The official voting period for the next leader of the BC Conservatives has ended, with 95 percent of those eligible casting a ballot.
Conservative Party of British Columbia executive director Angelo Isidorou posted the turnout results during a late night social media update on May 28.
“25,000 BC Conservatives have now voted. 95% turnout of eligible voters,” he said on X.
The seven-day voting process that began on May 23 officially wrapped up on May 29 at 8 a.m. local time, and the announcement of the winner will take place on the evening of May 30.
The candidates seeking to fill the spot left vacant by John Rustad’s resignation as Conservative leader last year are former B.C. Liberal cabinet minister Iain Black, commentator and think tank senior fellow Caroline Elliott, former federal MP Kerry-Lynne Findlay, businessman and philanthropist Yuri Fulmer, and current MLA Peter Milobar, who is now the only sitting legislator seeking the leadership of the official Opposition….