Sentences with phrase «to get on the ballot paper»

So if and when he stands down as Leader it is currently unlikely that someone with similarly progressive politics will get on the ballot paper of a Leadership election.

He further indicated that based on the «good works» of the president, Nana Konadu's efforts at getting on the ballot paper in this year's elections and her rhetoric's about President Mahama's governance style would not impact the elections in any way.GhanaPoliticsOnline.Com

In an article in the New Statesman, she added: «There is a real possibility of Corbyn getting on the ballot paper and being re-elected.

Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC) is meeting in central London to rule on whether Mr Corbyn should automatically get on the ballot paper as a sitting leader or whether he needs the nominations of 51 MPs and MEPs as his challenger Angela Eagle.

John Healey has pulled out of the race to be Labour's next deputy leader despite gaining the backing of 20 MPs, putting him within striking distance of the 35 needed to get on the ballot paper.

To get on the ballot paper, a candidate needs to be nominated by at least 12.5 % of Labour MPs.

One party source also pointed out that the last time a sitting Labour leader was challenged - Neil Kinnock in 1988 - he had to secure the required number of nominations from Labour MPs to get on the ballot paper.

Could the depth of their support make it difficult for a candidate such Kendall to gather the 35 nominations from MPs needed to get on the ballot paper?

Or indeed that some Labour veterans who should have known better, like Margaret Beckett, would nominate him to ensure he got on the ballot paper!

«If he got on the ballot paper and won we would just have to go at him again and just keep doing it until he loses.»

At the moment, candidates to be Labour leader must receive nominations from 15 % of its MPs in order to get on the ballot paper.

The Corbyn camp is seeking to lower the number of MPs whose support a future leadership candidate would require to get on the ballot paper to 5 % of the parliamentary party.

«Candidates need 33 nominations to get on the ballot paper, but the former Health Secretary insisted he would be able to garner enough support.

Intellectual left - winger Steve Webb could, perhaps, have got himself on the ballot paper - any candidate needs the support of seven Liberal MPs to do so - but would almost certainly have come a poor third.