Your Party will be led by its members rather than a single MP, avoiding a battle between its two co-founders, Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana.
Members have voted for a collective leadership model rather than a single leadership model, by a margin of 51.6% to 48.4%.
There was a big cheer as the result was announced to delegates gathered in Liverpool for the new movement’s annual founding conference.
Your Party has been marred by factionalism between the two figureheads and had a single leadership model been picked, a battle for the top job was expected.
But many members told Sky News at the conference that because of the squabbling, they want Your Party to be led by the people rather than personality icons.
Collective leadership will see ordinary members who are not MPs elected to an executive committee.
A Your Party spokesperson said: “This vote shows that we really are doing politics differently: from the bottom-up, not the top-down.
“In Westminster, we have a professional political class increasingly disconnected from ordinary people, serving corporations and billionaires instead of the communities they are supposed to represent.
“With a truly member-led party, we will offer something different: democratic, grassroots, accountable.”
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