Sentences with phrase «electoral college system»

Lamont also won majorities in two groups of Labour's three - tier electoral college system, securing the support of parliamentarians and affiliated bodies such as trade unions.

The current electoral college system gives a third of the votes each to the unions, rank and file party members, and the MPs and MEPs.

Labour leadership elections have previously been decided by a complex electoral college system, with equal weight given to the votes of three groups - one third to MPs and MEPs, one third to ordinary party members and one third to trade unionists.

[101][102][103] Murphy also won majorities in two groups of Labour's three - tier electoral college system, securing the support of parliamentarians and individual members.

Also, the electoral college system turns one very big poll into 51 smaller polls, each one necessarily with a bigger error margin (due to the reduced sampling data).

The electoral college system puts Labour out of step with the Tories and the Lib Dems, both of whom elect leaders using a one - member - one - vote system.

Four women Assembly Members are calling on Welsh Labour to change its electoral college system and adopt «One Member, One Vote»...

Also, I think Americans in general are pretty familiar with the concept of the electoral college system.

'' [The Kinnock challenge] was in 1988, the electoral college system has since been abolished, we now have a one member, one vote system,» he said.

On 1 March 2014, at a special conference the party reformed internal Labour election procedures, including replacing the electoral college system for selecting new leaders with a «one member, one vote» system following the recommendation of a review by former general - secretary Ray Collins.

Under the old system, in place at the time of Ed Miliband's election in 2010, trade union members and members of other affiliated societies had a third of the votes in the electoral college system, and would send out ballot papers to their members.

The party executive opted to keep the electoral college system.

Front - runners have a massive advantage in an electoral college system that gives as much power to 250 MPs as to 170,000 party members.

The electoral college system could work in Balls» favour.

Mr Watson first revealed he favoured a shake - up of Labour Party rules last month, saying former leader Ed Miliband had made a «terrible error of judgment» by ditching the electoral college system and shadow cabinet elections.

Currently - under Labour's electoral college system - MPs and MEPs get a third of the votes to select a new leader, trade unions get a third and party members another third.

On 13 June 2015, alongside Murphy's resignation as Leader taking effect, the Scottish Executive Committee agreed to adopt the One Member One Vote system that the UK - wide contest is using, moving away from the electoral college system that was used up until December 2014's contest.

Voting took place between 17 November and 10 December using the three - tier electoral college system, which gives parliamentarians, individual members, and affiliated bodies such as trade unions an equal say in the outcome.

For information about how the electoral college system works, see «MathAgainst Tyranny» by Will Hively, Discover, November 1996.

The Founders of the United States devised the electoral college system to elect the head of the Executive Branch.