Monday, September 05, 2022

Was Liz Truss elected as Prime Minister on a Minority Vote ?

 It is claimed here that the Conservative Party had a total membership of between 180,000 and 200,000 on 1st July 2019 - https://metro.co.uk/2022/09/04/how-many-members-does-the-conservative-party-have-17295810/

If this estimate has held up since then, it means that Liz Truss has just been elected as leader of Conservative Party and thus Prime Minister on the votes of a minority of its party's membership.  She obtained 81,326 votes to Sunacks 60,399, making it a total of 141,725 legitimate votes being cast. This is well below the membership estimate for 2019.

This time 624 members submitted invalid voting papers, but what number of others could not be bothered to vote given the nature of the choices ?

3:4 portrait of Elizabeth Truss


P.S. This claims that Truss received only 47% of the eligable votes - https://drillordrop.com/2022/09/05/liz-truss-to-be-pm-reaction/#more-94984

Added 28 September - What vote would she have got now ?

 

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