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Polls of Labour members and supporters entitled to vote in the contest have put Mr Corbyn in the lead.
One of the 2,000 delegates to vote in the contest, Colin Breen, said he was pleased that the vote had been "clear and decisive" in Nesbitt's favour.
Mr Corbyn has played down claims about the return of "entryism", used by the Militant Tendency in the 1980s, and insisted that only people who support Labour should sign up to vote in the contest.
John Mann, the MP for Bassetlaw, claimed that the party is seeing an influx of new members and registered supporters, all of whom will be eligible to vote in the contest that ends in September.
A Labour spokesman denied reports that 50,000 new members and supporters who signed up to vote in the contest could ultimately remain unverified before the winner was declared on 12 September.
About 400,000 people have become eligible to vote in the contest since the general election, 120,000 of them paying to become registered supporters, swelling the electorate to 600,000.
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Two thirds of those eligible to vote in the leadership contest that elected Mr Corbyn said he was doing "well".
Labour members eligible to vote in the leadership contest will start receiving their ballots by email from Monday.
McCluskey was also not happy about being told that she would not be able to vote in the leadership contest.
Unison has 1.3m members, 28,000 of whom are members of the Labour Party, with another 15,000 registered to vote in the leadership contest as affiliated members.
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