{"id":122,"date":"2006-02-06T12:18:39","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T12:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campbellcampaign.org\/2006\/02\/06\/campbell-ahead-among-lib-dem-parliamentarians-as-ballot-papers-issued\/"},"modified":"2006-02-06T23:31:02","modified_gmt":"2006-02-06T23:31:02","slug":"campbell-ahead-among-lib-dem-parliamentarians-as-ballot-papers-issued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/2006\/02\/06\/campbell-ahead-among-lib-dem-parliamentarians-as-ballot-papers-issued\/","title":{"rendered":"Campbell ahead among Lib Dem parliamentarians as ballot papers issued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New figures released by Ming Campbell?s leadership campaign today show the LibDem Acting Leader racing ahead in the battle for the leadership of the party.<\/p>\n<p>The research shows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Campbell has the declared support of 30 MPs, more than his two opponents combined ? who trail on 11 supporters each<\/li>\n<li>Campbell has the declared support of 35 LibDem peers ? more than twice as many as Chris Huhne and more than ten times as many as Simon Hughes<\/li>\n<li>Campbell has the declared support of two thirds of the party?s MEPs. Former MEP Chris Huhne has three MEP supporters. Simon Hughes has none.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of the 132 LibDem Parliamentarians who have declared their support for a candidate, Campbell has the backing of 77 ? a total of 58.3%. This is more than twice the declared support for Huhne and four times the declared support for Hughes.<\/p>\n<p>With ballot papers due to be sent out to over 70,000 party members on Monday, Ming Campbell said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am delighted to receive such overwhelming support from Liberal Democrat Parliamentarians, but with the ballot papers being issued to tens of thousands of members today, I will not be taking a single vote for granted. This party belongs to its members and in the coming days I look forward to speaking with as many of them as possible and to building a sense of unity and purpose at all levels of the Liberal Democrats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<h4>Notes to editors : <\/h4>\n<p>A full breakdown of declared Parliamentary supporters follows:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a id=\"p123\" href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/LDParliamentarySupport20050206.xls\" title=\"Parliamentary Support for Liberal Democrat leadership candidates\">Spreadsheet showing parliamentary support for Liberal Democrat leadership candidates (Excel, 27kB)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New figures released by Ming Campbell?s leadership campaign today show the LibDem Acting Leader racing ahead in the battle for the leadership of the party. The research shows: Campbell has the declared support of 30 MPs, more than his two opponents combined ? who trail on 11 supporters each Campbell has the declared support of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}