The race to replace outgoing Premier Dalton McGuinty is shaping up to be a two-horse race between Don Valley West MPP Kathleen Wynne and former Windsor West MPP Sandra Pupatello.
Those two Ontario Liberal leadership candidates account for more than 50 per cent of the delegates based on results from weekend voting, with Pupatello appearing to hold a slight lead.
Pupatello took 27 per cent of the delegates in weekend voting with 25 per cent going to Wynne. Former Parkdale-High Park MP Gerrard Kennedy is a distant third at 14 per cent with Mississauga-Erindale MPP Harinder Takhar at 13 per cent and Mississauga South MPP Charles Sousa at 11 per cent.
Eric Hoskins, who represents the Toronto riding of St. Pauls, is well back of the pack with six per cent.
Those voting results represent the majority of the 1,837 delegates who will gather to pick the party's new leader, and the province's next premier, at a leadership convention set for January 25-27 in Toronto.
About 400 ex-officio delegates — made up of party bigwigs and defeated candidates — will form the rest.
There were originally seven leadership candidates, but Glen Murray dropped out of the race last week and threw his support behind Wynne.
To win the leadership, a candidate must receive the votes of 50 per cent plus one of the elected and ex-officio delegates.
Delegates are only committed to vote for their respective candidate on the first ballot. After that, they can shift their support to other candidates.
"These results give a strong indication of what first-ballot voting results will be, after that it's about anybody's guess," reported CBC provincial affairs reporter Mike Crawley on Monday.
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