Conservative party’s leadership election — but its members still need to wait until Saturday to find out who their next leader is.Ballots had to be received by a deadline of 5 p.m.
on Tuesday in order to be processed, validated and counted in time for this weekend’s announcement.The party is using a ranked-ballot system to choose its next permanent leader among five hopefuls: Pierre Poilievre, Jean Charest, Leslyn Lewis, Scott Aitchison and Roman Baber.
Poilievre popular among Conservative voters, but not all Canadians feel the same: poll With Patrick Brown’s name still on the list despite his disqualification in July, the party says anyone who puts him first on their ballot will see their vote transferred automatically to their second choice.Whoever wins will become the fourth permanent leader of the party, after Stephen Harper, Andrew Scheer and Erin O’Toole.Candice Bergen, who took over the role of interim leader after O’Toole’s ouster in February, announced Tuesday that she won’t be running in the next federal election.The 57-year-old was first elected in 2008 in Manitoba’s Portage-Lisgar riding.She was a parliamentary secretary to the minister of public safety and minister of state for social development in Harper’s government.
Interim Conservative leader Candice Bergen will not seek re-election as MP She was named Conservative House leader in 2016 and became the party’s deputy leader in 2020 under O’Toole.Bergen says she will stay on as member of Parliament in the immediate future and is looking forward to embracing new opportunities.“I will wholeheartedly be supporting whoever takes my place as leader after Sept.