The Tories will announce their next Parliamentary candidate for Totnes shortly, after polling all 69,000 voters in the Devon constituency.
A GP has been named as the Tories' next parliamentary candidate for Totnes in Devon - after a big turnout for an MP candidate selection process.
It is the first time a British party has conducted a postal ballot of all voters - regardless of party membership - to select a prospective MP.
Dr Sarah Wollaston will represent the party at the next general election, as current MP Anthony Steen steps down.
Totnes MP Anthony Steen is stepping down at the next general election after a row about his expenses.
All 69,000 Totnes voters got a postal ballot - the first time a UK party has done this to select a candidate.
Sara Randall-Johnson, Nick Bye and Dr Sarah Wollaston made the shortlist.
Dr Wollaston got 7,914 votes, Sara Randall-Johnson got 5,495 while Torbay Mayor Nick Bye got 3,088.
Turnout hopes
The nature of the contest means people who belong to different political parties can take part in the selection process.
The Tories have held open primary contests before in which non-members have been invited to take part in public meetings.
But this time the party has gone a step further and sent out ballot papers by post to all registered voters and a freepost envelope.
Mr Steen has been an MP in Devon since 1983
BBC Newsnight's political editor Michael Crick said the exercise must have cost the party about £40,000, so it will be hoping for a much larger turnout than the several hundred party members who would attend a traditional selection meeting.
Party chairman Eric Pickles has said a 15% turnout, about 10,000 voters, would be considered a good turnout.
Chagford GP Dr Sarah Wollaston, East Devon District Council leader Sara Randall-Johnson and Torbay Mayor Nick Bye will all have passed preliminary vetting by Conservative Central Office.
Voters 'jealous'
Conservative leader David Cameron said the process was "the first time any political party in Britain has sought the views of the voters in such a direct way".
The idea won some support from Labour MP Frank Field, who wrote on his blog that it threw "a much needed lifeline to our drowning political parties" as public interest in them "disintegrated".
"It is now going to become increasingly difficult for other political parties in safe seats not to follow the Totnes example," he wrote.
Retiring MP Anthony Steen stepped down after details of his expenses claims over four years were published in the Daily Telegraph.
The newspaper said he claimed £87,000 over four years for his country home, including paying a forestry expert to inspect his trees.
Later he was reprimanded by party leader David Cameron over an interview with the BBC in which he said people were jealous of his "very very large house".
Mr Steen apologised, saying he had been "deeply upset" at the time of the interview and had overreacted in the "heat of the moment".
Mr Steen has been an MP in south Devon since 1983, first for South Hams and then for Totnes when the seat was created in 1997.
At the 2005 general election he won with majority of 1,947 over the Liberal Democrat candidate.
The Lib Dems have already chosen their candidate for the constituency, Julian Brazil, while Carole Whitty will fight the seat for Labour.
