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Riding association
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In Canadian politics, a riding association (French: association de comté), also known as a constituency association and officially called an electoral district association(French: association de circonscription) is the basic unit of a political party at the level of the electoral district, or "riding". Major political parties attempt to have a riding association in each constituency, although usually these associations are more active in ridings where the party has an elected Member of Parliament or has a reasonable chance of electing an MP in the future, and less active in ridings where the party's prospects have historically been poor.
Most riding associations have an elected executive and attempt to have activities for local party members at regular intervals. At a minimum, riding associations hold an annual general meeting to elect the executive and meetings to elect delegates to national and regional party policy conventions. Riding associations are most active during election campaigns when they are responsible for organizing the riding's election campaign. In addition, the party constitution usually allows each riding association to hold a nomination meeting, which selects the party's local candidate. However, some party constitutions allow the leader to bypass the riding association and appoint a candidate of his or her choosing, although virtually all parties maintain limits on the number of ridings where the leader may do so.
The other time when riding associations are most active are in the lead up to leadership conventions. Riding associations were more important in this aspect in the past, when they would elect supporters of a particular leadership candidate to participate as delegates at a leadership convention. Many parties, however, have moved away from the delegated system of electing a leader to a One Member One Vote system in which all party members vote by ballot.
However, as the riding association remains the prime point of contact between members and the party they remain important for leadership candidates in their attempt to gain support, and prospective leadership candidates will often attempt to win control of a riding association's executive when it is elected at the annual general meeting even if a leadership election is not anticipated for several years.
Riding associations also exist at the provincial level and operate in the same manner.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In Canadian politics, a riding association (French: association de comté), also known as a constituency association and officially called an electoral district association(French: association de circonscription) is the basic unit of a political party at the level of the electoral district, or "riding". Major political parties attempt to have a riding association in each constituency, although usually these associations are more active in ridings where the party has an elected Member of Parliament or has a reasonable chance of electing an MP in the future, and less active in ridings where the party's prospects have historically been poor.
Most riding associations have an elected executive and attempt to have activities for local party members at regular intervals. At a minimum, riding associations hold an annual general meeting to elect the executive and meetings to elect delegates to national and regional party policy conventions. Riding associations are most active during election campaigns when they are responsible for organizing the riding's election campaign. In addition, the party constitution usually allows each riding association to hold a nomination meeting, which selects the party's local candidate. However, some party constitutions allow the leader to bypass the riding association and appoint a candidate of his or her choosing, although virtually all parties maintain limits on the number of ridings where the leader may do so.
The other time when riding associations are most active are in the lead up to leadership conventions. Riding associations were more important in this aspect in the past, when they would elect supporters of a particular leadership candidate to participate as delegates at a leadership convention. Many parties, however, have moved away from the delegated system of electing a leader to a One Member One Vote system in which all party members vote by ballot.
However, as the riding association remains the prime point of contact between members and the party they remain important for leadership candidates in their attempt to gain support, and prospective leadership candidates will often attempt to win control of a riding association's executive when it is elected at the annual general meeting even if a leadership election is not anticipated for several years.
Riding associations also exist at the provincial level and operate in the same manner.
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- Why is it important to join a political party?
- Why is it important to vote at nomination meetings?
- Why is it important to volunteer on the Executive Committee of your local riding association?
- Join a federal party or EDA executive committee
- Join a provincial party or EDA executive committee
- Be a pro-life candidate in territorial elections
Why is it important to join a political party?
The most important reason to become a card-carrying member of a political party is so that you can vote in “nomination meetings” which are held to select a new candidate to represent the party in your riding at the next election. For example, in the 2015 federal election there will be 30 new ridings and Canadians will elect 30 additional MPs, raising the current number of MPs from 308 to 338. Nomination meetings for those 30 ridings will be held by each party. If we have a large number of card-carrying pro-lifers in each of these 30 new ridings, it consequently increases the chances of being able to elect 30 new, pro-life MPs.
Our goal is to have a large number of party members in every riding of the country. The cost to become a party member is inexpensive - usually $10-$15 per year, and the application form is simple.
Why is it important to vote at nomination meetings?
This is the easiest way to ensure there will be a pro-life candidate in your riding for whom you can vote in the next general election or byelection. Unlike general elections, not many people show up to nomination meetings. In general elections, thousands show up to vote. However at nomination meetings, only a few hundred people attend and sometimes fewer than 100.
A good example occurred during the lead up to Ontario's August 1, 2013 byelection in the provincial riding of Scarborough-Guildwood. The NDP nominated Adam Giambrone to run in the byelection with only 38 votes! If we had just 20 pro-lifer residents (51% of the vote) in that riding to buy NDP memberships, we could have conducted a take over of the nomination meeting. We would now have accomplished the amazing feat of running a pro-lifer under a rabidly pro-abortion federal party.
The lesson is if there are a lot of pro-lifers registered as party members, they can quite handily elect worthy candidates. This takes much less effort than getting-out-the-vote for general elections and can have far bigger pay-offs. Please contact us to find out how you can get involved.
Why is it important to volunteer on the Executive Committee of your local riding association?
- As an executive member, you may be able to exert influence in searching for nomination candidates who are pro-life.
- As an executive member who is pro-life, you may catch wind of efforts by pro-abortion executive members of efforts to try and sabotage the nomination papers for a known pro-life candidate. This repugnant, undemocratic practice to scuttle nominations has occurred in the past, and has also been conducted by party headquarters . If pro-life people are on the Executive Committee, they may be able to block the sabotage of pro-life nomination candidates.
- You may be invited to attend party policy conventions where policies for the entire party are proposed and voted on;
- If you volunteer on the board for the local riding association, you can help influence, or even write, pro-life/pro-family policy proposals which then get submitted for voting eligibility at the national/provincial policy conventions.
