Proposed rules could help Conservative incumbent MPs avoid nomination challenges

Nomination battles can be divisive for parties and sometimes result in controversies that are fodder for negative news headlines. For Conservatives in western provinces like Alberta, the nominations are often more difficult than elections.

Five-term Conservative MP Tom Lukiwski says it’s an uphill battle for his party’s MPs representing rural ridings to raise $150,000 by April 2018. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY ABBAS RANA

May 9, 2016

All 98 incumbent Conservative MPs can avoid nomination challenges for the 2019 federal election if they have $150,000 in their riding association bank accounts and at least one per cent of eligible voters are riding association members by April 2018, according to the proposed new rules by the nati...

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