<P> Canadian political parties also organize their own elections of party leaders . Not only will the party leader run for a seat in their own chosen riding, they will also become Prime Minister (in a federal election) or Premier (in a province or territory) should their party win the most seats . If the party wins the second-most seats, the party leader will become Leader of the Official Opposition; if the party comes third or lower, the leader will still be recognized as the leader of their party, and will be responsible for co-ordinating the activities and affairs of their party's caucus in the legislature . </P> <P> In the past, Canadian political parties chose party leaders through the votes of delegates to a Leadership Convention . Local riding associations would choose delegates, usually in a manner similar to how they would choose a candidate for election . These delegates typically said explicitly which leadership candidate they would support . Those delegates, as well as other delegates (e.g. sitting party members of Parliament or the legislature, or delegates from party - affiliated organizations such as labor unions in the case of the New Democratic Party), would then vote, again using the exhaustive ballot method, until a leader was chosen . </P> <P> Lately, Canada's major political parties have moved to "one member, one vote" systems for their federal leadership elections . A leadership convention is still scheduled, but all party members have a chance to vote for the new leader . Typically, members may vote either in person as a delegate to the convention, online as they watch ballot - by - ballot results on the Internet or on television, or through a mail - in preferential ballot (handled by an "instant runoff" method). This method was used in the 2017 NDP leadership convention which chose Jagmeet Singh as federal party leader . When the Liberal Party chose Justin Trudeau as party leader in its leadership convention in 2013, they used a similar process, but only used online preferential voting for members not present at the convention and did not use mail - in ballots . As well, they scaled all members' votes such that each of the 308 riding associations' votes would be equal, notwithstanding how many or how few members voted in each riding . The Conservative Party of Canada also selected Andrew Scheer in a similar method . </P> <Ul> <Li> United States presidential primary . <Ul> <Li> Democratic Party presidential primaries (current: 2016). </Li> <Li> Republican Party presidential primaries (current: 2016, recent: 2012). </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Canada: <Ul> <Li> Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, 2013 </Li> <Li> Conservative Party of Canada leadership election, 2017 </Li> <Li> New Democratic Party leadership election, 2017 </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Primary elections in Italy . </Li> <Li> Argentine general election, 2011, Argentine legislative election, 2013, Argentine general election, 2015 </Li> <Li> Chile . </Li> <Li> Uruguay, since 1999 . </Li> <Li> United New Democratic Party (South Korea, 2007). </Li> <Li> United Kingdom <Ul> <Li> Conservative Party parliamentary primaries </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Armenia . In an innovation on 2007 November 24 and 25, one political party conducted a non-binding Armenia - wide primary election . The party, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, invited the public to vote to advise the party which of two candidates they should formally nominate for President of Armenia in the subsequent official election . What characterized it as a primary instead of a standard opinion poll was that the public knew of the primary in advance, all eligible voters were invited, and the voting was by secret ballot . "Some 68,183 people...voted in make - shift tents and mobile ballot boxes ..." </Li> <Li> Colombia In 2006, the Liberal Party and the socialist Democratic Pole hold primary elections, electing Horacio Serpa as liberal candidate and Carlos Gaviria as candidate of the Democratic Pole . For 2010 presidential electiones, four parties held primary elections: The Liberal Party elected former minister Rafael Pardo as candidate, the Democratic Pole elected senator Gustavo Petro, the Conservative Party chose ambassador Noemi Sanin and the Green Party chose former mayor of Bogota Antanas Mockus . </Li> <Li> Costa Rica, the three main political forces National Liberation Party, Social Christian Unity Party and Citizens' Action Party have all run primary elections several times . </Li> <Li> Republic of China (Taiwan): The Democratic Progressive Party selects all its candidates via opinion polls . The candidate with the highest poll rating will be nominated . The KMT selects candidates using a combination of opinion polls (worth 70%) and primary elections (worth 30%). </Li> <Li> Russia . The largest party in Russia, United Russia is holding primaries for the candidates to State Duma, a Russian lower - house chamber of the parliament . </Li> <Li> In Australia, the Australian Labor Party and the National Party have conducted limited experiments with primary - style pre-selections . </Li> </Ul>

Who do i vote for in the primary