta Minister of Social Services (1996–1997) Alberta Minister of Labour (1992–1996), Alberta Legislature, MLA for Red Deer North (1986–2000), and former assistant pastor and school administrator at the Bentley Christian Centre in Bentley, Alberta. Preston Manning: 58, founder and leader of the Reform Party of Canada (1987–2000), Member of Parliament for Calgary Southwest, Alberta (1993–2002), Leader of the Opposition (1997–2000). Tom Long:, 42, lawyer, former president of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (1986–1989), chair of Ontario PC election campaigns in 1995 and 1999, co-chair of Canadian Alliance founding convention. Keith Martin: 40, physician and Member of Parliament for the riding of Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca, British Columbia (1993–2011). Martin advocated a position that was conservative on economic issues but is socially liberal. John Stachow: 37, Ontario Power Generation worker from Myrtle, Ontario, advocate of a "social credit", and that the government of Canada to assume direct control over the nation's money supply, rather than leaving this responsibility in the hands of private banks. Opponent of the 1913 Bank Act. ''To be nominated, candidates needed to submit signatures from 300 Canadian Alliance members and a $25,000 deposit.''


2002 leadership election

Stephen Harper: 43, President of the National Citizens Coalition (1998–2002); Reform Party Member of Parliament for Calgary West, Alberta (1993–1997), Reform Party Critic for Intergovernmental Affairs (1994–1997), and Finance (1995–1996). Economist by profession. Stockwell Day: 51, leader of the Canadian Alliance (2000–2001), Member of Parliament for Okanagan—Coquihalla, British Columbia (2000–2011); former Alberta cabinet minister and MLA; agreed to resign and recontest the Canadian Alliance leadership following a caucus revolt. Diane Ablonczy: 52, lawyer, Opposition Critic for Human Resources Development, Member of Parliament for Calgary North (1993–1997), then Calgary—Nose Hill, Alberta (1997–2015). Grant Hill: 58, medical doctor, Opposition Critic for Intergovernmental Affairs, former Critic for Health (1994–1999), Member of Parliament for Macleod (federal electoral district), Macleod, Alberta (1993–2004). During the early campaign, Toronto drag queen Enza Anderson also declared her candidacy for the leadership, although she dropped her bid before the official registration deadline.


See also

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


References

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