Full leaderhip election results
Here are the full figures from CCHQ.
There were 131,680 eligible electors. Turnout was 72.8%.
Kemi Badenoch received 53,806 votes
Robert Jenrick received 41,388 votes
There were 655 rejected ballots.
66,288 electors voted online and 29,621 electors voted by post.
Key events
Badenoch pays tribute to Jenrick, saying she expects him to play key role in party going ahead
Kemi Badenoch is speaking now.
She thanks Richard Fuller, the party chair, and party members.
She goes on:
It is the most enormous honour to be elected to this role, to lead a party that I love, the party that has given me so much.
I hope that I will be able to repay that debt.
She thanks her husband, Hamish Badenoch, and Rishi Sunak.
And she pays tribute to her rival, Robert Jenrick. She goes on:
We have all been impressed by your energy and your determination.
You and I know that you actually disagree on very much, and I have no doubt that you have a key role to play in our party for many years.
Full leaderhip election results
Here are the full figures from CCHQ.
There were 131,680 eligible electors. Turnout was 72.8%.
Kemi Badenoch received 53,806 votes
Robert Jenrick received 41,388 votes
There were 655 rejected ballots.
66,288 electors voted online and 29,621 electors voted by post.
Blackman does not give us the full result for Robert Jenrick – at least not so we can hear at the back.
He welcomes Badenoch to the state, and says it is wonderful to have the first black leader of the party.
Badenoch elected Tory leader
Blackman is now reading out the results.
Kemi Badenoch: 53,806
Robert Jenrick: 41 – we can’t hear the rest because of the cheering
Number of members eligible to vote: 131,680
Turnout: 72.8%
Spoilt ballot papers: 655 (610 unmarked or void, and 45 rejected because they voted for more than one candidate)
Bob Blackman, chair of the 1922 Committee, is now speaking.
He starts by thanking Richard Fuller for his work as party chairman.
He says, when he became chair of the 1922 Committee, he wanted to ensure the party had a chance to rebuild, with a broad swathe of candidates.
They reached compromise between those who wanted a very short contest, and those who wanted it to go into next year.
Blackman also says he wanted to ensure Rishi Sunak had the chance to respond to the budget. Suank “eviscerated” the budget, he says.
Fuller says whoever wins needs the party’s full support.
And he welcomes Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick into the room.
They get a standing ovation.
Richard Fuller welcomes those who are here. And he thanks members for making the contest so “engaging”.
He names all six candidates, and thanks them for putting themselves forward.
It’s starting. Richard Fuller, the Conservative chair, is taking the stage.
From Christopher Hope from GB News
Back in the room, we’re only about five minutes away from the star of proceedings. All the seats are taken and they have started playing stirring music (but not Taylor Swift – Kemi Badenoch’s current favourite).
