Conservative party is set to elect a new leader Sunday night.While the announcement following tabulation of weeks of mail-in voting by members was scheduled to start at 6 p.m.
ET, the party pushed that back by 90 minutes so the programming is now expected to begin at 7:30 p.m., with results not likely until roughly 8:30 p.m.The reason, the party said, was a delay in processing the roughly 175,000 ballots while also maintaining physical distancing requirements because of the coronavirus pandemic.BREAKING: Estimated 90 minute delay to Conservative leadership results.
Delay is due to processing with large number of ballots (nearly 175k) and social distancing. Show was slated to start at 6, now 7:30 scheduled start.