TheConservative Party of Canada elects its leaders through a process known as aleadership election. The most recent leadership election was held in2022.
Since 2004, the party has elected its leaders on aone member, one vote basis using aranked ballot. The process is weighted so that eachriding 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 the1998 Progressive Conservative leadership election, a predecessor party of the current Conservative Party.
Held inToronto,Ontario on March 20, 2004.
| 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% | |
Held inToronto,Ontario on May 27, 2017.
| Candidate | Round 1 | Round 13 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% | ||
Conducted by mail-in ballot due August 21, with results announced on August 23–24.
| Candidate | 1st round | 2nd round | 3rd round | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes cast | % | Points allocated | % | Votes cast | % | Points allocated | % | Votes cast | % | Points allocated | % | ||
.jpg) | 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% |
.JPG) | 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% | |
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 thatPierre Poilievre had won the election in the first round with 68% of points.
| Pierre Poilievre | 68.15% | |||
| Jean Charest | 16.07% | |||
| Leslyn Lewis | 9.69% | |||
| Roman Baber | 5.03% | |||
| Scott Aitchison | 1.06% | |||
| 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 wasJean Charest, whose support mostly came fromQuebec, though Poilievre still won 72 of the province's 78 ridings. Charest won his formerfederal riding of Sherbrooke, all other candidates losing their ridings to Poilievre.[3]