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Hunt and Zahawi eliminated from leadership contest

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Jeremy Hunt and Nadhim Zahawi have been eliminated from the Conservative leadership
contest after the first round of voting.

Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 committee announced the results. Here are all 8 of
the candidates, and the number of votes they received:

Badenoch 40
Braverman 32
Hunt 18
Mordaunt 67
Sunak 88
Truss 50
Tugendhat 37
Zahawi 25

Jeremy Hunt and Nadhim Zahawi both failed to reach the minimum threshold of 30 votes to
progress to the next round of the contest.

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