Voter turnout for the Conservative party's leadership race sits at just over 50 per cent as members continued to cast ballots Saturday to select a new leader.
Party official say 132,000 ballots were mailed in by Friday; with party membership at 259,000.
It puts the race on track to beat the party's only other leadership contest in voter turnout.
In 2004, about 37 per cent of the party's then-250,000 members voted for Stephen Harper, who would go on to lead Conservatives to two minority governments and a majority one, before losing that in 2015.
Sixteen people were at one point vying to replace him but only 13 survived until the end of the contest and their supporters gathered Saturday at the Toronto Congress Centre to cast their own ballots and encourage others to do the same.
The line of voters moved easily through the cavernous voting hall, with many party members emerging from marking their choices optimistic about what is ahead for the party.