The Canadian Press: Manitoba Progressive Conservatives have 11,000 members as April leadership vote looms

That’s partly because new party rules cap the number of votes in any one constituency, so candidates have to garner broad support across the province, said Paul Thomas, Professor Emeritus of political studies at the University of Manitoba.

“And if I look at Mr. Daudrich’s greatest areas of appeal, they are in the north probably and in the more conservative southern (rural) parts of the province,” Thomas said.

Khan, who represents one of the two Winnipeg seats held by the Tories, has pitched himself as a big-tent PC member who has won two elections and is already in the legislative chamber. 

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