The runner-up in Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative Party’s leadership race, Shelly Glover, has filed a court application challenging rival Heather Stefanson’s win as the party’s new leader. Stefanson was sworn in as Manitoba’s 24th premier on Nov. 2. Glover, who narrowly lost to Stefanson when the leadership ballots were counted on Oct. 30, claimed there were “substantial irregularities” in the election and that the wrong person had been sworn in. On Oct. 30, Progressive Conservative (PC) president Tom Wiebe announced Stefanson beat Glover by 363 votes, becoming the first female premier of Manitoba. The results, announced at about 5 p.m. at Winnipeg’s Victoria Inn, had the new leader receiving 8,405 votes while Glover garnered 8,042. Stefanson replaces her predecessor, Brian Pallister, who stepped down in September and later resigned as member of the legislative assembly representing the riding of Fort Whyte in Winnipeg in October. In a package of documents filed …