Sentences with phrase «first leadership ballot»

Yesterday, the PM was in Normandy for the D - Day commemoration, an eerie echo of Mrs Thatcher's absence in Paris in November 1990, when the results of the first leadership ballot were declared.

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Jim Prentice becomes Premier After a first - ballot victory in a lack - lustre and uninspiring leadership contest, Jim Prentice started his time in office with a bang.

Unlike previous PC leadership races, according to recently changed party rules, if no candidate earns a majority of votes on the first ballot, only the first and second candidate move to the second ballot vote.

Mr. Johnston was the only MLA to support Ms. Redford on the first ballot of the PC leadership vote.

Mr. Kowalski and a cadre of rural MLAs mobilized rural Alberta Tories to vote for Mr. Klein on the second ballot of the 1992 PC leadership contest after Nancy Betkowski placed first by one vote on the first ballot.

Both resigned after failing to defeat a challenge to their leadership on the first ballot.

The landslide victory is a boost for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who earned mixed reviews for his first showing at the ballot box, with critics warning «the clock is ticking» on his leadership.

It is unclear how Heseltine voted in the first ballot of the 1975 Conservative leadership election, in which the challenger Margaret Thatcher defeated Heath.

As new MPs, we have thought long and hard about who should be our first preference in the leadership ballot.

«First, if anyone is undemocratic enough to think that there can be a new leadership election with the existing leader kept off the ballot, then they are setting the Labour party on course for a split.

The country's first Green MP is asking the leadership candidates to support her amendment to the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill so as to offer a PR option on the ballot paper in the forthcoming referendum.

The 2008 Labour group leadership election was the first time Labour had elected its Scottish leader with the participation of its members, using a system similar to that used at the time by the UK - wide Labour Party (the system had been adopted in 2007, but no ballot had taken place as Alexander had been unopposed).

down to three candidates — David Davis, Liam Fox and David Cameron — and Thursday's Telegraph has what is likely to be the only poll between the first and second leadership ballots.

He was believed to be the only member of Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet to snub her and vote for Michael Heseltine in the first ballot when he challenged her leadership in 1990.

Jon Cruddas, the first round ballot winner in the 2007 deputy leadership contest (and who, under first past the post, would currently serve as deputy leader, not Harman) actually stood on a platform of rejecting a cabinet seat so he could instead devote his time to party development.

It was the second Scottish Labour leadership election in as many years, the first being caused by the resignation of Jack McConnell, [2] following the Scottish National Party's victory over Labour in the Scottish Parliament election, 2007, however in this election, Alexander was unopposed, meaning that no ballot actually took place.