BREAKING: Pierre Poilievre chosen as new Conservative Party leader on first ballot
Veteran Conservative Pierre Polievre, who ran a populist campaign around the theme of "freedom" in his bid to score the top prize, won on the first ballot.
The Conservatives are using a points system to count up the more than 400,000 votes that were cast before Tuesday's ballot deadline. Candidates are assigned points based on what share of the vote they receive in each of the country’s 338 electoral ridings and whoever scores more than 50 per cent of the points wins.
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