I am fed up hearing about the PLP’s 9m vote mandate. Firstly, the total labour vote is ~8.7m. Secondly just above 5m voted for winning candidates i.e.the members of the PLP, the other 3.7m voted for Labour candidates that lost and thirdly, they won because they were Labour candidates, and that is chosen by the Party membership.
This analysis is based on the electoral commission data, my methodology or technique is described here, a treat for excel nerds and does not include the bye-election results.
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The PLP’s mandate