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If Rishi Sunak hits 120 votes he qualifies for the final immediately and therefore presumably retures temporarily from the fray (could happen to a secoond candidate but seemingly v unlikely
However, this would leave 120+ Rishi supporters free to vote for someone else?
Would it not?
What am I missing here?
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If Rishi Sunak hits 120 votes he qualifies for the final immediately and therefore presumably retures temporarily from the fray (could happen to a secoond candidate but seemingly v unlikely
However, this would leave 120+ Rishi supporters free to vote for someone else?
Would it not?
What am I missing here?
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Where did you get the 120 votes thing from?
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That can't be right because that would give an unfair advantage to Sunak. Ie he could then direct all his votes to the candidate that he thinks he can beat in the final. I don't think so. As I understood it it goes round by round until their are 2 left. If more than one tie with the lowest they all go out.
If he gets 120 votes when three candidates are left, then he is guaranteed to be in the top two since no-one can get more than that.
MPs can change from one round to the next and as was the case yesterday, Mordaunt's vote dropped by one.
Even if Sunak got 120 to-day, his backers could also change their minds in the next ballot.
MPs can change from one round to the next and as was the case yesterday, Mordaunt's vote dropped by one.
Even if Sunak got 120 to-day, his backers could also change their minds in the next ballot.
The '120 votes to auto-qualify for the run-off' ISN'T a rule under the electoral procedures. It's simply a statement of mathematics.
With 358 Conservative MPs, if one of the candidates gets 120 votes (which is fractionally more than a third of the electorate), it's mathematically impossible for two or more other candidates to exceed that number at the same time (since there are only 238 other votes to be allocated between them).
So while Rishi Sunak will know that he's into the final run-off if he gets 120 or more votes, the election procedure remains unchanged, which means that his name will remain on the ballot papers for the next round. So there won't be 120-odd 'spare' votes to be spread around, as suggested in Ichkeria's post.
With 358 Conservative MPs, if one of the candidates gets 120 votes (which is fractionally more than a third of the electorate), it's mathematically impossible for two or more other candidates to exceed that number at the same time (since there are only 238 other votes to be allocated between them).
So while Rishi Sunak will know that he's into the final run-off if he gets 120 or more votes, the election procedure remains unchanged, which means that his name will remain on the ballot papers for the next round. So there won't be 120-odd 'spare' votes to be spread around, as suggested in Ichkeria's post.
"So while Rishi Sunak will know that he's into the final run-off if he gets 120 or more votes, the election procedure remains unchanged, which means that his name will remain on the ballot papers for the next round. So there won't be 120-odd 'spare' votes to be spread around, as suggested in Ichkeria's post. " - probably but not certainly, each round is different, if Sunak drops a bowlock somehow his votes could go somewhere else. There are 2 rounds left.
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