Dancing with the Stars' twelfth season has another new leaderboard leader.
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Disney Channel star Chelsea Kane and professional partner Mark Ballas finished in first place on the judges' leaderboard during Monday night's broadcast of the twelfth season's fourth performance show.
Kane and Ballas performed a Viennese waltz which received 26 out of 30 possible points from Dancing with the Stars judges Len Goodman, Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli.
NFL football star Hines Ward and actor Ralph Macchio finished tied for second place on the leaderboard with their partners after they each received 25 points from the judges.
Ward danced a paso doble with partner Kym Johnson, while Macchio performed a waltz with partner Karina Smirnoff.
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Fourth place also represented a tie between three couples: rapper Romeo and partner Chelsie Hightower, WWE wrestler Chris Jericho and partner Cheryl Burke, and supermodel and former A Model Life star Petra Nemcova and partner Dmitry Chaplin.
All three couples performed paso doble routines which earned 23 points from the judges.
Actress and former Kirstie Alley's Big Life star Kirstie Alley and partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy finished in seventh place on the leaderboard after they performed a waltz which received 22 points.
Alley and Chmerkovskiy were followed by retired boxer and former The Contender host Sugar Ray Leonard and partner Anna Trebunskaya, who performed a Viennese waltz that earned 21 points from the judges.
Kendra and former The Girls Next Door star Kendra Wilkinson and partner Louis van Amstel finished in ninth -- and last -- place on the judges' leaderboard after they performed a Viennese waltz which only received 18 points from the judges.
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The judges' scoring and home viewer votes that were cast after Monday night's performances will now be combined and one of the nine celebrity and professional pairings will be eliminated on Dancing with the Stars' third twelfth-season results show on Tuesday night.
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