One person, one vote posted by Richard Seymour

"If you count her votes across Labour’s tripartite electoral college you will see that she actually came third and not last, as some have been extolling. This was not helped by the unfair weighting each MPs vote enjoyed with one MPs vote being equal to 608 party member votes or 12,915 affiliated members. Which brings me to another point that certain rightwing pundits are trying to fertilise and send forth and multiply, the idea that it is undemocratic for the voice of individual trade union members, already heavily outweighed by PLP and CLP votes, to determine who should lead the Labour party. Why shouldn’t the individual voices of ordinary voters decide this? This system that favours the PLP over the individual should be abolished in favour of one person, one vote."

Just a quick addendum. If there was one member one vote in the Labour Party, this is what the results would have looked like in the first round:

First Round
	PLP	CLP	Unions	Totals
Ed Miliband	84	37980	87585	125649
David Miliband	111	55905	58191	114205
Diane Abbott	7	9314	25938	35259
Ed Balls	40	12831	21618	34489
Andy Burnham	24	10844	17904	28772

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