When was the last time that a left-wing candidate didn't appear on the ballot in a contested leadership election?
2010 - Abbott and Ed Miliband
1994 - Prescott and possibly Beckett too
Beckett got most of the Campaign Group votes in 1994. The MPs who voted for her as leader were
Diane Julie Abbott (Hackney North and Stoke Newington)
John Eric Austin-Walker (Woolwich)
Anthony Louis Banks (Newham North West)
Harold Barnes (North East Derbyshire)
John Dominic Battle (Leeds West)
Margaret Mary Beckett (Derby South)
Roland Boyes (Houghton and Washington)
Nicholas Hugh Brown (Newcastle-upon-Tyne East)
Dennis Andrew Canavan (Falkirk West)
Malcolm George Richardson Chisholm (Edinburgh Leith)
Harry Michael Cohen (Leyton)
Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (Islington North)
Jean Ann Corston (Bristol East)
James Mackay Cousins (Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central)
Angela Eagle (Wallasey)
Derek John Fatchett (Leeds Central)
Maria Fyfe (Glasgow Maryhill)
Neil Francis Gerrard (Walthamstow)
Llinos Golding (Newcastle-under-Lyme)
Mildred Gordon (Bow and Poplar)
Bernard Alexander Montgomery Grant (Tottenham)
Peter Gerald Hain (Neath)
John Heppell (Nottingham East)
Helen Jackson (Sheffield Hillsborough)
Lynne Mary Jones (Birmingham Selly Oak)
Terence Lewis (Worsley)
Kenneth Robert Livingstone (Brent East)
Edward Loyden (Liverpool Garston)
Andrew Stuart Mackinlay (Thurrock)
Maxwell Francis Madden (Bradford West)
Alice Mahon (Halifax)
Dr John Marek (Wrexham)
James Marshall (Leicester South)
William Michie (Sheffield Heeley)
Peter Leslie Pike (Burnley)
Gordon Prentice (Pendle)
Dawn Primarolo (Bristol South)
Kenneth Purchase (Wolverhampton North East)
Barbara Maureen Roche (Hornsey and Wood Green)
Terence Henry Rooney (Bradford North)
Brian Charles John Sedgemore (Hackney South and Shoreditch)
Clare Short (Birmingham Ladywood)
Alan Simpson (Nottingham South)
Dennis Edward Skinner (Bolsover)
Nigel John Spearing (Newham South)
George William Stevenson (Stoke-on-Trent South)
Simon Patrick Tipping (Sherwood)
Audrey Wise (Preston)