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Versions of s. 42

E-2.01 — Canada Elections Act · 2 versions · View current text

Historical text comes from the Justice Laws point-in-time corpus and is unofficial — not the official version.

  1. 2019-06-13 to present available View Source
    For the purposes of subsectionssubsection 33(1) and (2), 34(1), 35(1) and 39(3) and (4)33(3) and section 41, in determininga whethercase thein candidate ofwhich a registered party finishedthat firstendorsed ora secondcandidate in the last election in a case where the registered party is the result of a mergermerges with twoone or more parties that were registered parties at thatthe last election, there shall be attributed to the candidate of the merged party the number of votes of the candidate of the merging party with the largest number of votes at that election.
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    For the purposes of subsection 33(3) and section 41, in a case in which a registered party that endorsed a candidate in the last election merges with one or more parties that were registered parties at the last election,

  2. 2003-01-01 to 2019-06-13 View Source

    For the purposes of subsections 33(1) and (2), 34(1), 35(1) and 39(3) and (4) and section 41, in determining whether the candidate of a registered party finished first or second in the last election in a case where the registered party is the result of a merger with two or more parties that were registered parties at that election, there shall be attributed to the candidate of the merged party the number of votes of the candidate of the merging party with the largest number of votes at that election.