
Votes for the top 20 were as follows:
- Jacob Rees-Mogg – 338.
- James Cleverly – 108.
- Johnny Mercer – 78.
- John Redwood – 50.
- Tom Tugendhat – 43.
- Kemi Badenoch – 39.
- Owen Paterson – 36.
- Priti Patel – 33.
- Tobias Ellwood – 31.
- Iain Duncan Smith – 29.
- Esther McVey – 29
- Sarah Wollaston – 21
- Kwasi Kwarteng – 19
- Anna Soubry – 17
- Steve Baker – 15
- George Freeman – 14.
- Nicky Morgan – 13.
- Jesse Norman – 13.
- Nadhim Zahawi – 12.
- Robert Halfon – 11.
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- Fewer than a thousand votes were cast overall by panel members, who had three votes each, about the same number as respond to the non write-in questions.
- Other than Rees-Mogg and Cleverly, no-one made it to three figures, which indicates a very wide variety of views. There is a long tail to these write-ins with lots of people winning a single vote each.
- The main factors that win support are backing for Brexit, name recognition, and, up to a point, newness (and military service). Four of the top ten became MPs in 2015 or, in Kemi Badenoch’s case, this year.
- Note how few on this list are Ministers (only Under-Secretaries were eligible, since we’ve polled for Ministers of State). Only four of the 20, by our calculation, one of whom is a whip.
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