July 18, 2016  

New Members Can Register to Vote in the Leadership Election – Monday 18th to 20th July

IF YOU JOINED the Labour Party or have become a Trade Union or affiliated Socialist Society member after 12th January 2016, you may be interested in registering to vote in the forthcoming election for the Leader of the Party. Those joining prior to 12th January will automatically receive a vote.

Don't miss out on YOUR vote in the Leadership Election

Joined after 12th January 2016? Don’t miss out on YOUR vote in the Leadership Election

From 5pm on Monday 18th to 5pm on Wednesday 20 July there will be a link to sign up as a registered supporter to vote in the coming leadership election.

The registration fee has recently been increased from £3.00 in 2015 to to £25.00 in 2016.

A link to register should be available on the page below:

http://www.labour.org.uk/pages/labour-party-leadership-election-2016

Members of affiliated organisations lime Trade Unions and Socialist Societies can sign up here:

http://support.labour.org.uk/

As this is not an entirely straightforward procedure and the window for registration has been limited to a very tight time-frame, each of the announced candidates have set up their own pages to assist their one supporters with voter registration.

We have copied the links to each of the announced candidates pages below.

Jeremy Corbyn MP

Home

 

Owen Smith MP

http://www.owen2016.com/get_involved

When will eligible electors get their ballot paper?

Ballot papers will be sent out in the post (Labour Party members only) and by email from the week commencing Monday 22 August.  All ballots must be returned by Wednesday 21 September at midday.

Members will have a choice of returning their paper ballot paper or voting online but should use only one method and your vote will only be counted once.

How does the voting work?

Eligible electors will be asked to rank candidates in order of preference with ‘1’ being their top preference.

You don’t need to use all your preferences if you don’t wish to.

If no candidate receives more than 50 per cent of first preference votes, the candidate with the fewest first preference votes will be eliminated and their second preference votes allocated.

This process is repeated until a candidate has more than 50 per cent of votes.

When will the result be announced?

The result will be announced at a Special Conference on Saturday 24 September in Liverpool.

Got a question that isn’t answered here?

Please email us at: leadership2016@labour.org.uk

 

 

One response to “New Members Can Register to Vote in the Leadership Election – Monday 18th to 20th July”

  1. labourtamarvalley says :

    Tamar Valley Labour Branch Meeting
    Tuesday 4th October 7pm
    Venue: Albaston Methodist Church

    Given the recent upheaval and the unnecessary suspension of meetings during the leadership elections, I feel it is sensible to deviate from the usual format and leave space for informal discussion about our future direction as a branch.

    If we are to recapture the energy and vibrancy of our branches initial year we will need to create a more solid organizational structure. At a minimum this has to include the usual formal roles of Chair–Vice Chair -Secretary-Treasurer However, it would be fantastic if we could identify people to lead on a host of other areas such as- Young people –Women –Press and Publicity-Disability-Election coordination -Fund raising –Events etc. All ideas , opinions and motions welcome .

    If you are unable to make the meeting please feel free to respond directly to this email or alternatively use the Facebook page (Tamar Valley Labour) or sent to the website
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-by-email/

    I hope people feel this informal approach is appropriate and look forward to seeing you on the evening.

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