How will the Labour deputy leadership contest work?

A contention to go the adjacent lawman person of the Labour Party is nether mode aft Angela Rayner resigned from the relation - and from cabinet.

She discontinue aft admitting successful an interrogation with our governmental exertion Beth Rigby for the Electoral Dysfunction podcast that she underpaid the taxes owed connected a caller property adjacent Brighton.

The contention to win her is good nether way, with MPs from crossed the enactment putting themselves forward.

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Labour's governing body, the National Executive Committee (NEC), agreed the process and timetable for the lawman enactment contention 3 days aft Ms Rayner's resignation.

Below is the process that was decided, which volition past until 25 October.

Stage 1 - getting nominations from MPs

The archetypal signifier successful the lawman enactment contention is getting capable enactment from chap members of the Labour Parliamentary Party (MPs) to get done to the adjacent stage.

Potential candidates indispensable unafraid the backing of astatine slightest 20 per cent of Labour MPs - which presently equates to 80 - and they volition person a accidental to marque their pitches astatine a hustings lawsuit connected Wednesday.

Labour MPs cannot enactment much than 1 campaigner - they tin either nominate themselves oregon 1 of their colleagues.

This signifier closes astatine 5pm connected Thursday 11 September, and the enactment volition past corroborate who has secured capable nominations to proceed.

Stage 2 - getting nominations from section parties and unions

The 2nd signifier of the contention is getting enactment from Constituency Labour Parties (CLPs - section Labour parties) and affiliates of the party.

Candidates indispensable unafraid nominations from astatine slightest 5 per cent of CLPs - oregon astatine slightest 3 affiliates (at slightest 2 of which indispensable beryllium commercialized national affiliates) comprising 5 per cent of afloat paid-up affiliated enactment members.

The deadline to unafraid the indispensable enactment is Saturday 27 September.

The Labour Party's yearly league begins the adjacent day, wherever the candidates who person secured the required backing volition beryllium capable to marque their pitches straight to members.

Stage 3 - enactment rank vote

From Wednesday 8 October, Labour Party members volition beryllium capable to formed their ballots for their prime of lawman leader.

The ballot volition instrumentality spot via physics voting, and those without email addresses volition beryllium sent postal ballots. Labour Party members with astatine slightest six months continuous rank volition beryllium eligible to vote, arsenic good arsenic members of applicable commercialized unions for astatine slightest that aforesaid play who person opted successful to the governmental levy (where applicable).

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Each eligible subordinate volition get 1 vote, and the enactment is utilizing the azygous preferential voting system.

This means that voters fertile the candidates successful bid of penchant connected the ballot paper. If nary campaigner receives 50 per cent of the ballot erstwhile archetypal preferences are counted, past the campaigner with the fewest votes is eliminated and their 2nd penchant votes are redistributed amongst the remaining candidates. This process continues until 1 campaigner passes the 50 per cent threshold.

The latest information connected the rank of the Labour Party was published astatine the extremity of 2024, and it showed that it is the largest governmental party, with 333,235 members.

The ballot volition adjacent astatine 12pm connected Thursday 23 October.

Announcement of the winner

The victor volition beryllium announced 2 days aft the adjacent of the vote, connected Saturday 25 October.

The enactment has not yet said however it intends to denote the result, but it is expected that determination volition beryllium an lawsuit wherever the declaration volition beryllium made.

The victor volition instantly go lawman person of the Labour Party - but they are not expected to beryllium appointed lawman premier minister, with Downing Street having made wide that David Lammy has been fixed that position. It is besides not wide if they volition beryllium fixed a occupation successful government.

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