>>>>>Here we can only vote for a party in a general election. The leader of that party is automatically named the Prime Minister.
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>>>>No, in a federal election you may only vote for a candidate in your riding.
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>>>In your what?
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>>A "riding" in some countries is the equivalent of a congressional district in the US. I'll guess that somewhere in the distant past, those lines were drawn based on how far a man could ride a horse in a day.
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>Wikipedia has a different explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riding_%28division%29

Thanks. I see that I fell into a common trap.

Tamar