maxque
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Post by maxque on Aug 29, 2023 22:37:32 GMT
Surprisingly? Didn't they replaced Sunderland as the fastest counting council on general election night? Wrong Newcastle! Oh, you meant the one that had its electoral services taken over by Stoke at a point. |
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Post by peterw on Sept 1, 2023 11:08:18 GMT
CITY OF LONDON; Bread Street, Alderman (Independent putting up for re-election) The guide is wonderfully spiky: "Peering through the doors of the closed City of London Information Centre I saw a red bus fridge magnet, a rubber duck dressed as William Shakespeare, and a copy of the Brighton food and drink guide" Given the Brighton reference, the duck may well have come from here: www.theduckhousebrighton.online/My daughter has Marilyn Monroe. |
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Post by phil156 on Sept 4, 2023 8:47:07 GMT
HEREFORDSHIRE BY-ELECTION HAS BEEN CANCELLED as the candidate has died Toby Murcot Ind sadly
The others all count on Thursday evening and Spelthorne is counting on Wednesday
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Post by andrewp on Sept 4, 2023 9:14:57 GMT
HEREFORDSHIRE BY-ELECTION HAS BEEN CANCELLED as the candidate has died Toby Murcot Ind sadly The others all count on Thursday evening from Facebook ‘It is with huge sadness that I have to let you know that Toby Murcott sadly and suddenly passed away on Monday 28th August after a brief illness. Toby was a truly good man and a devoted family man. He was hugely intelligent, with a great gift for explaining things without condescension. He was funny and warm. He was an honest and loyal friend. Toby loved living in the Golden Valley and was dedicated to making it a better place for its residents. He devoted a huge amount of his time to projects in the area including developing the local Neighbourhood plan, and he spent hours and hours trying to fathom and help solve the inequities of rural Broadband supply, regularly updating local people with the latest developments (or more usually, non-developments). He was a longtime member and latterly Chair of Abbeydore and Bacton Parish Council and was very much looking forward to (hopefully) becoming the local ward councillor, a role in which he genuinely felt he could make a difference. He had very much enjoyed his brief time canvassing, meeting and chatting to people on the doorstep and at a wide range of local events. He will be sorely missed by everyone who had the fortune to know him. As a result the by-election for Golden Valley South due to be held on Thursday 7th September has been postponed. A new date will be announced in due course.’ |
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Post by johnloony on Sept 4, 2023 9:16:07 GMT
HEREFORDSHIRE BY-ELECTION HAS BEEN CANCELLED as the candidate has died Toby Murcot Ind sadly The others all count on Thursday evening In the event of a delayed / countermanded election (due to the death of a candidate) does the council have to send out poll cards to tell the electors about it? (i.e. like the ones that tell you where the polling station is)? |
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Sept 4, 2023 9:25:26 GMT
Forgive me, I'm still out of sorts with this. I thought the death of an independent candidate meant the election could go ahead because there's no replacement needed?
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Sept 4, 2023 9:28:40 GMT
Forgive me, I'm still out of sorts with this. I thought the death of an independent candidate meant the election could go ahead because there's no replacement needed? Only in Parliamentary elections. The law for local government elections wasn't changed. |
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Post by phil156 on Sept 4, 2023 9:50:36 GMT
HEREFORDSHIRE BY-ELECTION HAS BEEN CANCELLED as the candidate has died Toby Murcot Ind sadly The others all count on Thursday evening In the event of a delayed / countermanded election (due to the death of a candidate) does the council have to send out poll cards to tell the electors about it? (i.e. like the ones that tell you where the polling station is)? They are getting in touch with the voters according from Herefordshire Council e-mail I had this morning |
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Sept 4, 2023 10:02:54 GMT
Forgive me, I'm still out of sorts with this. I thought the death of an independent candidate meant the election could go ahead because there's no replacement needed? Only in Parliamentary elections. The law for local government elections wasn't changed. Thanks David. |
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Post by kevinf on Sept 4, 2023 16:32:26 GMT
Do we know anything about the Labour resignations in Newcastle? I desperately need help with the prediction competition….
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Post by minionofmidas on Sept 4, 2023 16:59:33 GMT
Forgive me, I'm still out of sorts with this. I thought the death of an independent candidate meant the election could go ahead because there's no replacement needed? Only in Parliamentary elections. The law for local government elections wasn't changed. Which sort of makes sense as they're far more likely to be serious contenders. Sort of. Imagine the uproar if Martin Bell had suddenly died in late april 1997. |
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Post by tucson on Sept 4, 2023 21:57:39 GMT
Do we know anything about the Labour resignations in Newcastle? I desperately need help with the prediction competition…. One was because of public comments made by her due to her being removed from her position in a local charity. One because she wasn’t allowed on the CLP list for members to select the PPC. |
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Post by tucson on Sept 5, 2023 16:48:35 GMT
A little bit of background on the Newcastle candidates:
Knutton;
Lab candidate lives locally and is a former Fireman. Previously stood for Lab in a as different seat on the other side of the Borough.
Con candidate lives locally and is the current County Cllr for Knutton and former Borough Councillor for Knutton. Has had a colourful political journey…. Lab to Old Lab to Caring Party to UKIP to Newcastle Independent to Borough Independent to Conservative.
LibDem candidate lives about 3/4mile outside the ward, only recently moving out of Knutton. He is the local LD party chair. Not a seat the LDs usually fight.
Audley;
Lab candidate lives about 1.5miles outside the ward, and is the only candidate not declaring her address. She is the granddaughter of Baroness Llin Golding, former MP for Newcastle.
Con candidate lives locally with one of the sitting Con Cllrs. Has previously stood in this seat.
LibDem candidate lives locally and has been a Borough Councillor previously for various seats that now make up this ward. Has stood for the County Council several times.
Ind candidate lives locally and sits on the Parish Council as a (co-opted) Liberal Party Cllr.
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Post by timmullen1 on Sept 6, 2023 12:25:25 GMT
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Post by tucson on Sept 6, 2023 12:47:16 GMT
Both counts start at 2230 at Castle House (the Civic Offices) |
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Post by John Chanin on Sept 6, 2023 16:30:53 GMT
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Post by timmullen1 on Sept 6, 2023 19:55:09 GMT
Both counts start at 2230 at Castle House (the Civic Offices) Odd in the sense only that they did the last Knutton one that Derrick Huckfield won at Keele Hall coming in for some criticism locally that they allegedly didn’t have a suitable room in the relatively new Castle House. |
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Post by phil156 on Sept 7, 2023 0:14:33 GMT
RESULT SPELTHORNE - Ashford Town
Con gain from Grn
CON 562
Ind 420
Grn 252
Lab 212
Ref 35
TUSC 19
Turnout 25.13%
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Post by manchesterman on Sept 7, 2023 0:21:25 GMT
Con 37.4%
Ind 28%
Grn 16.8%
Lab 14.1%
Ref 2.3%
TUSC 1.3%
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Post by manchesterman on Sept 7, 2023 0:24:48 GMT
or more professionally..
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