Sentences with phrase «first vote in their leadership election»

Not exact matches

Most attention normally focuses on who can vote in leadership elections but the rules on entering a contest in the first place are just as important.

On Liberal Democrat Voice, the party faithful's website, some 54 % want him to stay — uncannily the same as Margaret Thatcher's vote in the first round of the leadership election that ousted her.

Lansman is referring to the Blairite organisation that, he says, was able to command only a tiny share of internal Labour support by 2015, as evidenced by Liz Kendall's miserable 4.5 % of first - preference votes in the leadership election.

During the subsequent leadership election on 20 November, he polled 152 votes (40.9 %) in the first round of voting by Conservative MPs, enough to prevent an outright Thatcher victory.

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

For the first time since the leadership election, YouGov has polled all those who could have voted in the Labour leadership contest.

Gordon Brown faces a make or break challenge to his leadership today after Labour trailed humiliatingly behind Ukip in the European elections and was expected to garner about 16 % or 17 % of the vote, its lowest share since the first world war and below the party's worst expectations.

«I organized the first fundraising ceremony in Accra, and I can confidently tell you, that under my leadership as the regional chairman, we were able to increase the number of parliamentary seats from One to Three (3) in the region, and significantly increase our presidential votes in the 2016 general election.»

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.

First, we asked «If you had a vote in the Labour leadership election, who would you vote for?»

Gove came third in the first round of the Tory leadership election last night, with 48 votes, compared to 165 for Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom who polled 66.