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
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Results delayed by an hour.
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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.
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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.
I’m following along in excel. It’s a safe assumption that Sloan voters wouldn't go to McKay. I don’t see a real path to victory here.
I also don’t see this being solved on the second ballot. It’s going to be a late night.
Sloan and Lewis have the closest views, so Lewis will probably pick up a lot of those votes. If she hypothetically collected 100% of Sloan's votes she'd be in a narrow first place and O'toole would be eliminated. But I feel like most of O'Toole's votes would go to MacKay because those two are the closest in views.
Aaaand, she's gone.