A look at key numbers for the Conservatives

OTTAWA – The federal Conservative caucus is bringing MPs and senators to Halifax this week as the party plans autumn strategy for the Commons and gets a look at the early days of its leadership race. Here’s a glance at the party by the numbers:

97: Number of Conservative MPs, down from 159 at the dissolution of the last Parliament.

41: Number of Conservative senators.

0: Number of seats the Conservatives hold in Atlantic Canada.

14: Number of seats they won in the region in 2011.

5: Number of formally declared Conservative leadership candidates: Maxime Bernier, Michael Chong, Tony Clement, Kellie Leitch and Deepak Obhrai.

$5.07 million: Amount of money the Conservatives raised in the second quarter of this year, compared with $4.9 million for the Liberals and $1.08 million for the NDP.

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