Jakanian Revolutionary Party internal elections

The Jakanian Revolutionary Party frequently holds various internal elections to select its party leader, deputy leader, central committee and presidential nominees.

Leadership elections
Leadership elections in the CDP are held using a delegate-based method. Under this system, each of the party's nationally elected representatives, namely MPs and senators, are given one vote in electing the leader and deputy leader. Additionally, 20 delegates are awarded to each of the party's twenty local chapters, totalling 400. The members of each local chapter are allowed to vote for a leadership candidate locally; the most-voted candidate in each chapter receives all of that chapter's delegates, in a winner-take-all system. Finally, 20 delegates each, also elected by the winner-take-all method, is given to the party's youth wing, the National Confederation of Revolutionary Youth, and its women's wing, the Sisters of the Revolution. The candidate that obtains the most votes, is elected party leader.

These delegate-based leadership elections are triggered whenever an incumbent is challenged by another party member ahead of a party convention. If there are no challengers to the incumbent, then he or she is automatically re-elected by acclamation.

Presidential primaries
Unlike leadership elections, the presidential primaries of the CDP are held using the contingent version of ranked voting, based on the one "member, one vote" principle. Each party member may rank presidential primary candidates in order of preference, and if a candidate receives over 50% of first preferences, he or she is elected. However, if no candidate obtains this number, then all candidates but the top two are eliminated, and have their votes redistributed to the finalists based on their voters' preferences. Whichever of the two remaining candidates receives the most votes, becomes the official presidential nominee.

Leadership elections
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