去年保守党党领选举 Scheer won 50.95 per cent of points to 49.05 per cent for Bernier. Scheer actually received 53 per cent of all active ballots by the final round, beating Bernier by six percentage points. That gave him an advantage of just over 7,000 votes.
But if just 66 party members in the right ridings had voted for Bernier instead, he would have won.