Just One Vote: From Jim Walding's Nomination to Constitutional Defeat - Softcover
On January 12, 1986, Jim Walding was nominated as the New Democratic Party candidate for the Manitoba constituency of St. Vital. Although Walding had been an MLA for fifteen years, he had fallen out of favour with key elements in his party, and won the nomination by only a single vote. Walding went on, in turn, to bring down his own government by a single vote, marking the only time in the history of Canadian politics that a majority government was brought down from within. Combining data drawn from archives, interviews, and the media, Just One Vote is a vivid and exceptionally detailed study of the nomination process. Ian Stewart outlines the geographic, social, and political backdrop behind Walding’s contested party nomination, the unusual chain of events triggered by the contestation, including the fall of the Pawley government and the NDP’s defeat in the 1988 provincial election, and examines the fallout from these events on Manitobans and Canadians.
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Ian Stewart teaches political science at Acadia University. He is the author of three previous books, most recently Conventional Choices: Maritime Leadership Politics, co-authored with David Stewart.
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“A welcome addition to the already significant Canadian literature on the New Democratic Party of Manitoba. The attention paid to this subject reflects the party’s democratic socialist ideology and its domination of provincial politics for much of the past 40 years, including Manitoba’s current government.” (James A. McAllister Great Plains Research, Vol. 20, No. 2)
“Stewart’s attention to detail is remarkable. ... As a contribution to local and and provincial political history it is first-rate, and as a contribution to the literature on the Canadian political process it succeeds on many different levels.” (Jim Mochoruk, University of North Dakota North Dakota Quarterly, Summer 2009.)
“Stewart’s attention to detail is remarkable. ... As a contribution to local and and provincial political history it is first-rate, and as a contribution to the literature on the Canadian political process it succeeds on many different levels.” (Jim Mochoruk, University of North Dakota North Dakota Quarterly, Summer 2009.)
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- PublisherUniversity of Manitoba Press
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0887557112
- ISBN 13 9780887557118
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages282
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Book Description [978-0-88755-711-8] [2009]. (Trade paperback) Very good plus. xii, 282pp. Illustrations, photographs, maps, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. There is minor creasing to the spine. Book about Jim Walding. Locale: Manitoba; Prairie Provinces; Western Canada. (Manitoba, Government--Manitoba, New Democratic Party, Politicians--Manitoba, Politics--Manitoba). Seller Inventory # 136914
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