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2016 Labour Party leadership election
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22 August – 24 September 2016 (2016-08-22 – 2016-09-24) |
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| Turnout |
506,438
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The 2016 Labour Party leadership election was called when a challenge to Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Labour Party arose following criticism of his approach to the Remain campaign in the referendum on membership of the European Union and questions about his leadership of the party.
The result was announced on 24 September 2016. Jeremy Corbyn won the election with 313,209 votes, increasing his share of the vote from 59.5% to 61.8% compared with the result of the 2015 leadership election, and receiving some 62,000 more votes than in 2015.
Candidates
| The two candidates (challenger nominated by the Parliamentary Labour Party and European Parliamentary Labour Party) |
| Candidate |
Born |
Constituency |
Most recent position |
Announced |
Campaign website
(Slogan) |
PLP/EPLP Nominations |
Share |
| Corbyn, JeremyJeremy Corbyn |
26 May 1949
(age 76) |
MP for Islington North
(1983–present) |
Leader of the Labour Party;
Leader of the Opposition
(2015–present) |
Incumbent |
(People powered politics) |
N/A |
N/A |
| Supporting nominations |
- Constituency Labour Parties (285)
- Affiliated trade unions (8)
- Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF)
- Bakers, Food and Allied Workers' Union (BFAWU)
- Communication Workers Union (CWU)
- Fire Brigades Union (FBU)
- Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA)
- Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians (UCATT)
- UNISON
- Unite the Union
- Socialist societies (1)
- Other party units (1)
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Smith, OwenOwen Smith
(campaign) |
2 May 1970
(age 55) |
MP for Pontypridd
(2010–present) |
Shadow Secretary of State for
Work and Pensions
(2015–2016) |
13 July 2016 |
(Labour's Future) |
18/19 July: 90 |
35.86% |
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68.53% |
| PLP and EPLP nominations |
- Members of Parliament (162)
- Members of the European Parliament (10)
- Paul Brannen
- Richard Corbett
- Seb Dance
- Theresa Griffin
- Richard Howitt
- David Martin
- Linda McAvan
- Catherine Stihler
- Derek Vaughan
- Glenis Willmott
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| Supporting nominations |
- Constituency Labour Parties (53)
- Aberdeenshire West
- Altrincham and Sale West
- Ayr
- Barnsley East
- Basingstoke
- Batley and Spen
- Battersea
- Blaenau Gwent
- Bermondsey and Old Southwark
- Bethnal Green and Bow
- Charnwood
- Chipping Barnet
- Clydesdale
- Darlington
- Dartford
- Derby South
- Dumfriesshire (nominates jointly with Galloway and West Dumfries)
- Ealing Central and Acton
- East Lothian
- Finchley and Golders Green
- Galloway and West Dumfries (nominates jointly with Dumfriesshire)
- Glasgow Cathcart
- Great Grimsby
- Greenock and Inverclyde
- Heywood and Middleton
- Hornsey and Wood Green
- Inverness and Nairn
- Leicester East
- Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
- Mitcham and Morden
- Moray
- Morley and Outwood
- Na h-Eileanan an Iar
- Newcastle upon Tyne North
- North East Fife
- Nottingham South
- Pontypridd
- Reading East
- Renfrewshire South
- Richmond Park
- Runnymede and Weybridge
- Rutherglen
- South Swindon
- Stevenage
- Strathkelvin and Bearsden
- Streatham
- Twickenham
- Uddingston and Bellshill
- Vauxhall
- Warrington South
- West Ham
- Westminster North
- Wimbledon
- Wrexham
- Affiliated trade unions (4)
- Community
- GMB
- Musicians' Union
- Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW)
- Socialist societies (3)
- Jewish Labour Movement
- Labour Movement for Europe
- Socialist Health Association
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| Undeclared |
18/19 July: 89 |
35.46% |
| 20 July: 79 |
31.47% |
