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The 2007 Labour Party deputy leadership election was a British political party election for the position of Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. John Prescott, the previous Deputy Leader, announced on 10 May 2007 that he was standing down from that position and that he would be leaving as Deputy Prime Minister about the same time that Tony Blair tendered his resignation as Prime Minister.^[1] Harriet Harman was elected Deputy Leader on 24 June 2007 with 50.43% of the final redistributed vote.

There had been reports that an increasing number of Labour MPs and members of the NEC had been been attempting to get the election for the position of deputy leader abandoned in order to save the £2,000,000 it was estimated that the contest would cost.^{[2], [3]} There would have had to have been a special conference convened if such an alteration was to be made.

Contents 1 Successfully nominated candidates 2 Results 2.1 Round 1 2.2 Round 2 2.3 Round 3 2.4 Round 4 2.5 Round 5 3 Suggested candidates not standing 4 Timeline of events 5 See also 6 References and notes

• Hilary Benn^{[4], [5], [6]} — 47 nominations.
• Hazel Blears ^[7] — 49 nominations.
• Jon Cruddas^{[8], [9]} — 49 nominations.
• Peter Hain^{[10], [11]} — 51 nominations.
• Harriet Harman^[12] — 65 nominations.
• Alan Johnson^[13] — 73 nominations.

All six declared candidates secured more than the 45 nominations from MPs that was the minimum requirement for them to get onto the ballot paper by close of nominations at 12:30 UTC+1 on 17 May 2007.^[14][15]

The election took place using Alternative Vote in an electoral college, with a third of the votes allocated to MPs and MEPs, a third to individual members of the Labour Party, and a third to individual members of affiliated organisations, mainly trade unions. So in the tables below, each of the first three columns adds up to 33.33%.

Harriet Harman won the contest, her victory heavily depending on support from individual party members with preference votes narrowing her opponent's lead and she only led in the final round.^[16] The final total percentage votes for the two main candidates after redistribution were almost identical to those of the final round of the 1981 contest.

Candidate		Members of affiliated organisations	Individual members	MPs and MEPs	Total
	Jon Cruddas	9.09%	5.67%	4.63%	19.39%
	Harriet Harman	4.35%	8.04%	6.54%	18.93%
	Alan Johnson	4.55%	5.53%	8.08%	18.16%
	Hilary Benn	4.93%	7.21%	4.27%	16.40%
	Peter Hain	6.64%	3.87%	4.81%	15.32%
	Hazel Blears	3.77%	3%	4.99%	11.77%

Hazel Blears finished in 6th place in the first round and was therefore eliminated.

Candidate		Members of affiliated organisations	Individual members	MPs and MEPs	Total
	Alan Johnson	5.91%	6.35%	11.47%	23.74%
	Harriet Harman	5.15%	8.80%	7.29%	21.23%
	Jon Cruddas	9.64%	6.01%	4.74%	20.39%
	Hilary Benn	5.56%	7.93%	4.74%	18.22%
	Peter Hain	7.08%	4.24%	5.10%	16.42%

Peter Hain finished in 5th place and was eliminated in the second round of voting.

Candidate		Members of affiliated organisations	Individual members	MPs and MEPs	Total
	Alan Johnson	7.81%	7.31%	12.78%	27.90%
	Harriet Harman	7.12%	10.15%	8.61%	25.88%
	Jon Cruddas	11.01%	6.58%	6.30%	23.89%
	Hilary Benn	7.39%	9.29%	5.65%	22.33%

Hilary Benn finished in 4th place and was eliminated in the third round of voting.

Candidate		Members of affiliated organisations	Individual members	MPs and MEPs	Total
	Alan Johnson	10.25%	10.70%	15.39%	36.35%
	Harriet Harman	9.46%	13.82%	10.29%	33.58%
	Jon Cruddas	13.61%	8.81%	7.65%	30.06%

Jon Cruddas finished in 3rd place and was eliminated in the fourth round of voting.

Candidate		Members of affiliated organisations	Individual members	MPs and MEPs	Total
	Harriet Harman	16.18%	18.83%	15.42%	50.43%
	Alan Johnson	17.15%	14.50%	17.91%	49.56%

Harriet Harman elected as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.

Jeremy Corbyn announced in December 2006 he was considering running for the Deputy Leadership. However, there was no subsequent statement from him on it and he nominated Hilary Benn for the Deputy Leadership.^[17] No other eligible person — i.e. Labour MP — announced they were considering standing for the position except for the six nominated candidates and Jeremy Corbyn.

There was some speculation about Ed Balls, Patricia Hewitt^[18], David Miliband^[19] and Jack Straw standing for the position, but no sign that they had ever said they were inclined to run and all had ruled themselves out before nominations opened.

Main article: Timeline for the 2007 Labour Party (UK) Leadership elections and new Prime Minister

• Labour Party (UK) leadership election, 2007

Labour Party (UK) Deputy leadership elections
1970 (Short) | 1976 (Foot) | 1980 (Healey) | 1981 (Healey) | 1983 (Hattersley) | 1988 (Hattersley) | 1992 (Beckett) | 1994 (Prescott) | 2007 (Harman)