Who switched?
The recorded votes of MPs and MEPs are going to make interesting reading.
At close of nominations the MPs and MEPs section was split thus (based on numbers of nominators):
Johnson 7.4%
Harman 6.0%
Hain 4.7%
Cruddas 4.6%
Blears 4.5%
Benn 4.4%
21 MPs and MEPs - 1.9% of the entire electoral college - did not nominate.
After the actual voting this switched to:
Johnson 8.08%
Harman 6.54%
Blears 4.99%
Hain 4.81%
Cruddas 4.63%
Benn 4.26%
Each MPs' vote will have gone up a fraction in value because a handful didn't vote but the numbers suggest Benn's tactical nominators didn't then vote for him and each of Johnson, Blears and Harman picked up some PLP support during the campaign.
posted by Luke Akehurst at 5:50 pm
3 Comments:
Paul Flynn said on his blog that he switched his first preference away from Cruddas during the campaign
Acccording to the Guardian 5 MPs didn't vote (they suggested Brown, Blair, Straw...not sure on the other 2....maybe Khabra)
6:35 pm, June 24, 2007
Probably Sylvia Heal was the 5th as Dep Speaker - supposed to be non-partisan.
6:58 pm, June 24, 2007
Any idea when the recorded votes will be published?
3:12 pm, June 25, 2007
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