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Originally Posted by Shazam
Also I would have to be approved by the party's riding committee, that takes time, you don't just show up "at the last chance".
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Actually, in the case of several newly-elected NDP MLAs, they literally did just show up at the last chance. The party wanted to run a candidate in every riding, most of which they assumed they couldn't win, so multiple people volunteered to be the sacrificial lamb when nobody else stepped forward at the nomination meeting. Then the province got swept up in the orange wave and some of those candidates who were only nominated by acclimation after the election had already been called are now part of the government.