Sentences with phrase «new electoral college»

And MPs would receive between 10 % and a third of the votes (Watson recognises that MPs current war against Corbyn means the NEC will be minded to give them the bare minimum representation in any new electoral college).

In 1981 Tony Benn had used the new electoral college to challenge for Healey's job as Foot's deputy, albeit against the advice of many leftwing colleagues, who saw a left - left ticket (Benn's disloyalty had alienated Foot) as less attractive than a left - right one.

Previously, MPs had monopolised that right but after a left - wing activist campaign (including a young Jon Lansman, founder of Momentum), a new electoral college was formed.

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That's because the states that happen to be swing states, meaning they are crucial to an electoral - college victory, also happen to be places where there is a high concentration of manufacturing employment, like Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, and New Hampshire.

Former President Bill Clinton, left, and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo vote in the state's electoral college at the Senate chamber in Albany on Dec. 19, 2016.

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.

Given that the Americans don't vote directly for their president (i.e. the electoral college) and also that the dates are set when a new president is sworn in (ie fixed terms)- can the vote be redone?

As the New Statesman has just tweeted, the vote of one MP is 608 times more valuable than the vote of a grassroots member in Labour's union - heavy electoral college.

«If I win New York, the election is over from an electoral college standpoint.»

That's yuuuge trouble for Trump: With Nevada in pocket, Clinton could lose Ohio, North Carolina, Florida, and New Hampshire, and that extra electoral vote in Maine, and even two members of the Electoral College in Washington who supported Bernie Sanders and have said they might not vote for Clinton, and still go over 270 electoral votes.

Today's Sun carries a new YouGov poll on the Labour leadership race, taking account of the constituent parts of the electoral college taking part in the vote.

The old three - way electoral college was replaced with a new «one - person - one - vote» system in which leadership candidates are elected not just by party members, but also by registered and affiliated supporters.

The new leader is elected by an electoral college where the votes of MPs and MEPs count for a third of the total, the votes of Labour Party members count for a third and votes of trade unions and other affiliate organisations» members count for a third.

If Labour MPs were to decide collectively that they wanted a new leader, then I'm pretty sure that the party would find some way of accommodating the electoral college.

Ballots of the three sections of the electoral college will be conducted in time for the new leader to be named by the party's annual conference in Manchester at the end of September.

A new method of electing Labour's leader - the electoral college, which gives unions, party members and MPs / MEPs a third of the votes each, abolished in favour of one member, one vote

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 26 October, following a meeting of the party's executive committee, he outlined the details of a leadership election, which would be held using the three - tier electoral college, and conclude with the announcement of a new leader on 13 December.

Perhaps the oldest artifact is a book recording New York's electoral college vote in 1872 — the first time black Americans were allowed to take part in the process.

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