Sentences with phrase «few votes in the leadership election»

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Notably, he received fewer votes in this latest leadership contest than his rival, Chris Huhne, polled in the last Liberal Democrat election in March 2006.

After a tense few hours of Labour's National Executive Committee meeting yesterday, the party's ruling body decided by 18 votes to 14 that Jeremy Corbyn would have an automatic right to be on the ballot in the leadership election against Angela Eagle.

A few thousand votes is sufficient to move an election, which is why the candidates in NY - 19 went all out in hopes of landing the endorsement of the Kiryas Joel leadership.

The first thing to remember is that the relatively few people eligible to vote in the Labour leadership election — 400,000 odd until a few weeks ago, now more like 600,000 — are not remotely representative of the rest of the country.

Although she voted for David Miliband in the leadership election, she is undoubtedly an Ed - loyalist and, as the former chair of the LabOUR Commission on party democracy a few years ago, she has a record of supporting members involvement in policy making.