Scottish Labour say they don’t plan to publish leadership result breakdown

Scottish Labour do not plan to publish a full breakdown of the results of their leadership election, the party has confirmed to LabourList. However, a vast majority of our readers who took part in this week’s survey are in favour of publishing the full result.

There are growing calls for the UK Labour Party to separately reveal how full members, registered supporters and affiliate supporters voted when the new leader is announced next month, but the party’s current position, agreed by the NEC, is that they will only issue a simple overall result. Earlier this week, LabourList exclusively revealed that Liz Kendall would be sending a letter to Labour’s general secretary Iain McNicol and the NEC, calling on them to change their stance. Now it appears that Scottish Labour also have no plans to publish a breakdown of this nature.

Last Saturday, it was announced that Kezia Dugdale was the new Scottish Labour leader, winning with 72% against her only opponent, Ken Macintosh. With a margin this big, it is likely that Dugdale won with a majority among each section of voters: full members, registered supporters, and affiliate supporters. However, unless the party release this information, there is no way of knowing for sure.

It is understood that the final decision lies with the Scottish Executive Committee.

In LabourList’s readers’ survey this week, we asked whether a fuller breakdown of the votes should be cast. Of the 2,379 people who took part in the survey, 84% said it should, and just 13% disagreed.