Michael Ignatieff has maintained his lead as voting concludes in the "Super Weekend" of delegate selection meetings for the Liberal Party of Canada's leadership convention . With 380 of 469 ridings reporting, the former Harvard professor leads with 1162 committed delegates, 30\% of the total. Former Ontario premier , Bob Rae, is second with 767 delegates (19.8\%), while former federal Environment minister Stephane Dion and former Ontario education minister Gerard Kennedy are battling for third place with 648 and 646 delegates respectively (16.7\%). While no clear challenger to Ignatieff has emerged, analysts say that the frontrunner is vulnerable if an "Anybody but Ignatieff" movement emerges and the opposition to him coalesces around one of Rae, Dion or Kennedy on the convention floor in December. Across the country, the other four candidates all have less than 5\% support. Former hockey great Ken Dryden has 189 delegates (4.9\%), Joe Volpe has 172 delegates (4.4\%), Scott Brison has won his home province of Nova Scotia but has only 148 delegates across the country (3.8\%) and Martha Hall Findlay has won 41 delegates (1.1\%) while 104 delegates (2.7\%) are uncommitted. With the exception of the uncommitted delegates, the approximately 4,300 delegates elected this weekend are locked into supporting the candidates on whose behalf they have been chosen on the first ballot of the December 2-3 convention being held in Montreal but are free to support other candidates on subsequent ballots. They will be joined by approximately 1,000 delegates who will attend either because they are Members of Parliament, Senators or former Cabinet ministers or because they've been chosen by various committees. Nevertheless, this weekend's results are expected to give a rough idea of what the first ballot results of the convention will be.
Michael Ignatieff has maintained his lead as voting concludes in the "Super Weekend" of delegate selection meetings for the Liberal Party of Canada's . With 380 of 469 reporting, the former Harvard professor leads with 1162 committed delegates, 30\% of the total. Former , Bob Rae, is second with 767 delegates (19.8\%), while former federal Environment minister Stephane Dion and former Ontario education minister Gerard Kennedy are battling for third place with 648 and 646 delegates respectively (16.7\%). While no clear challenger to Ignatieff has emerged, analysts say that the frontrunner is vulnerable if an "Anybody but Ignatieff" movement emerges and the opposition to him coalesces around one of Rae, Dion or Kennedy on the convention floor in December. Across the country, the other four candidates all have less than 5\% support. Former hockey great has 189 delegates (4.9\%), has 172 delegates (4.4\%), has won his home province of Nova Scotia but has only 148 delegates across the country (3.8\%) and has won 41 delegates (1.1\%) while 104 delegates (2.7\%) are uncommitted. With the exception of the uncommitted delegates, the approximately 4,300 delegates elected this weekend are locked into supporting the candidates on whose behalf they have been chosen on the first ballot of the December 2-3 convention being held in Montreal but are free to support other candidates on subsequent ballots. They will be joined by approximately 1,000 delegates who will attend either because they are Members of Parliament, Senators or former Cabinet ministers or because they've been chosen by various committees. Nevertheless, this weekend's results are expected to give a rough idea of what the first ballot results of the convention will be.
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