{"id":2328,"date":"2009-06-28T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2328"},"modified":"2009-06-28T14:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-28T18:43:00","slug":"hudak-versus-mcguinty-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2328","title":{"rendered":"Hudak versus McGuinty in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">That&#8217;ll<\/span> be the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">match up<\/span>, after Tim <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">Hudak&#8217;s<\/span> third ballot win yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the ballot-by-ballot results:<\/p>\n<p><strong>First Ballot<\/strong><br \/><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">Hudak<\/span>  3512<br \/><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">Klees<\/span>  3094<br \/>Elliott  2729<br \/>Hillier  1014<\/p>\n<p>After the first ballot, 61% of the Hillier votes switched over to <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_5\">Hudak<\/span>, with 20% going to <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_6\">Klees<\/span>, and 17% to Elliott (2% had no second choice).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second Ballot<\/strong><br \/><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_7\">Hudak<\/span>  4129<br \/><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_8\">Klees<\/span>  3300<br \/>Elliott  2904<\/p>\n<p>51% of Elliott voters had <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_9\">Hudak<\/span> as their second choice (or, third choice, if they were Hillier voters switching over to Elliott), while 46% had <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_10\">Klees<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Third Ballot<\/strong><br \/><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_11\">Hudak<\/span>  5606<br \/><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_12\">Klees<\/span>  4644<\/p>\n<p>So <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_13\">Hudak<\/span> pulled off the rare feat of being a front runner who was also the top second choice preference among the supporters of the defeated candidates. While <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_14\">Hudak<\/span> and his campaign certainly deserve some credit for pulling that off, I&#8217;m sure the short time frame and the format of the leadership race had a lot to do with it.<\/p>\n<p>Front runner resentment probably runs higher among the type of people who go to delegated conventions than it does in the grass roots. That&#8217;s something federal Liberals will need to keep in mind for future leadership races, now that they&#8217;ve switched to a <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_15\">WOMOV<\/span> system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;ll be the match up, after Tim Hudak&#8217;s third ballot win yesterday. Here are the ballot-by-ballot results: First BallotHudak 3512Klees 3094Elliott 2729Hillier 1014 After the first ballot, 61% of the Hillier votes switched over to Hudak, with 20% going to Klees, and 17% to Elliott (2% had no second choice). Second BallotHudak 4129Klees 3300Elliott 2904 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}