The next leader of the Conservative Party of Canada will be named Sept. 10. Here's a look at how the voting process works:
The party says that of the 678,000 members who were eligible to vote in the contest, more than 400,000 sent their ballots back by Tuesday's deadline.
That means members ranked their preferred choice for leader from first to last. There were initially six candidates in the race before Patrick Brown was disqualified by the party, so all six names will appear on the ballots. A candidate wins when they receive more than 50 per cent of the points. If that doesn't happen in the first count, the candidate who receives the lowest number of points will be eliminated.
If it is a tight battle, the process could be repeated up to three times, until only two candidates remain and one of them bests the other.The party's membership base is split into 338 electoral districts in the same way the country is divided into federal ridings.
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