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WINNIPEG — With a possible early election looming, Manitoba’s governing Progressive Conservatives have a lot more money in their war chest than their main opponents.

Documents filed this week with Elections Manitoba show the Tories received more than $2 million in donations last year — more than triple the amount raised by the Opposition New Democrats.

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After expenses, the Tories had $1 million in cash in the bank as of Dec. 31 — more than five times what the NDP had.

Adding to the NDP’s woes is the fact that their donations last year were down almost 20 per cent from 2017, continuing a decline from previous years when the NDP was in government.

A political analyst said the NDP is still feeling the fallout from a bitter leadership battle in 2014, when five senior cabinet ministers called on then-premier Greg Selinger to resign.

Selinger hung on to his job by a narrow margin at a convention the following spring but resigned after the party lost the 2016 election.