British-Nigerian contestant for the post of UK prime minister, Kemi Badenoch is still in the race with 58 votes in the 3rd ballot. This was made public after the results of the 3rd ballot were announced.
At the second round, the former Equalities Minister had 49 votes to scale through.
As disclosed by the UK Conservative party on Monday, former Chief Minister of Finance, Rishi Sunak, is still ahead of other contenders with 118 votes.
Liz Truss and Penny Mordaunt also made it to the next round with 71 and 82 votes respectively.
Tom Tugendhat was evicted for having the least vote (31).
Born in Wimbledon, London, to Nigerian parents, Badenoch spent parts of her childhood in Lagos and the United States before returning to the United Kingdom at 16.
After graduating from the University of Sussex, she was a software engineer at Logica before studying law at Birkbeck, University of London.
The polls will continue in series till the last man standing will be appointed as UK prime minister on September 5.
