71.   The BBC said eight Conservative rank-and-file legislators, or backbenchers, had defied the government and voted with the opposition.

72.   That view was shared by Conservative legislator Patrick Nicholls, a divorce lawyer.

73.   The crisis has exacerbated anti-European Union sentiment among Conservative rank-and-file legislators.

74.   The others were Arkansas and Oregon, where Democrats nominated a former attorney general and Republicans selected a conservative former legislator to succeed Democratic Gov. John Kitzhaber.

75.   The plan came under fire again Tuesday in the House of Commons, with Labor and Conservative legislators saying it is running at least a year behind schedule.

76.   The rout in South East Staffordshire, where the previous Conservative legislator died, was a far worse than party managers had anticipated.

77.   They annoyed a conservative legislator and rancher, Warren Entsch, so much that he told country people to stop going to church.

78.   Three other leadership candidates were eliminated in votes by Conservative legislators earlier this summer.

79.   Worried that the battle will turn off voters, conservative legislators pressed both leaders to end the battle quickly.

80.   With the contest opening up, some Conservative legislators may decide to go for a new leader as their best hope of hanging on in their districts.