1969 Leadership Convention
(Held in Winnipeg, Manitoba on June 7, 1969)
| Candidate | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|
| Edward Schreyer | 506 | 74.08 |
| Sidney Green | 177 | 25.92 |
| Total Valid Votes | 683 | 100.00 |
(Results taken from the Globe and Mail, 9 June 1969.)
Schreyer resigned as party leader in January 1979, after being appointed Governor-General of Canada on the advice of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. In the same month, Howard Pawley was chosen as interim leader of the NDP's legislative caucus, defeating Sidney Green and Saul Cherniack in a closed-session vote.
Read more about this topic: New Democratic Party Of Manitoba Leadership Elections
Famous quotes containing the words leadership and/or convention:
“This I do know and can say to you: Our country is in more danger now than at any time since the Declaration of Independence. We don’t dare follow the Lindberghs, Wheelers and Nyes, casting suspicion, sowing discord around the leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt. We don’t want revolution among ourselves.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
““We’ll encounter opposition, won’t we, if we give women the same education that we give to men,” Socrates says to Galucon. “For then we’d have to let women ... exercise in the company of men. And we know how ridiculous that would seem.” ... Convention and habit are women’s enemies here, and reason their ally.”
—Martha Nussbaum (b. 1947)