He acquired the least votes from MPs within the newest spherical of votes and means the sector has now been narrowed down to 3 – with James Cleverly, Kemi Badenoch, and Robert Jenrick nonetheless within the working to switch Rishi Sunak.
Mr Cleverly overtook Mr Jenrick, the previous immigration minister who was beforehand main the race, to return out on high with 39 of his colleagues backing him within the vote on Tuesday October 8.
Mr Jenrick adopted with 31 votes, then 30 for Ms Badenoch, and 20 for Mr Tugendhat.
Mr Tugendhat thanked those that backed him in a submit on X, including: “Your vitality, your concepts and your help have proven a imaginative and prescient of what our celebration might grow to be.
“Our marketing campaign has ended however our dedication to our nation continues.”
He’ll proceed to guide the celebration till his successor is introduced.
So how do the Tories choose a brand new chief and what occurs subsequent within the 2024 management contest?
Right here’s all it’s essential know.
How do the Conservatives select their new chief?
The method for choosing a brand new chief of the Conservative Occasion includes a number of phases and varies barely relying on whether or not the celebration is in authorities or opposition. This is an summary of the process:
1. Resignation of the chief
- A management election is triggered when the chief resigns or is eliminated (akin to after dropping a vote of no confidence by the celebration).
- Conservative Members of Parliament (MPs) who want to stand for the management have to be nominated by a sure variety of their colleagues. The brink for nomination has different in recent times. In 2019, management contenders wanted eight nominations, whereas in October 2022 candidates required 100 supporters.
3. MPs’ voting rounds (eliminating candidates)
- As soon as nominations shut, Conservative MPs vote in successive rounds.
- If there are a number of candidates, the MPs maintain a collection of votes to remove the candidate with the fewest votes in every spherical.
- This course of continues till solely two candidates stay.
4. Conservative Occasion membership vote
- The ultimate two candidates are then introduced to the broader Conservative Occasion membership.
- Conservative Occasion members throughout the UK, who’ve paid to hitch the celebration, are eligible to vote. They forged their votes in a one-member, one-vote system.
- The voting is often completed by way of postal ballots.
- The candidate who receives essentially the most votes from the membership turns into the chief of the Conservative Occasion.
- If the celebration is in authorities, the brand new chief additionally turns into the prime minister
- If just one candidate receives sufficient nominations from MPs or just one candidate stays after MPs’ voting rounds, they could robotically grow to be the brand new chief while not having a membership vote.
- The whole course of is overseen by the 1922 Committee, a strong group inside the Conservative Occasion that represents backbench MPs and organizes management elections.
What’s subsequent within the course of?
A vote shall be held at present (Wednesday October 9). It will cut back the contenders to the ultimate two.
The broader celebration membership will then select their new chief. It will come after the poll closes at 5pm on October 31.
When will the brand new Conservative chief be introduced?
The brand new chief shall be introduced on November 2.
The celebration chief have to be a sitting MP and different Conservative MPs should nominate her or him.
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