Title: Jeremy Corbyn elected Labour leader: How did he win? - BBC News
Headings: Jeremy Corbyn elected Labour leader: How did he win?
Jeremy Corbyn elected Labour leader: How did he win?
Jeremy Corbyn has been elected leader of the Labour Party. How did he do it? Here are some of the factors behind his against-the-odds victory.
1. The resurgence of the left
2. Anyone could vote for £3
3. Those 'moron' MPs
4. Missing opponents
5. Popular enthusiasm
6. Campaign style

Content: Those MPs who helped Mr Corbyn over the line were memorably derided by John McTernan, ex-adviser to Tony Blair, as "morons who need to have their heads felt". One of them, former acting party leader Margaret Beckett, ruefully owned up to being a "moron". 4. Missing opponents
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Potential opponents fell by the wayside until only three others were left standing
Jeremy Corbyn's task was undoubtedly made easier by the absence of heavy-hitting rivals. The pool of potential opponents had already been reduced by Labour's election losses while senior figures within the party - including deputy leader Harriet Harman and former home secretary Alan Johnson - quickly ruled themselves out of the contest. The party's "next generation" - those elected in 2010 and since - also largely decided to sit out the fight with Chuka Umunna's decision to quit the race after only a couple of days symptomatic of their tentativeness. Dan Jarvis, a former soldier who was much touted as a future leader, also declined to take part. With two of Mr Corbyn's opponents - Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper - having served in the Cabinet under Gordon Brown and also having been close allies of Ed Miliband and the third, Liz Kendall, tagged as the "Blairite" candidate, Mr Corbyn was able to associate his rivals with the erosion of Labour support during the past decade and argue effectively that only he offered a true break from the recent past. 5. Popular enthusiasm
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Corbynmania was born as the previously unheralded MP addressed thousand-strong crowds
There may have been a record number of campaign hustings but few of them captured the public imagination.