The ballot for the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party opened today. Labour First have issued a list of recommended candidates that will reclaim the party and help Keir Starmer make Labour electable again. This will be no easy task. Despite the decline of the hard left they are far from out of the fight. Momentum and the other factions are organising so it's time for moderates and their allies to do the same.
Every vote will count. Contact fellow party members and ask them to use their vote to restore hope and reason in the Labour Party.
Voting Guide
We have six candidates standing to be CLP reps. It’s a transferable voting system so you have to number the candidates, not put crosses. The important thing is to number all our six candidates as your first six choices, numbers one through to six.
We aren’t recommending a set order to vote for our six candidates as it would be unfair on the candidates we didn’t put at the top; we think they are all great and they all deserve a chance to win. And it would be patronising to our supporters to tell them the exact order to vote.
Our six candidates are listed here in alphabetical order, so you can find them on the ballot, but you can rank them in any order you prefer:
- Luke Akehurst - NEC member 2010-2012, former Chief Whip of Hackney Council and parliamentary candidate in Essex and Hampshire
- Johanna Baxter - NEC member, Cunninghame North CLP Chair, Scottish Executive Committee member
- Gurinder Singh Josan - NEC member, antiracism campaigner, Vice Chair of Sikhs for Labour, Sandwell Unite branch secretary
- Terry Paul - Cabinet Member for Finance and Corporate Services on Newham Council and former PLP Campaigns Officer
- Michael Payne - Deputy Leader of Gedling Borough Council & Notts County Councillor; Deputy Leader of the LGA Labour Group
- Shama Tatler - Cabinet Member for Regeneration, Property & Planning, Brent Council
In the interests of ensuring a politically pluralistic NEC, and to ensure gender and regional balance, Labour to Win is only standing six candidates itself, and also urging its supporters to vote for three other candidates, from the left of the party, with your 7th, 8th and 9th preferences.
- 7 - Ann Black – Open Labour - NEC member 2000-2018 as part of the Centre-Left Grassroots Alliance, South East Regional Board Member, Secretary of Oxford & District Labour Party
- 8 - Theresa Griffin – Tribune Group - MEP for the North West Region, 2014-2020
- 9 - Paula Sheriff – Tribune Group – MP for Dewsbury, 2015-2019
We need you to vote for all six Labour to Win candidates with your six highest preferences because although the STV voting system usually produces proportional results i.e. if we get one third of the vote we get one third of the seats; this only works if people vote for all a team’s candidates, if you start lending high transfers to other candidates it could lead to us getting less than our fair share of seats.
The STV voting system is incredibly complicated but it usually produces fair results where all strands of opinion get represented. If a candidate gets more than 10% of the vote they will be elected straight away. Any surplus votes a winning candidate gets above 10% are redistributed to their 2nd preferences and so on. The candidates at the bottom are knocked out and their 2nd preferences redistributed and so on. This carries on until all nine seats are filled.
For Treasurer we recommend voting for the incumbent, Diana Holland.
If you live in Wales, we recommend voting for Carywn Jones for Welsh Rep.
If you are a Labour Councillor, we recommend you vote for these two candidates for local government representatives:
- Nick Forbes - Leader of the LGA Labour Group and Newcastle City Council, incumbent NEC member
- Alice Perry - Islington Councillor and LGA Labour Group Deputy Chief Whip, incumbent NEC memberIf you are under 27 years old, we recommend you vote for Kira Lewis for Youth Representative.
If you have registered with the party as a disabled member, we recommend you vote for George Lindars-Hammond for Disabled Members Representative.
Further info: www.labourfirst.org |
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