The True North - 1990 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, 2nd ballot

[MAINEiac4434]

Why ignore the results of a poll if you don't like it?

The more I'm thinking about it, the more excited I am by a Liberal split. The chaos will be unimaginable.

I think that you should do it, but do a penalty system like Lumine is doing for general elections if the results consistently don't make any sense.

Oh definitely. I'm going to penalize the general election results. Probably not the leadership results, though.

Don't penalise the results out of random, but you can penalise it if after a party continually wins elections.

Yeah, that's what I meant.

[MAINEiac4434]

The poll is closed. We have a tie. Rendering the entire argument above irrelevant, Copps wins on the die-roll. Wappel stays in the Liberal Party, but Copps and her allies are attempting to push him out (in real life, a similar thing happened to Copps when Paul Martin won the leadership). Copps becomes the 12th party leader, the 10th not including the "unofficial leaders" of the party's early days, and the ninth not including interim leader Daniel Duncan McKenzie.

In an olive branch to the centrists, Jean Chretien assumes the roll of Deputy Leader.