Sentences with phrase «off ballot papers»

The Labour leader has previously won the award in 2001, 2007, 2011, 2012 (shared), 2014, 2015 and 2016, but was kept off the ballot papers this time around «to allow new Parliamentary beards to make their mark».

Labour moderates were left licking their wounds this afternoon after it was confirmed that Jeremy Corbyn will not be thrown off the ballot paper for the Labour leadership contest.

A successful coup requires a rigged leadership election, with Corbyn kept off the ballot paper.

Meanwhile, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell took a swipe at Mr Smith today, telling BBC News that former leadership candidate Angela Eagle was «forced off the ballot paper by pressure from Owen Smith's campaign».

Meanwhile, the candidate for whom I voted in the leadership election and who won an incredible 60 % mandate with over a quarter of a million votes is subject to an attempt to keep him off the ballot paper.

Corbyn's victory, which means he has now won more Labour leadership elections than Tony Blair, and two more than Gordon Brown, was widely expected from the beginning of the contest, with Labour's self - styled «moderates» seemingly reliant on keeping Corbyn off the ballot paper, something they failed to do in July's NEC meeting.

It's the latest chapter in Cornwall's maligned postal voting system following the revelation last month that several candidates were left off the ballot paper, as reported by politics.co.uk.

Ahead of the crunch talks, Unite general secretary and NEC member Len McCluskey said it would be a «sordid little fix» if Mr Corbyn was left off the ballot paper.

Any attempts to keep Jeremy Corbyn, elected just 10 months ago with an enormous mandate, off the ballot paper by legal means risks a lasting division in the party.

She must have been assured that he will be kept off the ballot paper.

One Boris - supporting MP said on Tuesday: «Downing Street loyalists are trying to run an establishment stitch - up to keep him off the ballot paper.

One Boris - supporting MP said: «Downing Street loyalists are trying to run an establishment stitch - up to keep him off the ballot paper.

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What that means, in essence, is that the elector must attend a polling place, have their name marked off the register, and then either accept a ballot paper and vote, or leave.

History will remember him as the leader who presided over the end of a three century old union, the man who signed off on a weak question on the ballot paper, failed to focus on the campaign until it was far too late and then, when he finally realised the error of his ways, sprinted to Scotland and spluttered out a panicked - looking promise of everything he'd never wanted.

March 19, 2018: Judge Christi Kennedy, a visiting Republican judge from Smith County, categorically rejected a lawsuit by the Dallas County Republican Party and GOP judicial candidate Michael Lee which sought to knock incumbent Democratic Judge Staci Williams off the ballot today as a result of alleged deficiencies in her nominating papers.

Inside, two officials ticking off names as they hand out ballot papers seem part of history.

Persaud also declined to comment, but a lawyer for her campaign, Frank Carone, said he plans to file legal papers seeking to keep Pierre off the ballot.

Mr. Espaillat has not conceded against the 84 - year - old Harlem lawmaker, but he still trails by about 2,000 votes in unofficial tallies and observers say it's unlikely that he can knock off Mr. Rangel even after paper ballots are counted.

Any run - off election will be conducted by paper ballot at the Member Council Meeting at the TCSA Conference.

No need for filling in paper ballots and then remembering to actually send them off to be counted.