From the original list of contenders for the Tory leadership, seven of the ten go through to the next round with Boris Johnson holding a commanding lead.
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The first round of the Conservative Party leadership contest went to the favourite, Boris Johnson who ended up with 114 votes in the ballot with his nearest rival 71 votes behind.
One point to note here, is that originally the rules were that at each vote the one single candidate with the least votes would be eliminated.
But this was changed for this contest due to the numbers of candidates and the time pressures involved.
So, for this first round candidates needed a minimum of 17 votes to get through to the next round. And in the next round they will need a minimum of 33 votes.
The result of the vote was announced shortly after 1 pm today on behalf of the Tory party 1922 Committee by Cheryl Gillan, who is one of the two returning officers for this election.
There were the full 313 votes of all Tory MPs, with no spoilt or rejected papers.
The full list of results is as follows:
Boris Johnson - 114
Jeremy Hunt - 43
Michael Gove - 37
Dominic Raab - 27
Sajid Javid - 23
Matt Hancock - 20
Rory Stewart - 19
and the following three were eliminated from the contest because they gained fewer than the required 17 votes:
Andrea Leadsom - 11
Mark Harper - 10
Esther McVey - 9
Now the surprise here is not so much the scale of Boris Johnson's lead, but also that Rory Stewart managed to squeak through into the next round. Something most people thought wou..
