Tuesday, 21 September 2010

UNITE General Secretary nominations

UNITE's Executive Council today accepted a report from the Returning Officer.

Four people received sufficient valid nominations to become candidates:

  1. Len McCluskey, 829 valid nominations, including nominations from branches representing 368,986 members
  2. Les Bayliss, 214 valid nominations, including nominations from branches representing 137,942 members
  3. Jerry Hicks, 137 valid nominations, including nominations from branches representing 109,088 members
  4. Gail Cartmail, 97 valid nominations, including nominations from branches representing 37,836 members
There were 165 invalid branch nominations and 83 invalid workplace nominations.

A full list of nominations will be posted on the union web site as soon as possible.



2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ian

if you count all the invalids together, what amount of potential votes do they come to for each candidate?

I am going on the basis that the nomination may be invalid but the branch will go ahead with campaigning for votes for their prefered candidate

Ian said...

We weren't given that information.

Ian.