LAST UPDATE | 13 Jun 2019

THREE CANDIDATES HAVE been eliminated from the Conservative leadership contest with Boris Johnson securing a big win from the votes of 313 MPs. 

Esther McVey (9), Mark Harper (10) and Andrea Leadsom (11) were all eliminated in the first round of voting after failing to securing the required 17 votes to proceed. 

Johnson secured 114 votes, comfortably above a third of the available votes. If Johnson was to maintain that number, he would be guaranteed a place in the run-off vote conducted among Conservative members.   

Ten names were on today’s ballot and seven will now continue to the next vote on Tuesday. 

In the second vote, candidates who do not receive the support of 33 MPs will be eliminated.

Further votes will be held until only two candidates are left, who will then be put before the party’s wider membership.

MPs voted in a secret ballot today and the results were announced just after 1pm. 

These are the candidates who made the cut and progress to the next round: 

• Boris Johnson – 114
• Jeremy Hunt – 43
• Michael Gove – 37
• Dominic Raab – 27
• Sajid Javid – 23
• Matt Hancock – 20
• Rory Stewart – 19

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