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Post by greatkingrat on Apr 25, 2015 21:17:32 GMT
Representation of the People Act 1983
135 Consequences of local election declared void.
(1)Where on a petition questioning an election under the local government Act—
(a)the election of any person has been declared void, and
(b)no other person has been declared elected in his place,a new election shall be held to fill the vacancy in the same manner as on a casual vacancy.
So it is treated in the same way as if the Mayor had died or resigned.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 25, 2015 21:39:13 GMT
A byelection is any election which takes place at a time other than the ordinary election. The ordinary election was on 22 May 2014 and the next ordinary election will be in May 2018. So this is a byelection.
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Post by Crimson King on Apr 25, 2015 22:23:02 GMT
A byelection is any election which takes place at a time other than the ordinary election. The ordinary election was on 22 May 2014 and the next ordinary election will be in May 2018. So this is a byelection. Unless it's a postponed poll? |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 25, 2015 22:28:48 GMT
A byelection is any election which takes place at a time other than the ordinary election. The ordinary election was on 22 May 2014 and the next ordinary election will be in May 2018. So this is a byelection. Unless it's a postponed poll? A postponed poll is an election which is part of the ordinary election, by definition. It's a different day for the poll, but it's not a separate election. Incidentally Commissioner Mawrey was indulging in a little flight of rhetoric in referring to the consequences of his ruling. Mayoral decisions taken by Lutfur Rahman between May 2014 and the judgment the other day are still legally valid. |
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Post by johnloony on Apr 25, 2015 22:46:04 GMT
A byelection is any election which takes place at a time other than the ordinary election. The ordinary election was on 22 May 2014 and the next ordinary election will be in May 2018. So this is a byelection. Unless it's a postponed poll? If a poll is postponed (due to the death of a candidate after nomination) then the poll takes place at the same time as the ordinary election, because it *is* the ordinary election. It cannot therefore be described as taking place "at a time other than the ordinary election", so the question does not arise. |
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Post by samdwebber on May 6, 2015 0:26:27 GMT
Elaine Bagshaw was tonight selected by Tower Hamlets Lib Dems to contest the Mayoral election. William Dyer is the candidate for the Council byelection in Stepney as well.
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Post by timmullen1 on May 28, 2015 19:16:32 GMT
In both cases I believe after more than 10 years. The legislation is the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007, section 69. Sorry I'm late to the party, but Stoke had a referendum to abolish their Elected Mayor after less than four years; Independent Mike Wolfe won the first election, but in what seemed like filling a vacancy in the U.S. Senate, had to face the voters again roughly 18 months later (the day of the 2005 General Election) andlost to Labour's Mark Meredith. Part way through his four year term a second referendum was held, and carried, on abolishing the position, and it simply fizzled out to be replaced by a Leader and Cabinet system at the conclusion of Meredith's four years in 2009. |
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Post by bolbridge on May 28, 2015 20:06:07 GMT
In both cases I believe after more than 10 years. The legislation is the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007, section 69. Sorry I'm late to the party, but Stoke had a referendum to abolish their Elected Mayor after less than four years; Independent Mike Wolfe won the first election, but in what seemed like filling a vacancy in the U.S. Senate, had to face the voters again roughly 18 months later (the day of the 2005 General Election) andlost to Labour's Mark Meredith. Part way through his four year term a second referendum was held, and carried, on abolishing the position, and it simply fizzled out to be replaced by a Leader and Cabinet system at the conclusion of Meredith's four years in 2009. It was very convenient for Labour that the second mayoral election was on General Election Day. |
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Post by timmullen1 on May 28, 2015 21:26:18 GMT
Sorry I'm late to the party, but Stoke had a referendum to abolish their Elected Mayor after less than four years; Independent Mike Wolfe won the first election, but in what seemed like filling a vacancy in the U.S. Senate, had to face the voters again roughly 18 months later (the day of the 2005 General Election) andlost to Labour's Mark Meredith. Part way through his four year term a second referendum was held, and carried, on abolishing the position, and it simply fizzled out to be replaced by a Leader and Cabinet system at the conclusion of Meredith's four years in 2009. It was very convenient for Labour that the second mayoral election was on General Election Day. Erm, debatable, I know what you mean, but I doubt whether Wolfe would have been re-elected on any day, and Meredith was never accepted by the Labour Group on the City Council which basically imploded during his term of office. In all honesty it might have been one of those elections it'd have been better to lose from Labour's perspective. |
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2015 18:02:03 GMT
Mike Wolfe was openly a supporter of the Blair government. It is a funny old world in the democracy of Stoke-on-Trent.
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Post by timmullen1 on Jun 12, 2015 6:29:29 GMT
Mike Wolfe was openly a supporter of the Blair government. It is a funny old world in the democracy of Stoke-on-Trent. He was also Chair of the local asylum seekers support group but picked up nearly all the third placed BNP second preference votes on his first election to beat George Stevenson. The funny old world that is Stoke democracy may be writing another chapter as two Labour councillors are likely to be expelled for voting for the Leader of the City Independents (an ex-Labour Group Leader) to be Council Leader having been whipped to abstain. |
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Post by john07 on Jun 14, 2015 0:07:16 GMT
Why have there been no comments on the election result?
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Post by thirdchill on Jun 14, 2015 0:29:13 GMT
Why have there been no comments on the election result? All the comments seem to be on the countermanded by-elections thread for this. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2015 0:40:07 GMT
Why have there been no comments on the election result? All the comments seem to be on the countermanded by-elections thread for this. So they've got round to announcing the result in Tower Hamlets then?  |
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Post by john07 on Jun 14, 2015 16:12:53 GMT
Why have there been no comments on the election result? All the comments seem to be on the countermanded by-elections thread for this. But isn't this the bye-elections thread? |
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Post by Crimson King on Jun 14, 2015 16:20:14 GMT
All the comments seem to be on the countermanded by-elections thread for this. But isn't this the bye-elections thread? if it's any consolation that hasn't been much said in the wrong place either |
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