In Scotland or any part of the UK you do not vote for a Prime Minister.
You vote for your local Member of Parliament.
He or she is usually a member of a political party, and the party elects a leader who becomes the Prime Minister if that party has the most Members of Parliament.
Prime Minister
Lord North (Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford) was Prime Minister from 1770 to 1782. Mostly as a result of the war, he was removed from office on a vote of no confidence in 1782.
Not unless the prime minister is their constituency member. In the UK you vote for the party you want in your constituency. Then the totals are gathered and the party that controls over half the constituencies wins.
Julia Gillard was the national Minister for Education in the Kevin Rudd government. She received the job of Prime Minister when she challenged Kevin Rudd in 2010 and won by unanimous vote.
Choosing the Prime-minister (PM) is exactly the same as choosing a president. We have campaigns and we vote for who we want to be PM.Further information:The Prime Minister is not directly chosen by the people, however. Members of the Federal Parliament (the Senate and the House of Representatives) are elected by the people. The leader of the political party with the most elected members in the lower House, the House of Representatives, becomes the Prime Minister.
Not just a vote for a prime minister. A referendum is a vote on an issue that affects an entire nation.
A prime minister is a member of parliament, like all the other members, so yes they can vote.
Unless someone is registered to vote in the constituency of the Prime Minister, he/she cannot be voted for directly.
The people want to pick out who they think would be the best prime minister.
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A prime minister becomes leader of the country because he has thesupport of the majority of the members of parliament, That is he is the boss of the biggest political party. People in Australia donut vote for a prime minister they vote for a member of Parliament
No, Nellie McClung was an advocate of Women's right to vote in Manitoba, and then Canada. She staged a mock parliament in Manitoba, and as the 'Prime Minister' attacked men's right to vote.
James Callaghan
Through election.
Prime Minister
No, the Prime Minister is a constituency MP, the current Prime Minister Gordon Brown is the MP for Dunfirmline East in Scotland. The Prime Minister is usually the leader of the largest political party in the UK House of Commons and is "asked" by the monarch to form a government