Devolved Leadership Elections

[Andrea]

Scottish Labour leadership race has officially started
Nominations process close on Friday. Contenders for Leadership and Deputy Leadership need 10 signatures (including their own) with at least one nomination coming from two of the three groups of Scottish parliamentarians (Europe, Westminster, Holyrood).

There're 3 declared candidates for the leadership: Kan MacIntosh MSP, Johann Lamont MSP and Tom Harris MP.
Newspapers reported all of them have the 10 names required (even if Harris seems not to have got a single MSP to back him).

There are 4 candidates for the Deputy Leadership position: Anas Sarwar MP, Ian Davidson MP, Lewis MacDonald MSP and Eleine Murray MSP.
Sarwar already got 11 nominations in yesterday. I don't know if all the remaining 3 will manage to get them. Davidson is currently embroiled in an argument with SNP (he accused an SNP to leak Committee reports to the media, she has accused him to have threatened her, LD/Con committee members said it was just a robust political argument, she is refusing to return to committee's work; an SNP MSP's researcher sent out an email about his alleged past bullying history, he's consulting his lawyers. And that's it so far)

[Andrea]

Day II of nominations for SLAB leader/deputy leader

Lamont nominated by Jackie Baillie MSP, Richard Baker MSP, Claudia Beamish MSP, Malcolm Chisholm MSP, James Kelly MSP, Hanzala Malik MSP, Paul Martin MSP, Siobhan McMahon MSP, Duncan McNeil MSP, John Pentland MSP, Drew Smith MSP, Dave Stewart MSP, Cathy Jamieson MP, Fiona O'Donnell MP

MacIntosh nominated by Claire Baker MSP, Neil Bibby MSP, Kezia Dugdale MSP, Mary Fee MSP, Mark Griffin MSP, Jenny Marra MSP, Michael McMahon MSP, Willie Bain MP, Russell Brown MP, Brian Donohoe MP, Mark Lazarowicz MP

Harris nominated by Tom Harris MP, Anne Begg MP

Deputy hopefuls

Sarwar nominated by Jackie Baillie MSP,  Claudia Beamish MSP, James Kelly MSP, Hanzala Malik MSP, Paul Martin MSP, Siobhan McMahon MSP, Duncan McNeil MSP, Drew Smith MSP, Kezia Dugdale MSP, Jenny Marra MSP, Michael McMahon MSP, Cathy Jamieson MSP, Fiona O'Donnell MP, Willie Bain MP, Mark Lazarowicz MP, Jim Hood MP

McDonald nominated by Richard Baker MSP, Dave Stewart MSP, Mary Fee MSP, Lewis Macdonald MSP and Anne Begg MP

Murray nominated by Eleine Murray MSP, Malcolm Chisholm MSP and Russel Brown MP

Davidson nominated by Brian Donohoe MP

[Andrea]

Whoever gets Jim Murphy's endorsement will win.

Macintosh has it. They represent the same area.
Curran declared for Lamont before being appointed Shadow Scottish Secretary.

[Andrea]

SLAB nominations update - Day 3

Lamont currently has 15 MSPs + 6 MPs
Macintosh has 11 MSPs + 6 MPs + 1 MEP
Harris has 4 MPs + 1 MEP

Sarwar has 14 MSPs + 8 MPs + 1 MEP
Davidson has 1 MSP + 8 MPs + 1 MEP
MacDonald has 7 MSPs + 2 MPs
Murray has 3 MSPs + 1 MP

So Davidson reaches the ballot, MacDonald is almost there while Murray needs to push stronger in the corridors in the next 2 days.

[Andrea]

Murphy has officially nominated Macintosh for Leader
Dougie Alexander has nominated Sarwar for Deputy (no nomination for leader so far)

Eleine Murray has withdraw and gave her nomination to MacDonald who is now on the ballot.
New totals:

Lamont:  18 MSPs and 6 MPs
Macintosh: 13 MSPs, 7 MPs and 1 MEP
Harris: 8 MPs and 1 MEP


Sarwar:  15 MSPs, 13 MPs, 1 MEP
MacDonald: 10 MSPs and 2 MPs
Davidson: 2 MSPs, 8 MPs and 1 MEP

On campaign managers front, Paul Martin is managing Lamont's campaign, Michael McMahon is working Macintosh's campaign and Cathy Jamieson is the campaign director for Sarwar.

Tomorrow we will know the new ScotCon leader and if we have to learn a new party name.

[Andrea]

Yes, ScotLab electoral system wasn't changed

I think ScotCon use AV among the whole membership

[Andrea]

Worse than expected for Carlow? I guess expectations for Mitchell were so low that she couldn't underperform them

ScotLab nominations phase has ended tonight. Recap

Leader

Lamont: 27
20 MSPs, 7 MPs

Macintosh: 26
13 MSPs, 12 MPs, 1 MEP

Harris: 13
12 MPs, 1 MEP

Deputy

Sarwar: 44
19 MSPs, 24 MPs, 1 MEP

MacDonald: 13
10 MSPs, 3 MPs

Davidson: 11
2 MSPs, 8 MPs, 1 MEP


Full list of nominations
http://www.scottishlabour.org.uk/nominations

Among last day's additions, Alexander signed Harris' nomination papers while Darling backs Macintosh (and Sarwar).

GMB Scotland leadership recommends Lamont for Leader and Davidson for Deputy
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics-news/2011/11/04/gmb-union-urges-members-to-back-johann-lamont-for-scottish-labour-leadership-86908-23537246/

[Andrea]

Unite and Unison follow GMB in recommeding Lamont/Davidson duo while Community backs Macintosh for Leader and Sarwar for Deputy

[Andrea]

Scottish Labour

Supporting nominations deadline has now expired

Ken Macintosh nominated by
74 councillors
10 CLPs
5 affiliates (BECTU, Musicians Unions, Labour Students, USDAW, Community)

Johann Lamont nominated by
63 councillors
13 CLPs
11 affiliates (GMB, Unite, Unison, CWU, ASLEF, SERA, NUM, Co-Op, Socialist Health Society, TSSA, UCATT)
+ Young Labour

Tom Harris nominated by
16 councillors
1 CLP (Glasgow South)
0 affiliates

Deputy race

Anas Sarwar nominated by
109 councillors
18 CLPs
6 affiliates (NUM, Sera, BECTU, Community, Labour Students, USDAW)
+ Young Labour

Lewis MacDonald nominated by
21 councillors
3 CLPs
0 affiliates

Ian Davidson nominated by
35 councillors
3 CLPs
9 affiliates (Unison, Unite, GMB, CWU, ASLEF, Co-Op, Socialist Health Society, TSSA, UCATT)

Sorry for any mistake in counting the long lists of Cllrs

http://www.scottishlabour.org.uk/nominations

[Andrea]

Scottish Labour


Leader

Lamont 51.77%
McIntmosh 40.28%
Harris 7.95%

Deputy

Sarwar 51.1%
Davidson 33.28%
MacDonald 15.62%

Elaborating the electoral college numbers, it should be something like


MPs/MSPs: Lamont 53.3% McIntosh 41.3% Harris 5.3%
Members: McIntosh 53.1% Lamont 36.5% Harris 10.3%
Affiliated: Lamont 65.4% McIntosh 26.4% Harris 8.2%


MPs/MSPs: Sarwar 66.6% MacDonald 20% Davidson 13.3%
Members: Sarwar 61% Davidson 25.4% MacDonald 13.5%
Affiliated:  Davidson 61.1% Sarwar 25.6% MacDonald 13.3%

[Andrea]

Leanne Wood 2879 votes
Elin Jones 1884
Lord Elis-Thomas 1278

2 round

Wood 3326
Jones 2494

Quite how she manages to square this with the campaign that she ran against Chris Bryant in 2001 (which some people consider to have been both homophobic and xenophobic)

I recall the animosity of that campaign (Plaid just won the Rhondda in the Assembly election, Bryant was a new candidate, I remamber someone branding him as "the exotic candidate" in the media) but could you refresh us on which were the main allegations flying around? If it doesn't lead you in defamation risk territory