For those who haven't heard the official internal election vote results are posted on the GPC website [link].  I wanted to congratulate all winning candidates and, in particular, I wanted to congratulate Melanie Ransom for running an excellent campaign and winning the Party Chair council position. 

I finished second, 305 votes behind Melanie after the third and final round of voting (note that the GPC uses a preferential ballot for its internal elections).  2955 votes were cast for Chair.  I talked to Melanie at the convention after the voting results were announced and told her I would be willing to work with her to follow up on and/or help transition to the new council some of the pre-election council activities and campaign objectives I had been working on, if she and council are interested.  I had tried to make sure that much of this work would be useful for the party regardless of who won.  During the convention I also made a lot of notes about various things that I'm planning to write up and post here to the blog in the coming weeks.

I am going camping at Lake O'Hara this long weekend (near Lake Louise here in Alberta) and this will be a nice change from the 5 days of GPC meetings.  I'll start following up on the above activities when I return.

My understanding is that the new council will be having their first meeting the weekend of September 10.  Congratulations again and good luck to all winning council candidates with their term.