MPP Tim Hudak (Niagara West-Glanbrook) is narrowly leading after the first ballot in the Progressive Conservative leadership contest in Markham.
Hudak, 41, finished with 3,511 of 10,348 electoral votes cast from 107 ridings and maverick MPP Randy Hillier, 51, (Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington), who was fourth, has been eliminated from the next ballot, which will be announced around 2 p.m.
