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The Irish Labour Party stood aside in 1918 in favour of Sinn Féin, having at first proposed to be abstentionist until emergency laws were lifted. [24] Sinn Féin was unsure whether to boycott the 1921 elections to the House of Commons of Northern Ireland and House of Commons of Southern Ireland set up by the Government of Ireland Act 1920. [25]
Comparative results of 2011 Canadian federal election with or without abstention. Abstention is a term in election procedure for when a participant in a vote either does not go to vote (on election day) or, in parliamentary procedure, is present during the vote but does not cast a ballot. [1]
Labour Party rules specify that MPs will face a "trigger ballot" procedure where each branch of the Constituency Labour Party (CLP) and each affiliate (trade union and socialist society) branch will have a simple majority vote on whether they wish their sitting MP to automatically stand again in the next general election, or whether they wish to have a full selection process.
The Labour leader promised campaigner Dame Esther Rantzen he would ‘make time’ for a vote if he entered Downing Street. Starmer ‘committed’ to allowing vote on legalising assisted dying ...
Labour is set to put its plans to strengthen the budget watchdog to a vote in Parliament in an effort to “prevent a repeat of Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget”, Rachel Reeves has said.
At a local level, the parties began working together, with informal pacts to stand agreed candidates to maximise the vote for centre-left candidates. The first Co-operative Party MPs also took the whip of the much larger Labour Party upon entering the House of Commons.
An attempt to force party unity then, the vote could instead prove to have the opposite effect and expose the deep internal divisions within Labour over the war, raising the very real prospect of ...
Gained his seat from Labour in the 1931 general election. Retired at the end of the Parliament. Sir George Masterman Gillett: Finsbury: 31 August 1931: 25 October 1935: Originally elected as a Labour MP; was a junior Minister in the Labour Government. Announced his support of the Government [5] and was appointed to the National Government.