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CPC leadership election live thread.
posted ago by Ham_Sandwich77 ago by Ham_Sandwich77 +39 / -5

O'Toole wins!

The new party leader will be decided tonight. The contenders are:

Peter MacKay, Erin O'Toole, Lesyn Lewis and Derek Sloan.

Live coverage can be found at:

(Will add more as they pop up).

The show has started. Watch one of the above streams.

(Was delayed a couple of hours. Something about the vote-counting machine shredding ballots)

Update: 6:30pm

  • Results delayed by an hour.

  • Kory Teneyecke, Fmr Director of communications for Harper says the news coming out of the count room indicates things are looking good for Lewis and worrisome for MacKay.

  • Scheer (when asked) says he's staying on board as an MP and will run in his riding next election.

Update: 7:30pm

  • Delayed again until at least 8:00pm.

Update: 8:00pm

  • Delayed until 9:00pm

Update: 9:40pm

  • 98%+ of votes are counted, it's just the <2% that were damaged that are being hand counted. There will be a leader named tonight.

Update: 11:10pm

  • Less than 100 ballots left to count.
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