On 26 February, Your Party announced the results of elections to its Central Executive Committee (CEC). The Corbyn-aligned slate, The Many (TM), won fourteen seats, compared to seven for Grassroots Left (GL), plus two additional seats held by candidates aligned with it. One independent was elected, Liverpool Community Independents councillor Sam Gorst. TM declared this a “huge mandate”, but this is far from true.
TM secured just 38% of first-preference votes, compared to GL’s 29% and independents’ 33%. And when independent votes transferred, they broke 61/39 in favour of GL. If there had been a more proportional voting system, it would have shown the membership’s preferences fairly evenly split between two competing visions of the party.
TM’s majority was delivered by the decision by the Corbyn faction, who control the party machine, to use the Imperiali quota in the STV count rather than the near-universally-used Droop quota. This came only after the endorsements stage suggested that TM might lose control. Imperiali sets an unusually low threshold for a candidate to be elected and is widely discredited precisely because it helps the largest minority. The results bear that out.
For example, in the North East, TM took the final (their second) seat with just 37% of the remaining vote, while two other candidates (one GL, one a left-leaning independent) together held 63%. The quota did the work. Overall, The Many likely gained two or three seats it would not have won under...
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