Talk:2003 New Democratic Party leadership election

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It may be helpfull to indicate with what country we are dealing here....:-)

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Name change[edit]

This article has been moved without any prior discussion from "New Democratic Party leadership election, 2003" to "New Democratic Party leadership convention, 2003". I disagree with this move, and not just because moving an article should be discussed first.

There was a good reason for using "election" in the title instead of "convention", which is used for the other NDP leadership articles: it was an election -- it was a fundamentally different way of selecting a leader than the previous delegated conventions. As the article says:

"The leadership race was the first to be conducted under the NDP's new partial one member, one vote system, in which the popular vote of the members is weighted for 75% of the result. The rest are votes cast by delegates for affiliated organizations (mainly labour unions). It was also the first Canadian leadership convention to allow Internet voting; delegates who chose to vote electronically were given a password to a secure website to register their votes.

"The race was heated, with the leaders campaigning to NDP audiences across Canada. One of the most notable events of the campaign occurred at the convention in Toronto, the day before the election, when candidate Pierre Ducasse made a stirring speech. [1] Ducasse's speech attracted widespread praise, [2] [3] although its late delivery was unable to sway the postal and internet votes which had already been cast."

I propose to move the article back to its previous name, and ask for comments from other editors. Ground Zero | t 00:18, 21 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's called a convention by the party, and that is what it is. As well, other Canadian parties use the name of the party plus convention, plus year. That seems to be standard.--Abebenjoe (talk) 04:19, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Move discussion in progress[edit]

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:British Columbia Liberal Party leadership contest, 2011 which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. 117Avenue (talk) 02:37, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]