Pierre Poilievre wins Conservative Party leadership race | LIVE

Voting has ended in Canada's Conservative party’s leadership election, and its members found out Saturday that Pierre Poilievre was the victor.

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.

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.

Poilievre becomes the fourth permanent leader of the party, after Stephen Harper, Andrew Scheer and Erin O’Toole.

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