Conservative Party of Canada Leadership Race Megathread-May 27th 2017

[MaxQue]

Trost won Brossard--St-Lambert

[Vosem]

Sweet Beautiful Deepak only came in third in his own riding of Calgary--Forest Lawn (Saxton also only third in North Vancouver). Leitch won her own home base:

Simcoe--Grey: Leitch 33.5, Bernier 19.8, Scheer 11.3, O'Toole 11.2, Lemieux 6.5, Chong 5.7, all others <5%.

Some other home ridings:

Saskatoon--University (Trost): Scheer 31.0, Trost 25.1, Bernier 19.9, Lemieux 8.2, O'Toole 5.6, all others <5%.
Bellechasse... (Blaney): Scheer 49.4, Blaney 36.5, Bernier 11.2, all others <2%
Glengarry (Lemieux until 2015 defeat): Lemieux 38.7, Bernier 20.0, Scheer 19.5, O'Toole 10.5, all others <5%
Wellington--Halton Hills (Chong): Chong 58.0, Bernier 12.4, Scheer 6.7, Lemieux 6.3, O'Toole 5.2, all others <5%

[Barnes]

Leitch's campaign was expecting to finish second or third. Lol.

[Vosem]

O'Toole seems to have inexplicably carried Yukon

[MaxQue]

Chong won Laurier--Ste-Marie (old Duceppe riding).

Outremont, too.

[Barnes]

By the way, Bernier had set a personal goal of 30%. This is close, but I believe they felt the second position would be much more diluted.

[MaxQue]

Chong-Bernier tie in Rosemont--La-Petite-Patrie.

[Boston Bread]

I'm surprised that Trost won my riding. Chong came second as well. The CPC members here are odd ones I guess.

[MaxQue]

My riding is very bland, Bernier, Blaney, Lemieux. I think they want someone French.
The riding next to mine is wierd, Scheer gets 73%. Farming areas. In Quebec, he does wonderfully in farming areas, Bernier in non-farming ones.

[Njall]

Chong won Laurier--Ste-Marie (old Duceppe riding).

Outremont, too.

Other Chong wins include Vancouver East and Toronto--Danforth.

[Barnes]

Onto the seventh ballot and Bernier has a 7.5 point lead over Scheer. Still no majority.

[Barnes]

Seventh Ballot:
Bernier: 30.51%
Scheer: 22.97%

[Poirot]

In news today, the farmer organizing against Bernier in Beauce said he would be lucky to get 40%. (He got more but not a big majority) I thought it was wishful thinking. But there was an unnamed conservative strategist who said Beauce result was too close to call.

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[Poirot]

The farmers protest vote is delivering good for Scheer. He lead Blaney in his own Bellechasse-Lévis riding 49-36. He also leads in Lévis-Lotbinière where the MP supports Bernier but doesn't agree on his position on supply management. Meanwhile in Deltell's riding of Louis Saint-Laurent, Bernier easily wins.

[Barnes]

Tenth Ballot:
Bernier: 34.23%
Scheer: 28.28%
O'Toole: 14.62%
Trost: 13.71%
Chong: 9.14%

[MAINEiac4434]

On the 10th ballot, Scheer has taken the lead in Beauce

[Barnes]

Eleventh Ballot:
Bernier: 36.57%
Scheer: 30.28%
O'Toole: 18.85%
Trost: 14.30%

[Barnes]

Twelfth Ballot
Bernier: 40.38%
Scheer: 38.36%
O'Toole: 21.26%

[2952-0-0]

This is as exciting as Canadian politics will ever get.

[DC Al Fine]

Chong led on the first ballot of a few urban ridings: Vancouver Kingsway, Spadina-Fort York, University-Rosedale etc.

[Vosem]

This is as exciting as Canadian politics will ever get.

What about the BC election just a few weeks ago, closest ever in the provincial popular vote? I'm American (Atlas poster American, but still American), and I think Canadian politics is hella exciting

[Barnes]

Five minutes to the final ballot. I always thought this would end up an exciting race!

[RogueBeaver]

Judging from their facial expressions & pundits on Twitter, Scheer's won.

[Barnes]

Judging from their facial expressions & pundits on Twitter, Scheer's won.

I agree just based on the likely flow from O'Toole. I'd touch wood if I was a Conservative though.

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This is as exciting as Canadian politics will ever get.

Here's a typical boring Canadian election where everyone votes the same as the previous election.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_federal_election,_1993