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Post by Pete Whitehead on May 12, 2019 12:54:53 GMT
I tend to include them in the Independent column when I am doing spreadsheets, though the one I just encountered presented a conundrum as there was also an 'official' Independent candidate
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Post by yellowperil on May 12, 2019 13:29:37 GMT
Does anyone know if any “No Descriptions” were elected on 2 May? For amusement, it’s good to see a couple contesting the Peterborough by-election. The winning candidate without a description previously stood as a Labour candidate. The defeated Independent was the incumbent, originally elected as UKIP. This ward has a very eccentric recent electoral history. The Lib Dems won with over 80% in 2007 - now down to 4% I see the winning candidate is described as No Party Description, which sounds a lot more positive than merely No Description. |
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Post by J.G.Harston on May 12, 2019 15:53:42 GMT
I tend to include them in the Independent column when I am doing spreadsheets, though the one I just encountered presented a conundrum as there was also an 'official' Independent candidate Because in SBC there tends to be a Independent Group, my spreadsheets have Independent and Other. Not all the Indys join the Indy Group, though, and at one point I'm sure we have three collections of (lowercase) independents. |
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Post by November_Rain on Jul 15, 2019 13:57:52 GMT
A no description candidate won a seat on North Somerset Council in Clevedon and is part of the coalition group running the local council.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2019 14:33:16 GMT
This thread has reminded me of a post in one of those local council complaints/compliments Facebook groups from a women who received her postal vote and thought that the lack of a description instead of saying 'Independent' for her preferred candidate (Littlemoor & Preston, Dorset) was the council rigging the election to stop him winning. She also wouldn't be convinced otherwise. Incidently he was probably better off not writing down a description, as the leaflets distributed in his name described him as an "Independant Candidate".
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Post by owainsutton on Jul 15, 2019 15:25:46 GMT
I tend to include them in the Independent column when I am doing spreadsheets, though the one I just encountered presented a conundrum as there was also an 'official' Independent candidate I amended a Wikipedia error a few days ago, where the Guardian's report of six seats won by 'independents' had been allocated by the Wiki editor as six wins by the Burnley & Padiham Independent Party, when one was actually independent from them. |
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