The crowd attending Pierre Poilievre’s rally in Edmonton on Thursday night was massive and the atmosphere was electric.
Complex voting system
In Conservative leadership races, each vote is cast and counted in your riding. Each riding is granted 100 points unless they have fewer than 100 members, in which case they have as many points as they have members.Article content In the 2017 leadership race, Andrew Scheer trailed Maxime Bernier through the first 12 rounds and only came out on top after all other candidates were eliminated. In 2020, Peter MacKay won the first round of balloting but then fell behind on the second and third ballots.Article contentWe apologize, but this video has failed to load.“Pierre is getting huge crowds in ridings we were never going to win,” one Charest staffer said to me this week.
In the final tally, Quebec is worth 7,800 points — 100 points for each of their 78 ridings — while Alberta is worth 3,400 points. Whether any of these strategies can overcome Poilievre and his huge crowds remains to be seen, but the campaigns are trying.Leadership race is a real battle
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