Showing posts with label preselection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label preselection. Show all posts

July 18, 2011

Pre-selecting candidates using US-style ‘primaries’

Image source: Parliamentary Education Office
At its recent State Conference the NSW Branch of the ALP decided to trial US-style primaries for preselections. Primaries are candidate preselection processes that tend to involve more people than just, say, party delegates, officials or financial members of parties. The NSW trial process—in five electorates—would give members of the community a 50 per cent say in the selection of the candidates.