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Nominations for Labour's NEC elections are in. What do we know?
- @future_we_need clearly in the lead
- @labtowin other major contender
- @OpenLabour will def win one seat
- @TribuneMPs and @LabLeftAlliance unlikely to win any

@labourlist https://labourlist.org/2020/10/what-local-party-nominations-tell-us-about-labours-2020-nec-elections/
Despite pitching themselves as "the people who support the leadership", @labtowin had outright victories in only 10% of CLPs which nominated Starmer. @future_we_need won double as many, whilst also taking the lion's share of Long-Bailey's CLPs.

https://labourlist.org/2020/10/what-local-party-nominations-tell-us-about-labours-2020-nec-elections/
The soft left @OpenLabour slate is carefully pitched between the two major ones. One candidate, @AnnBlackLabour has lots of support from right-leaning CLPs whereas the other, @JermainJackman, has support from the left.

@labourlist https://labourlist.org/2020/10/what-local-party-nominations-tell-us-about-labours-2020-nec-elections/
The top 9 candidates are
-6 @future_we_need
-2 @labtowin
-1 from @OpenLabour.
But this won't be the final result. The election is STV, whereas most nominations were FPTP. Moreover, all members can vote while only elected CLP delegates could nominate.

https://labourlist.org/2020/10/what-local-party-nominations-tell-us-about-labours-2020-nec-elections/
In STV candidates need '1st preference' votes but also 'transfers'. Each slate must persuade members to vote for *all* its candidates above all others.

@future_we_need has had most success: 2/3 of its noms are from CLPs which nominated the entire slate.

https://labourlist.org/2020/10/what-local-party-nominations-tell-us-about-labours-2020-nec-elections/
By contrast, only 1/3 of @labtowin nominations are from CLPs which nominated all six.

@OpenLabour only has two candidates but fewer than half of their nominations are from CLPs which nominated both.

@labourlist https://labourlist.org/2020/10/what-local-party-nominations-tell-us-about-labours-2020-nec-elections/
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