The Returning Officer for the Mayoral Election held on 7 May 2015 in the Borough of Bedford, STATED that at the counting of the first preference votes, there were:
|
First Preference Votes |
Description |
Results |
|---|---|---|
|
1 DOUGLAS, Tim |
Labour Party | 15931 |
|
2 HAYNES, Adrian John |
UK Independence Party (UKIP) | 7060 |
|
3 HODGSON, Dave |
Liberal Democrat | 25282 |
|
4 LOWE, Steve |
Independent | 12883 |
|
5 PARMAR, Jas |
The Conservative Party | 19417 |
|
The number of ballot papers rejected was as follows: |
Number |
|---|---|
|
(A) want of an official mark |
0 |
|
(B) voting for more than one candidate |
0 |
|
(C) writing or mark by which voter could be identified |
0 |
|
(D) being unmarked or wholly void for uncertainty |
1826 |
|
(E) rejected in part |
0 |
|
Total rejected |
1826 |
Electorate: 124833
Ballot Papers Issued: 82399
Turnout: 66%
The Returning Officer declared that as no candidate has an overall majority of first preference votes the two highest scoring candidates, namely DAVE HODGSON and JAS PARMAR will remain in the contest and the second preference votes cast on the other valid ballot papers will be examined. Any second choice votes cast for DAVE HODGSON and JAS PARMAR will be allocated to those candidates. (51(3)(b))
The Returning Officer for the Mayoral Election held on 7 May 2015 in the Borough of Bedford, stated that after the count of second preference votes, the number of votes recorded for each remaining candidate was as follows:
|
|
Candidate name |
Description |
First Preference votes (53(2)(a)) |
Second Preference votes for candidates remaining after the first preference votes (53(2)(b)) |
Total number of votes for Candidates remaining after the second preference votes (53(2)(c)) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | HODGSON, Dave | Liberal Democrat | 25282 | 10020 | 35302 ELECTED |
| 5 | PARMAR, Jas | The Conservative Party | 19417 | 7096 | 26513 |