Riding Association: Province

Kitchener-Waterloo Dept: Of the current party members, sources say, well over 2,000 are in the ridings of Kitchener-Waterloo and Vaughan, which recently went through contested nomination campaigns before by-elections. So in the rest of the province, the average riding association has only about 100 members. And many are much, much smaller than that, according to Globe and Mail. What's important to understand here and the candidates' organizers understand it well is that regardless of its size, each riding association is eligible to send 16 delegates to the party s late-January convention and as of now, there are only about 13,000 registered provincial Liberals meaning there are far fewer people eligible to choose the province's next Premier than those who could vote in the third-party NDP's last leadership contest. And that number doesn't even begin to reflect how easily a few new recruits in the right places, heading into the Liberals' membership cut-off this weekend, could affect the contest's outcome. It s not just the mostly rural ridings held by other parties where the associations are sparsely populated. According to those who have seen the lists, some Liberal-held constituencies in Toronto until recently had as few as 20 members. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.