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Post by swanarcadian on Jan 1, 2020 12:35:29 GMT
Lambeth and Southwark
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Post by David Boothroyd on Jan 3, 2020 10:07:27 GMT
The Labour selection has just re-opened. Florence Eshalomi AM only just avoided the full reselection procedure in the trigger ballot last June, but then won the Parliamentary selection for Vauxhall.
It is to be an open shortlist, not an all-woman shortlist.
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Post by heslingtonian on Jan 3, 2020 13:55:16 GMT
Could this be yet another opportunity for Ibrahim Dogus?
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Post by timrollpickering on Jan 3, 2020 18:08:24 GMT
The Conservative candidate is Hannah Ginnett:
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jan 3, 2020 22:15:27 GMT
Results here in the 2019 General election
Lab 171093 60.3%
LD 45972 16.2%
Con 43799 15.4%
Grn 17795 6.3%
BxP 4494 1.6%
Oth 578 0.2%
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Post by neilm on Jan 9, 2020 9:34:42 GMT
The Labour selection has just re-opened. Florence Eshalomi AM only just avoided the full reselection procedure in the trigger ballot last June, but then won the Parliamentary selection for Vauxhall. It is to be an open shortlist, not an all-woman shortlist. What's the rule with AWS? I thought Labour always implemented it when the MP/AM/Cllr stepping down was a woman but this isn't the case here. |
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Post by David Boothroyd on Jan 9, 2020 10:05:31 GMT
That's been an unofficial presumption but isn't applied rigidly. In this case two Labour-held seats are being selected, both held by women, and I presume the party has decided that only one should be AWS.
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Post by Peter Wilkinson on Jan 9, 2020 11:27:27 GMT
That's been an unofficial presumption but isn't applied rigidly. In this case two Labour-held seats are being selected, both held by women, and I presume the party has decided that only one should be AWS. In fact, applying that presumption seemed to become quite flexible during the last-minute Parliamentary selections just before the general election - including in Vauxhall which, despite the previous MP (Kate Hoey) being female, went through an open selection - which then, of course, selected a woman. I wonder, is Ibrahim Dogus still available? |
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Post by alderman on Jan 15, 2020 12:17:48 GMT
Popular Southwark Cabinet Member Councillor Evelyn Akoto seems to have tweeted a campaign video announcing she will be Labour's candidate?
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Post by David Boothroyd on Jan 15, 2020 12:23:40 GMT
She is one of those standing in the selection, but the ballot hasn't started.
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Post by David Boothroyd on Jan 17, 2020 12:11:15 GMT
The Labour shortlist is causing a lot of unrest for excluding almost all of the applicants from Lambeth and Southwark:
Marina Ahmad - Bromley borough councillor; former Parliamentary candidate in Beckenham and Assembly candidate in Croydon and Sutton
Taranjit Chana - GMB union official; on the London list for the European Parliament in 2019; lives in Southall.
Shahina Jaffer - marketing graduate; artist with studio on Old Kent Road; candidate in North Bermondsey in Southwark council election 2018
Maurice McLeod - Wandsworth borough councillor; runs media company
Sakina Sheikh - Lewisham councillor; had the Momentum endorsement for the Lewisham East selection in 2018
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Post by overthehill on Jan 17, 2020 16:45:03 GMT
so one local candidate? I am surprised there isn't more visible online angry about this - could the decision be overturned do you think? It will be hard as it's a long list anyway so that would involve knocking people off
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Post by alderman on Jan 19, 2020 13:46:44 GMT
so one local candidate? I am surprised there isn't more visible online angry about this - could the decision be overturned do you think? It will be hard as it's a long list anyway so that would involve knocking people off Have heard a protest letter signed by 90 Lambeth & Southwark Councillors has been submitted.... |
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Post by David Boothroyd on Feb 20, 2020 20:06:43 GMT
Seems like Marina Ahmad has won the selection.
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Post by alderman on Feb 20, 2020 23:07:49 GMT
Seems like Marina Ahmad has won the selection. Do we know how she fared in the Londonwide list? |
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Post by David Boothroyd on Feb 20, 2020 23:08:52 GMT
Seems like Marina Ahmad has won the selection. Do we know how she fared in the Londonwide list? See: labourlist.org/2020/02/corbynsceptics-score-victories-in-london-assembly-candidate-selections/Elly Baker – 8,936 – first Sakina Sheikh – 8,550 – second Marina Ahmad – 8,480 – withdrawn from list due to being selected for a seat Sem Moema – 8,170 – withdrawn from list due to being selected for a seat Liam Young – 8,081 – third Preston Tabois – 7,042 – fourth Murad Qureshi – 6.679 – not selected |
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Post by David Boothroyd on Feb 21, 2020 14:11:02 GMT
First preference votes in the Lambeth and Southwark selection:
Marina Ahmad 952
Maurice McLeod 862
Shahina Jaffer 267
Taranjit Chana 205
(Sakina Sheikh withdrew to concentrate on the list)
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Post by samdwebber on Feb 24, 2020 0:29:19 GMT
Marina is a Labour cllr in Bromley in a ward which shares a boundary with the Lambeth and Southwark Assembly constituency (Crystal Palace).
So if she is elected in May this might bring about a council by-election in Crystal Palace I suppose. The other AM cllrs I can think of are either elected on the London-wide list (both Green AMs & Tom Copley) or are cllrs within their constituency (Gareth Bacon for example in Bexley).
She has been active in Bromley Labour for some time and we both stood in the same ward (Cray Valley East) in 2014 though neither of us was elected.
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