I'd love to see the last contested Liberal Party results. We'd have to go back a long way though, Justin was "anointed" too with little to zero opposition.
2006: Stephan Dion won on the 4th ballot.
He was 3rd on the first ballot with 17.8% behind Ignatieff (29.3%) and Bob Rae (20.3%) but picked up all the dropped out endorsements.
He ended up with 54.7% support.
Even Trudeau, going against no-names in 2013, only got 80% support. That was running against literal no-names, not the former Deputy with tons of name recognition. Even then he lost 5 of the ridings.
I'd love to see the last contested Liberal Party results. We'd have to go back a long way though, Justin was "anointed" too with little to zero opposition.
2006: Stephan Dion won on the 4th ballot.
He was 3rd on the first ballot with 17.8% behind Ignatieff (29.3%) and Bob Rae (20.3%) but picked up all the dropped out endorsements.
He ended up with 54.7% support.
Even Trudeau, going against no-names in 2013, only got 80% support. That was running against literal no-names, not the former Deputy with tons of name recognition. Even then he lost 5 of the ridings.