How does the election process work?
The undergraduate representatives to the Executive Committee will be elected in a caucus of all undergraduate delegates to the Grand Chapter. Only undergraduate delegates will be allowed in the room during the caucus, and each delegate will be able to vote for two nominees. Each nominee will be given a short time (two to three minutes) to speak on the platform in which he would like to focus on during the term of his election. The official rules for the election will be available at the Grand Chapter.
It is run in accordance with party rules by the procedures committee of the Scottish Labour executive committee, headed up by Scottish General Secretary Colin Smyth. Candidates with nominations go forward to a one-member, one-vote postal ballot. There are three different groups of people entitled to vote: Labour MSPs, Scottish Labour MPs and Scottish Labour MEPs; all members of the Scottish Labour Party; and members of affiliated trades unions and societies. Affiliated trades unions are only allowed to ballot eligible political levy-paying members. The votes from each section are then weighted equally to count for one third of the total vote. There will also be a series of eight hustings around Scotland. Phew, sounds like an awful lot of work. Is it much less complicated if there is only one nominee? Correct – but there is not much chance of that. It is becoming generally accepted that there must be a proper contest this time round. This is partly because Wendy Alexander was installed
To implement this constitutional requirement, elections in Iowa for state Senate seats are staggered, with elections in odd-numbered Senate districts in 2006, and 2010, and elections in even-numbered Senate districts 2004, and 2008. What statewide offices represent the entire state of Iowa? The Governor, Attorney General, Treasurer, Auditor, and Secretaries of State and Agriculture are the statewide offices that represent the state of Iowa. The length of term for these offices is four years. The elections for these offices are held in even numbered years. The next election for these positions will be in 2006.
