I don't remember the exact numbers, but out of something like 6000 ballot papers sent out to the non-BA constituency, only about 1000 were returned.
The NEC members thus elected went on to stage the palace coup, presumably prearranged.
I think we all need to make the effort to take part in this democracy stuff, or else minority interests take over. I have no knowledge of whether this was the result of minority interests of course, but I'm as surprised as everyone else about what happened.