No mandate for Prentis

Submitted by cathy n on 17 December, 2015 - 6:27 Author: Ed Whitby

So Prentis has been elected on less than 50% of the vote, with less than 10% of the membership voting.

In the last 10 years Dave Prentis has gone from 185,000 votes to 66,000 votes losing 119,000 or two thirds of his vote.

This in an election where:

* There is known corruption in the important London region, with staff members on record as supporting Prentis against all the rules

* No hustings or debates to raise profile of alternate candidates

* No information in the unions two membership publications on the other candidates

* Meanwhile Prentis appeared in almost every article on the unions magazines and in weekly emails sent to all members.

So while there is no great news for the left coming a poor third and fourth, this is no mandate for Prentis and surely must create the opportunity for a debate about the direction of this important public sector trade union.

Overall votes and turn out in last 3 elections:
2005 – 244,000 votes (16% of membership), 2010 – 216,000 (14% of membership) and 2015 134,000 (9% of the membership)

Results 2015
Roger Bannister 16,853 (12.6 per cent)
John Burgess 15,573 (11.6 per cent)
Dave Prentis 66,155 (49.4 per cent)
Heather Wakefield 35,433 (26.4 per cent)
134,014

Previous results

2010 candidates
Dave Prentis
145,351
(67.3%)
Roger Bannister
42,651
(19.7%)
Paul Holmes
28,114
(13.0%)
216,116

2005 candidates
Dave Prentis
184,769
(75.6%)
Roger Bannister
41,406
(16.9%)
Jon Rogers
18,306
(7.5%)
244,481

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