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The Conservative Party of Canada leadership race ended March 20, 2004 with the election of Stephen Harper as the first leader of the new Canadian Conservative Party.The leader was selected by a system where each riding got 100 points. Candidates needed a majority of the points to win the leadership and voting was by preferential ballot.
Harper won a first-ballot victory. If it had been necessary to go to further ballots, then in each round of voting the lowest rank candidate would have been dropped and the votes would have gone to the second choice of those that voted for them. This would have continued until one candidate had a majority of the votes.
See also: leadership convention
1 Winning candidate
2 Other Candidates
3 Dropped out
4 Announced they would not run
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- Chuck Strahl - Canadian Alliance Member of Parliament
