Sentences with phrase «old electoral college»

In 2014, the party replaced its old electoral college with a one - member - one vote system, albeit one that includes more participants than just individual party members.

With their votes at the party conference, they could help to push through rule changes that assisted the centrists — perhaps to reintroduce the old electoral college for choosing leaders — and overturn the left's majority on the NEC, as they did in the early 1980s.

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Under the old system, in place at the time of Ed Miliband's election in 2010, trade union members and members of other affiliated societies had a third of the votes in the electoral college system, and would send out ballot papers to their members.

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 Deputy Leader wants to scrap the «one member one vote» system used for electing Labour leaders, and restore the old «electoral college» which gave an equal say to party members, trade unions and Labour MPs.

The election would use the old pre-Collins electoral college, one - third MPs / MSPs, one - third individual members, one - third individual trade union levy - payers.

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.