Davis still in it
So Cameron won the second round with 90, Davis second on 57 and Fox last on 51. This means Davis lost 5 votes, Fox gained 9, and Cameron gained 34.Cameron therefore did very well, it looks like of Clarke's 38 votes he got almost all of them and with it by far the best total ever in this leadership style contest.
Davis, unless he decides to quit, appears to have done enough to make a ballot of the members not a walkover. Cameron didn't get half of the votes and indeed if there was a next ballot of MPs and all of Fox's votes transferred to Davis he would win.
Of course there isn't a next ballot of MPs, so it's now up to the blue-rinse brigade. One has to assume they'll go for Cameron unless something happens.
Congratulations to Ross, with his comment-box prediction of 81/65/52, almost spot on with Fox and not to far off for the others, and so he wins the prediction contest and thus the copy of the ginger maestro's "Stars" album.
posted by Matthew @ 10/20/2005 05:10:00 PM
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