Bananas
As regular readers know Ken Macintosh won the backing of most ordinary Labour party members - but came second because he got fewer votes from MSPs and MPs - and the trade unions.
So here's a breakdown of the voting figures again - expressed first of all as a share of the 1/3rd, 1/3rd, 1/3rd electoral college - and then as a percentage share of the 100% vote in each individual section.
Voting by Individual Labour Party Members
Tom Harris - 3.444%
Johann Lamont - 12.183%
Ken Macintosh - 17.707%
Total - 33.33%
Tom Harris - 10%
Joahann Lamont - 37%
Ken Macintosh - 53%
Total - 100%
Voting by MSPs and MPs
Tom Harris - 1.778%
Johann Lamont - 17.778%
Ken Macintosh - 13.7778%
Total - 33.33%
Tom Harris - 5.3%
Joahann Lamont - 53.4%
Ken Macintosh - 41.3%
Total - 100%
Voting by Trade Unions
Tom Harris - 2.730%
Johann Lamont - 21.807%
Ken Macintosh - 8.797%
Total - 33.33%
Tom Harris - 8.2%
Joahann Lamont - 65.4%
Ken Macintosh - 26.4%
Total - 100%
Even if you combine the votes from the first two sections Ken Macintosh still comes out on top - with 47% of the vote compared to only 44% for Johann Lamont - without redistributing the voes of Tom Harris who came third.
So the upshot is that Johann Lamont owes her 'victory' to the trade unions - who balloted over 300,000 members - allegedly.
But with less than 20,000 members in the whole of the Scottish Labour party - it stands to reason that most of the people balloted by the trade unions - were not Labour party members.
Now how crazy is that?
As someone once said - 'If that's democracy, then I'm a banana!'
