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Post by peterl on Jul 18, 2019 14:11:57 GMT
Candidates for Lyme Regis Town Council on August 8th:
Paul Edmonds No Description Owen Keith Lovell Independent Steve Miler No Description Rob Smith Green Party
All four addresses are within the town.
In May, Lyme Regis was contested with 16 candidates for 14 seats. Labour won 1 seat, with all the other elected candidates being independent or no description. Steve Miller was one of the two unsucsessful candidates.
August 8th will also see two neighbourhood planning referenda in Dorset, which will be held in Broadwinsor (electorate 1,310) and Milborne St. Andrew (electorate 901).
Lastly, and because it might interest some people, I have just been notified that a polling station review for the Dorset Council area has just begun.
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Post by peterl on Jul 18, 2019 14:15:48 GMT
And one more thing...
I have just discovered that a community governance review has now commenced for Throop and Holdenhurst, Bournemouth (my neighbourhood), which would be the first parish council (there is one parish meeting) in Bournemouth for some time. Personally, I'm all in favour of it. I may even stand if a council is created. Only snag would be a relative lack of reasonably central meeting facilities.
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Post by peterl on Jul 19, 2019 8:37:17 GMT
Ferndown Town Council Links Ward
Ann Josephine MILLER Independent a Voice for Ferndown Residents 202 Roland JENKINS Independent Links Ward Resident 112
Turnout 11.37%
A hold for the Independent Voice faction restoring the council to its numbers after the May elections:
Conservative 9 Independent A Local Voice for Ferndown 6 Independent Longham Resident 1 Independent 1
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Post by tucson on Jul 26, 2019 6:00:59 GMT
Todmorden TC (25/07/19)
LD 298 Lab 186
LD gain from Lab
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Post by tonygreaves on Jul 27, 2019 14:43:02 GMT
Walsden Ward.
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Post by peterl on Aug 9, 2019 8:21:08 GMT
Lyme Regis Town Council
Rob Smith Green Party 255 Elected 39.23% Owen Keith Lovell Independent 230 35.38% Steve Miler No Description 88 13.54% Paul Edmonds No Description 77 11.85%
Turnout 21.2%
New composition Independents 14 Green 1 Labour 1
This confirms my suspicions that Lyme Regis would be good Green territory if only there was a candidate. Congratulations to our new councillor!
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Post by peterl on Aug 9, 2019 9:44:40 GMT
Broadwindsor Neighbourhood Plan
Yes 301 75.06% No 100 24.94%
Turnout 31.16%
Milborne St. Andrew Neighbourhood Plan
Yes 281 90.65% No 29 9.35%
Turnout 34.7%
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Post by PeopleLikeWe on Aug 9, 2019 20:44:18 GMT
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Post by listener on Aug 17, 2019 0:41:40 GMT
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Post by Harry Hayfield on Aug 17, 2019 7:15:36 GMT
They could do with breaking that up into three or four wards It would be interesting to know how long the count took, how many people used all sixteen votes, and how many spoiled ballots there were. Llansantffraed Community Council elections in 2017 had 10 seats and 15 candidates. The count started at 10.00am on the day after the election and didn't declare until around 4.20pm that afternoon. When I popped in around 12.30pm they were only a third of the way through the ballots but generally speaking about 80% of all ballots cast 10 votes.
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Aug 17, 2019 7:32:14 GMT
And one more thing... I have just discovered that a community governance review has now commenced for Throop and Holdenhurst, Bournemouth (my neighbourhood), which would be the first parish council (there is one parish meeting) in Bournemouth for some time. Personally, I'm all in favour of it. I may even stand if a council is created. Only snag would be a relative lack of reasonably central meeting facilities. How many different parish councils have you stood for?
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Post by tonygreaves on Aug 17, 2019 10:58:28 GMT
Apart from the fact that Swindon Borough Council cannot spell and headline the notice "Eletion Petition" more than once, this seems very odd. What is the "block vote" that they refer to? The petition alleges that you could "tick the box" once for all ten candidates from one party (as in an American election). Surely this is not the case? But to announce a result in which all the successful candidates get more votes than the number cast is hilarious. Were there no candidates attending the count?
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Post by peterl on Aug 17, 2019 19:16:00 GMT
And one more thing... I have just discovered that a community governance review has now commenced for Throop and Holdenhurst, Bournemouth (my neighbourhood), which would be the first parish council (there is one parish meeting) in Bournemouth for some time. Personally, I'm all in favour of it. I may even stand if a council is created. Only snag would be a relative lack of reasonably central meeting facilities. How many different parish councils have you stood for? 2. Sucsessfully. I stood down in May.
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Post by middleenglander on Aug 17, 2019 23:13:00 GMT
Apart from the fact that Swindon Borough Council cannot spell and headline the notice "Eletion Petition" more than once, this seems very odd. What is the "block vote" that they refer to? The petition alleges that you could "tick the box" once for all ten candidates from one party (as in an American election). Surely this is not the case? But to announce a result in which all the successful candidates get more votes than the number cast is hilarious. Were there no candidates attending the count? It is now over 15 weeks since this election was held and 12 weeks since the Petition had to be presented. The Returning Officer has accepted that an error was made in counting the votes. However, I have seen no suggestion that there was anything incorrect about the conduct of the election itself. Why is it taking so long to resolve this matter?
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Post by johnloony on Aug 18, 2019 3:14:48 GMT
Apart from the fact that Swindon Borough Council cannot spell and headline the notice "Eletion Petition" more than once, this seems very odd. What is the "block vote" that they refer to? The petition alleges that you could "tick the box" once for all ten candidates from one party (as in an American election). Surely this is not the case? The "block vote" in this case refers to the 265 ballot papers on which the voter voted for all 10 Conservative candidates, but no others. To make the count "easier", they were all separated out from the others and counted separately. The problem was that they were then credited to the candidates as 2,650 each instead of 265.
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Post by edgbaston on Aug 18, 2019 8:01:52 GMT
Apart from the fact that Swindon Borough Council cannot spell and headline the notice "Eletion Petition" more than once, this seems very odd. What is the "block vote" that they refer to? The petition alleges that you could "tick the box" once for all ten candidates from one party (as in an American election). Surely this is not the case? But to announce a result in which all the successful candidates get more votes than the number cast is hilarious. Were there no candidates attending the count? At first I thought this case in Swindon was an understandable mistake; bound to happen with so many authorities electing 10+ candidates on one ballot paper. Now it looks like incompetence?
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Post by ColinJ on Aug 22, 2019 7:17:43 GMT
There will be a by-election on 3 October for the Primrose Hill ward of Abbots Langley PC following the resignation of Lib Dem Cllr. Alex Michaels. His resignation follows very quickly on his resounding re-election in May, topping the poll (LD 437, 378; Lab 77, 66). Mysteriously, Michaels continues as a member of Three Rivers DC. Maybe mattb can throw some light on the reasons for his resignation?
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Post by andrew111 on Aug 22, 2019 9:01:47 GMT
There will be a by-election on 3 October for the Primrose Hill ward of Abbots Langley PC following the resignation of Lib Dem Cllr. Alex Michaels. His resignation follows very quickly on his resounding re-election in May, topping the poll (LD 437, 378; Lab 77, 66). Mysteriously, Michaels continues as a member of Three Rivers DC. Maybe mattb can throw some light on the reasons for his resignation? Perhaps since May they have found someone who really wants to be a Parish Councillor? From personal experience I can tell you it is not easy to find people who want to do such jobs which is one reason you often find district councillors doing it...
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Post by listener on Aug 26, 2019 22:50:28 GMT
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Post by ColinJ on Aug 29, 2019 19:58:53 GMT
There will be a by-election on 3 October for the Primrose Hill ward of Abbots Langley PC following the resignation of Lib Dem Cllr. Alex Michaels. His resignation follows very quickly on his resounding re-election in May, topping the poll (LD 437, 378; Lab 77, 66). Mysteriously, Michaels continues as a member of Three Rivers DC. Maybe mattb can throw some light on the reasons for his resignation? Perhaps since May they have found someone who really wants to be a Parish Councillor? From personal experience I can tell you it is not easy to find people who want to do such jobs which is one reason you often find district councillors doing it... That's a possibility of course. However.... The latest Lib Dem leaflet in our area lists 8 of their 9 Abbots Langley area district councillors in their "Lib Dem team". Guess who is not mentioned? Cllr. Michaels! It's a bit like Stalin's Russia, where past comrades who become embarrassments to the Great Leader, are air-brushed away. So, my prediction is that in due course we will either have a district council by-election due to Michael's resignation, or a change of allegiance (presumably to Independent). Keep an eye on those threads over the course of the autumn .... that is unless mattb can tell us what's going on!
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