1927 Conservative leadership convention

1927 Conservative Party leadership election

October 12, 1927 1938 →

CON Candidate R. B. Bennett Hugh Guthrie Charles Hazlitt Cahan Second ballot delegate count 780 (50.2%) 320 (20.6%) 266 (17.1%) First ballot delegate count 594 (38.0%) 345 (22.0%) 310 (19.8%)   Candidate Robert James Manion Robert Rogers Henry Lumley Drayton Second ballot delegate count 148 (9.5%) 37 (2.4%) 3 (0.2%) First ballot delegate count 170 (10.9%) 114 (7.3%) 31 (2.0%)

Leader before election Hugh Guthrie (interim) Elected Leader R. B. Bennett

A Conservative leadership convention was held on October 12, 1927 at the Winnipeg Amphitheatre in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The convention was held to choose a new leader of the Conservative Party (formally the Liberal-Conservative Party) to choose a successor to former Prime Minister of Canada Arthur Meighen who had led the party since 1920. This was the first time the Conservatives used a leadership convention to choose a leader. Previous leaders had been chosen by the party's caucus, the previous leader, or by the Governor General of Canada designating an individual to form a government after his predecessor's death or resignation.^[1]