Election 2015

2015 was the year we united to defeat the Harper Conservatives. Vote Together was Leadnow’s largest ever campaign and together, we have accomplished and learned so much. We wanted to capture and publish reflections before the end of the year, while the memories are fresh and lessons are emerging.  

The Vote Together campaign was all over the news the last few months, garnering national and even international media coverage. Here is a list of significant media stories from a variety of publications across Canada and beyond.

Today, after 9 years and 257 days, Stephen Harper is no longer the Prime Minister of Canada.  Let’s let that soak in, and think about what it means.

Today, after 9 years and 257 days, Stephen Harper is no longer the Prime Minister of Canada.  Let’s let that soak in, and think about what it means.

But no matter what results come in over the next few hours, in so many ways you – the incredible Leadnow community – have already won. So before we leap together into whatever comes next, we wanted to take a moment, say “Thank you!” and share just some of the many reasons we're so deeply grateful for what you all have just achieved.

On Thursday, October 15th, the Leadnow community voted to recommend NDP candidate Mira Oreck as the best choice for defeating the Conservative candidate in Vancouver Granville. We’re writing today to explain how Leadnow’s community came to make a recommendation in Vancouver Granville, and how our democratic process worked.

My name is Adam Shedletzky and I’m one of Leadnow’s co-founders and the Chair of our Board of Directors. I’m writing this note to tell you a bit about Leadnow’s funding sources. Here’s the short version: the overwhelming majority of our money comes from individual Canadians giving small donations online. We registered as a third-party in the 2015 election, we only used Canadian donations for our election campaign, and we have submitted a full report to Elections Canada.

These are the results of our Vote Together candidate recommendations. In ridings across Canada where the Vote Together campaign is the strongest, the Leadnow community has voted to recommend the following candidates who are best positioned - by a clear margin - to defeat the local Conservative in their riding.

Tonight is the Munk Debate on foreign policy -- and it could be a game-changer. Here is a series of Facebook graphic shares, Twitter messages, and useful links that outline Harper’s failed foreign policy record. Please share any of them before, during or after the debate. We recommend you keep this page open as you watch, so you can share different messages as different topics are discussed throughout the night.

Thanks to you, last week Leadnow released the results of 31 riding level polls.

Almost 2000 people from the Leadnow community stepped up with generous support to make this important research possible. Because of your donations, we were able to run our biggest round of polling yet: 31 ridings from coast to coast to coast -- that third coast is for real, we even did a poll in the Yukon