Former cabinet minister and football player Obby Khan was elected leader of Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative party over the weekend in a closely contested two-way race that was decided by less than one percentage point.
Khan won against longtime party board member Wally Daudrich to assume leadership of the provincial Opposition party, which holds 20 of the 57 seats in the legislature.
Daudrich garnered 53 more votes than Khan in the mail-in ballot election, but the party’s newly implemented electoral district points system placed Khan ahead with 50.4 percent of the total points, while Daudrich secured 49.6 percent, according to results posted to the party’s website. …