Thanks, Anomymous, you beat me to it. I was there when the result was proclaimed and have just got back.
Here it is:
Richard Tracey (Conservative) 65,197 43.1%
Leonie Cooper (Labour) 55,216 36.5%
Lisa Smart (Liberal Democrat) 11,904 7.9%
Roy Vickery (Green Party) 11,307 7.5%
Mazhar Manzoor (UKIP) 3,717 2.5%
Thamilini Kulendran (IND) 2,424 1.6%
James Martin (Socialist Party) 1,343 0.9%
Total Ballot papers 153,785
Invalid or Blank 2,677
Valid 151,108
Turnout: 40.2%
For the record, when reading out the result the Returning Officer did refer to our candidate simply as "The Socialist Party".
Nothing else to report except that I did see a write-in vote in South West for the ISLP or "Independent Socialist Labour Party", a one-family breakaway from the Scargill Labour Party (I know who he must be: he stood for Kingston council last May). Also the Independent candidate told me that at the last council elections he had stood for the LibDems in Tooting.
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2 comments:
But then, Bill's vote would treble if we claimed the spoilt ballots ...
Simon W.
I don't think so. I saw some of them. Most were invalid for voting for more than one candidate, though one of these I saw recorded Labour as 1 and us as 2. Make of that what you will.
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