Well, it was a dramatic finish to round one of voting. At today’s noon-MST close to voting, a final day push managed to send Trudeau and Pearson on to round two with 5 and 8 vote margins of victory respectively. I’ll give the right a lot of credit for their “vote out Trudeau” campaign…yet once again, Joe Clark has managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Here are the full results:
(1) King 1408
(16) Turner 165
(2) Macdonald 1465
(15) Campbell 127
(3) Trudeau 837
(14) Clark 832
(4) Laurier 1180
(13) Meighen 377
(5) Chretien 1066
(12) Martin 343
(6) Borden 811
(11) Pearson 819
(7) Mulroney 1136
(10) Bennett 467
(8) St. Laurent 541
(9) Diefenbaker 1063
The round two poll will open tomorrow and follow the same pattern as this week’s. The matchups for round two will be King vs. Diefenbaker, Macdonald vs. Mulroney, Trudeau vs. Pearson, and Laurier vs. Chretien.