More than half of Conservative party members have returned their leadership ballots with one week left before the deadline on Sept. 6.
The party says just over 350,000 ballots have been received from the 678,000 people who are eligible to vote in the contest.
That means voter turnout is currently sitting at around 52 percent. In the party’s 2020 leadership contest, which was won by Ontario MP Erin O’Toole, around 65 percent of members voted.
Leadership candidates and their teams have spent the last few weeks of this race with their heads down, working to ensure their supporters cast a vote.
But the voting list is long this year—the membership total is a record for a Canadian political party—so reaching everyone before the deadline is a challenge….